To ask a question because we after susans talk today she is taking questions and if you like to ask a question you are asked to line up at the microphone here. She will speak for about half an hour. Please dont ask your question from your seat but from your microphone. As someone who has written about civil rights in the south and my next book takes place in 1936 in nazi germany at the olympics. I cannot could not be more excited about being here in nashville with susan to hear about her new book. Shes one of the leading philosophers of the time. This is such an important book for these times. She studied at harvard. Shes taught at yale and tel aviv university. She is now the director of the Einstein Forum outside of berlin. Shes been in the u. S. On her book tour for about five weeks. I know shes looking forward to getting back home after a long book tour. Please join me in welcoming susan neiman to nashville. Thank you so much for coming. [applause] thank you. I am delighted to be he
Festival. You can do that online, or you can do that in various spots around the book festival. Youll see the donation stations. To thank you for considering that. Also after susans talk today, she is taking questions, and if you would like to ask a question because we aren on cspan, youre asked to line up at this microphone here. Shell speak for about half an hour so shell have about 20 minutes for questions. Please, dont ask your question from your seat, but from the microphone. My name is andrew maraniss, and as someone who has written about civil rights in the south and my next book takes place in 1936 nazi germany at to him picks i could not be more excited about susan here to talk about her new book, and im so eager to hear more about it. Learning from the germans. Theres probably no person on the t planet that is more qualified to write about this subject than susan who was born in atlanta during the segregated time and now lives in berlin. One of the leading philosophers of the
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Independence they might not because they dont feel that kind of preciousness that the American Revolutionary spell so im wondering whether you see that as an issue in terms of getting elected officials today in government to be responsive to our requirements . Thanks for your question. Our politics is confounded by a long list of problems and so i would probably describe our difficulties somewhat differently in the sense that i dont think you need to be say subject to the oppression of Something Like the British Empire to understand the declaration to make use of it, again because the declaration charges us with the responsibility of conveying her circumstances when in the course of human events. What are the human events around the us now in what had been the of events for the past 20 years but what trends and what directions, i think responded to that question of how our world is changing around us is as relevant today as then. For me the greater concern is at the end of the second s