Look at that. That is fantastic. We really appreciate your support its vitally important to us here. We want the community to feel like this is their facility. With the holocaust. He worked here at the library doing research for 30 years about. He has defined the art of telling complicated stories to a higher art form. And having read many books on roosevelt you often read the same story over and over again. But this, is a new story. This is a new hero and character that is emerged from the research. To find a new story that is this compelling. I highly recommend that you get it. [applause]. Thank you paul for that generous introduction. When one spends a long time on the book on the subject on a person that is not a household name is very gratifying to see that other the other people take an interest. It will be what will be the papers. I will give you some highlights. What they have deciduous today. He was born in 1886 that did he have anything to say with us today. Let me give you a
Take on students today based on your reporting. Guest well, i think youre right. I think the Democrat Students today are different, the age of students is different. Im mostly focused on students who were right out of high school, so the experience that i wanted to focus on was what is that transition out of high school and into the work force. So that definitely doesnt capture all of the college population, but i wanted to understand how the pathways diverged after high school for different students. And most of the ways that i found they diverged were by Family Income. Students who have a lot of Family Income are going down much more traditional paths, students without a lot of Family Income had many more obstacles in their path. Host can you start by telling us as we get into those different issues a little more about your own path coming out of high school . Guest yeah. So i had a rocky high school period. Right after high school, i grew up in tampa, and after finishing high school
Have on dday, if you get an opportunity, i hope you will go over and visit it while you are here. It looks at the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill as they prepared for dday. The special exhibit will be up through the end of the year. How many people here are members of the library . Raise your hand. That is fantastic. It is your support that allows us to do programs like this. We really appreciate it. I think it is important Public Programs allow us to bring authors and experts in from around the country. Today we have a real remarkable historian and author with us. William casto has written a series of books. He is a Paul Whitfield one professor at texas tech. His scope of Historical Books range from Foreign Affairs and the constitution of age of fighting sale. And the Supreme Court in the early republic. He jumped ahead in his latest book about robert jackson. Robert jackson is truly a remarkable figure in the era. The solicitor general, attorney general
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