It is really wonderful for us to have jonathan eig back in the public library. Its been several years since jonathan was here. He was here for a book about jackie robinson, and thats been probably seven, or eight years since then. And whats really neat is that jonathan had decided to kick off his book tour for his new book, his book just came out yesterday, and do that here at the jimmy carter president ial library, which is really, i think great. This is his sixth book. Hes written, as ive said about jackie robinson, lou gehrig, muhammad ali, al capone, as well as the foursome who really did the push to get the approval of the Birth Control pill. But the thing that you see in jonathans writing is an immense amount of research that goes into it. And i think he comes by that naturally. His dad was an accountant. So a stickler for details. And his mom was a community activist, and so if you think about that, and think about the subjects hes written about, jackie robinson, muhammad ali, M
Honor Taylor Branch. Taylor is best known for his trillage of the Civil Rights Movement, america in the king years, the first volume parting the waters won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. Two successive volumes and still remain essential text to any understanding of the role that Martin Luther king played in transforming our nation. Along the way, taylor won an in addition to the pults administer prize and many other prizes. I think he would agree that this extraordinary career really began in 1970 when he took a very low paid job with Charlie Peters, the legendary founder and editor of the Washington Monthly, a very small circulation political opinion and reporting magazine which still exists. I strongly suspect that taylor learned his trade as a journalist and book author while working for peters for three years. A few years later i went through a similar process myself but working for victor navaski at the nation magazine here in new york. Both of us arguably became buy og gras fers aft
Im ellee pai hong. And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. Its royals and royalty, through the decades. Commoners have been fascinated by their rulers for centuries kings. Queens. Monarchs. In todays world of increasing democracy, there are not many current examples of a royal court with political responsibility. But the royals who still hold titles and position of esteem are revered and, when there is an absence of traditional pomp and circumstance a new type of nobility has risen, capitivating our attention. Today, on through the decades, were taking the hour to look at some of those we are thrilled by both classic royalty and our popular queens and kings too. From Prince Charles and lady di to the king of basketball, Michael Jordan and the legend we knew as prince. But first, we begin with a woman who made our fairy tales reality. Before grace kelly was the princess of monaco, she was hollywood royalty. She charmed audiences and critics across the globe and still she gav
Documentary presented here at Sundance King in the , wilderness. , morefelt many ways predictable outcome because in the north, the racial hypocrisy was very subverted. It gave the of karens of being appearance of nothing like the south. The south was the center of all evil and the north was a place of the higher experience. King said, that is not the case. They make a we will speak with the team behind king in the wilderness, including Pulitzer Prize winning Historian Taylor Branch, filmmaker Peter Kunhardt, and writer trey ellis. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from park city, utah. Longtime usa Gymnastics Team doctor larry nassar has been sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for sexually assaulting and abusing more than 100 young female athletes, including olympic gold medalists, under the guise of providing medical treatment. This is michigan judge rosemarie aquilina. I need
Think when. [inaudible] most of us are not, we dont want to concentrate on our mortality because its depressing but one of the things that christopher writes in his book mortality, is that we are, he found that at the and is living dying we because you are constantly aware that you have an expiration date. For dying people they know that every single day is a gift and normally, ideally it would be great if we all lived like that. You can watch these programs on full booktv. Org. For the complete list of the finalists and all six quarter categories had to book critics. Org. In her latest book, dm stillman describes the relationship between the flow bill and sitting bull. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] good afternoon. Welcome to the historic Trinity United Methodist church. We are fortunate to be here. My name is roger smith. I am honored to serve as a volunteer for the 11th annual savannah book festival im so gladoo you all are participating in the festival. It is pre