i'm bradley graham the co-owner of politics and prose along with my wife, lisa muscatine and

i'm bradley graham the co-owner of politics and prose along with my wife, lisa muscatine and on behalf of all the great folks here at the auditorium, welcome, thank you so much for coming. we have been partnering for a number of years now sponsoring these author talks and we are very grateful to have access to such a spacious and convenient facility here in the center of washington. we are also grateful for the support from all of you. we know you have choices on where to buy books these days and we would like to thank you for choosing to shop with a local independent bookstore. [applause] [cheering] it is especially exciting to be hosting this evening. he's here of course to talk about his new book and it's been two years since roman writing in the new yorker and jodi kantor and megan writing in "the new york times" and the two years since they published their separate exposÉs of sexual assault and harassment allegations against movie producer those stories encouraged many other women around the world to come forward with allegations against other powerful privileged and previously pr

i'm bradley graham the co-owner of politics and prose along with my wife Ãon behalf of everybody here thank you for

i'm bradley graham the co-owner of politics and prose along with my wife Ãon behalf of everybody here thank you for coming. we are quite pleased to be hosting james stewart here this evening. anyone who has followed his journalism and his books over the past few decades his familiar with his skills as an accomplished storyteller. the insight and detail he has brought to his reporting of financial scandals, corporate goings-on political and legal affairs. jim was educated as a lawyer and worked as an attorney at a prestigious new york firm for several years before entering journalism to help launch the american lawyer magazine four years ago. in 1983 he joined the wall street journal where he won several awards including a deadline writing prize for coverage of the Ãbinsider trading scandal. enter pulitzer for coverage and 1987 of the stock market crash and the downfalls investment baker markets Ãbmartin siegel. 90 to 92 he left Ãband started writing for the new yorker. for the past eight years he's been a columnist for the new york times and his weekly common sense look at the world o

i'm bradley graham the co owner of politics and prose along with my wife who is down there and on behalf of everybody in p & p and all the phones here, welcome, thank you very much for coming. we at p & p all enjoy joining forces with six and i to put on

i'm bradley graham the co owner of politics and prose along with my wife who is down there and on behalf of everybody in p & p and all the phones here, welcome, thank you very much for coming. we at p & p all enjoy joining forces with six and i to put on author events. this synagogue and culture center is now 15 years old, and it's founders and staff rerealy deserve a lot of credit. [applause] >> they deserve a lot of credit for transforming this place into the vibrant community institution it is today. we're delighted be hosting jody kantor and megan twohey. they are of course the to two "new york times" reporter who reveals to the world harvey weinstein's extensive sexual abuse. their book "she said" is the rifting revealing account how they developed they're blockbuster story, and it's consequences in spurring the #metoo movement. as they note in their preface, in the wake of the weinstein expo expo say which broke in act 2017, it was as if a dam wall had come down, many, many women not just in country but around the world, spilled forward to tell their own stovers mistreatment. in ad