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How the south won the civil war oligarchy, democracy, and the continuing fight for the soul of amerca. I am joanne freeman, a professor of history and american studies at yale university, and this afternoon i have the pleasure of being in conversation with heather about her book and other matters political. This program is being produced by the brooklyn Historic Society which is been a cultural hub for civic dialogue and command outreach for over 150 years. Thats some real history. Her book has gotten a lot of critical praise, for example, the Washington Post writes, Heather Cox Richardson a professor of history at Boston College explains goldwater crusade and the trajectory of modern conservatism in her masterful book. I kind of book that sheds light and ....
The Wilson Center best supporter on the planet, and were giving him a name tag, but welcome michael and welcome everyone else. Im jane harman, president and ceo of the Wilson Center. It is the best job on the planet because i get to talk to geniuses every single day. One of them whos not in my script but im going to call her out, shes going to hide somewhere, is maggie king. Some of you may not know her but she runs our science, technology, and Innovation Program and is responsible for the schools we have on fridays to teach capitol hill staff about cyber and artificial intelligence. And todays genius, that would be ben buchanan, is our go to guy when we teach some of those schools and has been trying to teach me for a while. I think ive been the repeater of all time at some of those schools. Im kind of getting get but ....
Readers for allowing me to be with someone who has elevated libraries to such an extent. [applause] let me just say, there have been patron saints of libraries, andrew carnegie, things like that, but you are now number one. I finally. Down andrew carnegie. You have. Thats great. So how does it feel to be the patron saint now librarians . Stomach when i started this book, i could not have anticipated that part of it. I was drawn into the story because really wanted to understand what happens in 1986 that this epic fire that close the l. A. Library for seven years, but more importantly, i wanted to understand why i cared about it so much. I have often said that if someone had said to me city hall burned down, i would have thought, thats too bad. And i assume they will rebuild it. But, hearing that a library had burns felt like this deep profoundly personal loss and come i thought why do we feel such a connection to books . Why do we feel such a connection to libraries . That the idea of ....