Company to partake we have ever seen in this town on any occasion somebody has recorded. A remarkable moment for many reasons not the least of which offering a toast to the constitution, president , Vice President , congress and then to the illustrious neighbor he truly had retired from Public Service his words in response are words i think of often no wish can exceed that to see our country happy. I can entertain no doubt of it being so if all of us act the part of goodod citizens. He included himself in that equation he is also a citizen that came with rights and duties particularly he would ansay a duty to maintain the constitution to support the laws and guard our independence. As we will see it was a duty he took very seriously he did not retire so much as taken air different approach. Tonight we get to hear about a wonderful book i am excited for you to learn about i read about in the prepublication stage which iub read over my Vacation Home christmas break. I was daunted how goo
Portion and it will get passed around if you raise your hand as you can see we are recording this evening. Copies of the book are available at the register if you would like to purchase one copy or many copies. We encourage many. There will be a signing after the qanda so if you would like to get your book signed, please sign up in an orderly fashion in this cabinet this is the word im looking for. It is now my pleasure to introduce author of you never forget your first a biography of George Washington. Following the award murder in memphis soon to be a major motion picture. With a look of George Washington that firmly separates man from ththe menfrom the legend, the ho mans land, cohost of our people, too and a consulting producer on the forthcoming History Channel series of George Washington purview as the founders lens drawing on previously unexamined archival material she recounts how he was raised by single mother and thed the stubbornness that caused him to never back down relate
Thank you all so much for coming out tonight. I know the rain and the traffic have gotten in the way a bit but its lovely to have all of you here. I Melissa Muscatine one of the coowners of politics and prose. Along with my husband brad grant was out of town and not here but wishes he were. I just want to say welcome to our union market store. I think some of you know this is our third politics and prose outpost, second outpost, third store. Its our newest store. We really love being here. We are glad to share this space with all of you. I also just want to say that because it is september 11 i thought we might take a few moments just to pause silently to remember that tragedy of almost 2 decades ago. [silence] thank you. It is such a pleasure for me to host Stanley Greenberg tonight. We all know hes rudeness book with times of phenomenal title, depending on your opinion, r. I. P. G. O. P. In case you start flipping to the actual text make sure you stop on the dedication page because h
Between the people opposed ilLegal Immigration and just immigrants in general questioner that is an excellent question. That is often a concern, right, that we are talking about two very different kinds of of immigration here of immigration year. Undocumented immigration and ilLegal Immigration. An alibi analyses, even when they look at questions that only ask about ilLegal Immigration, the relationship stays the same. This is the research weve done that is so much with the framing is about that implicitly will be arrested think about immigration, we associate immigration with illegality and also latinos and a lot of psychologists have uncovered this implicit relationship that weve made between immigration, citizenship and the racial or ethnic group associated with that. Thank you. My concern or maybe my question is all immigrant populations have gone through process before they are culture aided and assimilated. Latinos have been coming in this area for many, many years, especially wi
Politics and prose. We welcome all of you as does our fabulous staff. Before we get started, i just want to mention a few housekeeping matters. If you do have a cell phone or device that may make in our own welcome, please silence it. We would appreciate that. I also would invite you if you have a question to please come to the microphone right here. We are videotaping this. We also have cspan here. Its really helpful if people can hear the questions. Lastly, you do not need to fold up your chairs at the end. Usually we ask you to, but, but we do have more events today. Please just leave them. Alex will do a signing at the end. I think you have seen his book right here. Its terrific. We have plenty of copies. I hope you will buy it. Its upfront if you havent had a chance to pick it up yet. Lastly, for those who are using our coffee shop and know its under renovation, we have installed a temporary coffee cart downstairs that is operating during the day. If you are feeling desperately in