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Theyre fantastic bookstores, and we are grateful for them as always. Former Governor Haley barbour needs no introduction. You are familiar with his many years of work in the Nations Capital and he gets around on the world stage. I was talking several years ago to richard ford, who at the time was doing teaching at Trinity College in dublin and he was wandering around the campus kind of exploring his new setting and the opened the door to lecture hall and there is Haley Barbour lecturing on International Politics right there in ireland. A governor with many talents, what may have been the most significant chapter from mississippi was the politicians and Public Servants began ten years ago this week as the wind began gathering in to what would be the monster storm of Hurricane Katrina. Overs the next year, the governor, his wife, marsha, all over mississippi and the gulf coast worked tirelessly in uncharted territory so in this new book americas great storm leading through Hurricane Katr
More president ial hopefuls with books included weekends full of nonfiction books and american history, the popes isnt to the United States will continue today as he travels from new york to philadelphia. Live coverage starts at 4 30 p. M. Eastern as pope francis isnt independence hall. At 7 30 p. M. The pontiff attend the festival of family which is part of the world meeting of families. Moving to our road to the white house and join us sunday evening at 6 35 eastern as a harvard professor and president ial candidate lawrence less egg talks about his decision to run for president and his suggestions to change the political system. And on cspan2s booktv tonight at 10 00, fox news Host Bill Oreilly speaks with bay buchanan and his latest book killing reagan, an inside look at Ronald Reagans political career and the challenges he face following an assassination attempt on sunday afternoon and 1 00, doug casey sits down with booktv at freedom fest in las vegas to discuss his latest book o
That. Im going to tell you a little bit about the book and how i came to write it and then move as quickly as possible to questions and answers are or at least questions and attempted answers about the book and about the south and the Confederate Flag and all kinds of things like that. If you are not tired of talking about that already. Wheres that southern accent. I can hear creeping back in again. We will start the questions and answers before the talk. Actually i was born in nashville tennessee and my fathers family is from north georgia and from atlanta and my mothers family is from west tennessee around union city to and i went to Elementary School in atlanta, and that my move to oregon when i was about 11 years old. I did my best with my southern accent as quickly as i possibly could because everybody made fun of me for that southern accent. Its that kind of thing in the lunch line where somebody comes up to you and say, Say Something and you say what you want me to say and they
This huge growth not only in the population of the church and the Southern Hemisphere but the leadership of the church. Do you see that continuing and what are the implications . Isnt the church growing especially in other countries and what is the future of that. Yes it is. Francis of of course is an expression of that. Even though his heritage is i tell you. He spoke only dialect with his grandmother. He embraced the evangelical movement in the developed countries. He has great sympathy with a lot of the developments there. What were seeing there often is a kind of repetition of this history of our church at an earlier stage, of saying the western church. It is a much more attractive thing to become a priest and some of those countries because there is no other way to get an education and escape poverty or whatever tribal ties people have. So you get a lot of what happens in the early middle ages, priesthood was the only way you could become learned, influential, those kinds of thing