with you. i do want to correct one thing, bob. i was actually not third in the republican primary, i was second. yeah, i want to get that that has been a story that is often told, so i ve worked really hard to be second. not that it means a darn thing because when you come in second place, there is no prize. or third, or fourth. one of the realities of politics. i think all of you have a copy, at least i hope you do, of the book, simple government: 12 things that we really need from washington and the trillion we don t, and i m hope you have a chance to read it. i m sure you ll stay up late tonight and read all 228 payments of it. pages of it. i truly hope at least you ll give a cursory review of it. in many ways i m being asked the question not once, not ten times, but 100 times: are you going to run for president? and no how matter how many difft ways i say it, there s about a hundred different ways people report it. it s very much an option i m considering, and i m s
. . about the first two. one is about a sharecropper, cotten picking boy at a mill worker and that s called mill daddy, the life and times of roy davis. i wrote another called a mother s dream. it was a dream about my father my mother had. it s about their love and baseball. it s more than that though. i have begun working on a book about grady caldwell and because of what happened to him, he fell into the pit of drug use and addiction. i interviewed him in prison, as a matter of fact for this book, but are other themes in his life, redemption, his family stuck with him, and now he s a minister in georgia. i started work on this and interviews him this week, as a matter of fact. thank you so much for your time. thank you. we re back live from the gallager theater. starting shortly, a panel on climate change, hot times,. mitch tobin is author of endangered . this is coverage of the 2011 tucson festival of books. good morning. welcome to the third annual tucson fes
of books to keep this amazing event here in tucson. thank you for being here and for your support and if you want to follow us out, i am going to head to the dining area. .. the other groups were, you know, i did think that the existence of a small, but very powerful elite was something new, and so i call that the group, and then there s a category to deal with other griewps who didn t groups who didn t fit the category like immigrants, for example from caribbean and africa, and also biracial americans. i thought they would fit into an umbrella group called the emergence. that s how i got that. i noticed you put new immigrants and biracial people together, and you re comfortable with that, grouping them under the same umbrella? well, i was mostly comfortable with that. it was not precise, and it didn t make for as clean of a category as the other category. however, i thought that the similarities were, the concept of emergence, groups that were becoming more promine