Every weekend, book tv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan 2. Keep watching for more television for serious readers. And everybody got quiet right on cue. Thats never happened before. Im bradley graham, a coowner of politics and pros along with my wife, and on behalf of the entire staff at p and p and everybody at busboys, welcome, thank you so much for coming. Were very fortunate this evening to have with us eric liu to talk about his new book youre more powerful than you think a citizens guide to making change happen. What a timely work. In the wake of last novembers election, my staff and i at the bookstore have been approached many times by customers concerned about the course that events have taken and wanting to know what they can read to help them decide, how to get more involved in civic life and effect change. Well, erics book is now a good place to start. He began writing it before donald trump launched his bid for the presidency, but trumps election
At the tmp and everybody here at busboys, welcome. Thank you for coming. We are very fortunate this evening to have with us eric lou to talk about his new book youre more powerful than you think. A citizens guide to making change happen. What a timely work. In the wake of last novembers election, my staff and i the bookstore have been approached many times by customers concerned about the course of events have taken and wanting to know what they can read to help them decide how to get more involved in civic life and effect change. Well, erics book is now a good place to start. He began writing it before donald trump launched his bid for the presidency trumps the election is one manifestation of a mounting turbulence in us political and civic life that weve all been seeing for some years now. Into a book about civic power, what is, how to practice it, and why anyone would actually want it. As as a writer, educator and cic entrepreneur, eric has been thinking about Democratic Values in t
Or lack thereof. A very powerful Motion Picture was snubbed. This films message is as poignant today as it would have been when i was a kid. everything is awesome song from the leggo movie everything is awesome everything is cool when youre part of a Team Everything is awesome larry no, everything is not awesome how did the leggo movie not get nominated for best picture . God, this was shocking in less shocking news, this also happened. While the civil rights movie selma earned a best picture nomination, director ava duvernay was snubbed. So was lead actor David Oyelowo. Larry oh, black people didnt get nominated for an oscar . Yeah, im mad, i guess. Dont get me wrong. Ava duvernay should definitely have been nominated for best director. But David Oyelowo . Hes a british brother. Them. So what do we as a people need to do . I wish there were a black hollywood expert who could go to bat for us. Reverend sharpton called for an emergency meeting here in hollywood next week to discuss poss
Larry bring up the lights bring it up thank you thank you very much calm down thank you, thank you i am so excited to be here. Man, so exciting. I feel like theres so much to talk about. Especially if i had the show a year ago laughter all of the good bad race stuff happened already theres none left. Were done. Happy m. L. K. Day, everybody actually, wait, theres a 2015 injustice thats bugging me. Im talking, of course, about the oscar nominations. Or lack thereof. A very powerful Motion Picture was snubbed. This films message is as poignant today as it would have been when i was a kid. everything is awesome song from the leggo movie everything is awesome everything is cool when youre part of a Team Everything is awesome larry no, everything is not awesome how did the leggo movie not get nominated for best picture . God, this was shocking in less shocking news, this also happened. While the civil rights movie selma earned a best picture nomination, director ava duvernay was snubbed. So
Nightmare a brother finally gets a show on late night tv. cheers and applause but, of course, hes got to work on Martin Luther king day. Lets do this cheers and applause captioning sponsored by Comedy Central larry bring up the lights bring it up thank you thank you very much calm down thank you, thank you i am so excited to be here. Man, so exciting. I feel like theres so much to talk about. Especially if i had the show a year ago laughter all of the good bad race stuff happened already theres none left. Were done. Happy m. L. K. Day, everybody actually, wait, theres a 2015 injustice thats bugging me. Im talking, of course, about the oscar nominations. Or lack thereof. A very powerful Motion Picture was snubbed. This films message is as poignant today as it would have been when i was a kid. everything is awesome song from the leggo movie everything is awesome everything is cool when youre part of a Team Everything is awesome larry no, everything is not awesome how did the leggo movie