Phonte elijah holly is an Award Winning journalist and author of an american the shakers and nation. They created. His writing has appeared in the atlantic, the guardian, new republic, the washington post, l. A. Times and elsewhere. He lives in los angeles. Please join here and giving him a huge round of applause while he comes out and and then talks about his book. Thanks, ali. Thanks for coming out of retirement for this event. And thank you all for being here. Thanks to skylight so much having me i moved to l. A. A little over a year ago and you know, people me right away. This was the bookstore you got to come to. So here i so thanks for being here with me. I think what im to do is im going to read just a little excerpt from the first chapter, the opening the first chapter, which is the first part that i wrote for this book was a sort of the scene that sets the stage the rest of the book. So im going to read a short excerpt that, and then im going to talk a little bit about just th
Phonte elijah holly is an Award Winning journalist and author of an american the shakers and nation. They created. His writing has appeared in the atlantic, the guardian, new republic, the washington post, l. A. Times and elsewhere. He lives in los angeles. Please join here and giving him a huge round of applause while he comes out and and then talks about his book. Thanks, ali. Thanks for coming out of retirement for this event. And thank you all for being here. Thanks to skylight so much having me i moved to l. A. A little over a year ago and you know, people me right away. This was the bookstore you got to come to. So here i so thanks for being here with me. I think what im to do is im going to read just a little excerpt from the first chapter, the opening the first chapter, which is the first part that i wrote for this book was a sort of the scene that sets the stage the rest of the book. So im going to read a short excerpt that, and then im going to talk a little bit about just th
Phonte elijah holly is an Award Winning journalist and author of an american the shakers and nation. They created. His writing has appeared in the atlantic, the guardian, new republic, the washington post, l. A. Times and elsewhere. He lives in los angeles. Please join here and giving him a huge round of applause while he comes out and and then talks about his book. Thanks, ali. Thanks for coming out of retirement for this event. And thank you all for being here. Thanks to skylight so much having me i moved to l. A. A little over a year ago and you know, people me right away. This was the bookstore you got to come to. So here i so thanks for being here with me. I think what im to do is im going to read just a little excerpt from the first chapter, the opening the first chapter, which is the first part that i wrote for this book was a sort of the scene that sets the stage the rest of the book. So im going to read a short excerpt that, and then im going to talk a little bit about just th
It looks like this, where americans can see democracy at work, where citizens are truly informed, republic thrives. Did informed straight from the source on cspan. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. From the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Because the opinion that matters most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. And awardwinning journalist and author of an American Family, the shakurs and the nation they created. His writing has appeared in the atlantic, the guardian, the new republic, the washington post, l. A. Times, and elsewhere. He lives in los angeles. Please join me in giving him a huge round of applause while he comes out and talks about his book. [applause] thanks, ali. Thanks for coming out of retirement for this event. And thank you all for being here. Thanks to skylight so much having me i moved to l. A. A little over a year ago and you know, people me right away. This was the bookstore you got to come to. So here i so thanks for
He lives in los angeles. Please join here and giving him a huge round of applause while he comes out and and then talks about his book. Thanks, ali. Thanks for coming out of retirement for this event. And thank you all for being here. Thanks to skylight so much having me i moved to l. A. A little over a year ago and you know, people me right away. This was the bookstore you got to come to. So here i so thanks for being here with me. I think what im to do is im going to read just a little excerpt from the first chapter, the opening the first chapter, which is the first part that i wrote for this book was a sort of the scene that sets the stage the rest of the book. So im going to read a short excerpt that, and then im going to talk a little bit about just the book itself, themes behind the book, how i came to write it, why i wanted to write it, and then ill read another little short. I promised the red shorts and. Then well yeah, have audience q a. All right, lets get it. So the name of