You will no longer be in danger. You re not going to be in danger any longer. You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems our country has today. You will be protected and i will be your protector. Trump s extremely weird pitch to win over women voters. The adjudicated rapist will be women s protector, just like he protected e. Jean carroll, the three wives he cheated on, and the random women he grabs because when you re a celebrity, they let you do it. Also tonight, the middle east is on the brink of a regional war with israel and hezbollah trading attacks. And the timing of this escalation is having an impact on the presidential race here at home. And we begin tonight with a stark historical parallel. The united nations as we know it now began to come together in the summer of 1945, with world war ii nearly over and europe in ruins in the wake of adolf hitler s sixyear blitzkrieg across the continent that killed tens of millions of people, including the 6 million jewish m
Patrick lets get to it. Today i am going to talk with thomas schwartz, the director of the Herbert Hoover president ial library. He has been with the Hoover Library since 2011 and before that he served as the illinois , state historian and went on to lincoln collection at the Abraham Lincoln president ial library as an author and editor, his work recognized with a number of professional awards. He will take a step back in time, not all the way back to lincoln, but to the time of Herbert Hoover. Tom, are you there . I want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . Thomas the staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Patrick great. I know you have a great set of images and stories and tales. I have a feeling we have lots of questions. I will sign off.
So, welcome back. This next session is a unique one for our conference. You know, were for those who have come here regularly, youre used to seeing the biggest and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. This normally means the bestselling authors of history books, leading professors, documentarians, but when we were planning this Years Program we decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist, and only the second one weve hosted in the conferences for the entire time weve been doing these. Don miller, author of masters of the air, and ddays in the pacific is also one of our longest standing advisers and counselors. Shes a perennial conference presence. He is also like we heard from rick at kinson this morning hes also looking into another time period in our important period in our history, and will be soon coming out this october with vicksburg, grants campaign that broke the confederacy. You know, when planning the committee decided on this idea for a session don told us i
My job tonight is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. She grew up in st. Louis and graduated from the university of missouri columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her time as a grad student to go to work in the mid 1980s. Jane henderson is the book editor at the st. Louis post after three years in the newsroom in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. She assigns and edits book reviews choosing from 300 or so new books each week. Tonight she will be having a conversation with caroline frazier. Caroline frazier is the editor of the library america edition of Laura Ingalls wilder, the little house books. Her latest book is prairie fires, the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls wilder. It was one of the New York Times ten best books of the year and won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for biography. The National Book critics cir
Youre welcome to our event series. Before i start, i want to mention real quick, if you have questions tonight, you ask us in the chat box or comments on the youtube page, and well get to as many as we can. If youre interested in purchasing the book, and i hope that you do, you can find it at most major retailers, but we like to point people toward bookshop. Org where you can find just about any book youre looking for and support independent booksellers across the country. Again, thats bookshop. Org. Please give them a look. I mentioned to someone the other day that i was reading the senates words in preparation for the event tonight, and they said, oh, thats the new faulkner biography. I said, well, you got the faulkner part right. The best way i can describe this book is equal parts. Literary history, social commentary and literary criticism. I think it will band to either of those subjects. What the book really did for me was force me to give serious thought on where faulkner stands