The program. Mary beth norton the author of five books and cowat it one call author several others and it has been published ten additions over 500,000 copies. As a Pulitzer Prize finalist and present of the Historical Association she is a professor america of American History at cornell and her new book it is available for purchase following the program please join me to welcome mary beth norton. [applause]. I want to show you the cover briefly because if you are a colonial historian on dash i dont know if anybody recognizes it but in the Massachusetts Historical Society the claims on the label but it contains t from the Boston Harbor the day after the party this is quite well known object in colonial america. Now i want to start with this verse from a poem that i discovered in the new york journal that coordinated with the sons of liberty in new york. That this is the kind of things historians have to make up so read the first two lines you will crown 74 the most glorious year. Yet 1
Panels, blast events. We have vivian chen will be up next at five p. M. She will be closing us up for the weekend. But before that im excited to welcome Kimberly Dark here. A performer, thinker, critical analyst and generally essayist. I dont know anyother nouns you prefer. Sorry, im a little braindead, its been a long weekend but i am excited to welcome her here to our stage to talk about her book, pretty and soon to be old please join me in giving her a warm round of applause. You so much. Im going to talk to the three of you that are sitting right here in front of me. I just want to say thank you doctor can be, i would be standing here getting a book signed myself if i work here busy with other things. Im Kimberly Dark and its my pleasure to be here with you. I am also, pretty and soon to be old. As the title says and were going to talk about appearance privilege and how that works. If you could just look around you right now and focus on a stranger. Dont stare, that would be weird
Live in brooklyn its a discussion on Nonfiction Books. Before we begin, books by the authors can be purchased in barnes and nobles outside this building and they will be available for signing. Christmas is coming so dont just think of yourself. Buy a book and maybe one for someone for christmas too. At the conclusion, we ask everyone to leave quickly so that the next event can be set up. There is a button under my desk that none of you can see where if your cell phone goes off, it will catapult you into a crocodile pit underneath your chair. The event today is organized around nonfiction which is an annual Nonfiction Book prize. Founded in 19 1999, and it has all the best stories that are true. Sports, biography, autobiography. Eight is my huge privilege to be the prizes director. The award is named for Bailey Gifford which is an Management Firm and i am usually grateful to them and to the organizers of the festival for making this event possible today. I am thrilled to welcome two of
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Figueroa. We had to neutralize the threat. He chose to use deadly force. When someone is going to use deadly force we are going to respond appropriately. And nine other officers were also treated for minor injuries and stress. Despite the fact that figueroa was armed and wearing Body Armor Police say they dont believe this was a planned ambush. Coming up with that, coming up at 5 00, more on that, and more on the moments leading up to the 911 call that brought police to the apartment. Im kathryn burcham, fox 25 news. All day we have worked to uncover information about the dead suspect Kirk Figueroa. Police say he was wearing body armor and had a tactical shotgun and he listed his occupation as bounty hunt, we continue the Live Team Coverage and you spoke to neighbors to get a better idea who this guy is . We did all day today. Guy and a wanna by cop and neighbors tell us there was an apartment inside one of the apartments and it all had to do with heat. Neighbors tell fox 5 Kirk Figuer