Number two. My name is rosa parks. And number three. My name is rosa parks. Once again, panel, these three ladies all claim to be civil rights champion rosa parks, and lets start the questioning with kitty carlisle. Number two, what led up to this glorious moment on that bus . How did you feel at the moment of arrest . [ bell dings ] that bell tells us the time is up. And now, of course, its time to vote whoever, in your opinion, is the real rosa parks. I voted for number two, and its just based on a feeling. She just has that gentleness, i think, that would allow to be defiant. Okay. Any one of these three ladies could have had the courage, and im ashamed to say, i dont really know which one it really is, but i voted for number two. All right. And nipsey, who got your vote . Well, ill have to disqualify myself. I know mrs. Parks, and i was one of the entertainers on that show between selma and montgomery, but ms. Rosa parks is 10 foot tall, and shes a legend and a hero in the democrac
dumpster fire. but we begin with the age of illiberalism, a movement proclaimed by hungarian prime minister viktor orban. they have elections of a sort but so hamper voters abilities to make informed choices and heavily control the outcome that the elections are essentially a show. these are the autocratic dreams of a far light leader obsessed with solidifying a christian mono culture and who in 2014 declared his intention to build a illiberal new state citing china, russia an turkey as role models. flash forward to today where cpac, the once conservative gathering that is a cesspool of the far right running amock in holding its conference it in budapest. speakers include tucker carlson and mark meddo and the hungarian prime minister who recently won a fourth term. orban made it clear he s an ally to the american right selling cpac that the u.s. must align troops for 2024 votes, to fight together and reconquer institutions in washington and brussels from liberals who threate
good morning. we begin this hour with a look at one of the most influential and controversial figures in the world today, elon musk. it was just over a year ago the spacex and tesla ceo completed his acquisition of twitter. since then, he s had no shortage of battles, we spoke about it with walter isaacson, his biographer. talk about writing at elon musk during a volatile time of his life publicly. talk about the challenges and awards as an author you got out of that. first of all, he has been volatile his whole life. as a kid, 2018, he s going just as crazy at times as you see him in the past couple of years. when i started this book, when we first started talking about it, he was the guy bringing us into electric vehicles and the only person who could send people into orbit in the u.s. i thought, good technology story. then a year into my reporting, he is secretly buying up twitter, going to hawaii in a two- to three-night binge and deciding to take it over. it became a
War and the movement for gender e. Quality. And admiration of history i was curious about the state september 8. What happened on this date . September 8 the surveyor site launched. Margo lee launches her book Hidden Figures into the literary world. [applause] she graduated from the university of virginia with a degree in finance. A journalist from independent researcher, entrepreneur and cocreator of the english monthly magazine with her husband margo is the daughter of one of the first black male engineers so she grew up knowing many of the figures. Of the computer project and be Foundation Fellow and recipient of the Virginia Foundation of the humanities grant for her research. She lives in charlottesville virginia. Virginia woolf once said anonymous and history was usually a woman. Let me say that again. Anonymous in history was usually a woman. Tonight these brilliant women are anonymous no more thanks to her book Hidden Figures. May the names of Catherine Johnson, mary jackson, d
Here is the quick look at our Coverage Today. Michael weiss his new book called isis inside the army of terror followed by authors and books growing up in an upper class black neighborhood in chicago, of Voting Rights, Artificial Intelligence, looking at past and future technology and a new book out on president and mrs. Johnson. Coming up today on our live coverage to a number to of the texas book festival. For the full schedule go to booktv. Org to get behind the scene of dates if you follow was on twitter or followups are run Facebook Follow us on facebook this is texas book festival and here is Michael Weiss talking about isis. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i am here to introduce Michael Weiss author of isis inside the army of terror your times bestseller. To introduce him and moderate a discussion with question and answer sessions with you as all our other author was supposed to be here he sent his regrets the author of black flag wh