And i was in his sunday school class, it was amazing. After that i went to the school he attended and, of course, its been turned into a Wonderful Museum and i purchased his book a full life. This man is an incredible human being, brilliant. A true moral leader and the man way ahead of his time and the book a full life conveys that. Its well written, its very current actually and gives a lot of history but it actually tells you who he is as a man, as the person who is a believer in god and the christian, but how he applies his christian values in his public life in terms of feeding the hungry and sheltering the homeless and all the great value that is are taught through the bible. Book tv wants to know what youre reading this summer. Tweet us your answer at book tv or you can post it on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. Here is a look at some authors recently featured at book tv, our weekly program. Man hattian Institute Senior fellow Harold Mcdonald looked at the state of polic
Or 60 or 70 years ago. I mean, having running water, hot and cold running water, indoor plumbing, a television set, microwave and a computer, would have looked very, very good to my parents when they were young. Thats quite a long time ago. But relative poverty is a very deeply ingrained belief in american society, and i think in western society generally, and as long as there are people who are conspicuously more poor than most people, i think that the concern will continue to exist, even though an n absolute terms you could argue that it doesnt. The gentleman has had his hand up for a while there. Steven with basic income action, and i was pleased to hear you mention Charles Murray and the negative income income maintenance experiments from the 60s. Want to see if youre following the discourse about basic income in europe and canada and many other places where this idea of a guaranteed floor is gaining enormous support. There will be a referendum in switzerland in a couple of weeks.
Vice president david of on the improvement to increase workers wages. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Host Clive Priddle is the publisher of Public Affairs books. What have you got coming out this season you want to share with booktv . Guest im not a big Computer Games guy. Im an innocent really, but one i know and i think almost Everybody Knows of any age is tetris. Its far more than a game of cubes falling out of a black skylining up at the tonight sky lining up at the bottom of the screen. Its actually the story of a guy who wants to smuggle this wonderful game platform out to the west. Theres almost a little bit of industrial espionage mixed in with the politic obviously the time. And in the middle of it all, the creation of perhaps the worlds most copied, imitate thed, stolen and used video game of all time. Host how did dan ackerman discover this . Guest dan a longstanding reporter for cnet, and he got ahold of the authors story and interviewed him, and theres quite a
David rolf on the movement to increase workers wages. And those are just a few of the programs youll see this weekend. For a complete schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. And now we kick off the weekend with vicki algers critical look at the u. S. Department of education. [inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. Im andrew parks, the assistant director of lectures and seminars. Thank you all for joining us today. I just wanted to take the opportunity to remind everyone in house to silence your cell phones. For anyone watching on line, youre welcome to submit questions by emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting todays program is Lindsey Burke, the wills gellman fellow here at the heritage foundation. She focus on empowering families with School Choice. With that, ill hand it every to lindsey. Thank you, andrew, and thanks to everyone for being here today and everyone watching online a
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