pulitzer, a pulitzer prize winning writer, was the longtime cultural critic at the chicago tribune. her new book, quitting a life the slash the myth of perseverance and how the new science giving up can set you free is. her 14th published book excuse me, she has written both fiction nonfiction and it joins her critically acclaimed eight volume mystery series, which is set in her home state of west virginia. julia earned a doctoral degree, ohio state university, and has at the university of chicago, princeton university and the university of notre dame. she was a nieman fellow at harvard. elizabeth taylor is the coauthor of american pharoah mare richard j daley daily. she's the coeditor of the national book review. she is on the current board and is the president of the national book critics circle. she's the past literary editor, magazine editor for the chicago the national correspondent for time magazine. and she's the previous creative director, slash row lit fest of sorry me mayor creative director of printers row lit fest under current she's under contract with liveright book li

we read the new york times and the chicago tribune every day and were tested on them on weekends. it was intense. it was intense that some things if my father would say, yeah, if my father would say what happened this year in the french economy, you would understand how the french economy works. to understand how to discuss the nuances of it. yes. and so politics was the language of our family like voting family outings. you know, they just wanted to make sure that we knew we had these responses, politics and so five years ago, i went to work for senator in colorado. i lived in for about five years. i work for her remotely. and i think for me what it writing about it and working in politics allows me to that i am working to make the change that we need to see in all kinds of areas. so i work on things like minority rights and, agricultural farmworkers rights, a bill to keep medical evidence, preserve after assaults and, all kinds of stuff like that because are the things i think are important. and that's why i do this kind of writing, because i think it's important and i figure if

prior to joining vanity, ryan worked as a television critic, variety and the chicago tribune. she has spent the last decade writing in-depth pieces on matters of inclusion misconduct and abuse in hollywood and on efforts to make the industry. her first book, burn it down power, complicity and a call for change in hollywood is a deeper exploration these issues. she lives in the chicago area. mikki kendall, the author of the new york times, best selling feminism. a recipient of chicago review of books award a best of the year and a best of the year at the bbc bustle and time. she is also the author of amazon's abolitionists and activists a graphic illustrated by adam eco as a public speaker. she has appeared the bbc and pr the daily show, pbs's good america, msnbc al jazeera, wbez and showtime. her essays can be found at time. the new york times, the guardian, the washington post. essence vogue. the boston globe and nbc.com. think they will both be signing books after the event. you can purchase them outside of the black curtains over there and i hand it over to both of. thank y

the chicago tribune reports an illinois man was charged with a hate crime in the stabbing death of ad muslim boy and the wounding of his mother. authorities say 71-year-old joseph tuba committed the act saturday because the victims were muslim and he was upset about the war between israel and hamas. the mother was hospitalized in serious condition. she told police her landlord attacked her. tuba was arrested on several charges including first-degree murder. the dallas morning news says three people were wounded in a shooting at the texas state fair. dallas police say one man fired at another man saturday night in the fair's food court. authorities say the shooting involved two people who knew each other, fair-goers ran and hid, and the grounds were evacuated, and a 22-year-old man was later arrested, and the victims all sustained nonlife-threatening injuries. >>> "the new york times" says the main suspect in the disappearance of american stuent natalie holloway is expected to plead guilty to extorting her mother. a lawyer for holloway's mother says joran van der sloot reached a deal

having written extensively for the chicago tribune. chicago history writers digest, chicago athlete and men's fitness. he's the author of two books, sam's boys the history of chicago's leon beach and legendary lifeguard sam leon and most recently, war football, world war one and the birth of the nfl's, which was selected by the professional football researchers association as winner of the 2019 nelson ross award for outstanding achievement in pro football historical research. will you please join me in welcoming chris serb to the stage. thank you, laura, for that introduction, and thank you to the national world war one museum and memorial for having me here tonight. and thanks to all of you for showing up to hear me and listen to what i have to say. both those of you who are here in person and those of you who are watching this remotely. before i start, i want to acknowledge a couple of special guests. first and foremost, my wife, emily, who's a high school english teacher, and also the best editor that i've ever had. and also our scho

having written extensively for the chicago tribune. chicago history writers digest, chicago athlete and men's fitness. he's the author of two books, sam's boys the history of chicago's leon beach and legendary lifeguard sam leon and most recently, war football, world war one and the birth of the nfl's, which was selected by the professional football researchers association as winner of the 2019 nelson ross award for outstanding achievement in pro football historical research. will you please join me in welcoming chris serb to the stage. thank you, laura, for that introduction, and thank you to the national world war one museum and memorial for having me here tonight. and thanks to all of you for showing up to hear me and listen to what i have to say. both those of you who are here in person and those of you who are watching this remotely. before i start, i want to acknowledge a couple of special guests. first and foremost, my wife, emily, who's a high school english teacher, and also the best editor that i've ever had. and also our scho

chicago tribune. chicago sun-times times. chicago reader crain's chicago business, chicago magazine and others. leigh giangreco covers government politics policy and civic life and the city is a power elite for crain's chicago business. before coming to crain's in july 2023, john greco worked for several years as a freelance reporter whose work has appeared in the guardian. guardian, politico magazine, bloomberg, the washington post and pew's state line. she previously the defense industry in washington d.c. thank you very much. lynn vance. thank you again much for being here today. really enjoyed your book. it's a fantastic primer as well for politics in chicago, not just for, you know, learning the history of the different types of here. you opened the book by telling us that two men david barksdale, the founder of the gangster disciples and richard j daley legendary or some might say infamous mayor of chicago had never met. so why profile these two men in the same book. i have to blame it on my sitting in the back cracked

from nbc dateline to al jazeera me and has published opinion pieces in the new york times, the chicago tribune and other publications in the united states and israel. thank you again for joining us. enjoy the program. and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming daniel. thank you so much. thank you so much, beth. your excellency, ambassador herzog, members of the truman family. members of the ben-yehuda family and members of the jacobson family. honored guests. it is a privilege to be here. it's for me. perhaps even a little bit of a special privilege. i came to the jewish agency a little over two years ago in my first meeting as head of north america for the jewish agency, was a week before i started at the jewish agency. and that was because of a call i received from the then chairman of the jewish agency, isaac herzog, who said, i know you don't work for me yet, but i need you to join this call with the truman museum tomorrow. and something about karen peck insisting that it that i join. i agreed. and so my start with the jewish agency has been inextricably linked with the truman museum and f

having written extensively for the chicago tribune. hicago history writers digest, chicago athlete and men's fitness. he's the author of two books, sam's boys the history of chicago's leon beach and legendary lifeguard sam leon and most recently, war football, world war one and the birth of the nfl's, which was selected by the professional football researchers association as winner of the 2019 nelson ross award for outstanding achievement in pro football historical research. will you please join me in welcoming chris serb to the stage. thank you, laura, for that introduction, and thank you to the national world war one museum and memorial for having me here tonight. and thanks to all of you for showing up to hear me and listen to what i have to say. both those of you who are here in person and those of you who are watching this remotely. before i start, i want to acknowledge a couple of special guests. first and foremost, my wife, emily, who's a high school english teacher, and also the best editor that i've ever had. and also our schoo

georgia has written for many publications, including new york times, the wall street journal, the chicago tribune, the los angeles times, the smithsonian and town and country and excuse me, rachel's book be available for purchase outside the black curtains afterward. and we will have a signing right behind us. so turn the rest of the program over to you. thank you. can everybody hear me? thank you for coming? betty friedan, as you probably know, is a monumental figure in the history of feminism. her bestselling book, the feminine mystique, was widely credited with sparking a second wave feminism when it was in 1963 and sold more than a million copies, she, the national for women and national women's caucus, but she was also difficult person within personality and in her life time she was a very controversial figure her life after the feminist battles of the 1970s is less well known, but she continued to for women's causes until the end of her. rachel's book is the first betty friedan biographer in 25 years, and it's based on rachel's intense exhaustive research in archives and more. 80 interviews

her freelance writing has appeared in such publications as the wall street journal, chicago tribune, gq, glamor, the nation. she was also executive editor of george and before that features editor at spin. she's the co-founder of read this, a volunteer group that delivers books where needed, including to troops abroad, children living in poverty in public with no library. this summer, she's teaching nonfiction, writing the columbia university's summer session. and today she's here to talk about her third book, liberty's torch the great adventure to build the statue liberty. please welcome elizabeth mitchell. hello. how are you? first of all, i would very much like to thank the national archives for having here. when you're working on a book like this, you just can't bless the archives enough because they are the ones you know beyond any engine searches will find you that you would never find. and they keep them in such great condition. and i, i can't enough about their work. i'm going to start the talk by just telling you how i came to this story, because i think i started where prob

now even our big newspapers, which used to be cultural arbiters and, trendsetters like the chicago tribune, used to be a major powerful force. i've been reading the new biography of gerald ford by richard norton smith, and he talks about the power of regional. well, a lot of these newspaper are barely hanging on. and so they have no power to exert the cultural influence of this region like they used to. and so culture in this country tends to be, uh, tends to happen on the coasts in new york and l.a. what i'm trying do and what gleaves is trying to do and some the people that are part of this effort to revive studies is to give the midwest a and louder voice in american national affairs. i i'd love your help making that possible. you've got it. i have a questions from that. yeah. go get him. if. sir. thank you. i believe that there were a number of people here in the midwest who were here before all of us started. and i wonder where they fit in with this renaissance of the of the midwest and history. well, one of the great things to report from the field is there is a field of native ameri

now even our big newspapers, which used to be cultural arbiters and, trendsetters like the chicago tribune, used to be a major powerful force. i've been reading the new biography of gerald ford by richard norton smith, and he talks about the power of regional. well, a lot of these newspaper are barely hanging on. and so they have no power to exert the cultural influence of this region like they used to. and so culture in this country tends to be, uh, tends to happen on the coasts in new york and l.a. what i'm trying do and what gleaves is trying to do and some the people that are part of this effort to revive studies is to give the midwest a and louder voice in american national affairs. i i'd love your help making that possible. you've got it. i have a questions from that. yeah. go get him. if. sir. thank you. i believe that there were a number of people here in the midwest who were here before all of us started. and i wonder where they fit in with this renaissance of the of the midwest and history. well, one of the great things to report from the field is there is a field of native ameri

known as ecce, had been an all-american quarterback at university of chicago and then became the chicago tribune'slead football writer, a camp and eki hyped war football. in their weekly syndicated columnist, which are read all over the country, these two guys, more than anyone else, really sold war football to the public, and the public bought what they were selling. the teams were there, the talent was there, the publicity was there. all signs pointed to a great season for war football for 1918 and just as the season was about to start, the great influenza pandemic swept through. public health authorities closed churches, theaters and the football stadiums. hundreds of games were canceled or postponed, and those that were played were played in front of empty stadiums with no fans allowed in attendance. or like this game from atlanta in front of a fully masked crowd, kind of foreshadowing what we would see with covid some hundred years later. now, eventually, the flu ran its course in war football. second season got underway. i'm going to go over just a few of the highlights. jackutherland had be

in illinois, "the chicago tribune" reports the city is expecting to see even more migrants.an 1,000 new arrivals daily within the next three weeks. now, officials are ramping up pressure on president biden for help. yesterday, democratic governor j.b. pritzker sent the white house a letter saying the state, quote, stands mostly unsupported against this enormous strain on our resources. we'll follow that. "the south florida sentinel" says governor desantis has a pledge to lower gas prices. if elected, he'll return the u.s. to the days of $2 a gallon of gasoline. his plan is to unleash domestic energy production, but one of the first things desantis did as governor was sign an executive order of opposing offshore drilling and fracking in florida. we'll see how that works out. >>> in pennsylvania, "the morning call" leads with the deal the united auto workers union has struck with mack trucks. the five-year contract will cover nearly 4,000 employees in pennsylvania, maryland, and florida. officials say the terms include significantly higher wages and better benefits. it comes a