relationship with boston, i m not from here i grew up in a small town in south dakota but i first visited here as a 12- year-old when my brother was in school and this trip made an enormous impression on me. we watched the freedom trail and iser i saw my first major league baseball game at fenway park. i started a program intended to rate my first seminar paper on boston in the era of the american revolution then changed my mind and chose a different topic. that topic led me to my dissertation project and ultimately, i followed a different intellectual path entirely. but this has been a winding path and led me back to boston after all. it s a pleasure to work on a boston topic for a number of reasons. unlike much of my earlier work which has been focused on relatively little-known characters and events, it s a place in time that immediately resonates with lots of people. while much of my earlier work has involved following the most evidentiary threads the sources for the proj
a bit miserable today. some rain already around, some strong wind in the next 2a hours, but if you were lucky enough to see the sunrise this morning, the sky looked a bit purple, and i will be trying to explain why. also coming up they d only just begun. karen carpenter was just 32 when she died. now the music she and her brother richard made famous has a new sound. we ll talk to richard, who s returned to london s abbey road studios to re record some of the songs that brought the carpenters global fame. hello, everyone. this is afternoon live. we begin afternoon live with breaking news and investigators havejust said that the helicopter involved in a crash at the home ground of leicester city in october lost control after a mechanism linking the pilot s pedals with the tail rotor blades became disconnected. the club s owner was among those killed, along with two members of his staff, the pilot and co pilot. we have just received a copy of the report. this is one diagram th
time. [laughing] just getting. i would not do that to you. i m really so thrilled to be in this conversation with you, chris, and to bring your stellar stellar book, yazidis audits your to the brooklyn book festival, book this will also to the use of the live stream at home. i think anybody knows who chris hayes is everybody knows that he is the editor at large of the nation magazine. he is on our television screens and on our social media feeds, seems nearly constantly as he broke on to the scene, when was it? winded when did i break? 2011. which was really when thoughtful policy discourse joined cable news and usually been able to bring that to his nightly new show at 8 p.m., all in. chris also a new york times best-selling book twilight of the elites, america after a meritocracy. and then this spring release this book, a colony in a nation. so let s get started. chris, why did you write this book? who did you want to read it and what did you want them to feel w
my name is kristin king and i m the manager here and i want to thank you all for joining us this evening. a couple notes before we begin. first and foremost, the book is available for purchase in the bookstore and will be available after the event and in addition there will be a signing. second, we have a really fantastic fall lineup coming at all six of our busboys and books location this fall. there s an event sign-up list being passed around on a clipboard, so feel free to add your name and e-mail address. thank you again for joining us and without further ado join me in welcoming and he and doctor ibram kendi. [applause]. think you. pleasure to have you all here on this rainy afternoon. although, compared to what s happening in houston our hearts and minds go to the people they are. i want to welcome all of you for being here and let you know that independent bookstores are dropped dying breed. they can only make a comeback if you support them and buy support them i do
unfiltered. host: let s start with the original conscience of a conservative the original red white and blue jacket with the stars burned in my mind as a guiding text and that put him on the path of a presidential run. it is very much in a mosh to goldwater. he felt that the conservative movement in the republican partn party have been compromised by the new deal and somebody needed to put together a blueprint on where the party at the movement got to go and that is what the conscience of the conservatism was and i think that everybody looked at the book and said this is the manifesto and so, i thought that i would honor it that way because we are facing some of the same kind of questions today that the party or the conservative movement has been compromised by the populist flair. you -begin-double-quote a saying that i regret having to write this book. i regret it because it is a necessity of this kind of the american conservative movement which had been a force for g