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[indistinct conversation] peter if you could take your seats. All right, i am pete carmichael, a member of the History Department at the gettysburg college. It is my pleasure to welcome t. J. Stiles to cwi. He is an awardwinning author based out of berkeley, california. He is a native out of minnesota, a graduate of Carleton College who went on to do his graduate work in european history at columbia. He spent some time at Oxford University press. He worked with gabor. Many volumes that gabor put in together, those speeches were delivered right here. T. J. Had a little bit of time yesterday to ...

Sun afternoon at work k with our cable affiliates and cities across the country. With our cable affiliates and cities across the country. With our cable affiliates and cities across the country. This week on q a robert strauss, he talks about his book worst president ever. The legacy of the lesser president s. Robert strauss author of worst. President. Ever. To my family, who made me read every historical marker, for my mother edna especially for teaching me to laugh at myself. Explain your dads connection . Well, my dad he saw when i was little and picked up the sports page that i would read ...

Read book so people across the country are able to have conversations about that experience, Kao Kalia Yang is one of the best to take us there. Her new book the song poet, a nice companion piece to a memoir about her father and his role in keeping history alive through the oral tradition. I thought both books were moving, giving me such insight into the role of culture and family life, made me think about how it works. Without further a do, help me welcome Kao Kalia Yang. [applause] can you all see me . Okay. Can you all hear me . Even if you cant see me. Thank you for being here. Im delighte...

Can you all see me . Okay. Can you all hear me . Even if you cant see me. Thank you for being here. Im delighted to be back. Two today im excited to bring you this book. Im incredibly proud of it. Im working on speaking slower. People. People have to me that i speak too fast. So you can give me some feedback on how this goes afterwards. Okay. The songbook came out of a conversation i had with my father two years ago. I. I asked my dad, i said how does the song point become he looked at me for a little bit and said when i was young there is few people who said beautiful things to me. My father ...

Achieving some progress. I worry that Hillary Clinton is elected and all the problems that steve and i where you are paying for it along time to come. I worry about it about for myself and for my grandchildren. Thank you. I just want to leave you one last buckley quote to Henry Kissinger which mustve been a despair moment which is our cast is to bring the hammer blows against the bell jar that protects the dreamers from reality. The scenario is that by pounding from without, we can affect residences which will one day cracked due to the latent impulses of those who dream within, bringing to li...