This is live coverage of the 22nd annual Los Angeles Times festival of the brooks on the campus of the university of southern california. In about half an hour or so, a panel on history. You will hear from Annie Jacobson Annie Jacobson talking about her book phenomena, jeff quinn talking about the road to james town. That is coming up in half an hour. We pleased to be joined by journalist and author gary younge. Here is his book called another day in the death of america a chronicle of ten short lives. Mr. Younge, november 23rd, 2013 why is that date significant . Its not. That is the whole point. It is the day after the 50th anniversary of jfks assassination but it was a day i chose to make the statistic real and that is on average seven teens and children are killed every day in the United States. I wanted to pick a random day and find out who these kids were, who they wanted to be, in what circumstances did they die and that was the day i chose. You picked it out of a hat or did you
Booktvs live coverage of the Los Angeles Times book festival continues with the next author panel which is a panel on history. You will hear from jeff quinn, annie jacobson, and Douglas Preston talking about their books. Here it is. Good afternoon and welcome to the panel. I am gary glastner the author of seven non Fiction Books myself including the culture of fear, why americans are afraid of the wrong things. I am delighted to host and moderate todays discussion with these three highly accomplished authors each of whose current book i highly recommend to you, by the way. Here is how it will work. After i introduce the panelists, i ask a couple questions of each of them and then one question for the entire panel and then we will take questions from the audience. So, to allow maximum time for conversation i have asked our three authors to answer their each questions and i will ask those of you who ask questions if you are with us in the audience to keep your questions short. First, let
[inaudible conversations] you are watching booktv. This is live coverage of the 22nd annual Los Angeles Times festival of the brooks on the campus of the university of southern california. In about half an hour or so, a panel on history. You will hear from Annie Jacobson Annie Jacobson talking about her book phenomena, jeff quinn talking about the road to james town. That is coming up in half an hour. We pleased to be joined by journalist and author gary younge. Here is his book called another day in the death of america a chronicle of ten short lives. Mr. Younge, november 23rd, 2013 why is that date significant . Its not. That is the whole point. It is the day after the 50th anniversary of jfks assassination but it was a day i chose to make the statistic real and that is on average seven teens and children are killed every day in the United States. I wanted to pick a random day and find out who these kids were, who they wanted to be, in what circumstances did they die and that was the
History. You will hear from jeff quinn, annie jacobson, and Douglas Preston talking about their books. Here it is. Good afternoon and welcome to the panel. I am gary glastner the author of seven non Fiction Books myself including the culture of fear, why americans are afraid of the wrong things. I am delighted to host and moderate todays discussion with these three highly accomplished authors each of whose current book i highly recommend to you, by the way. Here is how it will work. After i introduce the panelists, i ask a couple questions of each of them and then one question for the entire panel and then we will take questions from the audience. So, to allow maximum time for conversation i have asked our three authors to answer their each questions and i will ask those of you who ask questions if you are with us in the audience to keep your questions short. First, let me introduce your three authors. Jeff quinn is an awardwinning investigative journalist. She is the best sell authors
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