Life. For six years, we traveled to six cities and bringing the book cities. Watch more at cspan. Org cities tour. We are here in the sioux falls Downtown Public library. A few blocks from here on the north end of sioux falls, i am a my booknd my roast is about caesar and i. Julius caesar died in 44 bc. Most of the buildings around their argon and his clothes are gone, even the iron daggers that stabbed him have long ago rusted into dust. About the only thing we have left it of Julius Caesar is his breath, air that came out of his lungs and spread their way around the world. T is not just Julius Caesar you can connect him with anyone you are interested in in history. Relatives, people you like or dont like. Air is one of the very few things that connect all human beings throughout history. Even the people who we do not have anything remaining of their lives and know little about them. We do know that its of their of are still around bits their air are still around and we have that mate
Jagged edge takes its title from f. Scott fitzgerald who is the author probably most famously of the great gatsby and if you remember your gatsby from back in high school or college you will remember nick carowinds is from minnesota. He went off to war and this would have been world war i and when he came back he decided that he thought it would be sort of dull to move back to minnesota which he saw as the ragged edge of the universe and he decided to move to new york and he got nixed up and arrained 20s on long island with gatsby and all that cast of characters from his book. In the end when he sees what happens to many of these characters he begins to see the ultimate west where he came from as the warm center of the world and so that contrast is what i tried to draw out in my new book book, warm center to jagged edge. In the decades after the civil war the midwest was seen by many commentators as the pacesetter region, the place that is the most active the place where there were som
Dakota for over 100 years to my new book from warm center to ragged and takes its title from mister got Scott Fitzgerald who is the author of probably most famously of the great gatsby and if you remember your gatsby from back in high school or college, you remember that nick karoly was from minnesota. Nick karoly went off to war, this would have been world war i and when he came back, he decided that he thought it would be sort of doll to move back to minnesota. Which he saw as the ragged edge of the universe. And he decided to move to new york and he got mixed up in the roaring 20s. On long island with gatsby and all that cast of characters from his book. But in the end, when he sees what happens to many of these characters, he begins to see the old midwest where he came from as the warm center of the world. So that contract is what i tried to draw in my new book, from warm center to ragged edge. In the decades after the civil war, the midwest was seen by many commentators as the pac
President trump blamed it on many sides. Pres. Trump we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. On many sides. It has been going on for a long time in our country. Not donald trump, not barack obama, it has been going on for a long, long time. Amy we will host a roundtable discussion with a protester who survived the car attack. A domestic terrorism attack. When protesting against White Nationalists in charlottesville. We will speak with a nurse who treated the wounded, as well as Jalane Schmidt, an organizer with the local black lives movement and professor it university of virginia dr. Cornel west was there and blackmon, ofi uniteds church of christ. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Thousands of people rallied in cities across the United States on sunday to protest deadly violence by a mob of ku klux klan members and neonazis duri
They were met by opponents including clergy, students, black lives matter activists, and protesters with the antifascist movement known as antifa. President trump blamed it on many sides. Pres. Trump we conondemn in the strongest popossible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. On many sides. It has beenen going on for a log time in our country. Not donald trump, not barack obama, it has been going on for a long, long time. Amy we will host a roundtable discussion with a protester who survived the car attack. A domestic terrorism attack. When protesting against White Nationalists in charlottesville. We will speak with a nurse who treated the wounded, as well as Jalane Schmidt, an organizer with the local black lives movement and professor it university of virginia dr. Cornel west was there and blalackmon, of uniteds church of christ. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to dedemocracy now , dedemocracynow. Org, the war ad peace report. Im amy goo