And next up on this long booktv weekend, cesar brioso discusses his book havana hardball from this your default for the book, weeklong book festival held in the fairfax, virginia, area every fall. [inaudible conversations] so welcome to barnes noble perfect. Cesar brioso is a producer for usa today sports where he served as a small editor from 20032004. Born in havana, he graduated with a fatuous degree in journalism from the university of florida. In a 25 years as a sports journalist is written for the miami herald and the sun something up just to name a few. So welcome cesar brioso. [applause] thank you. Thank you for coming, and i want to thank barnes noble forgive me the opportunity to discuss my book, havana hardball. Im going to talk all the bit about and why i wrote it and that hopefully i will some questions for you guys. So havana hardball chronicles a pivotal time in baseball history where cuba found itself at the epicenter of events that would impact major league baseball, t
Friday night and they dont understand the lynchings in mississippi and brown v. Board of education. So on top of that when we as teachers are exhausted and we dont have the time to get out in the streets and from about how were being about how i worked out of contract after years of seniority because our superintendent is a guy who could put his funds towards evaluation systems and, you know, sort of this attack on teachers instead of supporting me with lower class size. I mean, theres so many complexities and nuances, and when you throw in 72 of my school is at poverty level. I transferred from 95 , when youre reporting child abuse speakers im so sorry, we are getting no, no. No note were over our time and thank you. My voice will live on. Spent thank you all so much for being here, and please if you want to continue this conversation, and i sense many of you would like to, come to signing area five where they will be with her books. Thank you so much [inaudible conversations] you are
And all the stuff that goes so colorfully with louisiana but also with florida and alabama and coastal mississippi as well. We own the alabama gulf coast actually feel we may have more in common with new orleans and pensacola than we do perhaps with montgomery and birmingham. I really did want to approach it as someone with a golf sensibility someone who is from here but not necessarily someone who can look at larger issues and talk about them but also appreciate what we have that special and a perspective that gives us. There is also a section called controversy and censorship because frequently unfortunately local School Boards can be counted on to ban certain books and as mark twain said first god created idiots and then he created School Boards so when the George County Mississippi School board bans steinbeck of mice and men i had to Say Something about it in print in the best way for me to imagine tackling that was to have lennie and george on, iii wrote happening on a scrap of ne
This no, thats not true. Mainstream media just like last time and this time already putting it up there that its the republicans, they are arsonist, and bullies. We will examine the coverage from all angles. The bizarre confrontation outside the capitol that left the disturbed woman dead. And pulling the plug on the Television Projects starring Hillary Clinton, after the gop promised to yank the 2016 debate. Why did they cave and then the baseball playoffs, and is the ratings being shoved to the sidelines by sports. This is media buzz. We love getting your tweets about the show. Keep them coming. Maybe i will read one before we get to the end of the program. We will get to the sad shooting around the capitol, but first, we have this, the cover of new york dailey news depicted a bloodstained john boehner as presiding over a house of turds. It has produced contentious interviews such as this one with cnns ashleigh banfield. You are telling your listers that we are holding this up and the
It hits the upright again. Thats impossible. The winner of the first annual Carol Burnett award. Can i look back and say once more im so glad that we had this time together. Thank you. The trumpets they go. Steve i love looking at that montage Carol Burnett a pioneer at the end she pulled on her ear which was originally a signal to her family hey, i love you. Now the whole world knows about it. Now she has her own award. Ainsley we will get to. So Golden Globes from last night and some of the speeches. Brian and some of the stupid speeches like Christian Bales. Steve wasnt very political. The host said we are not going to get political they did not. Brian but he did. He did cheney. Ainsley im sure everybody at home watched. Steve one of the awards i only saw one which means to show you im busy watching tv. Ainsley brian has seen one movie over the course of five years and he talks about it every day. When bohemian ma rap is i won he could talk about it. I can stop talking about fred cl