Panthers were on a ped stool for the left, and if i thought they murdered this woman, they would have attacked me as a cia agent, and a racist, so that was a very unpleasant experience, but its, you know, its motivated the next half of my life. That was 40 years ago, and i spent the rest of my life atoning for what i did as a radical and what i was a part of, and that is what you see today. I know you [inaudible] just say come to the next e poe say of the teaching. Youll enjoy it. David, thank you so much. Everybody, lets give david another round of applause. [applause] thank you, all, for coming today. Id like to remind you that books are available for purchase and custom signature in the lobby, and for those of you that prepurchased your books, they are out there waiting for you. Thank you, this concludes our program. Please come to the next event when announced. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome to booktvs live coverage from the campus
Today we know that these three writers are gifts to the english language. This morning, the first author that i will be introducing nonother than dave barry. Lets give him a round of applause before he comes out. [applause] we all know that you cannot do justice to his talents and there he is. [applause] you just cant do justice by reading has lengthy biography or saying that his new work, insane city, his first adult novel in more than a decade. He is an individual for over 25 years have appeared in 25 newspapers, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and its pretty cool. Like every other kid in the 305, i grew up relishing reading him and today we are hearing from a hometown favorite in dave barry. In our next author is roy blount. Come on out and lets give him a round of applause. [applause] a master of language and the humorist to boot. He has authored 22 books in a wide range from robert ely to the Pittsburgh Steelers if you are an npr nerd, and you may also know him as a regular panelist
There he found an exclusive campus he. It he resented it as an undergraduate and came to resent it as a professor there. He then became president of the college. And it was at this time he decided now i have the ability to change what this college is. Wilsons predecessor in the presidency of princeton was a man who used to brag he ran the finest country club in america. [laughter] he did. There was no question about it. It was an enclave for the sons of the very, very rich. Wilson tried to tear that down. It was in doing that, he began writing about what he was doing and speaking about what he was doing. This is how the most immediate oric rise in American History occurred. People began to look at wilson, who used the princeton campus as a great metaphor for america. He believed Higher Education should be the great catapult for people. Anybody from any class in a country that has no classes but in such a country, anybody who is educate and works hard should be able to leapfrog. It shou
As LSU Football First Lady Pacqui Kelly observed her 57th birthday on Feb. 9, Tiger Rag editor Todd Horne reported that her husband Brian had filed a divorce petition at the Baton Rouge Courthouse. A local television station parroted the Tiger Rag story, and the world wide web lit up with reaction. Amid predictable bloviation from