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
Every weekend, booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, on cspan 2 keep watching for more television for serious readers. Booktv is live this weekend from the tucson festival of books. Start agent 1 00 p. M. Eastern 10 00 a. M. Pacific well be covering several author panel on topics such as race and politics, Supreme Court, environment, immigration, and more. All this live from the university of arizona the site of the seventh annual tucson festival of books. I give an example in god, guns, grits and gravy of this guy who is heading green peace in europe, and so he is all about wanting to reduce co2 emissions. But in all of an audit of green peace shows he is flying from his home to lux. Boring a couple of times a month, and the output of co2 he is expending because of his jet travel is like 100 times that of the average person. And so when confronted about it, here was his answer. He said well, the train trip would take 12 hours and that would be time away from my f
Here is a look at the nasdaq. Both of which did not do as well as they had hoped. That was something that hit Goldman Sachs. You have Michael Court that over at citigroup. It was not as strong as they would have liked. Ashley nicole, thank you so much. Lori bernanke giving to be what is expected to be his last appearance. Hate, lori. It was a little bit of a History Lesson from chairman bernanke. Some of the measures, as you know have continued to draw criticism on capitol hill. Listen, i know that there are folks out there that are critical of the fed. Hopefully some of this pressure will abate. As we tell our story, more information comes out about why we did what we did. They understand what we did was necessary. It was a main street set of actions aimed at helping. I am hoping that these political concerns will wait. He also acknowledged up for him personally the most credible risk of trying to unwind all of this and wind down qe and starting the tapering and shrinking the feds for
Jeff spent 13 years at the washington post. Im not sure that is where you learn how to write well but that is certainly where you learn how to get a good story and by the end he was running the outlook section and then he went to the new yorker and was a Senior Editor there for nearly 13 years and that is a place where you learn to write well and help others write well. Besides writing nonfiction, jeff has written three, four, i guess four works of fiction. So this is someone who understands the importance of narrative and of a good story. He brought those talents, for some reason, to the relationship between eisenhower and nixon and i want to begin by asking you, jeff, why did you choose that particular marriage . Because as to be focus of this because it was really a great story. 2 began with two people who really doesnt know each other. One was American Hero of sort we dont have anymore. Fivestar generals, no more fivestar generals. The man credited to leading allies to victory in e
Culling the Upcoming Elections in syria a farce. While stopping short of offering u. S. Military aid. Kerry said he and partners remain committed to, quote, changing the dynamics on the ground in syria. Neither kerry or William Hague offered many specifics. Heres more with what sect kerr secretary kerry said at the News Conference with William Hague. Ask yourself, how do you have a legitimate election when half the people in your country are displaced and not able to vote . How do you have a legitimate election when another several Million People are in refugee camps, unable to vote . How do you have it when hundreds of thousands of peopleliterally, almost a million perhaps, are scattered in various countries in the region, seeking safety from assad. Its just impossible to believe that under those circumstances, where people are hunkered down in homes, intimidated and afraid to be able to come out, afraid of being forced to do one vote or another, just have no climate, no framework wit