nonfiction writer and reporter. who was not only great at what he did but also cared a lot about the field. this kind of work is not part of mass culture shall we say. but it s a distinct community of people who really care about it and are devoted to it and help and support each other and it was very important to tony to be part of that community. he puts on with me as is sort of deputy a big conference on nonfiction writing. the new york state writers institute in albany back in 91 or 92 telling the truth. at the time of his death he was the president of the authors guild. he just did as much as he could possibly do, not just for his own work but for other people who do his work. and i think he would be really pleased to see what this program named after him has become. we never got to know mark linton because he had died by the time we started this program. i got to know hiswidow and his children who were here very well . and i gather he was an equally remarkable man but i
Everybody im steve it is my privilege to preside over this speakers pride ceremony our program is a little bit of it introduction a little bit of things in a discussion with her three winners that is great to see a good group here and thank you all for sharing this part of the evening with us. Let me first tell you about this prize since not all of you maybe is acquainted with it as we are. This is a memory of tony lucas was fired my generation of journalists by the time we were in college and started to think about what we wanted to know and what we wanted to write. And social issues in Common Ground was one of the big books on that shelf. When tony passed a lot of experience to come together to create this prize. So that is where this prize began. It has expanded gradually to include the history prize which is named for the late mark hinton who is a Senior Executive in the netherlands for the time of his death in 1997 and a deep reader and supporter of serious history. His wife maria
City, never want another child to grow up with that type of burden. One of those burdens that never goes away. The author of writing my wrongs discusses is 19 years in prison and his life after. Go to booktv. Org for the complete weekend schedule. Ryan anderson is author of truth overruled the future of marriage and religious freedom. What is the point of your book . This is the first book length response to the Supreme Court ruling on the samesex marriage question. I explain why the court got the ruling wrong as a matter of constitutional law and as a matter of philosophy. The nature of what marriage is and why it matters. From there i go to say what americans should do to defend religious freedom for those who believe the truth about marriage are not penalized by the government. Host teen how in your view did they get it wrong constitutionally . The Supreme Court says the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment required states to redefine what marriage is. The debate in favor o
Of Georgetown University and author of lets get free. Also this week in the presentation of the J Anthony Lukas prize for nonfiction writing. Former army officer and historian looks at us involvement in the middle east. War correspondents christina lamb, Janine Giovanni and kim barker share their reporting experiences and we talked to local authors and visit literary sites in mississippi. For complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and office, television for serious readers. We start with erin mchugh who talk about political blunders throughout history. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening. Welcome, thanks for coming out here on a brisk spring evening. Appreciate you being here. If you would take a moment to look at your cell phones and make sure they are turned off. Following todays reading and question and answer you will find me outside, we have plenty of books available including one new were than todays. Great Gra
So they realized okay, we are not going to win this way so what do you do then . Well, the kochs are very smart. They are terrific businessmen, both graduates of mit and they are engineers and they went back to thedrawing board to figure out the new model. And in the years after that, soon after that they began to draw up a blueprint for how you could do sort of an Assembly Line to change american politics, even if you couldnt win the popular vote to go there, they follow the footsteps of a couple other major multimillionaires and billionaires on the right who were also funding this project and they figured out that from their standpoint politicians are just actors who are spouting lines andthe key to changing america is to write the script. How do you get to write the script . Well, you have to change kind of the whole way that elite opinion is formed in the country. There happened to have been right around the same time, a little bit earlier, a paper that was the blueprint for all of