Stay. What you have to member joe biden have been forced out of the race in september 87 by a series of revelations, none of which individually were an almost laughable when you look back at them. But, by the time they were digested to the great long snake of the press corps seems to constitute an elephant of a character flaw. So biden had dropped out. He really did not come out speaking again until the turn of the year, 1988. It was february the first time that he had been out talking on the College Campus pretty went to the university of rochester as a matter fact periods see when did you go there . Guest no i was not there i was in New Hampshire with all of the good members of the pack. And joe gave his speech at the university of rochester. I then was questioned for several hours. When he got back to his motel room all the sudden bang, he got hit by a brick in the head. He was dizzy, he was nauseated he could barely see. He didnt know what was happening but it couldve been a heart
That means a lot that you are here with us. Especially raising money for such great causes. I want to think first of all the best bookstore in all the land, Harvard Bookstore. I want to thank my friend jeff for hosting this discussion. The panelists are all authors of some of the most important works ever written on race and the american experience. And i strongly, strongly encourage you to purchase their text and other work you are interested in from Harvard Bookstore its another independent booksellers. I also want to think of other hosts, the incredible Boston Review and the editors. All of us have been proud contributors to the rich intellectual condition curated by Boston Review. I just think it is really important that in this moments before our countrys more famous publications were willing to run pieces on police, prison abolition, racial and ethics of resistance and market violence, Boston Review really provided one of the major forms for these ideas to be debated with serious
She was not happy that her husband had been elected president. She was not looking forward to being the first lady. The problem was of course, that he died only one month into his presidency, and she never made it to washington. In 1836, when john tyler resigned from the United States senate, he and his wife laetitia and her family moved to williamsburg. It is right here that laetitia tyler suffered her stroke in 1839 and john tyler learned that he was elected as Vice President William Henri harrison, and it is also here in the spring of 1841 where he was informed that he became tenth president of the United States, and that laetitia tyler learned that she became the first lady. She has another terrible stroke and guys. Her husband goes into great morning and then he meets Julia Gardiner who is another young love in her twenties. Julia is the madonna of the first ladies. She loved publicity. She actually posed as a model which was frowned upon. She was bewitching. They had a total of a
Resembles the country i left and you begin to wonder whether or not we might be just better off with two separate countries. Its not what i want. I feel a little bit like a skunk in that the garden party everyby talking about great president s and here im talking about a breakup but ultimately im not arguing for secession and its just the opposite. Its ate real threat and may be sarned up the volume of little bit. Host we are less united again any time since the civil war divided by politics, culture in all the ways that matter that make it the force of the law we are already divided into the two nations it seems like a fresh argument for secession. I think whats missing is a tolerance and understanding of people with varying different points of view. It. They are the bonds that still holds america together. Maybe its more than a long time in l the past we have a common culture. Its a culture if americans see each other in a foreign country in europe we recognize each other as american
Argue in this. Its a lot closer than we think in todays america. What you base that on . Guest i moved here from canada and went through all this before and i remember how would one point this was something that no one talked about and then a few years later we are having a referendum and nearly passes. Countryn a very divided , in many ways it resembles the country a left and you begin to wonder whether or not we might just be better off with two separate countries. Its not what i want. I feel a little bill of the skunk of the garden party. All these people talking about great president s and here i am talking of a breakup. Ultimately im not arguing for secession. Im saying its a real threat and we should think about that. Maybe turn down the volume a bit. Host a passage from your book, we are less united today than we have been at any time since the civil war divided by politics, religion and culture and all the ways that matter say for the naked force a law. We are already divided i