Newsday in the 19 sixties and the book was supposed to be done in nine months. It took seven years in the publisher gave in advance of 2500 he became consumed by his research and quit his job five years later he submitted the first 400,000 words and asked for a second payment of 2500. He was refused a so their home to support this work and then to remain his soul publisher and what a Remarkable Book it is with the sheer narrative power he is an astonishing writer and the powerbroker is a masterpiece one of the most important biographies of the 20h century bob caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for biography. Twice the National Book critics circle award and virtually every other honor including the National Book award and the goldmedal biography from the American Academy of arts and letters. Caro has a unique place among political biographers. He is the standard by which the fellows are measured and a society of american historians presenting bob caro said the powerbroker best exempl
You have joined us. Was democratic with Democratic Candidates for the United States senate. Senator ed markey. It is the oldest continuously operating free lecture series in america this evening Sussex University continues to honor the storied legacy of the forum by preventing programs. That illuminate key issues facing our country and the world today i wish to thank joe kennedy and ed markey for participating in this important exchange on Justice Reform also think you to the Justice Reform coalition in the member organizations for your impactful advocacy around Justice Reform. And for inviting Sussex University to participate in these important public forums. Thank you to Sussex University social apology. The assistance and wisdom that made this Evenings Program possible. To the Lowell Institute for the generous support that makes programs like this possible into our longtime partner is now my pleasure to introduce jennifer love williams. She serves as the cochair of the working group
Good morning. Im pam cook and its thursday morning, july 23. Thank you for waking up with us. Lets check with Steve Paulson as we lead into the weekend. Any changes . Just daytoday changes, no screaming message that says a big pattern change. Temperatures have been below average. Thunderstorm activity firing up with a logo going through but it didnt chew up the fog. Everyone says quality including concord and livermore and it does look warmer today after cool readings. 60 degrees and 2987 on the pressure. South at concord, 13 with temperatures on the mild side and 73 on the streets of bakersfield. That is for sale. 73 on the streets of bakersfield. Thunderstorms over the mountains, highs, 60s and 70s and close to average and then slightly below. Speaking of sale, there is a buck owens live in San Francisco recording and he sings that, of course. Perfect. You know, everything is on youtube these days. Lets look at the commute. The bay bridge has traffic moving along well with no major p
Looming 2020 alleged in and exactly where trump and biden stand in one of the most to mulch election years in history dont go anywhere americas war starts right now. Major corporations will do almost anything to prevent their workers from starting a union even if it means violating the most basic human rights thats exactly whats happening in this country right now and i have fair and cousins from the trial lawyer magazine to talk about it i saw this article its remarkable we go back to the days of henry ford and put it on steroids lay the story out for us what is interesting because what were finding out now is that this practice of surveilling workers has not only been continuing over the years but its evolved and one of the more Disgusting Things that were seeing happening right now it happens to be of cool. With amazon at whole foods which amazon now owns theyre using heat map technology to try and determine if their workers are meeting in in large groups while theyre working to see
While theyre working to see if theyre possibly unionizing because any time amazon believes you have workers congregating together that could be potential union talk and that of course is dangerous a course thats crazy that amazon thinks that any time 34. 00 workers are together is a bad thing and that its automatically a union but that is whats happening in these 510 whole food stores you have across the country yes so so just for example this this whole foods store theres 95000 employees ok theres about over 500. 00 stores that they have so theyre not just tracking their own employees theyre tracking their employees that then go about it go out into the neighborhoods and theyre looking for demographics what are the economic problems were like in that i mean what is what is poverty look like whos going to come in and buy food from us but the ugly thing is is your point are there 5 people meeting well then there must be a conclusion that these. Will are trying to form union and then the