Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National Book awards am calling you to see if you have advice for your child go she said that she always has been to make the call. Let me ask you something, son. What did i make you say every single night before you got into bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this right now she said no dont know what did i. C. E. Make you say every night when you got into bed . I said you made me say i can do anything. Exactly you can do anything. You tell me this all the time on. But i never asked
Meanwhile in texas, a caravan of Trump Supporters tried to run a Biden Campaign bus off the road. One truck swerved into a car full of Biden Campaign workers. Trump responded by tweeting, i love texas. Joe biden condemned the political intimidation. Mr. Biden we have never had anything like this. At least we have never had a president who thinks it is a good thing. Amy plus, we will go to the key battleground state of florida to speak with haitianamerican writer Edwidge Dandicat to talk a milliona quarter of u. S. Born children born in the u. S. Could be separated from their parents should trump win reelection and terminates temporary protected status for migrants. We will also speak to a 13yearold u. S. Born girl who is the daughter of tps recipients from haiti. Can make au vote, difference in what happens to me and all those other children. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. One day ahead of election
Carried it alive and we are pleased to be joined by former radio host and msnbc contributor Charles Sykes whose new book is called how the rights lost its mind is this a book about donald trump . Guest now, obviously he plays a major role but its really about the conservative movement, what happened to the conservative movement and how it enabled him, capitulated to him and how where did you go wrong . How do they conservative movement go from being run by William F Buckley to sean hannity . digital from Ronald Reagan to donald trump . How do we go from edmund burke to and culture . What happened to us that led up to that and this is the big question i had after the election. What just happened . What did we miss . The things going on that i thought i understood that maybe i didnt. Host was there a seminal moment . Was it years in the making . With the 2016 . Guest i started off with a thesis that donald trump was a black swan. He came in and took over sort of as a fluke, took over thi
Welcome to the oldest independent bookstore in los angeles. We are pleased to be share enorm our facility with losses angeles review of books read Board Members to be the interlocutory this evening and i thought i would tell you about our guest tonight. John who is famous for many teams is a professor at uc irvine he has of book of the 60s and is most famous if you know john lennon or the fbi he is the of go to spending a decade with access to this information and a writer and commentator and a friend of mine and talking to a friend of his comment steven ross a professor at usc and with said two of them day are serious historians that the work as stephen will be reading from is day really amazing captivating story with the idea of collision of foreign powers with the involvement of entertainment moguls doing the right thing. And what was hardest for me to except during the daytime though lawyers who are not concerned about the of billable hour rates. If you have an opportunity i hope y
Ago after my mom passed away i was an avid reader of the series and that is how the book came about. You spend several years writing about that . So when i moved here there was a lot of separation in my life both of my parents have died. In to get the diagnosis is a bigger wanted to explore in writing and that is part of the book. Was this cathartic . Extremely. I realized that People Struggle lot but i got a lot of books a lot of poetry collections and then to revisit those that i had one of the next things that you had was looking for word was a way for me to move forward. Host neece if you were afraid of death in the art of death. Guest yes. The eric the rutted to two different kinds of people. In they would be speaking for three hours. And others would be like co. [laughter] because it means an end your people that we love but i learned especially the writers like Christopher Hichens writing about their own death in even with my own parents they want to tell us to live. No regrets