John hopkins hospital in baltimore, maryland. That summer she finished her novel and this photograph was taken of the famous couple shortly after the novel was released. This was twoshot of scott and zelda, a picture posed for and the expressions on their faces are unmistakable. Theres an unhappiness in the marriage that it is becoming difficult to overcome. Fitzgerald looking nervous and zelda looking very unhappy that she is the subject of attention and the reason is these photographs are appearing beside reviews of her novel which irbasically calling her thirdrate writer and a woman who is only being published because her husband is f. Scott fitzgerald. After the publication of the novel, her Mental Health kind to deer tier youre rate. For the rest of the 30s she spent over 90 of her waking hours in mental institutions, leaving the great writer, f. Scott fitzgerald, alone with his only child, daughter, bill the way, who is coming of age. In 1933, scott sent scotty to boarding school
The New York Times review where he noticed it was price there will be a book signing for your friends and family outside this room. Without further ado thank you for joining us. Please take it away. [applause]. Thank you so much. Thank you for being here. Happy that you are here instead i just want to say to my cohost and for the host tonight. The Carnegie Corporation of new york. In the new world foundation. Maybe would actually support the work going into the book. You will hear from simon greer. He is a pri board member and helped us organize the event tonight. And a seam the same with him i will be speaking with in a little bit. This is one of the burning questions of this election cycle. It gives you an overview of what we will do this evening. I want to spend a few minutes and you a little bit of the taste of the data behind to the book. I do want to say this is a datadriven book but not data dominated. It tells a story that i think it uses numbers to tell a story. We will do mor
The exhibit an hour away from colombia. It is now. A lot of the attitudes he had in the conservative National Review started were identical with the old use. But robbie does in this book and without pushing the point to match, you make the readers see a parallel from those attitudes in todays attitude often among conservatives than often among religious conservatives. But the parallel there . Had a conversation in working naic. The enduring power of racial divide. I think about the question that is really decided, this question between police and africanamericans. So the killing of unarmed africanamericans, the ambush and murder of police. But the question is what cant be said where is part of what makes down. We asked the question about this to try to sort out the attitudes among this country. Do you think the African American men are isolated incidents or do you think they are part of a writer does the survey question. Theyre absolutely part of the pattern. Whites overall are about h
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening, folks. We are going to ahead and get started. If you havent gotten a copy of the book outside, please do so. First of all, welcome to the open Society Foundation in new york city. Its our pleasure to host you for what promises to be a terrific event for the boldly titled book, the end of White Christian america. Its my honor to introduce tonights events. I grew up in the way to sit in the United States committed beautiful state of maine and the United Church of christ of this conversation hits close to home for me and professionally. Id like to thank robert jones was known for robbie for several years and Sam Tanenhaus for joining us that id like to think Elizabeth Berg newcomer nathan mckie and the society team for putting the event together. In addition to the foundation, tonights event is cosponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of new york, Ford Foundation and the new world foundation. Im a longtime fan of robert jone
In my garage april 30. I typed out a onepage letter that said dear friend, please read this book today and then buy enough copies to send to your delegates for the 1964 Republican National convention. I typed it on my typewriter. I headed mimeograph machine in the basement i went down to the basement and put the stencil on the round thing and ground out a hundred letters. One of those letters, which was read by a friend in california who called up and said, i read it and im going to a convention this weekend, united republicans of california. Put me off 5000 copies, so i loaded them up in my Station Wagon and took them to the airport and a sent them out and that weekend we had statewide distribution in california. That california primary was the first week in june and we sold over a halfmillion copies between the first of may and the first of june in california. Where did the title come from . Barry goldwater use the title and the minutes i heard it i knew that was it. Watch this and o