Explain to me the conceit of the book. The basic idea of it was to take the essays articles i had written during the obama years and put them together into one single volume and say, this is what i wrote, i hope you enjoyed it. But as i went and read the old essays and work that i did during those 8 years, i begun to see the possibility of a new book emerging, one like a memoir interlaced between the actual articles i had written. So i picked a few of them and i wrote a story with the linkage being the thought process that went into each piece, where i was in my life. Charlie a great thing to do. They are, regarding good negro government, the first years, how how we lost the white man, second year, american girl, third year, why do so few blacks study the civil war, and fourth year, the study of malcolm x, fifthyear, the black family, and in the eighth year, my president was black, and then the epilogue the first white president. Is there one year that for you represented more than the
Floor to questions so without further ado one thing i want to mention, a lot of people tend to conflate all families with chronically Homeless Individuals and they are two populations with different sets of needs so you might bear that in mind. The introduction to my book is called the family room, a place to sleep. For most of us it is a given in our lives along with a roof over our heads and our own front door to close, ever since the beginning of the european colonization of north america jamestown in 1607 and the mayflower pilgrims Plymouth Colony in 1620, communities on the source have had to deal with those among them who did not have a place to sleep, people who could not provide for themselves or their children and had no one to give them shelter. Despite the fact the new world offered any ablebodied person an abundance of seafood and fertile soil life was not easy. Disease, war and accidents were constantly leaving families to fend for themselves. A woman could be widowed in t
Would also turn out to be true and not because of some historical accident, but because our Economic System was intentionally rigged in favor of corporations and wealthy americans over everyone else. Trickle down economics was woven into the National Conversation consciousness as if it were written into the founding documents of our country. Two hundred years of struggle and progress had been intentionally reversed over the course of the last 30 years. If a foreign power had announced that was its plan for america, we would have gone to war. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] and were back live in nashville, and heres author Richard Schweid live from the southern festival of books. [inaudible conversations] thank you all very much for coming. Thanks, of course, to the southern festival of books. Open the floor to questions so without further ado one thing i want to mention, a lot of people tend to conflate all families with chronicall
Let me begin with a simple question, what is necessary to overtake and kick isis out of mosul . A Strong Military offensive, but one that is careful in dealing with the ways in which the battle space has been prepared, the way it has , suicideytrapped bombs, the possibility of chemical weapons which we know isis has that might be deployed. The second point i would make is theneed to understand how pieces of mosul will be put back together after. This is the most complicated part of iraq, where all of the groups, sunni arabs, kurds, some shiites, come together in a large municipal space that has been brutally suppressed by isis. I have not yet seen convincing evidence that the day after has been adequately plan for, so that worries me. Charlie why has it taken so long . Had to build an army again, an army big enough to take the city with 2 million inple before isis rolled in june of 2014. They had to know that tune uber grades brigades. Kurdish fighters. There is a complex mix of fighte
Let me begin with a simple question, what is necessary to overtake and kick isis out of mosul . A Strong Military offensive, but one that is careful in dealing with the ways in which the battle space has been prepared, the way it has , suicideytrapped bombs, the possibility of chemical weapons which we know isis has that might be deployed. The second point i would make is theneed to understand how pieces of mosul will be put back together after. This is the most complicated part of iraq, where all of the groups, sunni arabs, kurds, some shiites, come together in a large municipal space that has been brutally suppressed by isis. I have not yet seen convincing evidence that the day after has been adequately plan for, so that worries me. Charlie why has it taken so long . Had to build an army again, an army big enough to take the city with 2 million inple before isis rolled in june of 2014. They had to know that tune uber grades brigades. Kurdish fighters. There is a complex mix of fighte