[applause] im happy to introduce the moderator for the session. Hes not only im sorry, i skipped over. The moderator is curtis wilkie, associate professor of journalism at the university of mississippi, and hes also a fellow at the university over the center for southern journalism and politics. If you will take over. Thank you. And thank you all for coming. We appreciate the presence of the guests on the panel here at the mississippi book festival it is Getting Better and better every year. Im going to start off by introducing very briefly overcast and we will carry on a discussion i hope that you will have some questions for the panel towards the end of the hour. Karen is a bestselling author of several books, and her newest eden park is aof pick for august. Maybe some of you read it said it captures the bill of the age and the gangsters. They also call her but a well researched highly engaging work filled with intrigue, infidelity and headline catching courtroom drama. Its good to h
Every weekend, book tv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan 2. Keep watching for more television for serious readers. And everybody got quiet right on cue. Thats never happened before. Im bradley graham, a coowner of politics and pros along with my wife, and on behalf of the entire staff at p and p and everybody at busboys, welcome, thank you so much for coming. Were very fortunate this evening to have with us eric liu to talk about his new book youre more powerful than you think a citizens guide to making change happen. What a timely work. In the wake of last novembers election, my staff and i at the bookstore have been approached many times by customers concerned about the course that events have taken and wanting to know what they can read to help them decide, how to get more involved in civic life and effect change. Well, erics book is now a good place to start. He began writing it before donald trump launched his bid for the presidency, but trumps election
Point of what we know what to eat or what we should eat, and how that impacts the food system and drives what we do. This is all the information that is in Chapter Seven of your textbook. We are going to give a little bit of a background of the connection between food and health. How do we know we have this relationship . Where did it start . Where did it come from . We will talk about the discovery of nutrients and the role of the usda in how nutrition policy is started. We will do a whole other section on policy and nutrition, and cover it in great depth. We will talk about nutrient requirements, what they are, where they came from. How the public is educated about nutrition and supplemental nutrition programs, with the whole idea of eventually getting to the idea of nutrition and chronic disease. Thats where we are headed with the rest of this section of the course, talking about obesity and other chronic diseases. Lets start with this idea. Youve probably all heard this. Hippocrate
Is involved in the civil war. It is just under 90 minutes. Good afternoon everyone, i am peter carmichael. I am also director of the institute. It is my pleasure to welcome back tj stiles. He spoke yesterday afternoon, as you all know. He spoke on george armstrong, based upon a book that he received the Pulitzer Prize for. He is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. This afternoon he will be speaking on another misunderstood character, jesse james. Hime james the study of at the point of a new wave of civil war scholarship that is focusing on guerrilla warfare. Beenf these authors have doing work on what many have considered to be the periphery of the civil war. Thanks to these scholars like mr. Stiles, we have a view of civil war military history. Jesse james unfortunately its sometimes used as a robin hood figure of the old west. We often see him as being a likeical apolitical those bandits who have always been compared to him. Mr. Stiles has taken this man and enabled us to the a man w
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