For a complete schedule, visit booktv. Org. Alan dershowitz talks about becoming a lawyer and the many cases hes handled over the past 50 years. This hourlong program is next on booktv. [applause] welcome, everybody. Its delightful to see you all, and remarkable in a funny way for the two of us to be here, alan. I feel as if you ought to be tutoring me for one of our final exams, which you used to do. Weve known each other for over 50 years, as you just heard, and i dont know how that came to be. But you say in your book that you were a dreadful student until you went to college. That during elementary and secondary school, you were a disaster. What turned it around . I dont know. I wish i knew. In Elementary School and high school, i was a c and d student. I have in my book an actual photograph of my senior semester report card with a 60 in physics, red circle around it, 60 in math, red circle around it, 65 in history, and i managed to squeeze out an 80 in english. So i had a 67 avera
Look specifically at Muslim Americans and they are just secret. So we can say we abide by the constitution, but we do it anyhow. That is what the more important matter to me in the book. Okay . Thank you very much. You are expected to buy books now and you are going to bring them up here and i am going to sign them for you. If you want to use an alias i am ok with that. Thank you for coming out tonight. [applause] have you ever talked about visit booktv. Org to watch any of the programs you see here on line. Type the offer or book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click search. You can share anything you see on booktv. Org easily by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. Booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. Booktv. Org. Scientology was really created as a religion, it was using celebrities. When it was set up it was established in los angeles in 1954 and there was a
To on a ploy putting in our program that we would go at 3 00 the next afternoon, and we ended up going at 5 a. M. In a convoy. And it was all fun and good until we arrived there, and the police put located about, you know, two blocks a perimeter so that nobody could access the place where we were. And, but we saw people like two blocks away, and we couldnt find out. And one of the commissioners was a former Deputy Police chief of ireland told me, you know who they are . I said i dont know, cant distinguish. Theyre journalists. They are a bunch of journalists with cameras and with telephoto lenses, and somebody had tipped them off. And we thought that we had avoided any undue presence, and they were there. The leaking of information wassen constant. That was a tremendous was constant. That was a tremendous challenge. And also a government that was very helpful at the beginning because the zardari government had requested this information from the u. N. They received us quite warmly, the
[applause] thank you very much indeed. First of all, it is slightly weird to be writing a book called the men who United States at a time when given all the recent troubles in washington in seems more disunited than for a long time. I know good people turn off their cellphones but i can so i am going to play you a short clip of music at the end so i hope that nobody telephones me during this presentation or i will feel like rudy guiliani. I dont know if you remember when he had to answer a phone while addressing a huge political campaign. The scope that doesnt happen. What i want to try to do tonight is tell you about the background of this book which is a big plum pudding of an affair and once i have told you how it will come in to being, two plums from the putting and illustrate what the book is all about but first background. It is the context story. As you might be able to tell i am english. I fell in love with this country quite literally when i first arrived hindered in 1962 as a
Robberson coming in at 70 respectively. Running out the 2013 nonfiction bestsellers include the five love languages by gary chapman and recount of his years of a navy s. E. A. L. The entrance sniper in american sniper. That is a list of 2013 top nonfiction bestsellers according to the nelson bookscan. This is a little over one hour for our next program. [applause] thank you for the kind and generous introduction. It is a pleasure to be with you today. We has been raising funds in finding the best people was marred his ideals and around a broad how to reduce the nuclear threat. Very Public Foundation and rely on donations of generous donors. If either of you have money or need money please see me after words. [laughter] i am here today i have written into book called Nuclear Nightmares reese built a special web site for it called Nuclear Nightmares book. Com and it keeps you and idea to explore the main themes so you can go to the web site to track the other events around the country or