Site. Your thoughts are important to us so please take a couple of minutes to fill one out and submit it to the festival committee. Mr. Mccutcheon and mr. Mark will be signing books immediately after this presentation, copies are also available at the politics and prose tent at the festival here. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event and we want to keep it that way it does help the book festival if you buy a book here. The more books we sell for our events the more publishers will want to send their authors to speak with us, and purchasing books from politics and prose benefits the local economy, supports jobs and the book festival. So if you enjoy the program and youre in the position to do so, please purchase a book. Mr. Mccutcheon is the coauthor of the 2012 and 2014 editions of National Journals almanac of american politics and was coeditor of Congressional Quarterlys politics in america 2010. Mr. Mark is a former Senior Editor at politico and political
Black people were entitled to the same rights at the restaurant counters, jobs, housing or whatever it was not because the government was going to give it to them but because they enjoyed the same rights as every human being. Guest government had to enforce equal treatment not segregation so it was an important tool. Host and i am not throwing the baby out with the bath wart. There is a reason for government. Government needs to restrain the sinful people who will not be constrained from within a higher power. Government is an established institution but it has limitati limitations. The founders wanted the government to be restrained so the people would be unlimited. That is why it starts we the people not we the government. Thank you for coming in. The new book is called what works and Common Sense Solutions for a stronger america. And you can notice the groundhog on the cover and that is because he thinks we keep ignoring the Common Sense Solutions that our forefathers have given us.
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis march 31 is the birthday of one of the most charismatic and important leaders, cesar chavez. He got a nice farm workers and took on big agriculture, demanding fair play for those in the field. The movement he created remains a touchstone for many and the nation. The crusades of cesar chavez is a new meticulously researched biography. Lets take a look first at news chavez of shop as announcing a strike. They will not recognize the association. I . Is a pretty charismatic in a very untraditional way. He was not a very good speaker. He was not comfortable speaking. He was not charismatic in the way we think of Martin Luther king, bobby kennedy, yet he exudes real power over people. Charismatic,s certainly alec, but initially thested the call to be leader. Is cesar chavez the same way . It was the reverse in some ways. He became the leader, and the movement grew up around him. Tavis there was no resistance on
That . Next on booktv miram powell talks about the cofounder and president cesar chavez. She spoke at the san antonio book festival in texas for 45 minutes. Good morning. Welcome. Today we are very fortunate to have a special guest with us. I am a former book editor in the san Antonio Express news and i work for many years in los angeles for the Los Angeles Times. Ive written for the new york times. Ive written for the los angeles review of books and im on the board of directors of the book critics circle. Im also the author of a book of poetry. Miriam pawal is the public surprise winning attitude that spent 25 years working at news of a and the Los Angeles Times. Her book is the First Comprehensive biography of the charismatic leader and shes also written the union of their dreams a widely acclaimed and nuanced history of the united farm workers unit. She recently received a National Endowment for the humanities fellowship to support her work on the biography. Please welcome miriam pa
Polemic or a rant about if i was running the country what i would do. Thats like more vanity than this book wanted to be. What i do illustrate is several critical alternatives for both National Security and medical services which are two drivers of the federal budget going forward. I think we need to have this public debate about what the role of the United States is going to be over the next 20 years and whatever that mission is we have to adjust our military logic to that mission and we have to pay for it with taxes and right now too often you have people who want to lower taxes and to raise military spending and those two goals are in conflict. We ought to decide what our role in the world should be and the same thing we had to do with medical services because we cant just deferred this debate and pretend its free. Every time we borrow then we narrow the choices for people that are your age. We have five minutes . Or are we cut off . Im afraid the imperatives of our filming this eve