Readers. Good evening, welcome to murmur. I am stephanie valdes, coowner of humidity bookstore and m b, its also a hardcore indie bookstore crowd. Tonight were thrilled to welcome Rebecca Solnit on the publication date of her new book recollections of my nonexistence. She will be in conversation with Leslie Jamison area is no that there will not be assigning tonight after the event but Rebecca Solnit did arrive early to sign each and every one ofyour books. So Rebecca Solnit is the author of 20 books including a field guide to getting lost, the faraway nearby, a paradise built in hell, river shadows and wanderlust. A history of walking. She is also the author of essays on feminism, activism and social change, hope and also the climate crisis. A product of the California Public Education System in kindergarten to graduate school shes a regular contributor to the guardian. Leslie jamison is the author of the New York Times that sellers recovering and the empathy exam and the novel gin cl
[applause] hello, everybody. I am so happy to be here with my friend, the commissioner, bud selig. I now realize it was a quarter of a century ago, i came to milwaukee, and read no ordinary time about frank and roosevelt. He wanted me to talk about baseball. Always that push and pull. What is happening in baseball, what is happening in the country, we have a great relationship, we became great friends with each others families and went to the hall of fame games together, went to japan for the opening day of the red sox, and all this time, bud selig would tell these amazing stories. I was glad when he decided to write this book which is a collection of the best stories. He is a great storyteller. I am so happy to be able to ask him questions that will illuminate. We will get to the thing that is on everybodys might which is the Houston Astros disaster and what that means for baseball. This guy is always authentic. He will tell you what is happening but i would like to start with the fri
Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. We are fortunate to have many critical journalist for print and broadcast speak your over the years. Covering six president s beginning with president reagan. We are first introduced in 2002 when he had a handful of other experts came to the Reagan Library to share stories about president reagan and air force one that we did the visitors experience to make that experience much more rich. Since then he has come to other times to discuss copies of the book prisoners of the white house and then to shape history 2017 covering the white house no lack of material for many more books and continue to have insight into the white house of donald trump into the president ial campaign. And then to discuss his latest book president ial leadership in crisis. One of the shrewdest observer of the presidency to have 14 president s who came their way and then regards a crisis as the norm rather than the exception and then with success with the very level of
[inaudible conversations] please welcome Doris Kearns Goodwin and bud selig. [applause] hello, everybody. I am so happy to be here with my friend, the commissioner, bud selig. I now realize it was a quarter of a century ago, i came to milwaukee, and read no ordinary time about frank and roosevelt. He wanted me to talk about baseball. Always that push and pull. What is happening in baseball, what is happening in the country, we have a great relationship, we became great friends with each others families and went to the hall of fame games together, went to japan for the opening day of the red sox, and all this time, bud selig would tell these amazing stories. I was glad when he decided to write this book which is a collection of the best stories. He is a great storyteller. I am so happy to be able to ask him questions that will illuminate. We will get to the thing that is on everybodys might which is the Houston Astros disaster and what that means for baseball. This guy is always authent
Anything like it because the people are disgusted. Nobody has seen anything like this. I got to see quite a bit of it yesterday and i watched these democrats on the committee make fools out of themselves, absolute fools out of themselves. I saw them quoting all the time incorrectly, they kept saying me. It wasnt about me, the word was us. They kept saying me. It said us. Can you do us a favor, our country, our country. Then they talked about seeing the attorney general of the United States. For these people to say me, they would say me. You said to me a favor. I didnt say that. I said do us a favor, our country, talking about the past election, corruption. The other thing nobody remembers and nobody likes to talk about, and i talk about it all the time, is, why is in germany, france commodity European Countries paying . We are paying. For years, we have been the suckers but we are not the suckers anymore. Big difference. Why isnt germany paying big money . They have a much bigger benef