Being here today as part of the remarkable event as you know press is turning 100 this year and this month we have partnered with u of i library in order to kick off a year filled with workshops, panel, exhibits and more. Todays panel is a particularly important one. Lorrie mathison current director is joined by her two predecessors in this position willis to add Historical Context to this event ill share with you that the university of Illinois Press had six directors. In its 100 years and only four of those served in the fulltime capacity. So the reflections that we hear today encompass nearly 50 years of the presses history. It is my pleasure to introduce our moderator for todays panel dr. James d. Anderson. Ill stand on this. Dr. Anderson currently serving as dean of the school of education. Hes held other key leadership roles during his nearly 50year tenure at the university of illinois including head of the department of education policy organization, and leadership. Dr. Angder s
I was blown away by this. Reading it for a second time made my experience more profound. I want to die right in and ask you to read a bit. Ill let you take that. Turning toward toward the house on the hillside i see movements of a different kind, tall shadows for the current. My brothers are awake testing the weather. My mother at the stove hovering over brown pancakes. My father by the back door lacing his boots and threading his callous stance into welding gloves. On the highway below the school bus went past without stopping. Im only seven but i understand the suspect more than any other that makes my family different. We dont go to school. Dad worries the Government Forces to go but it cant. For my seven siblings dont have birth certificates. We dont have medical records or school records. When im nine ill be delighted certificate of birth. But at this moment i do not exist. Of course i did exist. I waited for the sun to darken a spent my summers bottling peaches when the world the
University press have only six directors and its 100 years and only four of those served in a fulltime capacity. So, but reflections that we hear today encompasses 50 years of history. It is my pleasure to introduce the moderator for todays panel, doctor james anderson. Doctor anderson serves as the dean of the school of education and has held leadership roles during his nearly 50 year tenure at urbanachampaign including serving as the head of the department of education policy organization and leadership. Doctor anderson was selected in 2016 as the unified president ial fellow and is known internationally as the groundbreaking scholar in the history of education and School Achievement in the u. S. Hes a member of the National Academy of education and is a professor of history of American Education and endowed member on the campus. Hes also served on the faculty board of the University Press during each of the tenures of the panelists today and we thank him for being here to lead us th
Million, but 11 are or very special because he developed an intimate relationship with every president many modern time going back to harry truman. And with us today to talk about this book is Michael Duffy who is a veteran reporter with Time Magazine. He is known in this town as the ultimate insider. He is the reporter who knows the back story on the big story. He is a man who is very well sourced and has a reputation in time for being selfeffacing, very witty and a man who would sit with his coauthor, nancy gibbs, in the bureau and come up with these astounding cover stories, more than 100 of them to their credit, in a mysterious process that no one else quite understands. [laughter] so i want to get to that in a minute, but first, welcome to the show. Welcome to after words, michael, and let me ask you many books, scores of books have been written about billy graham but none that have focused on his relationship with the president s in quite this way. How did you get this idea, whyd
Good afternoon. And welcome to the historic Trinity United Methodist church. We feel so fortunate to be in this beautiful space which has been made possible by the generosity of jack and mary romanos. Im honored to serve as a volunteer for the 11th annual savannah festival,o and im so glad you also are participating in this years festival presented by georgia power, by david and nancy citron, the Sheehan Family foundation and mark y and pat suen. Wed also like to thank our wonderful literati members as well as individual sponsors and donors who have made f and continue to make saturday at the book festival a free event. 90 of the revenue for the savannah book festival, in fact, comes from donors like you, so thank you very much. Were excited to have a savannah bookik festival app available year, so please look in your program if you would like information on downloading that app to your telephone. Before we get started, a couple of housekeeping notes. Immediatelys following this presen