End, if you could pull up your chairs, it will give you more space for the book signing and help us get back to bookselling. Welcome to politics and prose. My name is abby fennewald. I run all of our events in the store. Np,youre not familiar with p i would invite you to take a moment to sign up for our calendar of events and see everything else. We are operating inside three locations around town and will be doing events in all the spaces as well. We are doing more than ever. I would hate for you to miss out on any of it. With that, on to why your here. We are so happy to have eric burns back with us. Here four times before. He is back to talk about his new book, 1920 the men that made the decade roar. This is absolutely not your typical history book. And he is not your typical academic historian. He brings his journalist eye to the topic just as he had with , his previous book. He is a former nbc news correspondent and is the former host of fox news watch and has won an emmy for medi
Try to hush them up. To hush them up quietly, without the cameras rolling. Remember, that visual image was absolutely essential for movement. To be able to see the vibrancy of jim crow. But that did not mean that this moment was over. Antibody kennedy the wood, and jack kennedy knew it. Kennedy is getting his state of the Union Address and areident kennedy is all, we fighting for democracy and freedom and there is an opportunity for what is happening here on the globe because we have all of these people. This is the middle of decolonization. Africans, asians, arabs. Latinos, those nations are becoming free. Are loosening and he sees this as an incredible moment. For freedom. In the global south. Mention thet american south. This freedom struggle. A kind of silence. But he needed that silence, because what he was dealing with, he had just come back from that summit. Remember the one that his brother was really trying to get the freedom riders to buy it out on . That summit did not go so
Sal will tell you . We have usuals out there, steve and we have a crash clearing off of antioch city streets that i want to mention has closed. Buchanan road near contra loma boulevard. A deadly crash that happened about 1 00 this morning with this vehicle that ran into a tree and unfortunately someone died as a result of this injury crash. Again, its on buchanan road and near contra loma boulevard, not too far from highway 4. Buchanan roads is one of the roads that parallels highway 4. Right now you cant use it. You will see that the Antioch Police will be releasing a little bit more about what happened here but they have confirmed to us that this was a deadly crash and they still have a very active scene as you can see. Talk about the tracy commute because we have had westbound 580 and 205, that freeway has been getting slower and slower before you actually make it to the pass. Livermore, pleasanton, hayward, that traffic moving well to castro valley. No problems in the inner core of
Be imminent. And braeeaking now. Fda advisers will meet in two weeks to consider a request just submitted by pfizer seeking authorization for its Covid Vaccine for children under age 5. Ill ask the u. S. Surgeon general if this is a final, critical step for getting the country back to normal. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with the january 6th investigation. The Focus Sharpening On Former President Trumps attempt to pressure his Vice President to interfere in the 2020 president ial election. Heres cnns congressional correspondent, ryan nobles. Tonight, the january 6th select committee honing in on the inner circle of former Vice President mike pence. Any comment. A key witness in their investigation spotted meeting with the committee today. Greg jacob, a former chief counsel who advised pence to resist a Pressure Campaign from former President Trump and his al allies. In an oped he wr
Be imminent. And braeeaking now. Fda advisers will meet in two weeks to consider a request just submitted by pfizer seeking authorization for its Covid Vaccine for children under age 5. Ill ask the u. S. Surgeon general if this is a final, critical step for getting the country back to normal. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with the january 6th investigation. The Focus Sharpening On Former President Trumps attempt to pressure his Vice President to interfere in the 2020 president ial election. Heres cnns congressional correspondent, ryan nobles. Tonight, the january 6th select committee honing in on the inner circle of former Vice President mike pence. Any comment. A key witness in their investigation spotted meeting with the committee today. Greg jacob, a former chief counsel who advised pence to resist a Pressure Campaign from former President Trump and his al allies. In an oped he wr