Welcome back to the campus of university of arizona and day two of the tucson festival of books. Booktv is life aga we are in the gallagher theater and here is a quick look at the lineup in just a few minutes we will be discussing politics that followed by a callin program with venetians in his book is called People Get Ready. You will hear the authors talk about civil rights in the Supreme Court, freedom of the press, immigrants and education and epidemics. All sorts of callin programs today including one with maureen dowd of the New York Times. You can follow along with our programming and get behind the scenes pictures and videos on the site, facebook. Com booktv, insta graham booktv and twitter booktv. We are going live to the first author panel and this is on politics. I think i see many of the faces we have seen at similar panels in the previous years. Welcome to the ninth annual, can you believe the ninth annual festival ofestival of the books. It is incredible to have such spea
Put out is a mess, and it is a mess because it goes back to the previous question, it doesnt take in big ideas from other places that have worked. And we have to do more of that. Host john nichols is the coauthor of this book, People Get Ready the fight against a jobless economy and a citizenless democracy. Thank you for being on booktv. Guest pleasure. Host and booktv continues our live coverage of the tucson festival of book withs on the campus of the university of arizona. Were inside at the gallagher theater, but outside theres approximately 150,000 people every weekend, or every weekend that this is held attend this festival, and lots of different venues outside as well. Well, our live coverage continues here in the gallagher theater. Up next, an author panel on civil rights and the Supreme Court. After that a callin opportunity for you with New York Times columnist maureen dowd. Welcome to the ninth annual tucson festival of the books. Hi names lorraine. We want to thank Cox Comm
Host professor hayes, were you able to answer your question . Guest thats probably not for me to judge, but i hope so. Host and what was the answer . Guest i think to explain the holocaust, you have to explain a number of interlocking issues. There is no single explanation. There were multiple things happening that came together in a quite special way to produce these events. So what i did is i broke down the question why into subquestions, and i had eight of them. They were not my invention, they are questions people have asked me repeatedly, questions my students brought to the class that i taught for 26 years at northwestern, and i decided this was the way to organize the book. So each chapter is a single subset question to that larger question. Host and the first chapter is why the jews. Guest why the jews. The well, the short answer is, of course, it has tradition. Its been going on for a long time. The attack on the jews is rooted in religious rivalry between christianity and jud
Host thank you, kathy. Guest yeah, thank you for that question. Ultimately,s it is going to be american citizens who decide whether or not we give a too citizenship to undocking united people, right undocumented people. If i was creating policies, what would those policies be, and as an american citizen myself, i believe that people who have been in this country on average ten years is the average number of years that undocumented people have been in this country, who have made this country their home and who are contributing to the country economically and socially and culturally, i as an american citizen do believe they should be be given a path to citizenship. Ultimately, its not them who decide because they dont get to vote. We as american citizens get to vote on those policies and get to vote on who our representatives are who decide those polices julissa arce iss, the author of this book, became a wall street executive, shest became a citizen in august of 2014. Pick up the book t
Followed by theoretical physicist lisa randalls explanation how dark matter may have been directly led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, dark matter and the dinosaurs, next is shrill a memoir from humorist and feminist and the west followed by Hidden Figures by margo lee shattering which tells the story of the black female mathematicians that nasa whose calculations helped propel the us in the space race. From bestselling author joan didion comes two extended excerpts from her never before seen notebooks in southwest. A look at the bestselling nonfiction books according to powells books continues with a biography on adolf hitler. Hitler, a sent, 18891939. That is followed by collection of essays on life in harlem by james baldwin. Notes of the native son. Next, explain the definition of feminism for the 21st century in we should all be feminists. Followed by a look at the future of humanity. A look at nonfiction books according to powells books is the biography of donald trump, origi