He is a Lecturer And Associate director of the political History And Leadership program in school of historical philosophical and religious religious studies, arizona state university. Right next to my hometown in scottsdale, arizona, so its a great pleasure to have both in and adrian here today and if you would please start us off. Just tell us a little bit about your book. Basic information for those who havent had a chance to read it yet. Thank you in absolutely. Thanks to the now center for having us today and thanks to the Virginia Book festival for including us. Im looking forward to a great event. So my book looks at international influences on the creation of the confederacy. As the civil war opened and the spring of 1861 the newly declared confederate states of america, of course had to fight against the north against the United States, but much of their attention was also perhaps unexpectedly abroad. So i have one example the editors of the richmond daily dispatch wrote in ma
Media has on free speech. It was an interview with the Washington Post. Welcome to Washington Post live, editor of the technology letter. My guest is senator josh hawley, senator from missouri. Welcome to the Washington Post. Hi cat. Im looking at your proposal to break up tech companies in your new book and we want to start with the events of January 6th. Senator, you were the first senator to object to the certification of Joe Bidens electoral college victory. You write in your book, quote, my sin was to raise an objection to one state going the electoral Certification Process. Senator, what responsibility do you feel for the cascading events that resulted on January 6th . Well, listen, i did what i said i was going to do on January 6th, which was to voice my constituents concerns about Election Integrity and this is something the way that the democrats have done in the last three president ial election, every time a republican president has been elected since the year 2000, democrat
The book on their books about the downside of our global internet driven consumer economy. Author of winning and losing, senior reporter for pro public and the recipient of the george bulk award, the Robin Toner Prize and other honors. Also thehe author of this and me the 2014 biography of Mitch Mcconnell and lives in baltimore. Amelia, author of made in china a Prisoner And Sos letter and hidden cost of americas goods is an Awardwinning Journalist was written for publications such as mother jones and the new republic covering topics from organic flawed to the prevalence of sexual violence on native american reservations. Nc she lives near washington, d. C. The Moderator Today is the director of the international human Rights Clinic at the Uva School of law and his research focuses on justice and postconflict scenarios, land governance, Peace Building and accountability for human rights violations. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you very much. P its been a pleasure to read your
Jones and the new republic covering topics ranging from organic import fraud to the prevalence of sexual violence and native american reservations but she lives near washington d. C. Our moderator today, Nelson Sanchez as director of the international human Rights Law Clinic at the Uva School of law. His research focuses on Justice And Post conflict in ours land governments and Peace Building and corporate accountability for human rights violation. Alec, amelia, thank you for joining us today. Its all yours. Thank you very much. Thank you for this fantastic book. It has been a pleasure to read your work. Not much about the topic i think they are not only important but timely. Im very glad for you to not only doing the research to get this book out, but to join us tonight for this panel. I have a couple of questions im going to take some questions from our tonight. Let me start by asking about the book. At what point and how did you realize all of those hours of research were Book Mater
Further ado, please let me introduce our speakers. Our first Speaker Today will be nl Tucker Author of newest born of nations european national movements. Nationalist movements and the creation of the confederacy. She uses an historian of the us south and civil war in an international perspective. She is an assistant professor of history at the university of north georgia. Thank you anne for being here and let me introduce our our second Panelist Today and that is adrian brettle who is author of our second book colossal ambitions confederate planning for a post civil war world. He is a Lecturer And Associate director of the political History And Leadership program in school of historical philosophical and religious religious studies, arizona state university. Right next to my hometown in scottsdale, arizona, so its a great pleasure to have both in and adrian here today and if you would please start us off. Just tell us a little bit about your book. Basic information for those who haven