The happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. I want to give you a version of what ive been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. Will present this room as a las vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us led headed thinkers turned into gold tone scholars and teachers picture a process of something that works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes class mates once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleagues, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little because money came to yale to study with harlem are a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that racked up group of students in american studies. clapping not a cold or exactly but we did become friends, puzzling over readings, yawning over brilliant, but sometim
Perspective, i want to thank all of you out there for all of the incredible support that you show the writers everywhere in the very, very difficult time that we are all facing. All of us at the Miami Book Fair are thinking of you and really helping that you and your families are safe and healthy. We are presenting the series, not only with the Miami Book Fair because they like family to us and we have always wanted to think them and we do think them for all that they do and a lot of people have been asking about the book fair and we will be mounting a book for this year whether its virtual, physical or combination of both, its a little too early to tell. We also want to think to sponsors, one is a literary hub. Com and also my very own culture crusaders. This evening, we are thrilled to welcome our good friend brad meltzer, to celebrate the publication of his new book the lincoln conspiracy. This is a phenomenal book and we have been with brad just about for every one of his books, we
Im very happy about that. So where are we going to go . Lets talk quickly about the lincoln conspiracy. We all know john wilkes booths store, how he ended abraham agains life and his presidency and this is the first secret plot to kill Abraham Lincoln is at the start of the presidency, before it begins. Why does it happen . When abraham i can is going to raise his right hand and become the sixteenth president of the United States the only way he can do that is take a train from his home in springfield and go to washington dc. He goes to washington dc and the only way to get from illinois to dc is on any train, you have to go through baltimore and baltimore was a slave state. The plot of the book is very simple. A secret society is planning to kill Abraham Lincoln, and ambition when he comes to baltimore in and his friend is presidency before it begins. That is the setup but what i think is interesting is the action, just where it begins. We open on this train and it is speeding through
Kate manne and kara alaimo for a discussion. Their latest books on shrinking how to face fatphobia and over the influence by social media is toxic for women and girls and how we can take it back. Kaye is an associate professor of philosophy at cornell university, where shes been teaching since 2013. Before that she was a junior fellow at the society of fellows, mann did her graduate work in philosophy at mit and is the author of two previous books down girl and entitled cara, the associate professor of communication fairly dickinson university. Shes been writing for cnn opinion the social impact of social media and issues affecting women and girls since 2016. Shes also former communicator in the Obama Administration and united nations. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming kate and cara to the stage. Hi, everyone. Hi. Great to see everyone so were very excited to have this conversation. And if were looking at our phones, its not were on social media. We just have a little
How we can take it back. Kaye is an associate professor of philosophy at cornell university, where shes been teaching since 2013. Before that she was a junior fellow at the society of fellows, mann did her graduate work in philosophy at mit and is the author of two previous books down girl and entitled cara, the associate professor of communication fairly dickinson university. Shes been writing for cnn opinion the social impact of social media and issues affecting women and girls since 2016. Shes also former communicator in the Obama Administration and united nations. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming kate and cara to the stage. Hi, everyone. Hi. Great to see everyone so were very excited to have this conversation. And if were looking at our phones, its not were on social media. We just have a little for for our conversation planned out. So ill begin and were going to go back and forth because. We have a lot to talk about by asking in honor of her book coming out just