There is no one simple answer to anything. So when i do write these books try to pick an era in American History. When i wrote about bonnie and clyde was really writing about the depression and growing up poor in the dust bowl. When i wrote about the gunfight at the o. K. Corral which was not actually a gunfight and wasnt at the o. K. Corral, but the accidental shooting in an empty lot on fremont street just did not have the same sort of ring to it when the first people were going to write this history. I wanted to write about the settling of the last part of the american frontier, and about three and half years ago it occurred to me that a lot of that unique time in American History that we know as the late 1960s is either getting completely forgotten or else people are sort of putting their own little twist on it. H, yeah. Some people say the hippies with a lot of sex and drugs. Wasnt that silly and cute . Other people remember the passion over the war. The students marching in the s
Pete welcome to a Special Edition of Jesse Watters primetime. 8 00 pm on the east coast and 7 00 pm and gods country. Im holding down the fort on friday night. Anarchy rippling through america. Seemingly from coast to coast. The core tenets of our republic are the target of an antiamerican, pro terror she hawed. That is what they call it. That is what they are. The kind of images you thought were reserved for the War On Terror that we saw overseas have come home. Statues of George Washington defiled with islamic scarves covering his face . And the words genocidal warmonger spraypainted on them. At George Washington university. And radicals sporting Hamas Headbands trying to turn our College Campuses into the third world. [ shouting ] [ bleep ] [ shouting ] [ shouting ] [ shouting ] [ shouting ] pete but just like in the after mentioned War On Terror, the battle may have been a bit messy. But The Good Guys never waver. While they scream to burn it all down, the brave Men And Women In Un
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
Booktv on cspan2. To our digital bookstore and finally the lit fest loves social media. So feel free to take pictures, post messages and upload them to twitter, instagram, facebook hughesing the prlf2015. Please turn off your cell phones and flash on the camera and i will introduce our moderator rick perlstein. I will give a short introduction were Bryan Burrough although for the research in his most recent book days of rage i joke we should call him bryan burrows. Thank you. I am here all week. And he writes for vanity fair, he writes books, and the book for which he is best known other than his most recent one is barbarians of the gates that came out in 1990 over the merger of rjr reynolds and nabisco. His latest book is an accomplishment of research, story telling and moral inquiry. And it is something based on the facts we know and that is domestic terrorism. He takes the story back to 1969 or so. And all the way up through the middle of the 1980s. And one of the striking facts in
Look for these titles in bookstores is coming week and watch for the authors in the near future book tv and this is book tv live coverage of the 2016 Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Over the next seven hours you will hear from several authors including eric larson, Kenneth C Davis and brian burrow. We began todays coverage with a discussion on politics featuring former pres. Obama adviser David Axelrod, author of axelrod, author of believer, and nationally syndicated columnist Clarence Page, author of culture, lawyer. This is live coverage from chicago on book tv. [inaudible conversations] all right. Welcome to the 31st annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. My name is tom for scholars. Before we get started i would like to send a special thank you to our sponsors. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan2 book tv. At this time there will be a q a session and we ask that you line up in front of the microphone so that the home viewing audience can hear your question