His wife sent me a note saying, i miss him more even now. I miss him more. And i was struck by that comment because here we are almost at the second anniversary of john rehms death, and i find myself missing him even more now. I think in that immediate aftermath of the death one is i was so busy readjusting my life and so busy with so many things that i threw myself into work. And as elmer cliff says in the book, i ran as hard as i i could from grief. Just trying to keep busy. So i think now that we are where we are in the timeline, i really do believe i am allowing myself to the feel the grief and his absence even more now. And that, of course, it brings you to being on your own. And now that youre on your own, a couple of questions. Again, i asked you about your saturdays, but i also and before we speak to the audience want to ask you because youve been such an advocate for books and authors and reading about what you are reading now. And i love the fact that you were reading jude th
Festival. We will be Getting Started with this event in just a minute. The session is being broadcast on cspan booktv so we ask you to please silence your cell phones and remain quiet during the discussion. I want to get to immediately introducing our panelists. First, my name is beth ann, i am a book reviewer and writer. I have a panel at 1 30 about the books that changed my life, my recent anthologying, and thats one of the reasons i get the privilege of being here today, because i interview authors frequently and absolutely love it. I dont think our panelist needs much introduction. However, diane rehm is the host of an e upon mouse show on npr, and she has been so for many years. Weaver delighted to have her were delighted to have her here. I have lots of questions, but again, ill try to make sure i leave lots of time for yours. Thank you, diane, for being here today. Oh, its my pleasure. [applause] diane is a national treasure, and her new book is a very heart felt one about comin
She coauthored the smartest guys in the room about the fall of enron, but more important than that, she actually foretold it a few years earlier when she started asking questions, is enron overvalued x is it transparent. Actually, when she says there may be another issue brewing, we probably ought to sit up and listen. To my left, ben strauss, hes written in depth on College Athletics, but hes really dived into the very rich and multidimensional Human Interest stories behind College Athletes and athletes around the world. Actually, hes got my sons dream job. Frankly, my dream job. So its really great to have you here, and thank you pote for coming both for coming to this years Annapolis Book festival. American dream, american greed, you know, its a very provocative title. And i think today were in for a real treat. Were going to try to have a very lively 30minute discussion, and im going to try to leave room for about 10, 15 minutes of audience questions before we break, and we have a
Tomorrow a recap of the results of the indiana president ial primary and a look at what is next in the president ial race. Live coverage from the American Enterprise institute at 8 45 a. M. Eastern time. Later, we will go to the Hudson Institute for discussion about internet privacy and security. Watch it live at 1215 eastern here on cspan2. Fortyeight hours of nonfiction authors every single weekend. It covers a wide array of things from nonfiction, books on history, biographies, science topics. One of the few if not the only place where you will be able to see and hear a lot of different voices and perspectives on a lot of different topics. They bring in authors or wellknown but also authors you might not know so well. They have a story to tell, something to say. We bring we bring that opportunity to our viewers to hear different voices. You are on. The viewers and their feedback is vital to cspan in general. That is part of our mission statement. We put in a lot of time trying to th
We have had amazing achievements thats country. Tend to come out were just this great enlighted people and america is wonderful, the end. Its that when we have had great struggles over the worst aspects of american history, america was the largest slaveowning nation on earth, and what happened is we had this huge war, which revolved around the issue of slavery, that led to the abolitionist slavery and within a few years, a nonracial definition of citizenship, in which africanamericans were voting, Holding Public office, sitting in congress, within a few years after chief justice ruled in dred scott that they are not fully human, basically. They have no rights. The white man is retired to respect. And a few years later you have black senators and congressmen. Its amazing. Yet its not just a straightforward line of progress. So, these issues this comfort discomfort about the way things change, the definition of whoa is an american, the role of the federal government, and the federal gove