Faster Danielle Allen National Book Award Finalist kevin Young Software engineer ellen ullman and many others. First up is to look at some of the lesserknown stories from world war ii. This is like coverage of the texas book festival on booktv. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Good morning. My name is Jim Horne Fisher and its my pleasure to welcome you to the opening session of the 2017 texas book festival. [applause] thank you for coming out in support of our authors and second of his wonderful annual event now in its 22nd year. [applause]he and third of all the books that we discussed and enjoyed throughout this beautiful Texas Capitol complex hereom in downtn austin i would ask you to silence your cell phones t. Live tv, thank you cspan. After a session both offers authors are relocating to the book signing tent down the street to autograph their books. Books are for sale at that beautiful independent bookstore. You are supporting not only the author off the festival and a great l
Haymarket . Aces of books coming from noam chomsky. In fact, if you can write over there, a series of 12 books, the event either out of print or inaccessible with the introductions, new covers, resetting them all and really presented in a way that we think highlights the important and a Lasting Legacy of his work. And they are done by issued . Ya. They cover a range of issues come and we will be bringing out to a month over the next commonwealth six month starting in the fall. And finally what else you want to tell us about . I want to mention a book by Tom Engelhardt who is a regular author of ours. Is this is a books called dispatch books and also writes his own books for us. And this third book is coming out, shadow government, curly on the new best times. Its looking at the nsa and the politics surveillance in this country. Anthony arnove at haymarket books out of chicago, haymarket books. Org is the website. This is boonktv on cspan2. N next from the recent Chicago Tribune printer
Then at 8 p. M. Eastern, in depth, with peniel jost. And we conclude at 11 p. M. With angelo codeville ya, author of to make and keep peace among ourselves and all nations. That all happens next onp cspan2s booktv. Next, from the recent Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest, Monique Brinson demery talks row about her biography of theher former first lady of South Vietnam, madame nhu. This is about 45 minutes. Welcome, everyone. Its very good to see you hereth this morning, and its my goo pleasure to welcome today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book finding the dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madam new, madame nhu. Aff demery holds a masters degrees. From Harvard University in east asian regional studies, and when she made contact with madame nht who was the unofficial first lady of is South Vietnamese government in 19 2005, you were the first journalist toshe interview her in almost 20 years. And themlys based in chicago, and were happy to welcome you, ho anemic.
Caroline we will be looking at the ecbs 1. 1 trillion euro bond buying plan. Mark stocks are headed for the biggest drop in weeks after gdp growth output investment, and retail data in china also load. All slowed. Yvonne man is in hong kong with the details. Where are we seeing weaknesses and strengths right now . Yvonne the weaknesses are definitely coming in line when we talk about retail sales and the factory sector. The Australian Dollar also slid in reaction to some of this data coming in from china. The First Quarter gdp was bang on target at 7 for the First Quarter. That is in line with economists and what the Chinese Government was hoping for. No newsflash there but that disappointing data you pointed out there are coming out below expectations. Factory output for march was at 5. 6 the lowest since november of 2008. Economists were estimating a 10 growth theyre previously. Urban investment also came in at 13. 5 . Retail sales were also a big mess, their slowest pace since 2006,
Potentially Severe Weather from the plains to the northeast. Huge tornado near denver airport. Hail up to a half a foot. 25yearold woman from california has been found alive, ten years after her mothers boyfriend allegedly abducted her. Very emotional. They didnt want to be identified on camera. Im so happy to be with my family. An attack in a crowded market in the northwest of china. A military coup. The Army Commander has gone on television to say that the army has taken control. Hes always a day late and a dollar shot on these thing. Criticism on the president s handling are not impressed with the president s comment. If proven to be true, it is dishonorable disgraceful and i will not tolerate it period. Ebay is telling its millions of users to change its passwords whatever a hacking attack. All that a bull fight had to be called off because no matadors were left to compete. He competed in a talent show and for a couple minutes he became michael jackson. And james comey tried to mak