Start by asking each of our authors starting with h. W. About his subject and why they wanted to write it right now. H. E. W. . Yeah, thanks, erica. Thanks all for coming. I wrote a book about ulysses s. Grant because i had music that he said i was going to write a history of the United States through biographies. I had written my way up to the middle of the 19th century. Then i had a gap and i picked it up again at the end the 19th century and id been avoiding the civil war for a while for a number of reasons. One is theres lots of subjects about the civil war. Secondly, there was a lincoln bicentennial that was coming and it was pretty clear, it was 2009 and it was pretty clear stuff on lincoln was going to suck the air out of all the rooms on the general subjects i wanted to give it some clearance. When i eventually came back to it i wanted to write about someone i had a very specific need. I needed an individual whose public career or adulthood could spam from 1845 when the biggest
Relationships between the writers and offers a valuable look at postcivil war west coast and provides the kind of perfect medium for the development of bohemia. It is a rich feast of history that really unwinds many different threads. Both of the writers and the city that helped host their exploits. Ben is the author of another book, the counterfeiters paradise, which is published by penguin press, and his writing has also appeared in the San Francisco chronicle, and hes worked at lathams quarterly. It is a delight and a pleasure to have him with us. Welcome, ben tarnoff. [applause] thank you for that introduction. And thank you all for coming out tonight. I should tell you, i have a little bit of a flu, so if i get a little warm or if my voice gets a little froggy, youll have to forgive me. Mark twain, when he was here in the 1860s in San Francisco wrote a very funny sketch called how to cure a cold, and one of the cures was to rub mustard all over your chest. So if things get to that
Havent finished it, but ive been very impressed by what you wrote. I wanted to ask you how did you get involved with mark twain in all of this . I read mark twain when i was a teenager and i read tom sawyer and huckleberry finn. I never read king arthur or the innocents abroad but i read essays and i knew mark twain was involved in many Different Things like the imperialist league. So i was curious where its an excellent book. I deeply appreciate i always wanted to write about San Francisco to you i was fascinated in california history and i have a sense we had a vague sense that he spent time here but we arent really sure how much time. And it turns out as i learn more about how much time he spent at how formative those years had been i realized that is the story that i wanted to write and you mentioned the antiimperialist league i think it is better known to us that we think of in our minds i wear to me this was a stranger in a kind of fascinated me that these emotions were closer to
I think the question is for you. [laughter] which one was it for . I dont honestly know. Sounds like something he would have said. If you missed not just the fight against White Supremacy but how it is shaped so much the modern world and our economy and nation say, so forth, others have allowed us to see just how deep it cuts. And dubois of course was part of that. He said many times in many context that the problem is the problem of the color line. That is using you dont understand the 20th century. There are things you can understand and i suppose a lot of blues in beethoven. But in general as you try to understand the social world, it just seems to me its sort of a nonstarter, and the sentry i was looking. Now, one should say that, you know, there are moves forward, steps forward and steps backwards but clearly it isnt bending the word justice. I think it is Getting Better over the long haul and they get worse in various ways. Dubois also had this in mind, a question have been wrest
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