In book that he has written from bat boy to congressman duncan taps a journalistic flair to provide a series of anecdotes from his storied life as a lawyer, a judge and a congressman. Congressman, welcome. Well, nathan, thank you very much. I have written a book. I was a lawyer and a judge for 16 years. And then i was the u. S. House for 30 years. And all through that 46 year career, i had many strange funny, unusual things happen. So ive written this book. About half of it is serious. About half of it is is kind of humorous. Senator hair and ask me to start off this program and tell two or three of my little stories. Theres 203. The books about 160 pages. But its 203 vignettes from my life. And i tell about my early jobs and and then some of my cases as a lawyer, some of my cases as a judge. I tried the attempted murder, james earl ray. My court was the only court he ever testified in. I tell stories about most of it is about my 30 years in the congress and at one example would be i w
So with us today, first, we have congressman jimmy duncan. He was a u. S. Congressman from the Second District of tennessee, from 1988 until 2019. In book that he has written from bat boy to congressman duncan taps a journalistic flair to provide a series of anecdotes from his storied life as a lawyer, a judge and a congressman. Congressman, welcome. Well, nathan, thank you very much. I have written a book. I was a lawyer and a judge for 16 years. And then i was the u. S. House for 30 years. And all through that 46 year career, i had many strange funny, unusual things happen. So ive written this book. About half of it is serious. About half of it is is kind of humorous. Senator hair and ask me to start off this program and tell two or three of my little stories. Theres 203. The books about 160 pages. But its 203 vignettes from my life. And i tell about my early jobs and and then some of my cases as a lawyer, some of my cases as a judge. I tried the attempted murder, james earl ray. My
Congressman. Congressman, welcome. Well, nathan, thank you very much. I have written a book. I was a lawyer and a judge for 16 years. And then i was the u. S. House for 30 years. And all through that 46 year career, i had many strange funny, unusual things happen. So ive written this book. About half of it is serious. About half of it is is kind of humorous. Senator hair and ask me to start off this program and tell two or three of my little stories. Theres 203. The books about 160 pages. But its 203 vignettes from my life. And i tell about my early jobs and and then some of my cases as a lawyer, some of my cases as a judge. I tried the attempted murder, james earl ray. My court was the only court he ever testified in. I tell stories about most of it is about my 30 years in the congress and at one example would be i was flying on air force one one time with the second george bush. And i dont remember why i said this, but i told him that when i was in law school, they used to say they s
All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. It is a pleasure to be here. This afternoon of the southern festival books to share a conversation with two incredible authors, christine green and ben raines. Thank you for creating these works and the tremendous depth and value traditionally of americas history of domestic slave trade. So before we get started, ill do a couple of deductions for our two authors, and then i have a couple of questions for them to open up a discussion and then well have a q a, which you guys can access the microphone over here, and then well wrap up. So christian green is a newspaper journalist, the author of the Devils Half Acre the untold story of how one woman liberated the south, the most notorious slave jail, and the New York Times bestseller of some things must something must be done about Prince Edward county, which receives a library of virginia literary award for nonfiction and the peoples choice award and for two decades, greene ha