In the politicians versus the press spelling bee. And on friday, oscar winning director Kevin Costner will be here to present his knew book. I will present speaker with the honorary mug. [applause] thank you. You are developing a connection. A couple of final questions. If the situation was right down on the campaign trail, could you consider being Donald Trumps running mate . The press will have a field day with this one. Before i answer, i just want to mention many in the press will say that im sensitive and, you know, i should not be thinking about running for office because i get offended by what they do. Of course, theyll say that. But the reason that i expose the press is because i want the people of america to understand what theyre doing. Its not because im sensitive. I will continue to expose them every time they do something because as more people understand who they are and what theyre doing, it will negate their effect and until they have the kind of transformation that is
About today is picking up where we left off on thursday with the end of the cold war. And also im trying to make sure that we stitch different themes that weve had through the quarter and through both quarters together. The program is titled america to 2025. So something about the future is important and as ive been thinking about the last part of the 20th century the 1990s i think makes sense to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture in popular cultural as well as in politics. So the themes and overviews that i want to talk about in terms of this do a little bit of looking back looking forward and then theyre kind of going to be two halves of the lecture links to kind of politics and links to pop culture. So i want to talk about the end of the cold war and especially how it manifested and how americans thought about politics. Then i want to talk about pop culture and think about the the way the 90s thought about the future and thought about the pres
Clinton an overtly political first lady who successfully ran for the United States senate served as secretary of state and then campaigned for the presidency herself. American history tvs first lady series is also available as a podcast. You can find it whereveokay, sog about today is picking up where we left off on thursday with the end of the cold war. And also im trying to make sure that we stitch different themes that weve had through the quarter and through both quarters together. The program is titled america to 2025. So something about the future is important and as ive been thinking about the last part of the 20th century the 1990s i think makes sense to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture in popular cultural as well as in politics. So the themes and overviews that i want to talk about in terms of this do a little bit of looking back looking forward and then theyre kind of going to be two halves of the lecture links to kind of politics and
Quarter and through both quarters together. The program is titled america to 2025. So something about the future is important and as ive been thinking about the last part of the 20th century the 1990s i think makes sense to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture in popular cultural as well as in politics. So the themes and overviews that i want to talk about in terms of this do a little bit of looking back looking forward and then theyre kind of going to be two halves of the lecture links to kind of politics and links to pop culture. So i want to talk about the end of the cold war and especially how it manifested and how americans thought about politics. Then i want to talk about pop culture and think about the the way the 90s thought about the future and thought about the present even in terms of like everything is great or everything is terrible. The future will be wonderful or the future is going to be awful. Um adding here that as with all of my
Out tonight. My name is amalie and i am the Events Coordinator here at bookstore magic. So before we get started, i just have a few logistics to point out about how tonights gonna go first off. We do ask that you keep your mask on at all times while well at this event. We will be doing a hand raised audience q a towards the end of the event. So please start thinking of questions to ask after the talk tonight. Angela will be signing and personalizing books at the desk near the side door behind me. We also have additional books available to purchase at the front where you checked in. And of course if youre joining us virtually on the youtube live stream, we would love to encourage you to buy a copy of essential labor online using the link in the live stream description. All right. So with all that in mind we are so very excited to introduce angela garvis and gross who are here celebrating their the release of angelas newest book essential labor mothering as social change. In essential la