Watched the announcement of the announcement of the book awards live on cspan2 on november 16. Member of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on book tv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Next up, former white house president ial events director josh king talks about his book, off script and advanced mans guide to white house stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle and political suicide. Mitchell switch, andrew frank and steve are, swaggering advancement who loom the craft on watcher mondales campaign served as my role models. They were the democratics answer to michael during the summer of 1988 and they taught me well. Schwartz was a lead advancement brimming with selfconfidence, and quick humor. [applause]. Was that selfserving and not by the way, i had to read that. Whos out here claimed that he was his mentor but in the book he got four pages that was known as a great teacher. So just to be clear on that. Josh is a good buddy and a good friend and a lot of people w
Two other things in his illustrious career. He is the National Security columnist for slate and author of four books, most recently the insurgents, which i think he will tell us has at least more crossover with this new book than some people might necessarily imagine. Fred is a pulitzer prizewinning journalist back from his days in the the boston globe, and im very pleased to be able to host him here today. Just a word on format, shortly im going to ask fred to give a few minutes describing the book and telling us a little bit about whats in it, then im going to take the opportunity to have a conversation, dig into a little bit more of the detail and explore some of the themes and what we might conclude from that, and then i will open it up to the floor to give you the opportunity to ask fred some questions. Well all to wrap up at 1 45. Thatll actually give us plenty of time to get into some quite interesting conversation. So without more ado, fred. Ms. [applause] im just going to spea
Live from the university of arizona. Because you are enjoying the festival we hope you will become a friend of the festival. Your taxdeductible contribution to the nonprofit will allow us to continue during this festival year after year and this is one of tucsons five decedents. H [applause]u you can is a distributed too see them. This is the time to turn off your cellphone san lets introduce them in get the show on the road. N. My good friend margaret i have known for more than 25th years. She has a lawn mower tw journalism awards the nike account and author of thes o two books. Atto we also have to reset duncan and author of the guantanamo diary be in detention and at guantanamo since 2000 tou ensure it a judge orderedthou his release in the curve mitt isti fighting that ordered it doesnt look like he will be leaving anytime soon. And then we also have thenf author of 13 award with the books ofgb fiction and nonfiction. He did live here for a time in thehim 1990s so its like to think
The Foreign Trade graduates the those who grew up in Different Countries with different sets of templates there is a lot of work to be done and. I thought this was a conversation in starter i felt the problem was too important not to talk about. We dont have a lot of information between that parings. That is a shortcoming what it does beyond the Physician Group we dont know clinical pharmacist, theres practitioner or the influence of their treatment if you have been to the dentist they dont go back. And what influence do their bias have . I do believe even though we do cultural competency spending money that people no differences exist we have to do those nations to let your automatic thoughts overwrite your preference. That my mom would have to pull me back to make justice happened when i saw it wasnt happening. It was digests disparities it is digest automatic or ubiquitous but the implicit bias a given and the problems that date creates of injustice and the United States cannot cont
American Civil Liberties Union Agreement what of harvard law school, he was president of volume 100 of the harvard law review some previous his latest book chronicles the Supreme Courts decision in 1927 to allow virginia to sterilize a young woman for eugenic reasons. It is called a book that takes to us a rarely remembered part heist. Cohens narrative of the thats enshined the practices is a pageturner, and the story it tells is deeply, almost physically, infuriating. Were very please to bring the conversation to Harvard Book Store testimony please join me in welcoming adam cohen. [applause] thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be here. Id like to thank Harvard Book Store for hosting a wonderful book store i used to spend a lot of time in when i was here in a previous life. And thank you all for turning out, including some old friends here. I had a book party in new york recently, and the invitation that went out automatically, as these things are now, said at the top imbeciles book