Hosted by jim hewitt thank you for participating in todays Program Everyone watching tonight is providing a tremendous amount of support to the Nixon Library as we have been closed for six months. And to sign up for Nixon Foundation membership and you can do that right after the program ends. And trade to expand his portfolio he is overseeing the number of prospects for 2001 and now with global acquisitions and a contributing columnist. Taken away. I wish i had video in person im stuck inside of mail a copy of liberal privilege of everyone is watching. I wasnt planning on writing another book or anything like that. We were stuck in quarantine i could go to work or church or school or do anything reading or writing it would of gotten an exemption. Said let me research the guy we are running against to do some homework and its hard to believe a little there is out there despite half a century as a creature in washington dc. I cant believe the wealth of information that is out there that
Ask you this question. You worked for cnn for some 30 years. You have a variety of shows, you are not an orthodox republican, obviously not a liberal democrat. Could you go back into the environment today or what was the formula that allows you to exist for three decades . You have a particular relationship with him . Enlighten us a little bit. It was helpful i joined cnn in 1980 at the beginning, one of the founders of cnn, one of the fortunate ones who was there, i was president of creation, as they say. It was a spectacular place to work because it was something on thought of before ted turner. The global cable news cast and he put it into action and institutionalized it. It was truly remarkable. It changed over time and refounded it in 1980 and by 1984, ted was on the forms, the wealthiest list and have been basically on the verge of bankruptcy three years earlier than when he founded it. His positioned changed and subject hours. We were growing and over time, is, teds commitment t
Hello, my name is kai bird, im the executive director of the leon leavy centers for biography at cuny, university of new york. We are sponsored by Sheldon Whitehouse and the abto promote the arts and crafts and biography among other things. We been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years. We are here on a session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival, the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable publican intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholar, currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the author of eight books, professor witmer is now on my faculty abwe will be discussing his latest book lincoln on the verge thirteen days to washington. These are two very different books. Im going to hold up each of them. This is literally a mini biography, not so many, its a substantial book, focuses on 13
We do, for sure. It has been so long since we have blue skies. I think everyone is ready for that. We are going to go a record 28 days for the spirit air alerts for the bay. You saw that live look of how smoggy it is. We have, we have that smoke this morning. Checking the airquality conditions, all the red dots indicating that unhealthy air. For the middle peninsula down the south bay. All waking up with unhealthy airquality. To conquer, walnut creek, around the bay, San Francisco, unhealthy air through larkspur, san rafael, the northbay, santa rosa, windsor, petaluma. All of us starting off our day with all that smoke once again. We have the spare the air alert, all of us as we look to the afternoon still dealing with those unhealthy airquality conditions. Because of that smoke we are looking at temperatures, seasonal if not below average for this time of year. Mid 80s for concord, livermore, 70 in oakland and mid60s for San Francisco. Im tracking the return of our seabreeze. I will l
Be here today and we are so appreciative of it. Tonight i am beyond thrilled to have Morgan Jerkins with us to tolerate the release of her new book wandering in strange lands. Morgan jerkins is the author of the New York Times bestseller this will be my undoing quite thoroughly recommended. And the Senior Editor at sora come shes also a visiting professor at columbia university, her short form work has been featured in the new yorker, New York Times, the atlantic, rolling stone, l, esquire and the guardian among many others, she is based in harlem. Joining morgan and conversation is abborn and raised in jackson mississippi professor of english and creative writing at the university of mississippi the author of the long Long Division and the collection of xrays essays, how to slowly kill yourself and others in america. Also author of the men were heavy, shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie medal named one of the best books in 2018 by the young defeated, New York Times novel shows weekly,