Thank you all for your service past and present to this country into your fellow veterans. We are honored to work alongside you. Thats exactly what we are going to be doing over the next few days. Were going to be working together. Not in a typical way that we work, not our daytoday work. Nothing normal sense. But over the next three days, you are going to have the opportunity to pause and take a step back from the daytoday grind, the daytoday challenges, all of the things that we struggle with. Every single day. Really think about what we are doing and why are we are doing it. Were going to think about what we know, and what we dont know. Im going to pause for a second. Those of you who know me, you know that formal remarks are really not my specialty. I want to see a show of hands when you heard us when we said, its going to be data, you had a big hug, its okay. I am a self professed data geek. I want to talk to you a little bit about data being important. I know sometimes data can f
Q a. The sponsors for our panel are cecil and nancy brown. Are they with us . [applause] im happy to introduce our moderator for this session, james a stevens, is not only, im sorry. I skipped over. Curtis wilkie. No, hes over there. Our moderator is curtis wilkie, associate professor of journalism at the university of mississippi and a fellow at the universitys Overby Center or southern journalism andpolicy and hell take over. Thank you for coming and we appreciate the presence of our guests on the panel at the mississippi bookfestival. Its getting bigger and better every year. Im going to start off by introducing very briefly. Our guest will carry on a discussion and i hope you all will have discussions for the towards the end of our hour. Karen abbott is a bestselling author of several books and her newest one, the ghost of eden park is an in the next pick as wellas an amazon best book. A glowing review in last sundays clariion ledger, maybe some of you read, said abbott captures th
Has on the and a network, constantly including this evening. [laughter] and he is a historian who has contributed already, while a couple of great books but most recently lincolns last trial. You wonder why i am interested in having him here. [laughter] but he has switched gears and written a book about the man whose home we are in. Fdr. My fifth cousin by blood and my uncle by law. In fact he said it at the very trial that had aprons have written about in this extraordinary book about very little known episode and Theodore Roosevelts life in the twilight of his life. Its an extraordinary legal episode in defense against a charge of bible that was argued here in new york state. So dan, welcome. Soon i think you. Its always an honor to be interviewed by you and always intimidating. The fact a little better though that we are not talking about lincoln. Then i would be in fear. Have no fear. I think its going to be considered new by everybody to who we meet. Start with the obvious. Why th
We have about 45 minutes for this session and then will leave about 15 for q and a. The sponsors for our panel. Are stay with us . [applause] im happy to introduce our moderator for this session. Hes not only an attorney im sorry. I skipped over this. Hes over there. Moderator is an associate professor at the university of mississippi and hes also at the southern journal and positive. Thank you all for coming. We appreciate the presence of our guests on the panel here at the book festival. Its getting big and better every year. I will introduce briefly our guests and will carry on a discussion and i hope you all have some questions for the panel towards the end. Bestselling author of several books. Her newest book is amazons best book. Maybe some of you read this, it captures the bill of that age and its gangsters. They also call her book a well researched and highly engaging work filled with intriguing infidelity, murder and headline catching courtroom drama. Glad to have you with us.
Magic and we are excited to have casey cep in celebration of dirks the last trial of harper lee. This is her first book but casey this not her first thing she has given to us write. She has been writing for the the new yorker, the new yorkw york times for many years now, and many of you probably noticed because youre but in all of work she has this super home able to make every detail fascinating and crystal clear. In this one casey works to layout two intertwine can mysteries, one in the story of reverend Willy Maxwell and his trials and the other in the unissued work of a beloved literary market and she has contagious dedication to seeing them through and doing them as much justice as possible. Trust me, and also every person i think who works in this book store in this room, this is a book that you actually cannot put down and i mean it seriously. Im about 20 pages from the end and very sad im not reading it. Casey, we are so excited to have you tonight. Thank you so much for coming