Great pleasure to root talk with katherine who is roaming around our great nation promoting her new book. Then schaede the way we talk about abortion rights today and changing hearts and minds. I went like to invite her to read for a bit then we will have a discussion if there is time we will take a few questions from the audience. Ere on this beautiful but rather warm day. I am going to read the introduction to this book which is called pro reclaiming abortion rights because it gives you a taste of what is to come in the book. I never had an abortion, but my mother did. She did not tell me about it, but from what i pieced together after her death from all line in her fbi file, which my father, the old radical, had requested along with his own color it was in 1960. So like almost all abortions back then, it was illegal. The agent to counter file wrote that she was in the care of the physician for gun logical problems below which i like to think was his chivalrous way of protecting her
[applause] [inaudible conversations] every weekend booktv offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here don caller and watch any of our past programs online at booktv. Org. Katha pollitt 11 talked about her latest book pro reclaiming abortion rights at the texas book festival in austin. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] good afternoon. This afternoon i have the great pleasure of talking with Katha Pollitt who is running around our great nation promoting her new book pro reclaiming abortion rights which is most definitely shaping the way that we talk about abortion rights in this country today and changing hearts and minds we hope. So i would like to invite Katha Pollitt to read for a bit and after that we will have a discussion and if there is time, perhaps take a few questions from the audience. Thank you so much for being here on this beautiful but rather warm day. I am going to read the introduction to this book which is called pro reclai
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History. He wins and 72 over mcgovern , the biggest landslide in history. In fact, at dec. 72 he says someone asked not to write a book about all of this. And having the most successful presidency of all time. But, boy, how the mighty have fallen. That story, of constantly looking at the interest, how someone can be the most powerful person and take that kind of cataclysmic fall, and these tapes are forming of just a part of the story. They need to be supplemented with memo, oral history. I wanted to think john dean for coming here to austin and providing your insight and firsthand knowledge and stealing the buck. [applause] and he wrote a biography of warren harding. [laughter] [inaudible question] [applause] [inaudible conversations] and that was a conversation about the nixon presidency. We will be back with more live coverage from the texas book festival after this short break. Coming up next a memoir. [inaudible conversations] interested in American History . Watch American Histor
Be live from austin with two other events. Today you would hear from authors charles blow francis fukuyama. For complete schedule go to booktv. Org. We will begin at a panel on president Richard Nixon featuring former Nixon White House counsel john dean author of the nixon defense and historian Douglas Brinkley and luke nichter editors of the nixon tapes 19711972. Journalist Robert Draper is the moderator. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] this is a wide broadcast on cspan. We will keep things moving smoothly. Thank you very much. We will have introductions in a moment and then we will move forward into our first panel of the day. Thank you all very much for being here with us. [applause] good morning everyone. My name is Robert Draper and im with the New York Times magazine. Our abiding fascination with the 30th president of the United States Richard Milhouse nixon has been stoked by two remarkable books