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Have everybody here tonight. Its a great crowd and i it feels like just kind of a festive light atmosphere and im glad. Weve got a great presentation for you tonight. My name is steve weberg, i work in the Public Affairs department here at the library and its going to be my honor here to introduce a guy ive gotten to know and really come to admire a lot here in the past few months working with him. Some of you may already have been through our new exhibit open just under two weeks ago on the second floor in the mountain gallery called cowboys and culture. If you havent, i would strongly urge you to. Its just a fascinating collection, and im talking about a large collection, of artifacts, art and other objects that illuminate the connection that i wasnt aware of down through history going back to the cattle days between city of kansas city and amarillo, texas. Its so big, in fact, part of it spilled out into kirk hall down in the f ....
With them. There is nothing he can do about that except to tell you what they are and how he got here. He started with charles dickens. He wrote a hypnotic book about dickens and mesmerism. A little joke there. [laughter] thank you. You will wake up eventually when fred comes out. In he wrote a biography of 1983, Thomas Carlyle. That was a finalist in the National Book critics circle. And for the pulitzer. He has written biographies of dickens, henry james, which would have been Interesting Research mark twain, john quincy , adams, abraham lincoln, and this great book he will be talking about tonight, lincoln and the abolitionists. Historians want to tell you what happened in the world and why it is important. Literary critics tell you about the power of words and how the great poets and rhetoricians did their best, ....
He is the author of the book till the murder that shocked the world and propelled the Civil Rights Movement. It is one of the most definitive on the subject. I have the privilege to work on tills case,mett starting in 2002, to work on the reopening of the case, and to have the United StatesCongress Passed the emmett till unsolved civil rights crime act. That is being reauthorized again. Congress is working on it right now. We expected next several weeks for that to pass. [applause] Devery Anderson is an editor at signature books in utah and is working on a masters degree in publishing at the George Washington university. He is the editor and coeditor of several books on mormon history, and in 2015, ....