and welcome to the yale bookstore. we are very pleased to have with us this evening doctor jennifer hirsch who is a professor of socio- medical science at columbia university who will be reading from and discussing her new book, sexual citizens, landmarks. >> you start to feel distressed by what i'm sharing obviously it's fine to get up and take a break. the national sexual assault hotline is 18656 hope. it's 180-0656 hope. austin was a sweet student, the story of boston's hot summer night had sex with his girlfriend is the sexy story in the book. that's not the story i'm going to tell, sorry. but he was a good guy, he was the kind had developed a series of nicknames for the kind of orgasms his girlfriend had. he was committed to making sure that sex is something that felt good for her, too. but austin also sexually assaulted someone. he told us a story about a night freshman year he was in a room with his roommates girlfriends roommate. a roommate and his girlfriend, two people get shoveled into the same bedroom toget

. >> welcome to the yale bookstore. tonight one of our ongoing author event series and in conjunction with the law library we are pleased to have with us oona hathaway and scott shapiro, the authors of "the internationalists." a look at provocative history of the main who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty signed in 1928 was among the most transformative events in modern history. oona hathaway is a professor of international law and counselor to the dean at the jail law school. she is professor of international law in area studies at the yale university mcmillan center. in 2014-15 she took leave to serve as special counsel to the general counsel for national security law at the u.s. department of defense where she was awarded the office of the secretary of defense award for excellence. professor halfwit earned his ba at harvard in 1994 and her j. d. at yale law school. she served as a law clerk for justice sandra day o'connor and for d.c. circuit judge patricia law. she has published more than 25 la

harry cohen from bookstore, yale bookstore. thanks for coming out tonight. [applause] >> booktv continues now on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> been a remarkable year for books that have been tackling the uses and especially abuses of this country's criminal justice system. we in politics & prose have been honored to host authors and poets behind many of them from martha, to reginald betts. the first event we hosted this year at this location at the wharf was for alexandria, investigation of the misdemeanor system. punishment without crime. this is

harry cohen from bookstore, yale bookstore. thanks for coming out tonight. [applause] >> booktv continues now on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> been a remarkable year for books that have been tackling the uses and especially abuses of this country's criminal justice system. we in politics & prose have been honored to host authors and poets behind many of them from martha, to reginald betts. the first event we hosted this year at this location at the wharf was for alexandria, investigation of the misdemeanor system. punishment without crime. this is pleasure we're closing this events's season at wharf, look the way the legal world unfairly treats country's disenfranchised he targets his own profession at public defender. the book titled, usual cruelty. comes from alec karakatanis, an organization designed to advocate for racial justice and bring systemic civil rights cases on behalf of impoverished people. especially known for combating unconstitutionality of money bail. karakatanis was named 2016 trial lawyer of the year by public justice. was a

great hosts and interviewers and interviewees, so please get a copy of this book, "yale needs women," at your bookstore and our next lecture is on thursday night. i hope you join us for that one. thank you. anne: america.on reel a series of programs on dwight d. eisenhower, the supreme commander and the 34th president. first, a 19 623 national council for the social studies film covering significant events during the eight years of the dwight d. eisenhower administration. designed for use in the classroom, the documentary emphasizes major challenges and 1960.53 the second program is the u.s. army film that traces the military career of dwight d. eisenhower from his time at west point through the conclusion of world war ii. then a biographical film produced by eisenhower's presidential campaign that features his accomplishments during world war ii and his role in the formation of nato. the final program documents the funeral services of former president eisenhower following his death on march 28, 1969. ♪

i think they're going up to thousand bookstores, harvard yale . stores. >> exactly. 1,000 college bookstores . stuart: my take away from what you just said is that book sales are actually doing very well. i thought they were falling like newspapers and going down all the time. >> no. sales are stable. it's a stable business. entertainers and noble is barnes & noble is a big sale that's appealing to investors. . stuart: phil, always a pleasure. thank you for being with us. >> thank you stuart. . stuart: back to that breaking news we brought you last hour, the tsa who hired workers who were on a terror watch list. >> this is an internal report of the department of homeland security that basically these 73 workers were on terror watch list but yet were employed in airports across the country. whether they were either employed by vendors food vendors for the airports or by the airlines themselves, which was a troubling side of the story because frankly if you have an airline id, you get access to the tarmac. 83 people missed by the tsa. these people sh

my first book was for yale university on dean acheson on the bookstore until a really nice home party for me in the new york penthouse. again condemn my first book and lo and behold with walter cronkite in line. a guy watched in ohio has come into my book signing and i can't deny them so they came up and when he got up to me, that was a wonderful time we had sailing together. i was david's son. you're always put in that position to correct them a little. >> i was onstage recently with a very prominent person interviewing them and they kept asking me, as you wrote about graham, your hamilton's point. [laughter] i like my rock music. >> how many of you have had somebody that airport and commenced or some other person. i used to be somebody who nobody pays attention to. i got such great treatment. nobody really cared when the show went off the air. >> baker ran for attorney general of texas in 1978. the only time he was on a battle and lost. he ran out to the ranch that friday to his wounds. filling up his truck with gas at all by walks up to them and says that anybody ever tell you you

politics and prose has managed to turn a profit in the time when the bookstore industry has taken a beating. >> from jail to yalehat's the name of actor charles dutton's new one-man show coming to the kennedy center tonight. the duke ellington school for the performing arts were treated to a special preview on monday. it chronicles dutton's journey from the streets of east baltimore to becoming an emmy award winning actor, director and broadway star. proceeds from the show benefit the u.s. dream academy and duke ellington school. >>> the barry bonds perjury trial resumes monday. a former mistress discussed the physical changes she said happened to the former slugger when he started taking steroids. she says his head grew significantly. and she also says bonds became angry and irritable from the drugs. >> lawsuits and late night comedians are the focus of our look at entertainment news. >> as sandra hughes reports, a former rock front man is suing for an accident that almost took his life. >> former poison front man and reality tv star bret michaels is suing cbs and organizers of the tony awards because of an acc

please get a copy of this book, yale needs women, and support your local bookstore. good night everybody. our next lecture is on thursday night. we hope you join us for that. thanks very much everyone. >> thanks so much, mark. take care. bye-bye. cbs news our anchor judy woodruff interviewed, johanna neuman, i author of the book gilded suffragists, about the new york league who joined the suffragists movement in the early 20th century. that is next on american history tv. >> i'm so delighted to be here. i know johanna is. she will have a chance

in 1957 the obscenity, the arrest of the manager of city lights bookstore for selling obscene poems. and ginsberg yale a huge influence on me in college. the same thing. lenny bruce. he is the person who transforms the medium of comedy, stand-up comedy from merely gags to very satiric but meaningful style of analysis of such a problem. lenny bruce is the one who made comedy politically and socially relevant. lenny bruce was an equal opportunity offender. and the first thinker really who had enormous impact on the in adolescence was oscar wilde. by chance in a secondhand bookstore in syracuse upstate new york, i stumbled on a copy of a book, it was a british book for the epigrams of oscar wilde. ashley is still available from the dover additions that are presumably that no one in the us would recognize the word epigrams peers another cloth he rigid humor of oscar wilde. but it is all of his or many of his wonderful one-liners from his plays, his writings and dinnertable conversation in london. organized by topic. some nature, manage women etc. his scathing uncompromising quality of his thinking was a h

yale. not the city. but i'm talking about acceptance into the college. the focus is on a bookstore just outside and the language the workers speak. >> a new policy on the books there for hispanic workers that they only the employer only wants his workers, he or she, i'm not sure if it's a man or woman, only wants them to speak english so when you have a customer who comes up to get something at the cafe in this bookstore, you should only be having your conversation in english. now, when you're in the back doing dishes and stuff like that, you can talk whatever language you want but apparently, causing a lot of controversy. a lot of people saying they don't want to go to the bookstore anymore. >> it's the atticus bookstore not too far from yale and the owner is a fellow by the name of charles nagaro and he says, you know, english is helpful to our customers but we also try to help those employees who speak english as a second language by helping them improve their use of english. that's why they said if people come in, let's talk english to them. a number of the yale students and pe

. >> i'm not lying my first book was through yale university of press on dean acheson and someone i knew owned a bookstorethey threw a nice party for me in their new york penthouse. i was a young kid in my first book sitting at the desk of my signing pen on dean acheson and lo and behold in a tuxedo was walter cronkite in line. i thought wow the guy watched in ohio is coming to my book signing on dean acheson. i kept an eye on him and i was talking to other people. when he got up to me he said that was a wonderful time we had sailing together. [laughter] he thought i was david's son. you are in that position to say well you know. i corrected him and i watched them slink out. >> a whole category on this i was on stage with a varied prominent person interviewing him and he kept asking me, as you wrote about your hamilton point. you think i am -- how did you handle that? >> something like this happens. how many of you have had someone walk up to an airport and they are convinced you are some other person? i used to be someone -- phil donahue. i got such great treatment. the show went off the air but i got go

bookstore. and i'm pleased to introduce william nelson cromwell at yale university. talked for over 30 years and served as a law clerk for thurgood marshall, received eight honorary degrees delivering the web du bois lecture. he is an author of 15 books of nonfiction and fiction which includes violence abuse, confirmation mess, new england and emperor of ocean park. and the bestseller list. he is here to present his new book invisible, the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down america's most powerful mobster. it is brimming with intellect and grit and new york times best-selling author walter isaacson, praises it as a riveting and moving story with enormous residence. and we are pleased to have his other with us tonight. please join me in welcoming stephen carter. >> thank you for that reduction and thanks for coming out. last time i was supposed to be here there was an illness in the family, couldn't make it in the bookstore said we will reschedule and 3 years later, it is a pleasure, you know me much better for my fiction. this is a book that had

communities to monitor daily life in bookstores, cafes, nightclubs and even infiltrated muslim student organizations in colleges and universities such as columbia and yale university. when we tolerate this type of racial profiling and the guise of promoting national security, we jeopardy guise national security and compromise the basic set forth in our constitution. policing base on stereotypes remains an entrenched practice in routine law enforcement across the country. the tragic story of ray von martin garnered national attention and raised questions about the role of race in the criminal justice system. while we don't yet know how this heartbreaking story will end, we do know that stereotypes played a role in this tragedy and yet they have no place in law enforcement. racial profiling undermines the trust and mutual respect between police and the communities they are there to protect, which is critical to keeping communities safe. additionally, profiling deepens racial in america and conveys the suggestion that some americans do not dee serve equal protection under the law. racial profiling is exploding. state intrusion to federal immigration author

bookstore. >>> welcome to this virtual event about how the south won the civil war i am a professor of history and studies that yale university and this afternoon i have the pleasure of being in conversation

not just in mosques community centers bookstores sharp's any place that you know muslim americans might be including campuses my campus address those university yale university and so on student groups of these campuses to collect information from them so we know for a fact that this has been happening and right now there is that lawsuit as you mentioned that was brought out by the a.c.l.u. the and why c.l.u. and another group and it's all fascinating to see the defense that the n.y.p.d. is putting up against this kind of systematic racial profiling if you read their griots what they're seeing is that a violent act committed by. anywhere in the world and keep in mind there are one point five billion muslims around the world is grounds enough for them to racially profile or religiously profile muslims in new york city so let me repeat that. it's because it's almost as though there does bear repeating go ahead. this is their legal defense that an act of violence this could be a cruel jest in pakistan or in egypt or in syria a demonstration there or stay where they're some violence that happening gives the n.y.p.d. grounds to surveil muslim americans

a bookstore, atticus which serves yale students is enforcing a new policy for its workers. only. the store states that the rule is to make customers feel welcome and comfortable but is this new policy fair or discrimination? right now, we are joined by someone from the new haven workers association and jane from the english advocacy group, pro english. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> winn, as i understand it, the policy of this bookstore owner is that if you are in the public eye, dealing with the, you know, a member of the public who is there to buy a book, front of the store in the restaurant or something, speak english. >> that's right. that's the policy. >> and you got a frob wiproblem that? >> yes, i do. most of the employees of this particular bookstore speak spanish as a first language so obviously, when you have people dealing with customers, it makes them speak english because that's the official language of the country. >> not only that but it's good for business, isn't it? >> sure. >> if you speak english. >> yeah. of course, new haven is a parti

i would see it in bookstores and was thrilled. >> can you remember how you felt at that time as you're getting published by yale and reviewed in the new york times. how big of a deal was it? >> unbelievable. and now i'm hooked and going to keep going. because i realized -- the epiphany i had when i was doing research on acheson was i was renting a flat in new haven, and i went to see the grateful dead and bob dylan while i was researching. and it was so hot, and i had been so bored. and i had been waiting for a month for this concert. i just real oozed, i'm in new haven, and i have been slacking. i'm not working hard on my book. so next day i just got into kind of a -- i became a monk. all i did was focus on, i've got to get this done. and i learned that it's a trade, book writing. it's like being a bricklayer or a plumber. a historian is a trades person. and you have to learn your trade. how to properly use footnotes. how to pivot to keep chronology going. some of it is simple, but you've got to learn how to frame it. but that book was hard. i framed it. it did well. and now i realized, with that, i can do mor

bookstore. thank you. a quick reminder turn off your cell phones before the talk i pleased to introduce tonight speaker professor of law at yale university where he has taught for over 30 years serving as a law clerk for thurgood marshall, eight honorary degrees and delivered w e-b to boys lecture at harvard. the author of 15 books of nonfiction which include the confirmation and the emperor of ocean park spending 11 weeks on "the new york times" bestseller list. tonight he is here to present his new book invisible the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down the most powerful mobster remarking it is brimming with intellect and grit and "new york times" best-selling author walter isaacson praises it as a moving story with enormous residence for our own time. we are so pleased to have the author here with us tonight please join me to welcome stephen carter. [applause] . >> thank you for that kind introduction. also the harvard bookstore for inviting me. the last time i was supposed to be here i canceled because there was an illness in the family and i could not make it. they said don't worry we will reschedule. n

yale. this is been a multi year bestseller, the new graphic addition of on tyranny is quite beautiful. updated its in bookstoreslad to be with you. >> you wrote the original addition of on tyranny in response to what you saw happen in the 2016 presidential election, helping americans identify patterns that other countries, european countries have gone through. you wrote in the l.a. times this week that you've also observed the book, inspiring protesters and resistance around the world. hong kong, poland, brazil, india, syria. did you know it would resonate this way around the world and not just in america? >> my hopes were much narrower. i was trying to take things that i thought i understood from the 20th century in europe, and from the dissidents in europe, who taught me, and from my contemporaries in eastern europe, we were struggling for democracy. and remind americans of the things that you should know. i was trying to teach us things that we thought we knew about nazism, or communism. it's been a great honor to me, to then see europeans repeat this back to me. and it's been a surprise, but also a great pl

not just in mosques community centers bookstores sharp's any place that you know muslim americans might be including campuses my campus address those university yale university and so on student groups of these campuses to collect information from them so we know for a fact that this has been happening and right now there is that lawsuit as you mentioned that was brought out by the a.c.l.u. the and why c.l.u. and another group and it's all fascinating to see the defense that the n.y.p.d. is putting up against this kind of systematic racial profiling if you read their briefs what they're seeing is that a violent act committed by muslim anywhere in the world and keep in mind there are one point five billion muslims around the world is grounds enough for them to racially profile or religiously profile muslims in new york city so let me repeat that. if it's because it's almost on the show there does a very pitting go ahead. this is their legal defense that an act of violence this could be a protest in pakistan or in egypt or in syria a demonstration there or stay where there are some violence that happening gives the n.y.p.d. grounds to surveil muslim

bookstore think you and now please silence your cell phones. and i'm pleased to introduce tonight speaker professor of law at yale university where he has taught for over 30 years serving as a law clerk for justice marshall has eight honorary degrees the author of 15 books of nonfiction and fiction and a novel that was 11 weeks on "the new york times" bestseller list. today he is here to present his new book invisible of a black woman lawyer and with intellect and grit and "the new york times" best-selling author is a riveting story one with enormous residence we are so pleased to have the author here with us tonight so please join me to welcome stephen carter. [applause] . >> thank you for that kind introduction. and also to the harvard bookstore inviting me back the last time i was supposed to be here i canceled at the last minute with my family and they said don't worry we will reschedule and now three years later i am here. [laughter] it is a pleasure maybe you know, me better for my fiction but this was a book rolling around in my head for a long time. so in a sense talking backward. so with that historical moment that gave rise to it so

in dreaming in french, yale university professor examines the influence they had on women's rights. another pic from iowa city's prairie life bookstores consumed in which political theorists argues that capitalism has gone awry and in overproducing global economy. military historian max hasting provides a history of world war i in catastrophe 1914. in spies and commissars, they profile some of the major players in the early days of the russian revolution. former british ambassador recalls the soviet war enough afghanistan. some of the staff picks from. life bookstore in i was city iowa. many of these authors have

in dreaming in french, yale university professor examines the influence they had on women's rights. another pic from iowa city's prairie life bookstore is consumed in which political theorists argues that capitalism has gone awry and in overproducing global economy. military historian max hasting provides a history of world war i in catastrophe 1914. in spies and commissars, they profile some of the major players in the early days of the russian revolution. former british ambassador recalls the soviet war enough afghanistan. some of the staff picks from. life bookstore in i was city iowa. many of these authors have appeared on book tv. you can watch them on our website, booktv.org. >> good evening. welcome to the richard nixon presidential library. just a few announcements before we introduce our special guest. please join us for the reopening of the new nixon library on october 15 and 16th. it will be spectacular. the exhibits will be a must see. they tell president nixon story in a new and exciting way. it will be an unforgiving experience for all visitors. please check that out. now to our distinguished speaker , president richard

yale law school professor examines how parties impact our political system in political tribes. look for these titles in bookstores this weekend watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> bernie and his supporters, i wanted them to be a part of what was going to happen. hillary won the primary fair and square. she had 4 million more votes than bernie, did not set the primary in florida or alabama or louisiana. she had more pledged delegates and unpledged delegates. tim kane called for the elimination of unpledged delegates. we need to have this conversation if not now, when. what forms would you like to see at the dnc? the unity commission will pick on a lot of electoral firms, pledged versus unpledged delegates, looking at the window, what states in new hampshire, once upon a time they hit here because it is earlier. i am the same donna. internally party is doing a great job reforming the party, we had so many great victories across the country. let's be honest. paula jean was absolutely right. i love you, florida. i love your elect oral votes but no reason why from florida all the

yale university. please welcome walter shapiro. [applause]. >> while. first first of all, i really want to thank politics and prose which is one of the world's great bookstores. i love independent bookstores. independent bookstores. i particularly love that politics imposes driving. now looking around i don't how many many of you are old enough to remember, the old, old 1950s tv tv show, this is your life. clapmac, will that is a little bit how i feel looking around the room is seen so many old friends. so let me start off by, this book really starts with my father. my father died in 2004 and he and he was a connecticut city planner. a mild-mannered city planner. in suburban connecticut who went to the zoning board meetings in the evening. were talking about a racy upbringing i had. but my father kept talking about his uncle, his uncle freeman. my grandmother's older brother and he kept saying he was a really big and vaudeville, he knew people like sophie tucker, he married a showgirl and ultimately he cheated hitler on a nickel deal. wait a second. we are in a suburban connecticut living room, this makes no sense. it was like my father taking me my father t

yale law school professor examines how parties impact our political system in political tribes. >> look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> i want bernie and his supporters, because i wanted them to be a part of what was going to happen. hillary won the primaries there and square. she had 4 million more votes than bernie. she gha did not set the primaryd in florida or alabama my beloved louisiana. she also had more pledged delegates and more unpledged delegates. i don't know if you read that tim kaine call for the elimination of unpledgeds. delegates. we need to have these debates within the party. we need to have this conversation. if not now, when? what are someav of the specific reforms you like to see at the dnc? >> they unity commission is going to pick on a lot of those so-called electoral confirms, that plagues versus unpledged delegates. they are also going to take a look at the window, what states go before i was in new hampshire. once upon a time oc people in florida, we penalize you for going early. >> 2008. >> i just

guest: yeah, it started when i was traveling to massachusetts, and i stopped by a use bookstore, and i came across the yale class of 194250 year reunion book, and a lot of members of the class of 1942 wrote stories of what they had done since they graduated 50 years before. some were fascinating as people went through amazing things they did. a couple were boring. a guy, you know, took a guy at a law firm, stayed at that law firm his whole life and said it's boring, but too late to change it now. i became fascinated with the people looking back, so i wrote a column about the book and asked my readers saying if you're over 70 send me grades about how good or bad you did and what can we learn? we got several thousands essays, some were a page or 25 page, and they make for addictive reading. if you go to my blog on the new york times, there's a number of them online so you can read them yourselves. they were addicting. there's one up there on the web page by a guy named neil who, you know, he just gave himself an f saying i didn't lead the life i should have, and i know how to do it now, but i wish i had know

it was no use trying to rush this when yale university pressed rightly wanted to get copies of this at the front of of you know, barnes and noble bookstores and that was impossible so we held on and that gave me the chance to go back to the manuscript and go through its sentence by sentence and try to trim it down. it's a very large narrative in any case and to try to get official sufficient and wonderful number of statistical. tables and data and the maps by mapmaker down in maryland mr. wilson all put into this complicated book. i was trying to do if you like. what historians might call a broad delian approach to the naval history of the second world war brodell and his magnificent books on the mediterranean in the age of philip ii said there was an underlying or basic level of causation geography the climate and everything else. there was a middle level of technical technical and technological trading change which affected things. and there's a top level the history of events lee strava anymore, which was that of you know battle of lepanto or the spanish armada. could you try and do broad dell in the mid 20th century? i was going to ha

history yale university, -- 20 lessons from the 20th century, which i cannot recommend highly, enough including the new graphic addition, of until, many is now in bookstores. i read it and absorbed all the illustrations and all of it in one sitting. and, you will too if you buy, it's remarkable stuff. >> think you. >> that will do it for us for now, see you again tomorrow, now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell, good evening lawrence. >> good evening rachel, we have the decision, this order by the judge in texas federal judge in texas, that i think many people anticipated, that there would be a federal judge somewhere in texas, you would see it this way. just completely shutting down, that texas law, ordering absolutely no administration of that new texas abortion law at all. none of these lawsuits specifically setting in order to every state court, every judge, every clerk, of every court. do not accept filing of any of these lawsuits. against abortion providers. and absolutely shut it down. >> shut it down. we've just learned in the past couple of minutes that texas is appealing, and again, but legal undergirding of the texas abortion b

it was no use trying to rush this when yale university pressed rightly wanted to get copies of this at the front of of you know, barnes and noble bookstores and that was impossible so we held on and that gave me the chance to go back to the manuscript and go through its sentence by sentence and try to trim it down. it's a very large narrative in any case and to try to get official sufficient and wonderful number of statistical. tables and data and the maps by mapmaker down in maryland mr. wilson all put into this complicated book. i was trying to do if you like. what historians might call a broad delian approach to the naval history of the second world war brodell and his magnificent books on the mediterranean in the age of philip ii said there was an underlying or basic level of causation geography the climate and everything else. there was a middle level of technical technical and technological trading change which affected things. and there's a top level the history of events lee strava anymore, which was that of you know battle of lepanto or the spanish armada. could you try and do broad dell in the mid 20th century? i was going to ha

traveling to massachusetts on my way to new hampshire for a thing, and i stopped by a used bookstore, and i came across the yaleclass of '42 50-year, um, reunion book. and so a lot of members of the class of 1942 yale had written 50 stories of what they'd done since they graduated 50 years before. and some of the stories were fascinating as people would go through amazing things they'd done. a couple were boring. a guy, you know, took a job with a law firm or something, stayed at that law firm his whole life and said, you know, this is kind of boring, but it's too late to change it now. so i became fascinated with these people looking back. so i wrote a column, and i asked my readers. i said, if you're over 70, send me something appraising your own life, send me some grades, what can we learn? and we got several thousand essays were sent in. some of them were a page, some of them were 25 pages, and they make for addictive reading. i've put a number of them online so you can read them directly yourselves. so reading them was addictive. some people, i have one up there on my web page now by a guy named neil who,

bookstore, is one for all by lily lane. it's a white novel about a character with pots who and it's written by a fencer who fence with yale who has pots. my last shout out be for a nonfiction recommendation which alice wang's year of the tiger, which came out this september it's a memoir by alice wong, who edited the disability visibility. she's a very dear friend and her words really matter. and i think it's a book that everybody should read. okay, awesome. and what are you reading right now, if i may ask? i am currently reading babble by r.f. crank. yeah, how are you liking that? i love it, but i went to oxford for a book, so very academic. yeah, great. well, i think we have some time for a question. the audience, we do have a microphone for folks, since this is being recorded. so who has a question for for elsa, uh, about. yeah. so the book's about for a little bit now and i'm curious if there are any reactions to it that surprised you or any that, you know, you were more excited by. i had someone walk up to me in a bar about six months ago, sobbing and hugging my book like a teddy bear. and she said that it was like someb

bookstore at all the staff thank you very much for coming. we are very excited to have amy with us thisnk evening. walt professor at yale who's written and spoken extensively on matters of culture and identity. her new book political tribe addresses the theme that has become topical these days but has little interest in compromising or even try to get along. one of the founding notions was a democratic system in which the differences of race, ethnicity, religion and so on would be taken up in a shared identity but these days messages that appealed toh the shared values seen repeatedly trumped by messages intended to exploit narrow group identity. she argues those in the international affairs and our domestic dealings, americans have fallen prey to tribalism as we've often been blind to it and we have a debilitating tendency to revert to its. a number of positive reviews, one of the "washington post" insightful, disquieting, hopeful because they are trying to break out of their political tribes. whether the amount of a definite seismic trend is debatable, but at least they are encouraging and psychological research shows