Good afternoon, everybody. How is everybody doing . All right. Love this festival. Were talking about how much its grown over the years. Pretty phenomenal. Pretty wonderful. We are going to in a few minutes, give folks sometime to spill into the room. Just to let everybody know, we are being live streamed on cspan2, so tweets and tell your friends would also turn your ringers off on your phones, please. Im heather mcghee, president of demos, and i am really excited thank you. [applause] i am so excited to turn the tables today on my dear friend chris hayes whos often when interviewing me, and i get to do the same today. And for a little bit longer than we get to have on the air on his show. This is five minutes, right . Out go to commercial ties and i will talk over you most of the time. [laughing] just getting. I would not do that to you. Im really so thrilled to be in this conversation with you, chris, and to bring your stellar stellar book, yazidis audits your to the brooklyn book f
Time. [laughing] just getting. I would not do that to you. Im really so thrilled to be in this conversation with you, chris, and to bring your stellar stellar book, yazidis audits your to the brooklyn book festival, book this will also to the use of the live stream at home. I think anybody knows who chris hayes is Everybody Knows that he is the editor at large of the nation magazine. He is on our Television Screens and on our social media feeds, seems nearly constantly as he broke on to the scene, when was it . Winded when did i break . 2011. Which was really when thoughtful policy discourse joined cable news and usually been able to bring that to his nightly new show at 8 p. M. , all in. Chris also a New York Times bestselling book twilight of the elites, america after a meritocracy. And then this spring release this book, a colony in a nation. So lets get started. Chris, why did you write this book . Who did you want to read it and what did you want them to feel when they finished th
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Talking about this book and he, and they give copies of the books to those of us who come to the event so its a wonderful story what drew you to thatbook . I think hearing David Mcculloch talk about it and talk about the Wright Brothers and, who were very interesting. You think you know because we all learn about the Wright Brothers and they are the founders of flight. You know, and then to hear David Mcculloch talk about their personal story, i discovered i didnt really know anything about them at all. The brothers had a sister who was very helpful in everything they did and they lived at their home, all of them lived together as they were getting older and they had a bicycle shop, they started out with a bicycle shop and one of the brothers was just fascinated by flight and he studied birds and then translated that to how to begin to build an airplane and they went to of course, kitty hawk, to North Carolina because thats where they thought the wind patterns would be best so it is ju