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CSPAN2 Banned Book Read-Out December 7, 2013

Want to say crutch but the shepherd, the best way to say it, if that man was senator. Went from being a senator and the Faith Based Initiative which had his own naysayers, built into the Stronger Organization through your leadership through that period, what did you see demand that you were closest to who at one point was a senator go from senator to being elected president , and you were still there when he got the second term which you call legacy. First term is try to get done, second term is to build your legacy. Drop that period, what type of movement, what have you seen as far as faith in barack obama . His faith has deepened. It is a great question. He has said that himself. Theres something about a constant stream of trials and Different Things you have to overcome that slows you down and gives you a sense of perspective. President obama is the last person in the room to panic, the first person to say hold on, lets put a strategy together and we will get through this and that is a prospective god would have all of us, so easy to look at the challenges in front of us and think they are going to be the end of the world and yet we serve a god who has parted seas and raise people from the dead and done all sorts of things and then moved on to yet another challenge and that is the perspective he wants all of us to have. I have seen the president have a deepening faith and constantly remind himself what is most important, spending more time with his family and his wife and kids and focusing on deepening the night and things like that. I have seen his face grow. Other questions . Anything at all . Yes . Thank you for compiling. I am just curious if you have a particular favorite passage in the scripture . There is the first and second timothy, god has not given us the spirit of fear but tower and love and i go back to that when i need to cast down fear in my life and step out and do a new thing. There is a him that i go back to, up count every blessing. I am always singing it around the house but it reminds me of our flaws as sinners all but gods greatness is ever present. There is some scriptures that i go to. My name is Brendel Jackson and i first met your wife at the First Baptist church. Wonderful a great christmas present. Now that you have the new life of mayor are you working with your wife . Yes. We run a Consulting Company together with paul montero who is here. Palm. Wave your hands so everybody can see it. Handsome guy. We worked at a Consulting Company where we held institutions partner with the faith community. Other questions . All right. Thank you so much. [applause] across here. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook. Like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. Watch videos and get uptodate information on events. Facebook. Com booktv. You are watching booktv on cspan2. Next participants read selections from books that have been banned or challenge over the years. This event was hosted by the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association and is about two hours. Welcome. I am catherine, executive director and very happy were having a band polk read out today. Is amazing to me what is banned polk the still being challenged today. The director of the office of alexandria is going to read from the great gatsby. [applause] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Let me say from the outset this is one of my favorite books, probably because i have always been fascinated by the subject of an island east of new york where i grew up. I became a history buff early on knitting their and eventually became a Museum Director on the north shore of long island which is on one of these grand estates so i feel like i am very well versed not just in the history and architecture but the whole social history of that lifestyle from the 1920s. It was unique to long island, one of the earliest places where people who had no association with long island from across the country and across the worlds came to long island to see and be seen. If you had money, if you aspired to a title, if you really aspired to a title you could buy one for your daughter. That was often done with long island residents. It was definitely in the 1920s the place you needed to maintain a seasonal home. Not a primary home. A home you only use two or three months a year and really let your hair down. What happened with the great gatsby, the story starts in 1922 with a former army officer from the midwest who meets a young lady in 1917 in louisville, ky ecb. [telephone ringing] the daughter of a wealthy family in louisville, horse breeding country, he falls in love with her, goes into the army in world war i and emerges at the other end, multimillionaire. In the meantime the love of his life, daisy marys on man named tom buchanan, a yale graduate, there is some indication she is grieving for gatsby but goes a hand maries buchanan any way. A village known as east end, the middle of standpoint and thats the lives on kings point which is defined as west a. It is definitely the more fashionable of the two, kings point is nothing to see sneeze at. As to give an indication, vanderbilt, built a castle in cent point in 1917. Just to give vanderbilt, built a castle in cent point in 1917. Took several years to build and she said frankly my castle once and point is more authentic. Gives you an indication. We start the story here in chapters 7. I hope you have all read the book. Is actually a pretty tame origin of the i asked why was this a band book . At a couple nasty words in it like a dam and son of a bitch. There is actually no sex to speak of in the book at all. There is a reference to a term which is probably as scandalous as it gets. What we are talking here it is more the life style. The book was well read in the 20s. Was too close to that time period and the people on an island, nothing new to them. Certainly went it was reprinted in the 40s and 50s to a whole new generation of postwar parents, this was not something they wanted their Children Reading in school because of a lifestyle that i suppose they felt it encouraged. The scene opens in chapter 7, gatsby purchased the home across from buchanan who emigrated to the north shore. Specifically because it is facing Daisy Buchanans home and he wants her to know he is here on long island, he is a multimillionaire probably worth more than her own husband is. He held a series of parties all summer long hoping she and her husband tom will attend and he will get to discuss this with her. That actually doesnt happen until well into the book. When it finally does happen, he has in turn received an invitation to their home. This is kind of where the book starts, after the invitation is received and the story id tell here is from the caraway who lives in a very humble cottage that he rents for 80 a month. The lights in his house failed to go on one night and as soon as it began his career was over. Only gradually did i become aware the automobiles which turned expectantly into his drive stayed for just a moment and drove away. Wondering if he were sick i went over to find an unfamiliar butler with a villainous face squeaking get me suspiciously from the door. Is mr. Gets the sec, asked. Know, after a pause, he added stir in a grudging way. I havent seen him around and was rather worried. Tell mr. Caraway came over. Who, he demanded rudely. Caraway. All right, i will tell him. Abruptly he slammed the door. Get the has dismissed every servant in his house a week before and replaced them with a halfdozen others who never went into west egg village to be bribed by the local tradesmen but ordered moderate supplies over the telephone. The grocery boy reported the kitchen looked like a pigsty and the general opinion in the village was new people were not released service at all. The next day gets the call me on the phone. Going away, i inquired. No, holds board. I hear you fired on row servants. I wanted people who would gossip. Daisy comes over quite frequently in the afternoons. So the whole affair had fallen in like a house of cards of disapproval in her eyes. There are some people who wanted to do something, all brothers or sisters that used to run a small hotel. I see, i said. He was curling up at daisys request. What i come to lunch at her house tomorrow . Miss baker would be fair. Half an hour later daisy herself telephoned and seemed relieved to find i would be coming. Something was up and yet i couldnt believe that they would obviously choose this occasion for a scene especially for the rather harrowing scene that gads the had outlined in the garden. The next day was boiling, the warmest day of the summer. As my training emerged into sunlight only the hot whistles of the National Biscuit co. Broke the simmering hush at noon. The straw seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion. The woman next to me perspired delicately into her white shirt and as the newspaper, with the does what cried, her pocketbook fell to the floor. Oh my, picked it up with a weary band and handed it at arms length and by the extreme tip of the quarter to indicate i had no designs on it but everyone nearby including the woman suspected me just the same. The conductor said to familiar faces, some are there. Hot, hot is it hot enough for you . Is it hot . The ticket came back to me with a dark stain from his hand that anyone should care whose lush lips he had kissed the night before, whose head may dampen the pajama pockets over his heart. Through the home of the Buchanan House blew a faint wind carrying the sand of the telephone out to get the and me as we waited at the door. His masters body, i am sorry but we can furnish it. It is too hot to touch this new one. What he really said was yes, i will see. He sat down the receiver and came toward us glistening slightly to take a straw hat. In the salon, a you need to indicate the direction. In this heat every gesture was an affront to the commons for of life. The room was dark and cool. Daisy andstore of life. The room was dark and cool. Daisy and jordan lay on a couch. We cant move, as they sit together. Jordans fingers rested for a moment, and mr. Thomas buchanan, the athlete, simultaneously i heard his voice, gruff, muffled, husky at the telephone. Gatsby sat at the center of the carpet and glanced around with fascinated eyes. Secret, exciting laugh, a gust of powder rose into the air. The rumor is, whispered jordan, that is toms girlfriend on the phone. We were silent. Of voice in the hall rose high with the millions. I wont said that at all. I am under no obligation to you. As far as youre bothering me at lunch time about it, i wont stand for that. Holding down the receiver, no, he is not. It is the bona fides of deal. I know about it. He put out his broad flat hand with well concealed dislike. I am glad to see you. Hello. Make us a cold drink, as he left the room away he went over to get the and pull his face down, accusing him directly on the mouth. You know i love you, she murmured. You forget there is of lady present the days he looked around doubtfully. You kiss nick too. What a low, vulgar girl you are. I dont care, cried daisy and began to claude on the brick fireplace. Then she remembered he sat down guiltily on the couch just as a freshly laundered nurse leading a little girl came into their room. Less impressive, she crooned, holding out her arms. Come to your own mother that loves you. The child relinquished by the nurse rushed across the room and routed shively into her mothers address. The blessed freshest that mother could powder on your old yellowy hair. Daddy and i turned and leaning down and took the reluctant hand. Afterwards kept looking at a child with surprise. I dont think he had never believed in this before. I got dressed before lunch, that is because your mother wanted you to show you of. Her face bent into the single winkle of the small white nick. You dream, you, you absolute little dream. Yes, admitted the child call me, jordan has on a white dress too. How do you like mothers friends . Daisy turned around to face get the. Dont you think they are pretty . Where is daddy . She doesnt look like her father, explained the. She has my hair in the shape of the face. Daisy sat upon the couch, the nurse took a step forward and held out her hand. Come along. Goodbye, sweetheart. With the reluctant backward glance, the child held to the nurses hand and pull out the door as time came back proceeding to click full of ice. Get the took up his dream, they certainly look cool, he said with tension. We drink in long, greedy swallows. The sun is getting hotter every year, it seems pretty soon the earth is going to fall into the sun. It is just the opposite. The sun is getting colder every. Come out side, i would like you to take a look at the place. I looked over to the sound, stagnant, toward the fresher. Get the for paused momentarily, raised his hand and pointed across the bay. I am read across from you. So you are, said tom. Our eyes lifted over the rose beds to the hot line and we refuse of the dog days along the shore. Slowly the white winds of the boat moved against the cool limit of the sky. Ahead lay the scalloped ocean and the abounding blessed isles. Sport for you, said tom. I would like to be with him for an hour. We had lunch in in the dining room, dark and two against the heat and drank down there is gay and with a cold a. What do we do with ourselves this afternoon, cried daisy, and the day after that and the next 30 years . Dont be morbid. Life starts all over again when it gets chris in the fall. But it is so hot, insisted daisy on the verge of tears and everything is so confused. Lets go into town. Her voice struggled through the heat bearing against it, molding it senselessly into forms. I heard of making a garage out of a stable, tom was saying, but i am the first man who made a stable lot of a garage. Who wants to go to town demanded daisy incessantly. Gads thes eyes floated toward her. She cried you look so cool. Their eyes met and they stared at each other alone in space with an average glanced at the table, you always look so cool, she repeated. She told him that she loved him and tom buchanan thought he was astounded. His mouth open the little and he looked at daddy and he looked back at daisy as if he just recognized her as someone he knew a long time ago. It resembled the advertisements of the man all right, broke in, quickly. I am willing to go into town. Come on, we are all going into town. His eyes flashed between gads the and his wife. No one move. Come on, is to crack a little. If we are going to tell lets start. His hands trembling with an effort at self control, lifted the last of his glass of a. Daisys boys got to the blazing crandall drive with. Of the just going to go . Like this . Lets go have fun. It is too hot. He didnt answer. Have your own way, she said. Come on, jordan. Lets go upstairs to get ready as we shuffled the hot pebbles with our feet. A silver curb of the moon covered in the western sky. Get the started to speak, changed his mind but not before tom wheeled and faced him expectantly. Pardon me . Have you got stables here ask get the with an effort. A quarter mile down the road. Oh. There was a long pause. I dont see the idea of coming to town, tom said savagely. Get these notion in their heads. Shall we take anything to drink, called daisy from an upper window. I will get some whiskey, answered tom. He went inside. Get be turned to me rigidly. I cant say anything in this house calls board. She has an indiscreet voice, full of, i hesitated, her voice is full of money, he said suddenly. That was it. I had never understood before. It was full of money. That was the inexhaustible charm the rose and fell, the jingle of it. High and a white house, the kings daughter, the golden girl. Tom came out of the house read the bottle in a towel followed by daisy and jordan wearing small tight hats of metallic law and carrying light cakes overbear arms. And go in my car, suggested that the. He felt the hot green leather of the seat. I ought to have left it in the shade. Is it standard shift, demanded tom. Yes. You take my coop and let me drive your car to town. This suggestion was distasteful to get the. I dont think there is much gas, he objected. There is plenty of gas said tom boisterously please look at the age. If it runs out i can stop at a drugstore. We can buy anything at a drug store nowadays. Followed this apparently pointless remark, daisy look at tom, frowning. Definable expression, at once definitely unfamiliar, vaguely and recognizable as the file we heard it described in words over gets thes face. Pushing his hand toward get thes car and i will take you in this circus wagon. He opened the door and she moved from the circle, you take nick and jordan and we will follow you in the coop. Ebook to get the, the punching him with his hand. We got into the front seat of get thes car. Tom pushed the gear tentatively and shot off in the impressive he leaving him tight behind. You see that demand . See what . Realizing jordan and i must have known all along, you think i am pretty dumb, he suggested. Perhaps i am, but i have almost a second sight, sometimes that tells me what to do. Maybe you dont believe that, but science, he paused, the immediate contingency overtook him, pull some back from the edge of the theoretical abyss. I made a small investigation of this fellow, he continued. I could have gone deeper if i had known. Do you mean you have been to a medium, in quired jr. Humorously . He stared and laughed. A medium. About gets the . No, i havent. I set up making the small investigation of his past. And you found he was an oxford man . An oxford man, he was incredulous. He wears a pink suit. Nevertheless he is an oxford man. Oxford, new mexico. Daisy invited him. In new him before we were married from god knows where. We were all irritable and aware of it as we drove into the silence. Then as dr. T. J. Elberts faded guys came into sight down the road remembered get thes caution about gasoline. We have enough to get as into town, said tom. There is a garage right there. I dont want to get stalled out in this baking heat. Tom through on the brakes in patiently and as we slid to an abrupt dusty stop under wilsons sign after a moment the proprietor emerged from the interior of the establishment and gazed at the, lets have some gas said, roughly. What do you think we stopped here for . To admire the view . I am sick, said wilson, i have been set called a. What is the matter . I am all run down. Shall i helped myself . You sounded well enough on the phone. With an effort, wilson left the shade in support of the doorway and greeting card unscrew the cap of the tank. In the silent some light his face was green. I didnt mean to interrupt your lunch, he said, but i need money pretty bad and wondered what you were going to do with your old car. How do you like this new one . I bought it last week. It is a nice yellow one as he strained at the handle. Like to buy it . Big chance, wilson smiled,

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