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Charlotte it is an honor to get to talk to you about your new book today. Thank you for doing this interview. I really enjoyed reading it a kind of felt like part memoir part selfhelp. Obviously Vice President mike pence. And i wanted to ask you a little bit about your decision to write the book. In the process. You went through this. The reference to parts of your diary. Entries that you did along the way on the campaign. I was wondering if you could talk us through a little bit of the process ...

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There are two words right at the outset want and is participation and the other, before i get anyone else to tell people you can submit your questions and comments. One is through email at brookings. Edu or on twitter with the. But all of you who have joined this call today, we are deeply grateful and hardened by those who wanted to join this conversation and lift every voice the urgency of civic duty voting. Thank you to all members one of the best groups i have ever worked with. Its an Extraor...

Grateful and hardened by those who wanted to join this conversation and lift every voice the urgency of civic duty voting. Thank you to all members one of the best groups i have ever worked with. Its an Extraordinary Group of people that contributed so much. And to the center for democratic governance for their support. Thank you to my dear cochair who is an absolute dynamo and a blessing to work with and then the Vice President of workings release these governance programs. He has been extraord...

Them, the only thing that i heard you say that im disgraceful that this president is a disgrace but please remember we are going to leave this program to take your life to a discussion on elections and civic engagement. This is live coverage on cspan2. Before i get to anything else, i want to tell everyone out there that you can submit your questions and comments two ways, one is through my email and it is events at brookings. Edu, were in edu or on twitter with the universal voting. When it com...

Sasse of nebraska. After words is a weekly Interview Program with relevant guest host interviewing top nonfiction offers authors about their latest work. Reporter hello and welcome. Thank you for joining us. Cspan thank you for letting me interview you about this really good book and congratulations. Guest thank you for having me. Last time we did the show we talked by your fantastic book that was a bestseller. Host you asked a lot of hard questions and id plan to repay you. You are only in your...

Working for pm we should talk a little but i will talk about that. The great investigative journalist i have stone remains the template for what journalism should be he was a fearless opponent of mccarthyism and the scourge of official liars as d. D. Gotten planned puts it in his biography of stone he did what few in his profession could he always thought for himself couldnt plan argues that the key to stones achievements throughout his singular career not just in the celebrated eye of stones we...

Stones weekly lay in the force and passion of his political commitments he would become one of the best known journalists in the country and then because of the ferocity of his integrity and refusal to be cowed by the hysteria and witch hunts over communism a pariah he was placed under daily surveillance his passport was not renewed and he was blacklisted even the nation magazine would not give him a job at the age of 44. 00 he wrote that is total marginalisation made him feel like a ghost his c...

His legacy is d. D. Gotten plan author of american radical the life and times of stone 1st of all this is a brilliant biography you produced a masterpiece and if people havent read it they need to buy it its a stunning and its a little tough now its so much more than the life of stone well it says something about the culture the important about the culture about journalism about the moral life and its its beautifully written but set us up who was i have stuff so i have stone was the son of jewis...

A couple on you know we meet with global news makers and the stories that matter to 0. In the street we are week into the new year and it has studied office and thankfully as we end it 2019 today will be joined by a special face fetus to break down the past and a look ahead at whats to come and we want you to be part of this show share your thoughts on twitter had a story. As we enter the 4th year of the term presidency were continuing to see a rise of hate not just against muslims but a whole r...