At columbia i hope we are back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around and probably the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremonies since zoom is not a place to exchange awards and the like. We will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then when we are done we will take your questions in chat and try to wrap up in an hour using zoom best practice of not leaving you in front of your computer screen for too long a time, especially this time of day. For those of you new to the awards, we have a short video about j anthony with his prizes. People talk about book writing they almost always talk about the process of writing, sitting at the keyboard writing it down is in many respects not the
With this years lukas fridays ceremony our program is a little bit of the introduction and i hope an interesting discussion with our three winners and then with more celebration to come so thanks for all of you to share this part of the evening with us first i will tell you about this prize is you may not be as acquainted with it as we are but this is a prize in memory of tony lucas who inspired my generation the first time we started to taken college what we wanted to write and our generation grew up with a narrative nonfiction searching about social issues and Common Ground so when he passed a lot of people were inspired by his life to create this prius this is where the enterprise began it has expanded gradually for the Senior Executive in the netherlands at the time of his death in the 1997 as a reporter of serious history his children established the prize as part of a the lucas fridays project and his family has generally underwritten the prize since the inception in 1998 his wif
City, never want another child to grow up with that type of burden. One of those burdens that never goes away. The author of writing my wrongs discusses is 19 years in prison and his life after. Go to booktv. Org for the complete weekend schedule. Ryan anderson is author of truth overruled the future of marriage and religious freedom. What is the point of your book . This is the first book length response to the Supreme Court ruling on the samesex marriage question. I explain why the court got the ruling wrong as a matter of constitutional law and as a matter of philosophy. The nature of what marriage is and why it matters. From there i go to say what americans should do to defend religious freedom for those who believe the truth about marriage are not penalized by the government. Host teen how in your view did they get it wrong constitutionally . The Supreme Court says the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment required states to redefine what marriage is. The debate in favor o
Of Georgetown University and author of lets get free. Also this week in the presentation of the J Anthony Lukas prize for nonfiction writing. Former army officer and historian looks at us involvement in the middle east. War correspondents christina lamb, Janine Giovanni and kim barker share their reporting experiences and we talked to local authors and visit literary sites in mississippi. For complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and office, television for serious readers. We start with erin mchugh who talk about political blunders throughout history. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening. Welcome, thanks for coming out here on a brisk spring evening. Appreciate you being here. If you would take a moment to look at your cell phones and make sure they are turned off. Following todays reading and question and answer you will find me outside, we have plenty of books available including one new were than todays. Great Gra
The Newman Foundation at Harvard University established the annual j. Anthony lukas worrieds in 1998 and recently announces this years finalists for works in progressnonfiction writing and history. The first award is for unfinished books. The finalist include sasha eisenberg, whose writing history of samesex marriage in america, and author steve luxenburg who is looking at the end of segregation in the united states. Another works in progress finalist is steve one who is researching the creation of National Public raid youre, and Meredith Wadman is examining cells used to develop vaccines. The lukas prize give awards for knock fiction writings. Finalizes including adam brigles, guide to fracking, which reports on thefts of a texas town to stop an oil companys use of hydraulic fracturing. Two dollars a day look at extreme poverty in america and the book reports on how newark, new Jersey School system used the donation of 100 million from facebook founder mark sucker beryl. Other finalis