Ticket for having its an honor to be one of the most independent bookstores. They stand for saying that first of all, i will mention as one of americas great independent bookstores this book is available and we do have books all over the country and all over the world or if you are local we do offer instore browsing and curbside pickup, tell me a little bit about this book. I knew i wanted to write a book i have lots of ideas for the books, i had to have the first book, if you dont like this i wont write any others but if you do have lots of books in my head, i wrote different proposals to the publisher and i got rejected by lots of publishers a lot of authors do another one publisher who came to me from the press and his name is Stephen Power and if it wasnt for stephen i boudin to begin because it was unheard of in the public industry, he edited my proposal and sent it back to me and literally, that does not happen, he says rick if you write this book i will publish and i said i dont
Coauthor john clark. Good evening gentlemen, welcome to gibsons. Thank you, its an honor to be a part of one of americas greatest independent bookstores. Thank you for saying that. I will mention, as one of americas great independent bookstores this book is available from gibsons we happily shipped books all over the country, all over the world or if you are local, we offer instore browsing and curbside pickup. Tell me a little bit about this book. I knew i always wanted to write a book i have a lot of ideas for books but i had to have the first book in the first book if you dont like this book i wont be writing any others but if you like this book i have a lot in my abin my head. I wrote different proposals for the publisher and got rejected by lots of publishers like a lot of authors do. I have one publisher who came to me from st. Marks press and he worked for Thomas Newman books his name is Stephen Power and if it wasnt for steve and i dont think this book wouldve began because he
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Steve greenhouse, thank you so much for coming in to talk about your new book, beaten down, worked up. It was a real pleasure to read it and i look forward to having time to talk to you about it. Guest thank you for your kind words, congressman. Great to speak with you. Host when i think about this book i think of it as having three major parts. After you introduce the situation now you do a really good job, i think, of talking about, through stories about how workers struggled, really they themselves built the middle class in this country to a great extent by organizing, by striking, by bargaining and through diversity and by demanding policy changes and then you go through a lot of the hard times of what i call the reagan era which i think we are still in where companies and starting with the president of the United States really have attacked workers all hot and their unions and then you tell hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organiz
Just ahead how that is playing here at home and in the middle east. Richard engel is live inside syria. Breaking overnight, out of control, a fast moving wildfire explodes in Northern California, high winds fanning the already dangerous flames, evacuations now under way. All that, plus caught on camera, never before seen video of a Police Officer shooting a fleeing teenager near a Daycare Center, sparking outrage. Out of the shadows, inside savannahs night at a special event alongside michelle obama, and tom hanks honoring our nations military caregivers. The greatest privilege of my life to support you all. Thank you. And d. C. Dominance. This one is rocketed out to right. The Washington Nationals crush houston, putting them in the drivers seat of the world series. But its simone biles first pitch that has america flipping out. Today, thursday, october 24th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with savannah guthrie, live from washington, d. C. And hoda kotb, live from studio