rebecca roanhorse. so, we are not going to take audience questions but feel free to chat amongst yourself in the chat feature and let us know where you re viewing from. we ll re recording the event so folks who couldn t join us live can watch this later on and i ll give you a quick rundown of the format. we re going to give each author seven to mine minutes to talk about anywhere upcoming books and then we joy will lead a chat of the group. so without further adieu i ll pass things over to zerina and we ll take it away. zerina maxwell the msnbc political analyst, commentator, speaker and writer the and the senior director of progressive programming for pierus xm co-host of signal boost. take it away. i m so excited to be here this evening. i know so many of us are struggling through our individual circumstances during this quarantine, and maybe we re thinking and wondering what we can do in this particular moment to make the world around us just a little bit different and
in this culture brief time that was pretty admirable and having lived through those days it was a delight really to go back and live through what kennedy did. i was at a lecture of the library of congress of biography is the she give you a copy and i had read this number of years ago but i am so glad i did it was a delight i am also reading the book on dark many that is less but not because of her but relieve the and believable influence of right wing in american political life. natalie buying television time for candidates but universities and movements with special interest of big money. we have very disturbing things for all americans with the purchase of our political life in many aspects by a group of determined ideologues. host: where was the idea for the book? actually it was sent to me here. i said i will read that some day that came and now i m halfway through and that is no less enjoyable read. host: what types of books to gravitate toward the ruth lilly
1,000-member student body are catholic. professors pledge to uphold catholic beliefs. there are worship sites in every dorm, and mass is held three times a day. its president, jim towey, who worked for the bush administration as director of its faith-based and community initiatives office, also served as legal advisor for the late mother teresa. ave maria is determined to stay a course from which its president says other catholic institutions have strayed. in an age where modernity has attacked the whole idea of objective truth and the whole relativism that you see that s pervasive in our culture, i guess this university s not going to be here to be popular. it s not here to try to please everyone. it s here to try to be true to itself and its own catholic identity. georgetown university, renowned for its academic excellence, has a different view of its catholic identity. all students, though only half of the 7,000 undergraduates are catholic, are required to take two the
at ave maria, 90% of the 1,000-member student body are catholic. professors pledge to uphold catholic beliefs. there are worship sites in every dorm, and mass is held three times a day. its president, jim towey, who worked for the bush administration as director of its faith-based and community initiatives office, also served as legal advisor for the late mother teresa. ave maria is determined to stay a course from which its president says other catholic institutions have strayed. in an age where modernity has attacked the whole idea of objective truth and the whole relativism that you see that s pervasive in our culture, i guess this university s not going to be here to be popular. it s not here to try to please everyone. it s here to try to be true to itself and its own catholic identity. georgetown university, renowned for its academic excellence, has a different view of its catholic identity. all students, though only half of the 7,000 undergraduates are catholic, a
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