Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living under a rock you know about mark levitch and his book this town that caused a lot of stir and conversation. Number one New York Times best seller followed up with a collection of his fantastic articles over the years called sitcitizen ci
More comfortable living there then i would in other parts of the industrial parts of the United States for the simple reason so much care and attention has now gone into the making sure that the toms river environment is okay. And i want to pick up on one of the questioners who asked you whether or not companies pick communities that maybe economically disadvantaged. Was toms river like that when the company moved in . It was. Life was slow and there wasnt a lot of Economic Growth was a bit of the back water franklth was looking for an isolated place, where there was plenty of water, a rail spur, and this met all of the requirements. The two previous places where the company has been really more places than two but in cincinnati things were crowded they were on top of their neighbors and lots of conflict resulted. Toms river had advantages. You talked in your presentation about the Regulatory Environment that its too complex when it comes to the environment, and i aim correctly rephras
Andrei cherny formerly of the Democratic Party. [applause] dot everybody can say that in arizona and get applause. But the book readers are what we call the base. [laughter] dot thank you for that. Currently the ceo of aspiration. Com. Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living u
Brown versus board of education, we will look at how in tuscaloosa, alabama today, only one in three black students attends a school that looks as if brown versus board of education never happened. We will speak with propublica reporter nikole hannahjones. Then, toms river a story of science and salvation. Withwas diagnosed neuroblastoma. I still have effects of it today. Everything that my son got was mixed from the toms river tapwater. I really believe that is where his cancer came from. We will look at how a small new jersey town was ravaged by industrial pollution and National Michael rates of Childhood Cancer. The residents came together, fought back, and 11 of the largest eagle settlements in the annals of toxic dumping. Their story is told in a new book that is just won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. We will speak with its author, environmental reporter, dan fagin. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im