Will be a book signing. Ellior ackerman, they have brought their new books for us and elliott is a marine war veteran, published many books. He is a National Book finalist award winner and also wrote for the new york times, the atlantic, the new yorker. Clay is a native nashville he and who has published many works as well. Mostly historical and also Deputy Editor in chief or up in chief for the new york times. We are going to let them talk about their books individually and after a few minutes you can you and a on points of the books that they enjoy. Great. Thank you very much and thank you for coming out. It is always a pleasure to be back here in nashville. When they told me we would be sitting together on a panel i was elated because im a great admirer of your work. One of my good friends at work is one of elliotts editors and over the years i have come to admire his work and maybe we could get into it at some point but despite the fact my book is about the spanishamerican war and
Has published many works as well. Many historical so we will let them talk about their books and then q a that you enjoy. It is always a real pleasure to be back here. When we would be sitting together i was as elated first was a great admirer of your work one is elliotts editors. And over the years ive come to admire his work with that overlaps with the spanishamerican war and is personal experience and things to finding common and outside we wrestled for who would go first. I will let you all guess how that all worked out. So i will talk about my book so how did i come to this one is cute and nostalgic entry 92. That superficial version of the roughriders story was part of the narrative. And with the spanishamerican war. And then part of a history writer to go explore those things you find interesting. At a certain point to decide more about that in history and to help define through the 20th century who we are today. Ii felt like this was one of those. And going through old obituari
Festival of books. Here in downtown nashville. Today we are at the National Public library and i like to thank them for hosting this if it and monday other sessions. Theyve been a great partner to this if it for several years and we just want to say thank you. Southern festival of books is an annual if it produced each year by humanities tennessee, i would like to take those moment to thank humanities tennessee and all who contribute to the organization for their continued support of the written word and the writers, the young writers, Community History and civil discourse in all things humidity here in tennessee. And humanities in tennessee like to say, our story and our state and i like to think humanities for helping us tell and preserver stories. So a pit of housekeeping before we began, in a moment ill introduce our other and share some stories, and some insight from the book, no surrender. The conclusion of his presentation, we will open the floor up to questions and if you have
Booktv. Org for the full weekend schedule. Now we kick off with clay risens story of the rough riders led by Theodore Roosevelt. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening and welcome to green light bookstore. Were excited tonight to have clay risen presenting his book, the crowded hour. Hell be talking to dr. Amanda foreman. Before i turn things over to them, a couple of housekeeping things. First, turn off or silence cell phones or electronic devices. Second, book withs are for sale at the register. If you want to see whats happening the rest of the summer here at greenlight, fliers are available at the desk. And tonights program is being recorded by cspan. Amanda forman is author of awardwinning best sellers and of the forthcoming the world made by women a history of women from the apple to the pill. Her documentary work includes wellingtons women, the georgians and the bbc networks [inaudible] her next project is the exhibition fit for a queen inside victorias palace, for
Today is january 25, 2018. And this is the regular meeting of the San Francisco human rights commission. Its 5 41 p. M. Madam secretary, will you please read the roll call . [roll call] you have a quorum. Thank you. Now well go to Public Comment on items not on the agenda. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the commission on matters that are within the committees jurisdiction, but not on todays agenda. We would ask Public Comment to address any comments to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. Pursuant to the rules of government, the commissioners will not enter into debate or discussion with speakers on items related to Public Comment. Please note that a lack of response is not necessarily a sign of agreement or support with the statements made during Public Comment. With that, is there Public Comment on items not on the agenda . Seeing none, well move to the next item on the agenda. Number 2, adoption of minute