Women from this book just did nott do that may be. I get the feeling they were pushing and pushing but it was more out of desperation. And now we have the kardashians. [laughing] thank you all so much for coming. On this rainy day to about this great book. Please pick up the book and please enjoy the rest of your day. It really is a great book. Thank you. [applause] and beginning now another Author Program from the printers row lit fest in chicago. Thanks so much for joining us today. This session is entitled the house that madigan built the record run of illinois velvet hammer in conversation with the Joan Esposito. Rays book will be available for sale and signing at the book sales and signing cant, and on your map it is marked as n. N. Ray long is a Chicago Tribune Investigative Reporter who has covered now indicted exspeaker of the house Michael Madigan for four decades, while also covered to governors would to prison and a state senator who went to the white house. He lives with hi
Us today. The session is entitled the house that madigan built. The recordha brent of illinois velvet hammer and conversation with joan. Raise the book will be available for sale and signing at the book sales and signing tent and on your map is marked as an end. As a Chicago Tribune Investigative Reporter who has covered indicted ex speaker of the house Michael Madigan for four decades. Also covered two governors i went to prison and a state senator who went to the white house. Lives with his wife peggy in ad inlincoln park. Moderated joe esposito hosts chicagos only progressive radio talk show every afternoon wc pca m820. Heartland signal. Com. Numerous awards and nbc today show. She considers herself a government geek. Thanks much for joining us today. Please lets give them a warm welcome and look forward to sharing more q a to follow as well as a book signing. Lets welcome them. Hi, thanks for coming. Thanks for getting up early and coming. I work afternoons this is still early for
Again so thank very much. The first time i met tim smith was 455th anniversary in the Vicksburg Campaign, and i went for the American Battlefield trust along with chris white out to do a series of videos. And so i meet tim on Champion Hill on the anniversary of the battle, which, as a civil war nerd, i was totally out about. Right. But its not that its even worse than that because i packed a whole suitcase of tim smith books for him to sign. So im like, tim smith, so glad to meet you. Sign my books. Yeah. Total fanboy going on at the moment and tim was super gracious and very kind about it and since then we have grown to become friends and he is truly the epitome me of the gentleman and the scholar. But hes the southern gentleman and the scholar. So everything he says is not only kind and polite, but with a really quaint drawl, which is wonderful and he is so gracious with his time. Hes been deeply, deeply invested in his series about the Vicksburg Campaign. If you havent had the oppor
The first time i met tim smith was 455th anniversary in the Vicksburg Campaign, and i went for the American Battlefield trust along with chris white out to do a series of videos. And so i meet tim on Champion Hill on the anniversary of the battle, which, as a civil war nerd, i was totally out about. Right. But its not that its even worse than that because i packed a whole suitcase of tim smith books for him to sign. So im like, tim smith, so glad to meet you. Sign my books. Yeah. Total fanboy going on at the moment and tim was super gracious and very kind about it and since then we have grown to become friends and he is truly the epitome me of the gentleman and the scholar. But hes the southern gentleman and the scholar. So everything he says is not only kind and polite, but with a really quaint drawl, which is wonderful and he is so gracious with his time. Hes been deeply, deeply invested in his series about the Vicksburg Campaign. If you havent had the opportunity to read those books
Well visit with a historian and author who will share the history of the ozarks and talk about the stereotypes people face living in the region. Those stereotypes have been developing for a couple of hundred years. They are strong and they stick with us no matter what we do. You go outside this museum and you travel around northwest there are fortune 500 companies, there is a Major Research university, there is all kinds of business and industry and high tech stuff going on out there, but these stereotypes will stick with us. It is part of our story. Later, we will hear the story of the family who was residents who were residents of fayetteville and how they were driven from their home during the civil war. This is a family that lived here and survived the war. The war affected them in many ways and they eventually had to leave the house because of the war. Hour with athe visit to the center for arkansas oral and visual history. It was started as a way to preserve the stories of the pe