Hold brief sessions every three days. Bipartisan negotiations continue on different options for voting remotely in committees and on the house floor. Senate coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. The as is with usco today courtesy of david and noel ray and rosalind rocks. Ms. Diaz was born in puerto ri rico. Her work has been published in rolling stone, the guardian, rage, and the New York Times magazine. Included in the best american essayses 2016. She is thed recipient of two prizes and Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and fellowship from mcdowell colony, kenyon review and Wisconsin Institute for creative writing. She lives in miami beach with her partner p, lawrence. Please give a warm welcome. [applause] thank you so much. Im so happy to beo here, its wonderful to see all youan book lovers here. Thank you for your seven hospitality. I want to thank the savanna book festival and everyone who made this event possible, including sponsors, booksellers, lets give it up for the book
Im the owner. For a little bit of history, the strand was founded by my grand father benjamin bass in 1927 in an area thats just a block over aalok along 4th avenue. It was called book row. There were 48 used bookstores at its height. In the 92 years since then, all of the stores have shuttered except for the strand. And thanks to readers, were Still Family Owned and still thriving. Tonight im so excited to welcome the founder and the editor of the wildly popular leftist magazine to discuss this book the socialist manifesto, the case of radical politics in an area of extreme inequality. Since founding, its been described as a light and dark times, hes been a columnist for the guardian u. S. The manifesto presents a history of socialism and an argument for the end of inequality, and we couldnt be more thrilled to hear about it. Were also excited to be recording tonights conversation with a broadcast from our friends at cspan. Joining him in this timely discussion is a writer, current af
I want to start by thanking our speaker David Marwell and David Goldman for agreeing to switch to this new medium. Its the medium of livestream and we are presenting that tonight in partnership with their very good friends at the princeton public library. I think we are all gripped by the precarious and frightening reality of this moment but there are so many of us in this is one of those antidotes. We are sharing the next hour tonight. Briefly before i introduce our speakers i just want to say quickly that David Marwells book mengele unmasking the angel of death available at labyrinth or your nearest and dearest local bookstore. All of us in the independent bookselling world are trying to find a way to find your support if you want to buy this book at labyrinth that will be shipped for free. If you place your order over the phone we have phone numbers in the chat box and also on our web site. That is the easiest way for you to get a book. And the logistics i want to make sure that you
Words, martha winow questions whether forgiveness and amnesties can strengthen the american Justice System. She is interviewed by georgetown law professor and former federal prosecutor paul butler. After words, weekly Interview Program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. All after words programs are also available as podcasts. To disclosure, you and i you are my law professor at harvard and you taught me family law and you were to go on for being a lowly assistant professor to a storied career not culminating but along the way you were the dean of Harvard Law School but you are my favorite law professor. Im not alone in that. In 2008 the junior senator from illinois was a man named barack obama and he said when i was at harvard will school i had a teacher who changed my life. Guest it is such a delight to be here and i have learned so much from you so thank you for doing this. Host i love the book because it has your voice, compassiona
Enjoy booktv now and over the weekend on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] all right. Good evening ladies and tillman. My name is jasmyne post. Im a scholar here at university of louisville and its an honor to welcome you to our Mcconnell Center event. In celebration of Constitution Day we thank you for joining us for debate on did america have christian founding . Its my pleasure to introduce aa moderator for this the next debate. Olde providence 24th dean or the Brandeis School law at the university of louisville. Prior to becoming too brandeis Dean Crawford said at the robert professor of environment the tw at Tulane University law school in new orleans. Before killing he was a tenured member of the faculty at Georgia State University College of law in atlanta where he found and codirected the center for comparative study of metropolitan growth which has developed new models for fieldbased fuelbased education and comparative and environmental landuse law. Dean crawford is a lot of t