Thank you for hiring me. I appreciate that. Every two weeks. I appreciated pretty. Im also the samuels Senior Historian at the museum which is perhaps my proudest post. Welcome to another installment of our author series will we bring you the best world war ii literature and the men and women who create it. People tonight author, the truly needs no introduction, we carry out that tradition. Any chance are there any veterans in the audience tonight. There we go. [applause]. I knew there were some. [applause]. To say that we thank you for your services is an understatement of the century. Any veterans of any other service or any other era, please stand and be recognized if you would. [applause]. Wonderful. And again, thanks to all of you for your support and service. We have an Incredible Group of friends with us here tonight in the museum. Cspan, the good folks from cspan are here filming the event printed that is always wonderful that wanted to be under your best behavior. Because cspa
Every weekend. The cspans city tour is exploring the american story as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. This weekend we travel to san antonio, texas. Coming up in the next hour we will feature the citys local authors including John Phillips santos on culture and hometown. In about 15 minutes we will visit the special collections at the university of texas in san antonio. And later in about 40 minutes, the debates surrounding confederate statutes and memorialization. We begin our special feature with lewis fisher on his book saving san antonio. We are standing near the Geographical Center of san antonio, texas. We are in front of whats called the Spanish Governors Palace in a town that was actually set up here due to the conflicts between two european empires, france and spain in the 18th century. Spain had, of course, established itself well in latin america and south america and in mexico and northern mexico was especially important to spain because rich silver min
Good evening. Happy wednesday. How is everyone feeling . Great. Happy friday. Just making sure you guys are paying attention. Welcome. My name is megan, new executive director of chicago ideas and having been born and raised in this amazing city and now raising my own family just down the street in the south loop i feel incredibly proud to call myself a true blue chicagoan. Anyone else feel that way . [applause] it makes me even prouder to now be a part of this fantastic city team who works each and every day to challenge our city in the world beyond to share ideas and inspire action and ignite change. Chicago ideas is all about deep curiosity and pursuing connectivity so in that spirit, who does not love a good friday night a speaker, id like you to take a moment to turn to the person you dont know and introduce yourself and share why youre here tonight and share what you are most trusted source of political news might be. It might be a little bit of an oxymoron so i will give you 60
Person whose name is on the show,michelle me out. Thank you so much john. Welcome to the michelle me out show. It is your a through z covering the lgbt and everyone in between. Our special guest is the founder of the free radical project, a Global Network of former extremists who were the radicalizing others, trying to lead the movement by providing counseling. Hes an and in any Award Winning producer, proud father of two and an author and here to talk about his new book breaking hate confronting the new culture of extremism is christian picciolini. Welcome to the show. [applause] so this book and its your second book and wow, i flew through the 200 pages so quickly, like a hungry child afterschool. Unand because i was just craving some of this truth but before we dive into all these truths the book does share stories from other individuals that you encounter whether direct or indirect and through your work. I think we should start with telling your story and how that encounter with cl
Aware many of you have no idea who i am so thank you for showing up out of the spirit of pure curiosity. I think it speaks very well of you and i know theres really big names at the festival and i feel honored to be among them so thanks for coming. Who am i to mark a few things around i write a column called the undercover economist for the Financial Times. At the pink newspaper thats really good. I recommend it. Thanks baxter. And the second thing is i present bbc radio so im present a show for the Bbc World Service called 50things that made the modern economy. Ive presented a show for bbc radio for aboutnumbers and how we think about numbers and how numbers lead us astray. And sometimes help us understand the world. And i also have a podcast with a gentleman called michael lewis, a gentleman called Malcolm Gladwell called Cautionary Tales which is all aboutthings going wrong , sometimes in amusing ways and what we can learn from them. So in between all that, i tried to write a few bo