edmund white helped start the game is health crisis in 1982. he's an aids activist, and aids survivor and he still loves sex. he's written so many top-notch memoirs that my struggle seems stingy in the details department . he's pissed off susan sontag and gore the doll in the world the better plate forest. edmund is so well read it's scary and he's written every genre except children's books and who knows? think of the wisdom he could share with kids. i mean, he explains to intellectuals everywhere in 1977 at the bias against the acyl is unreasonable. so maybe it's time he translates this in a less threatening way for our next generation ofbudding young readers . it seems mister white as one and deserved more awards than meryl streep yet he never makes the public feel stupid unless they are lying in front of the tv not reading . edmund white is self depreciating yet proud, optimistic when things seem disastrous and he reveals more in his books about his personal life that seems possible , sensible or a literary elite correct and my god, how has

they broke away in the middle of the movie to show a bridge in alabama called the edmund pettis bridge. here is a whiten the couch 1000 miles away, watching marchers from selma it stopped at a bridge at alabama by alabama state troopers who then tear gas to them and charged in with billy clubs to start viciously beating them. and what did this guy on a couch in new jersey do? he did not allow his inability to do everything to undermine his determination to do something. he stood up from that couch and said, i can't go to alabama, can't afford a plane ticket, but i will do what is a powerful american tradition. i will do the best i can with what i have, where i am. he was a patriot. he showed his love. he didn't talk about it. he called around to see who might need one hour of pro bono work he could spare, and found a group of activists, mostly white people, trying to do something about real estate segregation in new jersey. they started working, got other volunteers demanding from their neighbors to join us in the fight for america. by 1969 they had a whole system, and he said i will never forget the d

breakaway from the show to show a bridge in alabama, ricky news, a bridge called the edmund pettus bridge, and this white on on the couch 1000 miles away in new jersey watches as the civil rights activists get stuck on a bridge by state troopers or gas to do with tear gas and then beaten viciously. we we know this day as bloody sunday. what does white man on a couch a thousand miles due? did he allow his inability to do everything about it crisis of rights to undermine his determination to do something? no. did he forget that the knowledge of our country, that the power the people -- he knew his one person but he was powerful and so we stood up and he knew he couldn't go to alabama. he couldn't even afford a plane ticket, but he entered the great american traditiond that has transformed this nation and every generation. he was one american who stood up and said i'mor going to do the best i can with what i have where i am picky went to work joining with other americans and unions building a group of people helping families move intoie a down by six to five by 1969 he's got this case file a family coming u

the lone white house opponent to the mission, he resigned and was replaced as secretary of state by edmund muskie. when the bodies of the americans were finally returned, a period of national mourning commenced in the united states. ("taps" on bugle) >> your suffering, your loss, or -- are not in vain. i fervently pray that those who are still held hostage will be freed without more bloodshed. although no one knew it, the hostages had reached the halfway mark of their captivity. many were then moved all over iran. >> i was put into a military solitary -- maximum security cell which was six by nine with a toilet and a washbasin. and a slot on the door in which they could feed us. >> that was a place where we were sleeping with the centipedes. >> there was not a whole lot you can do when you are locked into one small room. fortunately we had books. we did a lot of reading. we exercised twice a day and we had a routine that took us approximately 45 minutes. this was a time of spiritual development. >> i was bored, had nothing else to do and i had a piece of paper and a pencil. i used to start