A look at why Albert Einstein was disregarded by many of his colleagues later in life. Thats just a if of the program a few of the programs youll see this weekend. For a complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv, 72 hours of nonfiction books and authors this holiday weekend. Television for serious readers. Now, we kick off the weekend with best selling author Michael Lewis on his latest book on the creation of behavioral economics. The undoing projects. [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. Hello, everyone. Good evening and welcome to this latest in conversation with event. My name is m be er mervyn king, and my guest is quite simply the most successful Nonfiction Author in the world, Michael Lewis. Of his 13 titles, every single one has been a bestseller. His latest book, the undoing project, is published this week. Please give a warm welcome to Michael Lewis. [applause]. Thank you. Is this on . All right. Splendid. Michael, lets this is pointed out to me . Its subliminal
I am tim mchenry. This is where, if you havent been here before we take inspiration from the traditions and bring them to you here in the foothills. And with traditions, that is what we are exploring. This whole season and the whole nature of what wisdom actually is. Is it knowledge . Insight . Is it understanding . This is what we are exploring. And so, we have people from different areas together to have conversations and find out what is wisdom from them and a few of them, awill be on monday to talk about intuition and a psychologist, ellen and actress joining isabel to talk about animal wisdom. She studies in the congo and look at their relationships and how they mirror some of ours. And probably not those that might be affected on Television Later tonight. But nonetheless we will move on from that. Common understanding and knowledge and what better example to choose then einstein. David bodanis has come out with a new book, a biography entitled einsteins greatest mistake a biograp
College professor bradley bircher, former Washington Post reporter Molly Mccartney examines the u. S. Military industrial complex, jack cashin takes a critical look at the crash of flight 800, and booktv visits peoria, illinois. For a complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, its 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, its for serious readers. And now were kicking off this weekend with John Strausbaugh, author of city of sedition. Its about new york city during the civil war. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose for yet another one of our enlightened and lively author talks. You cant hear me . Okay. Well be quiet. [laughter] and at that cue, please let me please silence all your cell phones at this point, and also let me just go through a few other housekeeping details. So the author will speak for about 20 minutes, 20, 25 minutes, and w