Mojave desert, about 42 Million People every year visit the city for its many casinos, shows and restaurants. With the help of our Cox Communications cable partners, for the next two hours well learn about the history of the city and tap into the literary scene here with local authors. We begin our special feature with its former mayor, Oscar Goodman. Mayor goodman, how did you become a lawyer for the mob . Oh. The refuted mob, of course. All by accident. Its the most amazing thing in the world. I came out to las vegas with my beautiful wife in 1964 and, basically, i would take anything after i passed the bar that would walk in the door. I had a motto in my office where theres a fee, theres a remedy. And carolyn was, believe it or not, one of the first card counters even they they didnt call them that at that time. And my dad sent us 25 a week for pleasure. We couldnt use it for rent, for gasoline, it had to be for pleasure. So we went out to a place called the charcoal room at the Hac
Good evening everybody. Good evening on this beautiful evening. Thank you all for joining us. We are very excited to host this launch in d. C. Of a monumental new book, train three. It is already getting excellent reviews in the New York Times. If you havent seen it, that should be the second thing you read after her book this brave new world. We are excited to have anja manuel joining us in conversation. I will give you just a brief sketch of both of their biographies because they are so well known to all of us in this room. Three is a lawyer anja manuel is a lawyer and handles the asia portfolio for the undersecretary of state who handles clinical affairs. They have served as the Deputy National security adviser among many positions as chairman of the u. S. Institute of peace. This book is really a wonderful work. Its important and comes at an important time when so many of our policymakers and Business People and are trying to determine precisely how to think about china and where t
Doubleday is approximately 50 bucks here. Half nonfiction. We publish a lot of literary novelist and on the nonfiction side we publish a lot of history, politics and science. , has doubleday been in business . 1897. On a bike . Someone named mr. Doubleday. We are here to talk to you about previewing some of the books. You have coming up . Three books to your viewers and a novice where publishing Jeffrey Toobin book about patty hearst, her kidnapping, what she did while she was in the Liberation Army and have very germanic tribal. As people know, a new yorker staff writer and chief Legal Correspondent and the author of the and also the o. J. Simpson case which is recently made it to a television series. What is so fantastic about this book from my good as everyone says we are living to this terribly tumultuous time. In the early 1970s that ballot country was having a nervous break down. An average of 1500 terrorist bombings here. Nixon was being impeached. Political turmoil, economic ma
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