Step up to the microphone appear so that the audience can here the question. Keep the spirit going all year long with a subscription to the tribunes premium book section. Also, feel free to download the trip books out for more information as well as access to our digital bookstore. Finally the lit fest love social media. Feel free to take pictures, post messages and upload them to twitter histogram or facebook using the hashtag puerto rico lf 15. Please silence your phones caught in the flashes off your cameras. I will introduce our moderator. [applause] i like a short but sweet introduction. I will give a short one for brian. For the indefatigable research a joke that we should call him brian burrows. Thank you. I am here all week. I asked him how he wanted to be introduced. He said he writes for vanity fair and write books. The book for which it is best known as barbarians at the gate which came out in 1990. The merger of rjr reynolds and the biscoe, food services. But his latest boo
Much stronger position on tackles. There are strict rules about tackles that prevent a lot of injuries, particularly at the international level. Also, the absence of helmets , ironically, might be a cause cause for fewer concussions. Could you please talk about the difference between rugby union and American Union and american football, whether or not you have looked at that . And if you have not looked at that, take a look at the new Zealand Rugby union seem and maybe open up a dialogue with the National Rugby team to see whether or not you could learn something from new zealand and maybe they could play more games of the year. Thank you very much. Its interesting. I have heard from a number of folks. This issue is raised repeatedly. The biggest. Is the one you hit on about helmets, the absence certainly changes the way players tackle in the game. We we address this in the book. In many ways, the helmet has made the concussion issue worse. It is overpriced piece of plastic that has em
Facebook. Com booktv. Heres a look at the books president obama is reading this summer. The list includes three nonfiction titles. One of the things ive learned over a quartercentury researching one Little Corner of American History while covering as a Foreign Correspondent a succession of American Military actions abroad, most of which have been forgotten. Is that the one war that never ends for many people in the United States is the war between the states. One of the most important lessons i learned about that war is how badly we failed to understand its most obvious lessons. It needs to be remembered that the history of wars is largely a history of delusions of those dreams of rapid victories they some simple strategies that lead to long nightmares of slaughter. The french right of what they call by which they mean the pathologist takes over politics and the press and eventually the whole people discouraging all debate and dissension. Costs are not calculated, benefits are fabricat
Fathers. This class took place at Georgetown University and is an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning. The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today. So thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its headwaters. Great rivers main streams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point indistinguishable from one another and the river. These are the headwaters of t
Importance of the great awak awakening, a protestant religious revival in the 1740s, that influenced many founding fathers. This class took place at Georgetown University and is an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning. The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today. So thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its headwaters. Great rivers main streams have head waters that f