on sunday, august 2nd booktv is live with media benjamin cofounder of the political advocacy group code pink on in depth, our live monthly call-in show. she s the author or editor of nine books including her most recent an investigation into the use of drones for military purposes, drone warfare. other titles include the greening of the revolution which examines cuba s use of organic agriculture and stop the next war now on how to create political change through activism. her other books cover topics such as how to aid people living this the third world profiles of inspiring women and further examinations of cuba. media benjamin, live, sunday august 2nd on in depth. and you can participate by sending your questions or comments to facebook.com/booktv, on twitter @booktv or call in. ginger adams otis talks about the 100-year struggle to integrate the new york city fire department which continues today. the fdny has only 300 black firefighters out of a total of 11,000.
morning july 19th. i m gasia mikaelian. and i m dave clark. let s check your weather. steve paulson is right over here. how does it look? looks cooler than yesterday, gasia and dave, no doubt about it. lots of fog and maybe a little mist for you. and a little more yesterday. temperatures, even if it s clear, some coolness here. lows dipped into the 50s. fog in place. temperatures continue to be where they should be but it is a cooler pattern, for sure. some 80s in land, but a lot of 70s. some areas along the coast will get some sun, as they did yesterday, but it will take longer to warm up. you get the west wind, usher in that fog, you 50s for everybody here. upper 40s for a few. woodside, a cool 47. 50 in stanford. nenlo park at 51. right in the ballpark there. picking up again, 25 to 30 miles per hour. so no change there. this low churning off the pacific northwest, northern california keeps us cool. low clouds, sunny and breezy. below average temps, highs 50s, 60s, 70s
tonight as we welcomed the discussion for the book firefight. all cell phones, ipads or whatever that makes noise please silent or put on vibrate. there there books for sale at the register and buy them plentifully so we can continue to do for events like this one. there will be a short reading and a panelist discussion and then assigning to follow. tonight s event is being filled by c-span for book tv and we are honored to have them with us, please be aware that you may be a bill for this event. we ll be passing a microphone around for the question-and-answer period. so if you have a question at the end please make sure that you have a microphone in your hand. thanks for working with us on that. our featured author is ginger adams otis, she has been writing about new york city politics for more than a decade. she is a staff writer at the ny daily news and has written for the new york post. wnyc, the ap, bbc, national public radio and the village voice. her new book, firefigh
host: i have no idea. there is no logical reason for it. i can tell you a great number of the people who opposed suffrage were women. explanations that i have read about women in particular opposing suffrage had to do with their roles. they sounded like the worst of s chauvinistic men that it is not our place to be in the voting booth. we have our places, our men have their places. this is not a good idea, i don t think they would ve used a term like this that it s not a good idea to confuse the roles. that was the general idea behind it. again this is coming from women it s really from men. follow-up question. on the 18th and 19th amendment. on one hand you had a lot of women who opposed suffrage but among women who are the most diehard activist for suffrage, you had prominent leaders who seem to be making deals who are very active in the movement of very supportive of the 18th amendment as well. would you you talk about that in the book. the political bargaining that se
voice normally fed janitor does not inspire that degree of enthusiasm. [laughter] the guide asked the group to walk faster and they were happy to oblige. the most important event of 1920 in my opinion but it took place on the roof of the factory just outside pittsburgh pennsylvania. in the mass media of which there is no force and what they did the first tuesday night was to broadcast a news event five. never done before. it was though harding election and the the the country nor the world would never be the same again although few people could have imagined one day radio with the two television and nobody could imagine in keeping up with the kardashian is. [laughter] small towns were always thought of as the home of virtue then sinclair lewis wrote our town. american literature. kyushu the home of entertainment then in 1920 regained the first of the four pulitzer prize and the theater was never the same again. poetry was the home of romance and dash 1920 carl sandberg came