[instrumental music] hi everyone and welcome to the National Books festival. My name is anna lehman and im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. Im here today with megan twohey and gail collins. Both incredible authors and writers and journalists and i cannot wait for you to hear what they have to say. I mentioned that im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission, the commission is a very proud sponsor of the National Books festival this year, we are the sponsor of the fearless women trail, which is featuring authors who are fearless just like gail and megan also books and stories about women throughout American History. Its just really a privilege to be here in this place today with these two women. Id like to start us off with some brief introductions for gail and megan and then we will kick it off. Megan is joining us, she is the author of she said breaking the Sexual Harassment story that helped ignite a movement. She is a Pu
If you have a question that you would like to ask gail collins, having just watched her program, heres how you can get a hold of us, 202 ab 2027488200 for the east and central time zones. 202748201 if you live in mountain and pacific time zones. If you want to send a text message please include your first name and city and that number is 2027488903. Gail collins, since you take that program with megan twohey and the library of congress ab whats her legacy as an older woman in American History . Her legacy in general theres a lot of legacy people have been talking about obviously that there are legal legacy the thing i think about when i think about her is that she is really the first woman i can think of in American History whose passing was more not as an wonderful person, which she actually was but as a woman empower a person and power, as a major part of the power structure of the government, as a person who made history and changed the way we live in different ways with her rulings
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They were interviewed and hosted by politics to washington d. C. Good evening, everybody. On behalf of everybody, thank you very much for coming. Enjoy joining forces upon author events at this cultural center, 15 years old and it founder and staff deserve a lot of credit. [applause] its a vibrant community today. Jodi kantor and megan tooley. [cheering] they revealed to the world Harvey Weinsteins reviews. There book is the reviewing account of how they developed their blockbuster story. The me too movement. As i note in the wake of the weinstein expose which broke in october 2017, it wasnt as if allah had come down. Women not just in this country but around the world to tell their own stories of mistreatment. In addition to the pivotal impact their reporting is have, they went about confirming a story at others before them had tried to now but by a terrific case study, it goes into investigative journalism. People often think it just falls into the laps of the reporters. In reality,
Jodi kantor and megan discussed the need to movement in their investigation of Sexual Harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein. They were interviewed and hosted by politics to washington d. C. Good evening, everybody. On behalf of everybody, thank you very much for coming. Enjoy joining forces upon author events at this cultural center, 15 years old and it founder and staff deserve a lot of credit. [applause] its a vibrant community today. Jodi kantor and megan tooley. [cheering] they revealed to the world Harvey Weinsteins reviews. There book is the reviewing account of how they developed their blockbuster story. The me too movement. As i note in the wake of the weinstein expose which broke in october 2017, it wasnt as if allah had come down. Women not just in this country but around the world to tell their own stories of mistreatment. In addition to the pivotal impact their reporting is have, they went about confirming a story at others before them had tried to now but by a te