Capitalism. We conclude tonights primetime programming at 11 00 eastern with james votess book Freedom National taking a look at slavery 18611865. Visit booktv. Org for more on this weekends television schedule. Next on booktv, barbara matusow, editor of scooped it recounts the life of her career Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter jack nelson who died in 2009 at the age of 80. Barbara matusow is joined by former president jimmy carter, former mayor of atlanta and u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations andrew young and former Justice Department spokesman Terry Adamson. It is a discussion of jack nelsons memoir scoop the evolution of a southern reporter. It is about an hour. Good evening, everyone, good to have everyone here. My name is Hank Klibanoff and i will be moderating this wonderful panel tonight, as director of the Journalism Program at emory and coauthor of the book about coverage of the Civil Rights Movement, featured tags quite prominently. First of all i want to thank the Carter
Pulitzer prize winner. I shared that day with her. Well be reading rosemary mcgee. Well be reading about jacks former colleague and we have on display example of the nelson paper. And i just want to thank all of you and especially our panelists so much. It was a great event. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you. [inaudible conversations] [applause] is there a Nonfiction Author or book you would like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email at booktv at cspan. Org or tweet us at twitter. Com booktv. On cspan2, we bring you booktv. 48 hours of Nonfiction Authors and books. Here are programs to look out for this weekend. At 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Ben argues that liberals bully their competition discouraging political debate. Then at 2 00 a. M. Michelle alexander crime policy from the 70s were enacted to push back gangs made during the civil rights movement. On sunday with recent policy debates on congress in immigration rebring you stories from immigrants who share their experiences o
Carter library and museum for hosting this and cosponsoring this and also the Emory University library, particularly the manuscript and archives and rare books library. Which costs papers and wisdom of a great number of journalists, white, africanamerican, of all sorts and we are so pleased five of those are Pulitzer Prize winners and the latest among them is at the 11. Barbara matusow is so generous and made jack nelsons papers in our position and there is some rich history and i encourage everyone to take a look at them. We are here to celebrate the life, memoir, papers of jack nelson with people who knew him extremely well. Jack is a man of the enormous influence and consequence in the nation. The story of jack nelson for those who dont know is a story of news reporting and the latter half of the 20th century. If you look at his career, starting off, he was born in alabama across the state line, moves as a child from biloxi where he starts telling newspapers, he was a newspaper boy,
Next, someone told sister at march 19th break and dances in pennsylvania by eight activities at the Group Citizens to confess to get the fbi. The documents revealed the existence of jay edgar hoovers secret Counterintelligence Program that targeted people he groups the fbi considered to be subversive, including but not limited to members of the black Panther Party and the American Indian movement. This is a little over an hour. In the spring of 1970, the war in vietnam was preaching. American battle to be at not now total 1001 or 42. Antiwork were finally crashing. Its like a nightmare unfolding. I took what was outrage and horror about what was going on and i realized that i had to take it somewhere. Bonnie raines worked at a Day Care Center in philadelphia. Her husband have religion at Temple University. They were the picture of the golden couple. Wieden 8yearold comest extrude and 2yearold. We were family folks who also wanted to keep another track active in our lives, which was pol
Dominical the middle of the atlantic ocean. Six years ago in bermuda i embarked on a 140 foot sailing ship, the seat association education, i was at sea for three weeks away from telephones, internet and libraries. But i was in the middle of a Research Project on Benjamin Franklin that required me to read material in french. I decided to use my time at sea to revise my french by reading a novel in that language. The book i chose is a small paperback edition of jules vernes around the world in 80 days First Published as a newspaper serial in 1882. When i wasnt on watch or otherwise busy on the ship by slowly made my way to the book. My french was good enough to my surprise that i enjoyed the story and as a historian i appreciated it. A detail. Especially the nature of the sense the protagonist racing around world. At his london club he remarks offhandedly that scheduled travel services could take a person around the globe in a period of the days. Proved it, a challenge him and he is off