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Good afternoon. My name is jerry fowler, and im a senior policy analyst here at the open society foundations, so im pleased to welcome you to this event thats hosted by open society and by our friends at politics to welcome you to this event by our friends at politics prose. And vera very proud actually while an open Society Fellow we are happy to make that contribution as an editor of the Washington Post will be interviewing and will say borer but i will tell you about caring and. Share reported for the Associated Press and her work has appeared in publications across the world. With the sarah reporters salon and has also made Television Appearances on international the works. With degrees from columbia and northwestern and a fulbright scholar in donna. ....
Franklin cared about this as much as eleanor did. [laughter] in fact, his letter is almost kind of facetious. I think he said Something Like the president was like he said maam, i dont mean to i dont you to think you have to develop, build a new dorm for this young colored lady or Something Like that but when you get a chance get a dean to write about this situation. Well, he was going through the motions because eleanor was leaning on him in pol polly behf so she didnt get to go. She went to the university of california berkeley. But she did she did act. You know, she tried to move things where she could. Okay. Theres another case ill mention of 50 soldiers, still im sorry, seamen who were courtmartials and polly field it was unfair. Covering the case of the los angeles sentinel and feeding eleanor material about it and eleanor was pressing fdr to do something. This whether ....
Republic, started one year later, it breaks more or less into two big parts, the first is the revolutionary part, the first we 4 years leading up to 1923 and the second big parties eight years starting in 1925, the long march to power, the electoral period. And also referred to the legal period, the first we 4 years trying to gain power illegally through revolution, the last eight years through legal means not counting street money. Between these periods, 1924, in my research before i decided to do this i noticed 1924 seemed to me to be a neglected period of the hitler story. It seemed to be an important period when hitlers political arc shifted from being an impetuous revolutionary to be a political player, he had time in prison to reflect on the error of his ways and the fact that he was probably not going to be able to persuade the military to join him in a coup and he had to figure out another way to gain power. He said to one of his friends in prison, out voting them will take lon ....
Pulitzer prize winner. I shared that day with her. Well be reading rosemary mcgee. Well be reading about jacks former colleague and we have on display example of the nelson paper. And i just want to thank all of you and especially our panelists so much. It was a great event. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you. [inaudible conversations] [applause] is there a Nonfiction Author or book you would like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email at booktv at cspan. Org or tweet us at twitter. Com booktv. On cspan2, we bring you booktv. 48 hours of Nonfiction Authors and books. Here are programs to look out for this weekend. At 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Ben argues that liberals bully their competition discouraging political debate. Then at 2 00 a. M. Michelle alexander crime policy from the 70s were enacted to push back gangs made during the civil rights movement. On sunday w ....
Irans role in a major terror attack. New details on the mystery. And scandal at gitmo. The u. S. Base commander is relieved of duty over an alleged affair with a subordinate whose husband was found dead. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. The breaking news tonight in the battle against terrorism. U. S. Officials now estimate that Coalition Forces have killed more than 6,000 isis fighters and wiped out half of the top command. Secretary of state john kerry says the allies have halted the terror groups momentum in iraq. That comes a day after we were the first to report that isis has now established in yemen and has been clashing with al qaedas very dangerous affiliate there. And now in a move which could set back u. S. Efforts to combat al qaeda, yemens government, a key ally in the antiterror fight, has resigned after rebel forces seized the capital. Thats raising new concerns about the safety of hundreds of americans ....