Trisend 10 yield. That is one reason why carl jacobys exciting new book, the strange career of William Ellis, the texas slave who became a mexican millionaire he. He is a professor at Columbia University in new york where he lives with his wife and son. His books from the role of the environment in shaping human power relations to the challenges he representing the profound violence experience by north americas indigenous peoples. In the strange career of William Ellis, jacoby brings to life the story of an elusive figure known variously as w. H. Ellis and guillermo ellis. The book strips away layers of mystery surrounding, ellis, revealing a long ignored history of slavery, emancipation, racial mixing and segregation in the u. S. Mexico border lands. The study casts. Sharp relief intimate entertaining link acrossnational boundaries that mexico and United States inseparable elements of a shared north American History. Please join me in welcoming karl jacoby. [applause] good morning, ev
Gleaming whose broad stripes and bright star s stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave please take your seats. April 6, 1917, for three years the great war raged across the globe, bringing death, destruction, famine, disease and displacement of peoples across europe, africa and asia. From the atlantic to the pacific. During these years the United States of america remained neutral keeping our distance from the conflicts of the old world. Four days earlier on april 2nd, president Woodrow Wilson addressed a joined session of congress. Neutrality is no longer desirable where peace is involved. And the freedom of its people. To minister that peace and freedom lied in the existence of autocratic governments. We are at the beginning of a
It tells us a lot about who we are, and what we can and will be. The details of innocence lost to greed, corruption, and lust to power. The author shows the ability of to beack community capable of destruction. Barnes tells the story i am really sorry, i had not planned on that. Before we begin, i would like to say a few personal things about harper. 1977, when we moved to this location from the loop, harper wrote an article in the post about us for the sunday paper. At midnight saturday night, we waited anxiously for the paper to be delivered. What a thrill. Harper was the first journalist to recognize us and it was the most welcome and truly appreciated article that has ever been written about us. Novel, he gavet us a galley. Which i still have. Harper blue monday, Harper Barnes publication, 1991. And then he did a book siding a book signing when the book finally came out on monday and he inscribed it to us. I just want to read it. ,t says to Left Bank Books my old friends. I cannot
More space for the book signing and help us get back to bookselling. Welcome to politics and prose. I run all of our events in the store. If you are not familiar with pmp i would take invite you to take a moment to sign up for our calendar of events and see everything else. We are operating inside three locations and will be doing events in all the spaces. More than ever command that hate for you to miss out on any of it. With that, on to why your here. Were happy to were happy to have eric with us. Then here four times four to talk about his new book 1920, the unit made the decade were. This is absolutely not your typical history book. He is not here to go sort of historian. He brings his journalist i to the topic just as he had with his previous book a former nbc news correspondent and was the former host of fox news watch and is one an emmy for media criticism. He strips away a lot of the glamour that surrounds our concept of the 1920s and is able to really show more about what ever
More space for the book signing and help us get back to bookselling. Welcome to politics and prose. I run all of our events in the store. If you are not familiar with pmp i would take invite you to take a moment to sign up for our calendar of events and see everything else. We are operating inside three locations and will be doing events in all the spaces. More than ever command that hate for you to miss out on any of it. With that, on to why your here. Were happy to were happy to have eric with us. Then here four times four to talk about his new book 1920, the unit made the decade were. This is absolutely not your typical history book. He is not here to go sort of historian. He brings his journalist i to the topic just as he had with his previous book a former nbc news correspondent and was the former host of fox news watch and is one an emmy for media criticism. He strips away a lot of the glamour that surrounds our concept of the 1920s and is able to really show more about what ever