And we wrap up our saturday prime time lineup at 11 00 with National Book award winner Colson Whitehead talking about his fictional book the underground railroad, that happens tonight on cspans book tv. So welcome, everybody, im the cofounder of civic hall and civic hall i should say is, weve been here now almost two years. It grew out of an annual conference that we do called personal Democracy Forum, which is focused on how technology is changing politics and government that weve been doing since 2004, which is in fact how i know both of our guests. Weve traveled similar paths for a long time. Two years ago we opened civic hall to be a yearround gathering point for the same people and conversations, focused on civic tech, how tech can be used for public good. And so, its a pleasure to welcome everybody here. Let me just say that im really excited for the chance to get into this conversation about rules for revolutionaries, how big organizers can change everything. Because we are livi
Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living under a rock you know about mark levitch and his book this town that caused a lot of stir and conversation. Number one New York Times best seller followed up with a collection of his fantastic articles over the years called sitcitizen ci
My sincere thanks to douglas for inviting me to come to the national archives. Its such a pleasure being in this beautiful city with such a rich history and thank you all so much for coming. I really appreciate it and im very eager to hear your questions and your comments. So let me begin with the inspiration behind this project. This project was inspired by a story that my aunt told me about a distant cousin who grew up on the south side of chicago in the 1930s. The story begins with a parade. The historic but. And parade, an annual parade that continues to this day. On isis lang summer morning in august, my cousin left from her bed to find the best spot to be at the parade. She joined the crowd that numbered in the thousands and she cheered as drum majors, baton twirlers and celebrities and convertibles passed by. She ran out to the floats to touch the parades anointed king and queen and caught the candy that the the participants toss to her. The parade was a south Side Institution a
Andrei cherny formerly of the Democratic Party. [applause] dot everybody can say that in arizona and get applause. But the book readers are what we call the base. [laughter] dot thank you for that. Currently the ceo of aspiration. Com. Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living u
Everyone, to the seventh annual to sun festival of books. I am the host of a half hour Public Affairs show on sunday mornings. I want to thank Cox Communications for sponsoring this venue and james osmond for separate response to find this session. I want to go for 50 minutes with questions and answers so hold your questions until the end and immediately following the session the authors will be autographing books, sponsored by bookstore. Books will be available to purchase at that location and Ian Haney Lopez will be late because we interviewing him live on cspan falling this session. If you are enjoying the festival please consider becoming a friend of the festival. Your taxdeductible will donations allow the festival programming to be free of charge each year and support critical litter see programs in southern arizona. You can learn more about the friend of the vessel will benefit that information booths on line. At of respect for our authors and your fellow audience members please