says she is constantly in the news and then to knows the angela davis of the '60s but then angela davis the scholar who had written several books political and philosophical to talk about contemporary issues and she is a very well published author so i felt i knew her in the different ways but i didn't tax of the opportunity to put that together into a life to think of her in a more intimate or in cheerier way of who was a she? especially being so iconic oftentimes it is a figure is and what is an what is a legend. >> i was intrigued to by elizabeth gurley flynn because i knew she was important but she doesn't really fit into women's history or of labor history and it isn't clear because the arrow where she was active it would be with the suffrage movement and she wasn't a part of an ad and for the labor movement the fact she was a communist made her a problematic subjects for barker phase so people put her aside so i felt she was little neglected and i was intrigued because she has a memoir called the rebel girl for the first 20 years of her career that is a vivid first-person account

she, as i said, she supported the black panthers, she raised money for angela davis when no other president -- no other member of the congressional black caucus would do so. and for other black revolutionaries, joan byrd. and she wrote in both unbought and unbossed and in the good fight that she understood the anger of young african-americans and why it was expressed the way it was. and when asked to denounce the fact that the panthers supported her presidency she sort of answered i thought in a beautiful way, she said you all should be glad that this black militant organization is coming back to electoral politics as opposed to denouncing them. [laughter] >> [inaudible] >> hi. so when i think about empowered women, i also am curious about their relationship to their fathers growing up. so you talked a little wit -- a little bit about their childhood, so i'm curious to know what was the relationship with each woman with her father. >> certainly for elizabeth gurley flynn, her father, tom none, was a very -- flynn, was a very important figure in her life. and she he was a very strong sociali

we did not take much time on angela davis. not that she was not right. we were trying to always chart the future. the victims will come along. ferguson will come along. if you change the focus, put the focus on ferguson when the hold -- the whole world needs our leadership then we are playing ourselves cheap. i just think that the things we have done in shaping america have shaped the world. you can correct me if i am wrong. right now, the discussions of monetary manipulation in the trade agreements means that the americans do not have much power. the europeans are still running the global economy. and i was sitting in congress where you sit in the banking committee in 1973 when nixon came and ended the stability of the global economic order. nobody ever discussed it anymore but i never forgot it. america ran the world from 1944 to 1974. everybody's currency was tied to the dollar and the dollar was tied to gold. the whole world was growing from 6% to 10%. now, with the europeans taking over the economy, europe is in a desperate recession. they are not g

we did not take much time on angela davis. not that she was not right. we were trying to always chart the future. the victims will come along. ferguson will come along. if you change the focus, put the focus on ferguson when the hold world --the whole world needs our leadership then we are playing ourselves cheap. i just think that the things we have done in shaping america have shaped the world. you can correct me if i am wrong. right now, the discussions of monetary manipulation in the trade agreements means that the americans do not have much power. the europeans are still running the global economy. and i was sitting in congress where you sit in the banking committee in 1973 when nixon came and ended the stability of the global economic order. nobody ever discussed it anymore but i never forgot it. america ran the world from 1944 to 1974. everybody's currency was tied to the dollar and the dollar was tied to gold. the whole world was growing from 6% to 10%. now, with the europeans taking over the economy europe is in a desperate recession. they are n

angela davis' autobiography is no longer compared to gail jones' novel. the collection of short stories, girl've my love is not compared with huey newtons to die for the people. and happily, muhammad ali's autobiography, "the greatest" is not valued or measured against the" soledad brothers" or george jackson's blood in my eye." james baldwin so far is not paired with august wilson. much of that conflagration and the mixing of onrazz according to races disappeared and the disappearance is primarily due to the labors of literary critics in this organization. now, the national book critics circle has grown and eagerly faces the challenges and opportunities of contemporary publishing. the challenges of online books and blogs and self-publishing, and ebooks. there are all sorts of new presses, private presses small ones and there's a general move of the newspaper industry's preference for light entertainment and gossip. but so far these don't seem to have deterred the national book critic circle's agenda and in fact in its expansion. it works even more to con

angela davis' autobiography is no longer compared to gayl jones's model.he collection of short stories is not paired with huey newton's to die for the people. [laughter] and happily mohamed ali's autobiography, the greatest is not valued or measured against the solar dead brothers or george jackson's blood in my eye. .. >> >> and all sorts of new private presses in the general mood of the newspaper industry's for light entertainment and gossip. but so far they don't seem to have deterred the national book -- national book critics circle agenda but in the experience to networks even more to confront or to alter and expand the possibilities of publishing. the training of young writers and their encouragement to work with in the entire earth every community. a list of authors who have been afforded this lifetime award is judicious and enviable i am delighted to be among them. thank you. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> you are so acute. behavior next to announce the next word to the final list. i am also the committee co-chair. [applause] more i

and what needed to happen and the work going on, but also you'd be talking about edward abby and angela davis, and the -- meal he was making and the rain washing through an arojo and on and on, just all these desspirit things coming together and stitched together by chuck saying, you know you know do you follow, do you follow? and it was hard as a young editor to say not really following how those are connected but it's magnificent to hear your deep voice. but the phone calls would last so long, and still had the round receivers. i remember one time pulling my ear away and literally a vacuum has formed around my ear. from then on i always warned the fact checkers about bowden ear. they had to figure ute way to break up calls or they'd pay the price for them a little bit. one thing i would say about working with chuck people would say you have to see this person's photography exhibit. he was an amazing champion of people's work. his interests were broad and he never failed to share them with sort of everyone in his life. sometimes really bizarrely. chuck, i'm not a museum curator. i don't know