Mojave desert, about 42 Million People every year visit the city for its many casinos, shows and restaurants. With the help of our Cox Communications cable partners, for the next two hours well learn about the history of the city and tap into the literary scene here with local authors. We begin our special feature with its former mayor, Oscar Goodman. Mayor goodman, how did you become a lawyer for the mob . Oh. The refuted mob, of course. All by accident. Its the most amazing thing in the world. I came out to las vegas with my beautiful wife in 1964 and, basically, i would take anything after i passed the bar that would walk in the door. I had a motto in my office where theres a fee, theres a remedy. And carolyn was, believe it or not, one of the first card counters even they they didnt call them that at that time. And my dad sent us 25 a week for pleasure. We couldnt use it for rent, for gasoline, it had to be for pleasure. So we went out to a place called the charcoal room at the Hac
Doubleday is approximately 50 bucks here. Half nonfiction. We publish a lot of literary novelist and on the nonfiction side we publish a lot of history, politics and science. , has doubleday been in business . 1897. On a bike . Someone named mr. Doubleday. We are here to talk to you about previewing some of the books. You have coming up . Three books to your viewers and a novice where publishing Jeffrey Toobin book about patty hearst, her kidnapping, what she did while she was in the Liberation Army and have very germanic tribal. As people know, a new yorker staff writer and chief Legal Correspondent and the author of the and also the o. J. Simpson case which is recently made it to a television series. What is so fantastic about this book from my good as everyone says we are living to this terribly tumultuous time. In the early 1970s that ballot country was having a nervous break down. An average of 1500 terrorist bombings here. Nixon was being impeached. Political turmoil, economic ma
A new nevada for the generations to come. Now, the most recent chapter of our story required strength and perseverance. As we weathered my one of the worst economic storms in our history. These times are even more challenging because they coincided with too long and difficult wars. Even of a said it could not be done, we laid the foundation for a new nevada. Nevada became one of only six National Training sites front meant eating vehicles. We attracted tesla in one of the most competitive selections in our nations history. We became home to dozens of other National Brands who now employed nevadans in the industries of the future. Cybersecurity, medicine, aviation, Renewable Energy manufacturing, data storage, and more. During my first state of the state message in 2011, nevada led the nation in unemployment. We set a goal of 50,000 new jobs. We have almost doubled that. [applause] today nevadas job growth is third strongest in the country. We have cut our Unemployment Rate in half. We
To this reason i want to address an issue of the National Congress of American Indians which has worked on for almost 50 years, i want to talk about the negative stereotypes that native people continue be subjected to in our society, in particular i want to talk about the name of the washington football team. The state reward the dead indians has been increased to 200 for every redskins centre purgatory. This psalm is more of dead bodies east of the dead river are worse history is clear on what that vile word meant, it was a scout head of an American Indian, man woman or child that trappers and hunters sold to the government like beaver pelts the money. Let me be very clear the single most offensive name you can call an American Indian is red skin. Thank god today the majority of people agree, in a recent National Survey 83 of americans said they wouldnt use that r word to an american natives face. You know the team owner stands on the wrong side of history, he has dug in his heels and
Silver was already going to the union cause because nevada was a territory. The oldest communities in nevada dating back to the first settlement, october 1851 in utah territorys valley. Welcome to the town of the Great American writers Samuel Clemens took the pen name mark twain in january 1863 while riding for the territorial enterprise. And, finally, welcome to the city that served as headquarters of the Virginia Railroad one of the countrys most famous short line railroads from 18691950. Welcome to carson city on booktv. With help of our Charter Communications cable partners, we bring you the capital of nevada, nestled in the valley of the sierra mountains. For the next 90 minutes we explore the history of the superstate with local authors and historians, beginning with guy rocha on Samuel Clemens, and his time in the nevada territory. Mark twain was a very young man when he was here in carson city. He arrived in 1861, 25, 26 years old. Very formative period in his life. And has the