Resignation. This is about an hour. A testimony to the job they do and the reverence for books books that we all share. Richard nixon is a hard man to let go of. By first i remember as a child in black and white fuzzy television seeing this odd man, he was on a good ticket with general eisenhower and there was some problem taking money from a secret fund. And i thought this is interesting. He never stopped being interesting. Richard nixon was never boring. David mentioned he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. I chronicle in the book beginning with spiro agnew. Remember spiro agnew being in some trouble and i said to my editor at the new yorker, thought lamented and just the legendary William Shawn saying what are you thinking of writing next . I dont know. I have a feeling we are going to change Vice President s and president s within a year. This is labor day of 73. A way out there kind of wild thought at the time. We agreed i would wr
Pacific crest trail in wild. Former u. S. Congressman todd aiken appeared on chances wall street journal to talk about his book, firing back. He talks about a controversial statement he made about rape in his senate campaign, this just over half an hour. Were joined now be former congressman and 2012 Republican Senate candidate from missouri, todd akin. Coiningman akin, much of your books about the day in 2012. What happened . Guest actually thats just the first chapter. Theres a whole lot more in the book. The interview was cut on a friday afternoon, and i could tell by looking back at the tape i was a bit tired, but i didnt see anything that seemed too outstandingly that people were going to jump on because it was one of those gotcha, trying to trap you type of things, because the talk show host was a very liberal guy. So then it played sunday morning, and a guy that had been they call them trackers, had been following me during the whole campaign. He picked up on the word, legitimat
Of Human History that a test to quince reality. How does it tie in with what you do as a physical theorists, fit theoretical physicist . It doesnt tiein at all to what i do as the theoretical physicists. As i human being, physicists are people. We live in Human Society and my mind, religion and science have been the two most powerful forces that have shaped human civilization so if you are ignorant of religion or you dismiss it, you are discounting a lot of Human History. Are the incompatible . I dont think they are incompatible. I have many scientific colleagues who are devout believers. There are fewer scientists who are devout believers than in the general public, but the fact that there are scientists who are devout believers shows that they are not incompatible. I think there are not incompatible and all if your belief in god is the kind of god who does not intervene in the physical universe. A god who sets things up and sits down on the sidelines. That is not incompatible at all
Everyone, to the seventh annual to sun festival of books. I am the host of a half hour Public Affairs show on sunday mornings. I want to thank Cox Communications for sponsoring this venue and james osmond for separate response to find this session. I want to go for 50 minutes with questions and answers so hold your questions until the end and immediately following the session the authors will be autographing books, sponsored by bookstore. Books will be available to purchase at that location and Ian Haney Lopez will be late because we interviewing him live on cspan falling this session. If you are enjoying the festival please consider becoming a friend of the festival. Your taxdeductible will donations allow the festival programming to be free of charge each year and support critical litter see programs in southern arizona. You can learn more about the friend of the vessel will benefit that information booths on line. At of respect for our authors and your fellow audience members please
Every weekend, booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, on cspan 2 keep watching for more television for serious readers. Booktv is live this weekend from the tucson festival of books. Start agent 1 00 p. M. Eastern 10 00 a. M. Pacific well be covering several author panel on topics such as race and politics, Supreme Court, environment, immigration, and more. All this live from the university of arizona the site of the seventh annual tucson festival of books. I give an example in god, guns, grits and gravy of this guy who is heading green peace in europe, and so he is all about wanting to reduce co2 emissions. But in all of an audit of green peace shows he is flying from his home to lux. Boring a couple of times a month, and the output of co2 he is expending because of his jet travel is like 100 times that of the average person. And so when confronted about it, here was his answer. He said well, the train trip would take 12 hours and that would be time away from my f