I would like to thank our members in sponsors and supporters making this and all the other programs possible. We support the club during these uncertain times. Today i am excited to be talking with Tiffany Cross a longtime political analyst and author of a brandnew book said louder. Tiffany has spent years in politics in the media where she has witnessed the ways in which lack voters are minimized and suppressed through both policy and media coverage. It builds on the work and some explains the way in which they had been crucial in the same political system that we are often dismissed from. Although Voter Suppression is not new. If you would like me to ask. Please put it in the chat box. Or the comments on facebook. In and the question will get to me. I want to thank you for joining us today. Thank you for being in this conversation with me. Im especially excited to have it with you. And i just want to congratulate you also on your role in an aunt ms nbc. Very happy to have you there.
Thats good evidence that maybe you care too much in this one instance about what this instance is doing foryou and not enough about what it would do for other people. Who is supposed to be helping. Now look, it could be that you just happen to the case where it so important that someone say something. That even if your grandstanding, its still the right thing to do you should even in that case go in knowing that what youre doing is not optimal. It would be better if you werent motivated to seek status for yourself and if you were primarily just going for helping others. But its good to ask. Justin is right that one thing we didnt point out yet but that we discussed in the book is in might be okay in some cases to grandstand. Youre perfectly comfortable with that. Grandstanding may be more no different than lying in this instance, sometimes it would indicate a live but it doesnt mean that its great or laudable but it might be the best of a set of pretty bad options. So the thought is th
Here. Is really a celebration of a brilliant, timely new book and a time for us to have a really important discussion about what is going on in the critical region of the world. And of course the start of todays performance is the author of that great new book, scholar of contemporary asia he is distinguished fellow here at hoover pretties also a great friend, mishas really wonderful for us to be with you and sold by this tremendously book. The book is asias new geopolitics. The book is an important book at an important time about the reshaping that is going on across the indo pacific region. Michael is also the author of another tremendous book right behind here, called the end of the age of the century. Michael is one of the most prolific analysts on what is going on the region. If youve not already done it, set up a google alert for whenever michaels essays are published, you get them right away. So also the hopes of a wonderful podcast he does with sean view on the pacific century.
About the imaginary area it was exciting to be somehow in my boyhood terrain and is deeply familiar to me in one thing or another the books are easy to write, i did feel for was enough in the last word and forth book is enough but then i had a half book ten years later. People would murmur robert rabbit when i go by, does not happen too often anymore, im not exactly like him, our books are short in rough background but he stayed and i left is one way to put it. Every ten years readers were treated to look back on the decade filled with historical features of the decade and understanding through his eyes, where you catch me up to date on your reel of america 2005. What did rabbit make of iraq and bush and all that, i really dont know, a lot of robert observation is about the small changes in ease very interested in women and how they dressed and theres been quite a few changes and carried among female dress, he was struck by the rollerskating in the online skating and women began to jog
American history of the civil war. She has published numerous books and articles, including the heart of the eagle, irishamerican volunteers in the union army, and the soldiers of most celebrated unit. This book will be on sale. She will sign it for you and after this presentation. You can get a copy at the gift shop and there will be an opportunity for her to sign. Shes a past president of the Mississippi Historical society, a member of the board of trustees for the society of military history and serves on the Editorial Board of civil war times magazine and the Advisory Board of the National Civil war museum. Her most recent research involves civil war governors of mississippi project, which she directs, this is a Collaborative Partnership between the Mississippi Department of archives and history, the Mississippi Digital Library and the university of southern mississippi, which will scan, stateribe, annotate and civil war era governors papers. About 50,000 documents spanning nine ad