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From The City Club of Eugene: The Election of 2020 will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the most unique exercises in American democracy. Over 150 million voters voted by mail or came to the polls to render verdict on who and what party should lead the nation over the next your years. This forum will address who the winners were, what were the prevailing themes and issues, and what it might suggest for how America will be governed over the next four years. Two highly regarded members of the University of Oregon Political Science Department and a former long serving member of the Oregon House of Representatives will offer insights and their impressions about the national, state, and local elections. ....
good inning. this is definitely the most special time i have been able to talk about the book, because my fifth grade elementary school teach teacher is here. [applause] thank you for coming. so, the book does not have a subtle title. subtlety is not usual live my thing. so you probably have a sense of my argument. but first i wanted to talk about why i wrote this book, and i believe at the core that the most powerful thing that we can do as citizens and the most powerful means by which we can express our citizenship, is simply to ask questions. i think sometimes we think it s these other things but i think at the core, of course some things are important, what our democracy requires is citizens who ask questions, and i don t mean questions like, are we there yet? or one that my teacher has heard, there is more homework tonight? i mean, inquiry, you know, really thinking and formulating your question and reformulating and it evaluating the results and discerning t ....
two best friends apart. part of c-span2 s book tv weekend. in an age of automakers bankruptcy, p. j. o rourke examined america s love affair with cars which he believes has contributed to its cultural decline. the automotive museum in los angeles hosted this event, it is 45 minutes. i want to thank you for coming to this book signing. i am the director of the museum here. earnings is an honor for me personally as well as the museum. .. pretty well rounded writer and what i love most about him is his ear refer vans and the way he turns a phrase and honest to god, i twant say it, it s the truth he is by far my favorite author and i have all of his box and the first part of the book it lists all the books he has written and i think 3 or 4 of them are new york times best-seller books, and, if you hand read parliament at wars or give war a chance or all the trouble in the world read those books and what is interesting about pj and, interesting in the book, and ....
and religious movements. boston public library hosted seat and. it s about one hour and ten minutes. .. and in 1999 was elected to the american academy of arts and chair of department of africa and african african-american studies and director of the w.e.b. dubois institute of africa and african-american research. has written a number of books on history and literary criticism criticism, one which one the 1989 american book award. i suspect professor gates has appeared, his picture and biography have appeared in media around the world but this month, he appeared in something that i think will unique in his long curriculum vitae. this is the wb news, which is the monthly newsletter of the funeral home industry. [laughter] and he has a full page picture and drinks of tonight s lecture. so you are reaching many audiences. [applause] thank you. bill, thank you. are you okay? . [applause] got it? can we get the screen? thank you, bill. thank you so much for that very ....
quite take what i m doing seriously or don t think that i take what i m doing seriously. no, the genesis of this book a lot of people say in their acknowledgements how they came to write a book and it s usually quite frankly invented, but this is actually the real story that many years ago these record albums all came out in 1959, things like miles davis, norman mailer s advertisements for myself, the first french new wave films, lenny bruce, the record and i began to wonder if it was just a coincidence or was their something about that year that made all of these things coalesce with something broader going on sali casual they began looking into that question and came to the conclusion that yes there were actually not just a lot of cool things going on but that they all converged to form a pivotal a year. i mean that quite literally. the country was going one direction and at that point it shifted and started calling another direction. not all the changes were appare ....