Talk. If you want to support the authors, click the green button down there to purchase the book but i will let you take the screen. Thanks. Welcome. Its my pleasure to moderate tonight book talk with my two friends jordan and chris. Its a book liberal and conservative and across the country. The question at the heart of this book, union, democrat, republican and search for Common Ground. Jordan is a businessman and coworker, conservative and former marine in california. Chris is democratic speech writer and journalist from berkeley, california. We met at law school and quickly became friends. I couldnt stop argue about politics and in 2016, got worse and worse so we decided to take a road trip and visit america. And we did it again and again and again. The union and how the friendship changed and learning what it means to be in america. Then the story about hope for a Better Future and a better united states. I for a warm welcome and i will give you a moment to say hello to the audien
Clean. But im not just giving them advice. Im putting up millions of dollars of my own money. If you dont know your numbers, you just dont know your business. Ill work by their side. Ill put in the hours. cause i have the same risk that they do. Wheres accounting . Shes counting. No, wheres accounting . Um. Oh, my god. This business is a total mess. I judge businesses based on three things its pretty damn good. Most often, businesses fail because of people. I trusted people to manage. Thats not fair what are you talking about . Dont you even go there. Im not going anywhere. Youre strangling things. Back up. Im there to lead, but if they dont follow, this business doesnt make it. Youre a thief and a liar and a cheater. You didnt do what you promised. Get out of my face. All i hear is a bunch of noise. [crying] i dont want to lose my company. Ill make the tough decisions they wont. Youre being demoted. Anything to turn these unsuccessful businesses around. What the [bleep] is your proble
In washington dc. Host i would like to welcome you to politics and prose. And i would like to welcome wil haygood that we see him several times a week. Is a customer in front of the store. In the author of the book that we are celebrating tonight. One of the things that i like about this book, a sign that it is a biography of one of the great men of the last century. His title. King of the cats. Because it so adequate describes Adam Clayton Powell jr. It was smooth and he was cool and goodlooking. He was smart. And he always was a complete package. And he spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the poor in this country. One of the great things about this, we have student come in was looking for a biography of Adam Clayton Powell jr. There wasnt one. All of the books about him were outofprint. So is a privilege really to have king of the cats back in front read and also privilege for us to have wil haygood here to talk about his book. Walk on. [applause]. Adam welcome. Thank you. It i
For the first time in our countrys history. I have been socialistic candidates in the past predict norman thomas. But they were never in the mainstream. But now, at a time when many of us thought that socialism had collapsed at the end of the 20th century. It is suddenly it is back. In his back with a vengeance. So a lot of books to take profits of this pretty so i think with these books and by and large, is it a pillow history the idea socialism has never worked before and certainly not for lack of being tried. He was tried really the majority of the world. Largest countries in the world russia and china india. Default one in a socialist direction. Dinesh dsouza so the issue is that the socialism did not were before so i wont work now. The verdict of history kind of hard use it for the problem with the argument is that the socialist, for small a lot of people dont know that history. So doesnt really get them. In the second part of it is even those who do, safe listen, work trying a ne
And for human equality. But the notice was very much at this moment. Enforces to confront challenges in our society that weve had trouble with in recent years. This is a time that makes us wonder how strong our institutions are going to prove to be. How we are going to rise to the challenge like this. I think you cant help but to see it as a time of crisis. Because it is a time of testing is also time for us to think about what americas strengths are and what were good at is a country and how we can build on that to confront these enormous problems. See 500 we get there. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and equality of individuals in one hand and some form of strength of community on the other. Every free Society Faces that in our society think is in the past halfcentury really emphasize the individual. Yuval emphasize liberty and freedom. And also diversity. That is brought some enormous advances and benefits. But there is another side to the coin.