Its gripping. I had to keep reminding myself that its happened just in the last year i think a lot of us 2020 feels like its been a decadelong. Two months from now we will be facing an election which will be the First Time Ever that an impeached president appears on the ballot. Could you talk a little bit about the dynamic that were set into motion by this investigation by the subsequent impeachment and the acquittal that are still playing out today as we head into this final stretch before the election . Thanks karen, i think i will start there. Two big things, one its emboldened donald trump. He hates this. Hes angry. He doesnt like disdain and he wants to win. The very night the house voted to impeach he got a big crowd in michigan and promised four more years. Same time, its jeopardize the republican majority in the senate. In key swing states people were upset that they like to think the senate are independent thinkers, checks on the presidency and sarah gideon is using what Susan
A boarding house near the legislature building. And putnam came to him. Putnam was old enough to have been his father, came up to his room and said youve got to get up out of bed because were going to cast the vote today. And he said i cant. He said youve got to. So he did. Some people say he was carried in on a stretcher. I found no proof of that. In any event, he got to the legislature. He gave a powerful speech, and he voted. And the measure to introduce slavery into ohio and thus the whole Northwest Territory was defeated by one vote. [applause] and yet nobody has ever heard of his name. [applause] people have said to me, if you had put this in a novel, your editor would say no, this would never happen in real life. It did happen in real life. And we should know about that and know about him and hes the one who did more than anybody else to get education passed by the Legislature Later on providing School Public schooling public learning all the way through the university of ohio.
Evening everyone. Im tracy diamond from the programs and Locations Department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library and welcome to writers lives at the Maryland State Library for the blind and handicapped. Thank you for joining us to welcome doctor lydia kang to baltimore. We hope you will join us for some of our upcoming events. And stearns, author of redefining age a caregivers guide to living your best life will be reading on wednesday, november 29 at 12 pm at the Hatton Senior Center in canton and we are hosting, same day, mark oden, author of play 1968 a turning point of the american war in vietnam and conversation with Steve Luxenberg at 7 pm at church of the redeemer and you can sign up for our email list or pick up a liar on the table to the right. So tonight, doctor lydia kang, a practicing internal medicine physician and author of adult and the young Adult Fiction will share from her book quackery a brief history of the worst ways to cure anything cowritten with nate peterson, a li
Wednesday w november 29 at 12 p. At the 2 Senior Center in canto. And thenn were hosting, same day, mark bowden, author of 1968, turning point of the american war b in vietnam in conversation with Steve Luxenberg at 7 p. M. At church of the redeemer. You can sign up for our email el list or pick up a flyer copy of compass on the table to the right. So tonight dr. Lydia kang, a practicing internal medicine physician and author of adult and young Adult Fiction will hear from her book quackery a brief history of the worst ways to cure everything. Cowritten withwr Nate Pedersen, and library income historian, and freelance journalist with over 400 publications in print and online. So quackery offers to seven tales about outlandish treatments complete with vintage illustrations, photographs and advertisements. Youll read about times when a cute chalice was in vogue or have families passed down heroin pills. Yes, think that i haveoooo to ps those down. They write with fascination for and a tu
So they realized okay, we are not going to win this way so what do you do then . Well, the kochs are very smart. They are terrific businessmen, both graduates of mit and they are engineers and they went back to thedrawing board to figure out the new model. And in the years after that, soon after that they began to draw up a blueprint for how you could do sort of an Assembly Line to change american politics, even if you couldnt win the popular vote to go there, they follow the footsteps of a couple other major multimillionaires and billionaires on the right who were also funding this project and they figured out that from their standpoint politicians are just actors who are spouting lines andthe key to changing america is to write the script. How do you get to write the script . Well, you have to change kind of the whole way that elite opinion is formed in the country. There happened to have been right around the same time, a little bit earlier, a paper that was the blueprint for all of