Look for these titles in bookstores is coming week and watch for the authors in the near future book tv and this is book tv live coverage of the 2016 Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Over the next seven hours you will hear from several authors including eric larson, Kenneth C Davis and brian burrow. We began todays coverage with a discussion on politics featuring former pres. Obama adviser David Axelrod, author of axelrod, author of believer, and nationally syndicated columnist Clarence Page, author of culture, lawyer. This is live coverage from chicago on book tv. [inaudible conversations] all right. Welcome to the 31st annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. My name is tom for scholars. Before we get started i would like to send a special thank you to our sponsors. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan2 book tv. At this time there will be a q a session and we ask that you line up in front of the microphone so that the home viewing audience can hear your question
About work to improve controls to keep drugs from disappearing from va facilities. Live coverage here on cspan3. And now a forum on how gender and race affected the president ial election. The trump cabinet choices and the 115th congress, authors in academics from Case Western Reserve University and university of minnesota take part. As all of us know, who are here in the United States, or even abroad, during the fall of 2016 we had a campaign that was permeated by issues of gender and race and class. We had a woman at the top of the democratic ticket for the first time. We had a billionaire at the top of the republican ticket who had a discourse of strong populism and classbased discourse. Also in this campaign we saw differences from campaigns in the near past in that sex and race entered into the discourse in new and different ways. Sexism and racism in particular were overtly discussed by candidates in ways that and perpetrated by candidates in ways that we had not seen in previous
For coming. Youre watching American History tv on cspan3 every weekend during congressional breaks and on holidays too. Follow us on twitter. Like us on facebook. And find our programs and schedule on our website, cspan. Org history. Coming up next on the presidency, library and Richard Levinson confronts three myths about president s and their health. And how in other cases have saved them all without the public knowing. The central the library, part of the free library of philadelphia hosted this hourlong event. Im pleased to introduce the free librarys own dick levinson. In addition to being our speaker tonight, dick the is a librarian here in the Central Senior Services department of the library and he is really different was really his he was one of the motivators behind this expire series on president ial history. It would not have come without his effort. He has worked at the library since 2009. He conceived, promoted and hosted ava right of intellectually challenging programs f
For coming. Youre watching American History tv on cspan3 every weekend during congressional breaks and on holidays too. Follow us on twitter. Like us on facebook. And find our programs and schedule on our website, cspan. Org history. Coming up next on the presidency, library and Richard Levinson confronts three myths about president s and their health. And how in other cases have saved them all without the public knowing. The central the library, part of the free library of philadelphia hosted this hourlong event. Im pleased to introduce the free librarys own dick levinson. In addition to being our speaker tonight, dick the is a librarian here in the Central Senior Services department of the library and he is really different was really his he was one of the motivators behind this expire series on president ial history. It would not have come without his effort. He has worked at the library since 2009. He conceived, promoted and hosted ava right of intellectually challenging programs f
Trump went off calling them the dishonest media. Is he sending a signal as president hes going to continue his handtohand combat with the press . I think he is. Hes doing this because hes hoping it will inoculate him against the media when in the face of future controversies when the media continues to criticize him, but what the media could do is take this as a challenge to be sharper and more precise in its coverage. Let me play you a bit of what trump had to say in the rally and get your reaction. Breaking news, donald trump has won florida. They say, whoa. And we won it big. But then the people back there, the extremely Dishonest Press we won in a landslide. That was a landslide. We didnt have the press. The press was brutal. He did face a lot of negative press. Would you have advised him to rub salt in the wounds of some of these battles with the media . Donald trump is a master at creating these narratives. Every good narrative needs a bad guy. The press has willingly played in.