Im the provost at the university of tennessee at martin and tiff pleasure of hosting this session, shared history, americans of hispanic and african decent. Southern festival books remains completely free thanks to Strong Community support f youd like to donate to support the festival, you can do so on site at the Festival Headquarters or online via the humanitys tennessee website. You can purchase copies of the books that will be discussing today at the books sales area which is up on the Memorial Plaza and after the session both of our authors will be signing books at the signing tent. Our session today is going to focus on two books, dr. Kerry gibsons book el norte, epic and forgotten story of hispanic north america and Kristina Coles american founders how people after african decent established freedom in the new world. In just a minute we will hear from both of the authors and after that questions from the audience. Dr. Carry gibson grew up in United States and graduated from the
And thats something we really cant take for granted. The festival begins on individual donations to keep going into say free and you can donate at any level via the southern festival of books through their facebook page. The southern festival of books app. This weekend in person at vessel headquarters. See mac i want to encourage everyone to visit humanities labor literary website. There are wonderful reviews there. You can also sign up for a weekly newsletter information about upcoming author events. And also a great way to be a part of the literary community. In tennessee. Finally, after our session jason will be signing books at the signing tent on the plaza. And plaza. And copies of the books are for sale at the sales area and a portion of the proceeds directly benefits the festival. Enough announcements it is my delight to introduce jason depaul. I could talk for a long while about his decades of extraordinary writing about poverty and immigration among other publications in the N
Away from that, and what we of counterinsurgency typically working with local forces to secure the population is done mainly and we will see over time there is better collaboration between special operations and generalpurpose forces. Together in that what they did could be mutually reenforcing. And, you know, theres a myth in counterinsurgency that you dont actually need to kapturkill capturekill the enmy, and i think thats false. But you had the special operators would do the capturingkilling of the leadership targets while the conventional forces would do more population security, theyd go in and stir up hornets nests and reveal targets. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] and now were back live in nashville. Up next, authors roger hodge and Daniel Sharfstein discuss westward expansion. [inaudible conversations] welcome, everyone. We are happy to have you at the southern festival of books. My name is andy bennett, im the host for th
To my children, i will try to read this without crying. These thoughts, words, recipes, to cherish. Christy and i will die one day. We all will die. We do not know the future but i know these things are true and want my children to know they are true. I worry more than i should about my kids, my mind races to order stories, if it gets lost or snakebites, devlin going swimming, what if she falls in and around. I hope it is natural to be overprotective and over worried and overthink the dangers that lie ahead for our kids. I just want them to love god, love us and be kind, most of all your mother and i love you so much. We go into your room and watch you sleep. Iq part of the fabric from your favorite stuffed animal in your travel bag, and rub it in my hands to remind me of you. I can listen to it and here you. I love you, your mother does too. When the day comes you can no longer see a facetoface, we will be behind the veil of eternity watching and waiting to hold you once again. Thank
And to try and make it very easy for you to donate coming you can donate on the festival website. You can donate on the facebook page. You can use the apple if youre oldfashioned, you can do it in person at the Festival Headquarters here. Our first author, who will be speaking is Joseph Madison beck, an attorney in atlanta, Harvard University grad. He focuses on intellectual property litigation, particularly copyright and none consumer products. Hes also a mediator in the winter of too many awards for me to mention here. He also teaches at Emory University school of law. Mr. Beck will be speaking about his book, my father and Atticus Finch, an excellent book. Without further until i will turn it over to mr. Beck. Thank you. Thank you for coming. How many of you read to kill a mockingbird . About that. Its a phenomenal bestseller. I would tell you what i call my book, my father and Atticus Finch in a moment. Im going to read because it gives me a chance to give you a background in the b