I have a few more things. [laughter] for the past year at the library of congress, we have been celebrating changemakers, and i can think of a few people that fit the description and the United States Supreme Court justice liquidator ginsberg. [applause] [cheering] okay. Im going to hurry up. She is a hero and inspiration to so many of us. In fact, at 4 a. M. This morning, students from American University [cheering] camped out in front of this facility and they are here. Justice, are you going to talk about the graduation from Columbia Law School, spend mostt of the career advocating human rights and all these things and then recently was called the beyonce of jurisprudence. And she said i would rather use a jlo. [cheering] [laughter] without further ado, she is joined by her coauthors of the bestselling memoir, coauthors mary chi adjunct professor at georgetown law Wendy Williams Professor Emeritus at georgetown law, and her interviewer today and the interviewer the person that you k
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Chief executives and leadership styles. Visit our website, cspan. Org the president to learn more about president and historical features and order your copy today whether wherever books and ebooks are sold. Good evening. Welcome and thank you all very much forbeing here tonight. We are delighted to have someone whos been here, here meaning this store but our original location good number of times, approaching 30 years now. And having Lawrence Weschler back and for him to come to seattle. For us it feels like having a member ofthe family back. He has a literal family in seattle so thats part of his seattle visit and hes an author too, Tony Weschler but Lawrence Weschler has often come, his books have always had Something Interesting going on and i say this, hes sort of in a singular way right about, has written about unique people or sometimes theres extraordinary situations as well but often at the heart of his books are these unique and unusual and distinct people and this is a time
Well, you got me at the title. Okay. All right. Even if youre not a history buff, in these scary unprecedented times its incumbent on all of us to look back to see where weve been and how we got here now. And hopefully some perspective of where were going. This sixyear investment produced a global history of the human journey, which takes us from the stone age to the virtual age. Mr. Ansary proposes the history of the story were telling one another, since theres no single circle of story tellers, there must be many world histories. This dramatic journey asked us all, these asks us in all interwinding narratives, actually inform us on one single big story of our planet and if so, what might it be . The book explores links and Ripple Effects that stitch the fabric of history. Theres a lot of pivotal moments. Has anybody finished reading it . Because its just came out. Okay. Well, you dont count. Okay, you dont count. [laughter] all right. Okay. Its columbuss describing the banks in europ
Blueprint, we navigated pretty well, it is a remarkable story. I can almost say that except when Abraham Lincoln died, we were supposed to get Abraham Lincolns vision of reconstruction but instead the bullet of john wilkes move gives us johnson was a man born racist, died a racist, the last president to own slaves, a man who didnt anticipate his own slaves until 7 months after the emancipation proclamation, a man who has president ended up resurrecting every moment of the confederacy paving way for the jim crow laws which gave us segregation. If i look at the story of civil rights and postcivil war america it can be described as a story of two president ial assassinations beginning with Abraham Lincoln and ending with james garfield. When i set out to write the chapter about Andrew Johnson you think what can i write that great scholars havent written about this sort of seminal moment in history and i decided to vindicate the one stanley cans record which is putting Andrew Johnson a hea