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Live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, ondemand on cspan. Org Supreme Court or on the cspan radio app. Hello and welcome to the Atlanta History Center virtual talk series but im virginia prescott and im your host for this talk. Tonight and talking with lisa napoli about her new book up all night, ted turner and the birth of 24 hour news for you can purchase the book directly from a cappella books and the link is in the chat on the right of your screen and the link is also at the Atlanta History Center website. As lisa and i talked please submit your questions and use a q a feature at the bottom of your screen and will try to answer as many as we can as time allows. We will be broadcasting excerpts of this interview on Second Thought this friday and you ....
December i went to a prom i was the equivalent of a freshman oft the university and i came home at 2 00 oclock at night and the light was on interested americas and the war. And why did i get you so much. Because i knew we were going to lose it. What did that mean for you. I did not cry them. How old were you, i was 17,. With the late author john lucas indepth was born 20 years ago since 2000 over 200 of the nonfiction and fiction authors of our time have appeared on indepth alice, bob woodward, tyson, george will, just to name a few over the next three hours our goal is to review the last years of indepth and ask a couple of questions, here they are, who is your favorite indepth guest, what book are you reading now and he was your favorite Nonfiction Author, thats what will be talking about and showing a video from the past 20 years as well and heres how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth to 027488200 and for t ....
Allows me will be broadcasting experts of this interview this friday you hear me do the re id to keep consistent sound also lisa who got her first journalism job as a teenager report for the New York Times and marketplace and msnbc and the author two previous books radio and shangrila about the man who made the mcdonalds fortune and the one who gave it all the way. Using the Atlanta History Center for research and to be with the constituency. Its difficult for some of the people who are watching to imagine life before being accessible all the time so what was this idea of 24 7 and Cable News Network before cnn . The foreword ted turner turned channel 17 on all night, there was no tv all night. Its hard to believe but before cable had come along television stopped usually after the late movie and it was off al ....
The book read update there are two i want to start with. One is the monumental biography by david blight. Its fine probably the definitive biography on a special with what is going on in the United States in terms of fight for Racial Justice. Nobody was more consequential and has been more consequential on the question of race in america in terms of douglas. Way ahead of his time. He was not only an abolitionist, and a passionate abolitionist as a former slave , but he insisted from the earliest time in the 1840s, right through his death almost was the end of the 19th century that equality was the goal. And he would book no deviation from that. So many of his words ring true today. And i really recommend the biography for everybody. It is a long read but it is really powerful. Host one of the things i learned about Freder ....