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The Book Club

The Book Club: Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington with Carol Swain

The Book Club

PragerU

Books, Arts

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What is the key to racial reconciliation in our nation? Dr. Carol Swain joins Michael Knowles on this month’s episode of The Book Club to examine the life of Booker T. Washington, a former slave turned educator, as seen through the lens of his autobiography Up From Slavery. In our fast-paced world, it’s tough to make reading a priority. At least it used to be. At Thinkr.org, they summarize the key ideas from new and noteworthy nonfiction, giving you access to an entire library of great books in bite-size form. Read or listen to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes: start your free trial today at https://thinkr.org/

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0:19.7

Welcome back to the book club. I'm Michael Knowles. This month we will be discussing up from slavery by Booker T Washington with the great Carol Swain. But first in our fast-paced world, it is tough to make reading a priority well at

0:24.4

least it used to be but now thanks to thinker.org you can go check out they have

0:28.3

summarized the key ideas from new and noteworthy non-fiction giving you access to an entire library of great books in

0:34.5

bite-sized form.

0:35.6

Reader listened to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes from old classics like Dale

0:39.7

Carnegie's had a win, friends, and influence people, to recent bestsellers like Jordan Peterson's

0:43.6

12 Rules for Life. If you want to challenge your preconceptions, forget about that.

0:48.0

If you want to expand your horizons, forget about that. If you want to sound smart at parties, then you should head on over to thinker.org, that is THH-I-N-K-R-org, no E, no one's got time for that,

1:01.5

start a free trial and put your mind in motion.

1:05.0

Carol Swain, Carol Swain, a writer, a podcaster, a movie star,

1:10.4

I've now seen you in a couple of movies, former professor at Vanderbilt and Princeton,

1:15.0

which is unbelievable these days that someone with any conservative views could

1:20.0

last there for even five seconds with the way that conservative academics are treated.

1:25.2

Thank you so much for being here.

1:26.2

I have to say I was not a conservative when I was hired by Princeton and Vanderbilt didn't know that

1:32.2

I had converted.

1:33.2

That would make more sense.

1:35.0

That would now I can understand how that would be possible.

1:38.0

Carol, you suggested this book, I had never read it, up from slavery by Booker T Washington because I when I was in

1:43.8

school I was told the leaders of the African American community were people

1:48.0

like Al Sharpton Jesse Jackson then going back a little bit further to kind of the era of this guy,

1:54.0

W.E.B. Du Bois, who is a noted socialist African-American leader and started the N-W-A-C-P.

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