Selfdetermination. Host author herb boyd with us on this Independence Day weekend. Professor boyd, what is july 4 me deal . Guest it means the same thing what it meant to Frederick Douglass, you know. While you can have the general celebration and everything, we have a different perspective from the africanamerican community. This was a long history to understand exactly the distinction in terms of the celebration for one community and the kind of lack of observers on the other part of the community. What does it mean to people who history of segregation. You have to understand the kind of sensitivity that might be distinct from one community to another. Obviously we Start Talking about this history of this country and the role of africanamericans in terms of providing that celebration, that is a whole another question because we have been in the forefront of the socalled battle for freedom and justice and liberty in this country from day one. From day one going back to the socalled bo
Media, has written a number of books. We met about a year ago at a a conference that was put on by the Berkeley Program at yale, and i can see that at the time she has a real affinity for trying to understand the connection between the Communications World and the media world on the one hand, and different elements of the conservative movement on theun other. So this is a natural kind of outgrowth of her previous work looking at that general area. Open to debate is the book. Heather has watched not maybe every single one of 33 yearss with the firing line episodes but pretty close to it i think. She is probably the reigning expert now on all things related to firing line. So please help a welcome heather hindershot to the podium. [applause] thanks so much. Its really great to be here, h, particularly here at the hooverr institution because the hoover was so important to the research i did on the book. I was out of stanford all the papers are and, of course, they preserved all the episod
But i know what youre talking about. I was standing in the back and someone whispered in my ear, they said i always liked him because he was smart and funny. Now i also know that he is a beautiful human being. So i want to thank you very, very much, for this remarkable event. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you. [applause] i also want to thank bob weisberg for a remarkable conversation as well. Thank you, bob. [applause] this is booktv on cspan two, television for ear juice readers serious readers. We have astrophysicist kneel degrass tyson lead as discussion on the universe. Mit professor Heather Hendershot, remembers william f. Buckleys firing line. We wrap up the lineup at 11 45, with author courtney martin, she talks about her latest book, the new better off. Reinventing the american dream. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Welcome to the Hoover Institutions washington, d. C. Office. My name is mike franc. Im the director here. It is my real pleasure today to be a