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Lynton history prize, mark lynton history prize and the j. Anthony prize, the work in progress prizes are administered jointly by Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for journalism at harvard md. And i want to introduce our host for this evening. Thats ann marie lipinski, Pulitzer Prize winning former editor of the chicago tribune, and the curator here of the Nieman Foundation. Weve got a good and very stimulating evening ahead. So ann marie. Were killing the music. Ive done it. Thats it. Its my folks that jazz. Its called the jazz lounge bar. In case anyones interested interested. Thank you, jonathan, and welcome everyone to the presentation of the j. Anthony lucas prize project honoring the very best of american Nonfiction Book writing in celebrating gifted writer winners this evening, we remember Pulitzer Prize winning journalist j. Anthony lucas, a 1969 nieman fellow, and the late mark linton, a history enthusiast and expert and Senior Executive at the firm Hunter
vossoughian. if you are just joining us, welcome. if you are sticking with us, we thank you for that. we are following the breaking news out of mississippi. death and destruction as tornadoes ripped through the states. towns have been virtually wiped out. we saw into the middle part of the house, and we did, and we got in there, obviously, it was right behind us. as soon as we got in there, we heard a big boom, and we didn t do anything else for a while. we walked out and came out to about ten trees down in our yard. and increasing tensions between iran and the u.s.. what s looking like a proxy war in syria. donald trump sets to hold what he s doing as the first rally of a 2024 race in a matter of hours, and it comes as an indictment looms. and manhattan investigation in the special counsel probe heats up, plus, the future of tiktok. after a contentious congressional hearing with the ceo, continued threats from the white house, to ban the social media phenomenon, unless i
them. guide our legislature with your wisdom and truth, as they seek to meet the requirements of the united states constitution. lord inspire them to seize this opportunity, to demonstrate to the nation, and world how the democratic process can be done properly and in an orderly manner. help them to remember, that history is a faithful stenographer. and so are you. we pray in your sovereign name, amen. the fact that we even have a senate chaplain at the house chaplain, it s kind of a weird thing, it s a bit of a contradiction in a country in which separation of church and state is a constitutional hallmark, even james madison came to believe it wasn t entirely closure. but a chaplain opened every day of congressional business starting with the continental congress, 1774, and the tradition has continued. the way this contradictions been resolved over the years, is whatever his or her specific termination, personally, and there will be christian, the chaplin praise and leads