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Publishers, agents and of course readers clamoring to meet their latest writers. You would be able to feel the Nervous Energy of the finalist and the champagne would be flowing. It is not what you may imagine when you think of literary award ceremonies. There is no formal banquet or assigned seating. It is a Cocktail Party. Last year when they wrote about the award, they referred to it as a globe asked. Tonight, we want to share that energy with you at home and give you a glimpse of what it is like to attend in person. Our editor at large megan caught up with some of this years finalists so we could connect with them as if we were all at a party together. You can view the full conversations on kkus. Com. Here is a sneak peak. A typical year w would all be gathered for the ceremony, a Cocktail Party beforehand. Mixing and ....
Thank you for the great introduction. Welcome, everyone to this great book fair now in its 30th year. [applause] doris goodwin, its so wonderful to have you here. Welcome to miami. This is our premier cultural event. Great to have you her. If books about president. It was started by Theodore Roosevelt, known as teddy. How did he start the progressive era . What propelled him to act . What were his successes that are still with us today . We did call him teddy even though he didnt like the name teddy. I think he lost that to history. [laughter] the aspects of the Industrial Age has not been dealt with since the civil war. There was no real workmen compensation. Huge monopolies eating up small businesses. The gap between the rich and the poor had grown wider. Sounds familiar to the situation today. Even though he was a conservative when he started in a certain sense and a r ....
Dismal jobs reports. Unemployment to soar to 20 . They broke the streak this as things actually calm down on the protest front. Walk us through the ups and downs. It was a volatile day. As to the move down breaking that fourday winning streak for nasdaq. Nd florida coronavirus numbers came out and higher than the sevenday average and the s p never recovering. Teches have it worse. Nasdaq 100 yesterday had flirted with a recordclosing high. Today, nasdaq had been above that level but not able to close so close. Stay at home weakness and the bioteches and seeing that rotation in the cyclicals. The big question is because these stocks are weighting for the averages, is there more pain especially after a big runup and stocks shouldnt be so high . Overextended conditions, quite frankly. Emily there is uncertainty and there are results withdrawing and slack is a company that we considered a pandemic winner because so many people are slacking as they work from home. And going public and spiki ....
Abram we begin with Manhattan Institute heather mcdonald. She argues identity politics challenging diverse inking at the collegiate level. This is from 2018. This is a different experience, ive been speaking on College Campus recently. [laughter] do you know what that means. I received a lockout, storms the stage strategy and at Claremont Mckenna in socal about the black aid that prevented anyone from actually attending my talk. Socalled students of color at nearby Pomona College announced that i was a fascist white supremacist trans folk where pope and excellent of interlocking systems of domination that produced the conditions under which oppressed people are forced to live. [laughter] actually have an audience still it seats and apparently willing to list ....