Novelists of the americas today. Writing is such a commitment, you probably know this, writing a such a commitment it is like falling in love. Youre totally immersed in it. Nothing else matters. You have to have all your time and energy put into that. So it is a little scary. Isabel allende for the hour. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today we spend the hour with Isabel Allende, one of latin americas and the United States greatest novelists. Shes the author of 20 books, including the house of the spirits, and her latest is a mystery novel based in the bay area titled ripper. Her books have been translated into 35 languages and sold over 57 million copies around the world. Isabel allende now lives in california, but she was born in peru in 1942 and traveled the world as the daughter of a chilean diplomat. Her fathers first cousin was Salvador Allende, chiles president until 1973 when the Augusto Pin
Novelists of the americas today. Writing is such a commitment, you probably know this, writing a such a commitment it is like falling in love. Youre totally immersed in it. Nothing else matters. You have to have all your time and energy put into that. So it is a little scary. Isabel allende for the hour. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today we spend the hour with Isabel Allende, one of latin americas and the United States greatest novelists. Shes the author of 20 books, including the house of the spirits, and her latest is a mystery novel based in the bay area titled ripper. Her books have been translated into 35 languages and sold over 57 million copies around the world. Isabel allende now lives in california, but she was born in peru in 1942 and traveled the world as the daughter of a chilean diplomat. Her fathers first cousin was Salvador Allende, chiles president until 1973 when the Augusto Pin
They like to talk about the 20s our the 90s and sometimes it works. In the thirties you can do that but mostly it does not work or the 60 is. If you look back to the early 60s through 64 or the kennedy assassination, so much of daily life and popular culture, politics the way people dress seem like the 50s. With the 60s we think turmoil, urban riots riots, vietnam, rock concert its in dae became convinced of you should not talk about them where the sixties start which is what i have done. Did you feel your world change around do . A little bit. I started teaching 1964 and i was very busy preparing courses. We have assigned december 1964. I was not paying a lot of attention to what was going on but was impossible on a University Campus not to be aware of those that were developing a. Well not particularly severe they became that way in a couple of years and in march of 1965 arrival of indiana students begin to dress differently, much more concern of vietnam. Host when you saw the change
My money to bail out these bankers. That is part of why the tea party started. They were frustrated with republicans and giving up on the democrats. Are frustrated on republicans voting for the bank bailout. There is a bigger working than an honors class. I want to tell the workers of america that we are on their side. The president keeps offering you free stuff. More Unemployment Insurance. When is the last time that we created millions of jobs . It was under ronald reagan. Forwardld reagan come and say, lets just cut taxes for low income people . He said lets cut everyones taxes. Thats what rich people pay. More revenue came in in fact. People were carter and make more money. More revenue comes in. Say,nt let the democrats richower the taxes for people. Anyone here ever work for a poor person . We are all interconnected and weve got to get beyond this class warfare. We cant let them beat us up how manyave to people have their policies employed . Barely growing. You never get out of p
Politics, 2014 politics. President obamas nomination of Sylvia Burwell as the next head of health and Human Services on this open phones for our first 45 minutes. Here are the numbers. 202 5853881 or republicans. 202 5853880 four democrats. 202 5853882 for independents. Theres our Facebook Page right there. You can email us. Heres the interior section of the wall street journal this morning. Taking a look at rand paul as a potential 2016 candidate. Hes speaking at that event in New Hampshire today. One of the things highlighted from the wall street journal saying mr. Pauls approach to policy he initially advocated a handsoff approach to russian aggression against ukraine. It stands at odds with most republican lawmakers. His nonintervention posture mix into extreme for many gop rainmakers. His name doesnt even come up in my circles says mel semlerbler. We are a leader in the world and we should not abandon that philosophy. That is in the wall street journal. If you go to the pages of t