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she at 17 hot floods to hollywood to visit her mother and her mother lets her do anything to stay at my mom starts dating errol flynn and abunch of married movie stars . howard hughes at the time wanted to marry her. she ends up just out of poor decision-making marrying like a son who worked for howard hughes and at the age of 17 stays married for 12 to 21 and gets divorce and three weeks later meets this great director, conductor and marries him within two or three weeks. >> that's interesting even given how much time she spent with gertrude whitney . >> that's what's so sad about how much of this. mina mom never connected with whitney with whom she would have had so much in common. gertrude whitney is a legitimate sculptor, very talented who love art, had such a great american art collection that she founded the whitney museum of the met wouldn't take it when she offered it to them and had a very bohemian life a few blocks from where i live in greenwich village. she was very close to reggie, her brother. she could have told my mom a lot about him but they never had real conversatio

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he was in a couple of hollywood movies, but he also wrote plays when he was in the prison, so i know how those systems work. it is just interesting that you ended with rockefeller because rockefeller was the one who stopped the whole system from doing any kind of education. >> that's right. >> so you're doing some hard work. i appreciate what you're doing, and keep it up. >> have you read heather ann thompson's book "blood in the water". >> that's the one they did on rockefeller. >> on attica. it is brilliant. the way she ends the book is the response by the ruling white oligarchy because of attic shgs a -- attica. it is fascinating to read the internal documents of the nixon white house. they believe it is the beginning of a malice revolution. she argues the demonizing of especially black men, but also the foundation of this draconian carcel state as a response. one of the characters in the book based on a real figure, who i interviewed for about six hours because i wanted exactly what you said this old consciousness from the 60s and early 70s by black radicals so he was a member of

he was in a couple of hollywood movies, but he also wrote plays when he was in the prison, so i know how those systems work. it is just interesting that you ended with rockefeller because rockefeller was the one who stopped the whole system from doing any kind of education. >> that's right. >> so you're doing some hard work. i appreciate what you're doing, and keep it up. >> have you read heather ann thompson's book "blood in the water". >> that's the one they did on rockefeller. >> on attica. it is brilliant. the way she ends the book is the response by the ruling white oligarchy because of attic shgs a -- attica. it is fascinating to read the internal documents of the nixon white house. they believe it is the beginning of a malice revolution. she argues the demonizing of especially black men, but also the foundation of this draconian carcel state as a response. one of the characters in the book based on a real figure, who i interviewed for about six hours because i wanted exactly what you said this old consciousness from the 60s and early 70s by black radicals so he was a member of

carter, reagan, george hw bush, clinton, or w bush, obama, and trust as well as the cia, joint chief, hollywood and the supreme court. his most recent book is carol, which he co-authored with robert costin the moderator for our opening discussion is douglas brinkley, in humanities and professor of history and bronx university and professor douglas brinkley is a best-selling author the grammy award-winning producer had he served as presidential historian for both new york post new york historical and sandinista a contributor to the new york times, the washington post, the boston globe and the author of numerous books in his most recent new york times bestseller, is american moonshine, john f. kennedy in the great space race. just before we begin i ask you please turn off your cell phones and other electronic devices and remember to keep your mask on. please note with the exception of her house photographer, we are not permitting photography this morning afraid and please join me in welcoming our guests. thank you. [applause] >> good morning, welcome bob fast, robert caro and as the added attract

she at 17, at 16 she hotfoot set off to hollywood to visit her mother and her mother let you do anything and stay, and my mom starts dating errol flynn and a bunch of married movie stars, howard hughes, hot howard hughes at the time wanted to measure and she ends up just out of poor decision making, mirroring like a thug who worked for howard hughes. at the age of 17, you know, stays married until 21 and then gets divorced, and three weeks later meets the 63 of man leopold stokowski, this great director, conductor and marries him within two or three weeks. >> wow. that's interesting though even given how much time she spent with gertrude whitney. >> that's what's a sad about so much of this is my mom never connected really with gertrude and of the whitney with she would've had so much in common, whitney was a legitimate sculptor, very talented who love art, had a great american art collection she founded the whitney museum because the met t wouldn't take it when she offered to them and a very bohemian -- the would've been so much and she was very close to reggie her brother and she could