Should i wait for you . Welcome everybody to its really great to have an opportunity to host regular botox by authors that write about topics that concern and culture and politics. Its especially good when the topic is the founder of the magazine and its a pleasure tonight to introduce the biographer of the biography of John Neuhaus Randy boyagoda. Randy is an accomplished novelist and his most recent novel beggars faced which is best described as great gatsby. Its a very good read and i thoroughly enjoyed it. Tonight sam taman house has agreed to interview randy and call out aspects of the biography so its my pleasure to welcome them both. [applause] am i good . I shouts i probably dont need one of those. Randy boyagoda you are novelist writing about john neuhaus. How did you get to this topic . And when did you choose and why . I started working on this book in some ways without even realizing it in 2009 so shortly after i wrote a profile of him for a torontobased magazine called the
Los Angeles Times festival of books. On your screen the campus of the university of Southern California, home of this 20th annual festival. Yesterday we covered programs on journalism publishing, World Leaders and more, and today we continue our live festival coverage with author panels on u. S. History, california history and crime. Youll also be able to talk with authors such Azzam Quinones and ben shapiro. Theyll sit down with us on our outdoor set to answer your questions via twitter and by phone. Check booktv. Org for a complete schedule of todays events, and you can see schedule updates all day long at the bottom of your television screen. All right. We kick off todays l. A. Times festival inside newman hall on the usc campus. Youre going to hear from Claudia Rankin author of a book called citizen, which was a finalist for the National Book award. Live coverage of the 20th annual los Angeles Times festival of books starts now on booktv. [inaudible conversations] hi everyone welco
Happening in michigan right now so thats going to take longer for that to happen but it seems like it is accelerating. They keep wanting to run which isnt going to be anything effective here if you want real democrats to vote for real democrats. Its the Republican Party nationally doing the same thing in the Republican Party. Basically there are two theories. Theres the theory that Ronald Reagans pursuit which is im going to convince people they are on my side and then theres the theory im going to convince people im on their side. They want them to be successful and the one that republicans are pursuing is the one that tends not to be. We know you are on the left that we agree with you most of the time and they are trying to carve off the middle voter. We dont know anymore we are not in the United States. We are in the era of the turnout. They won the vote and lost by 5 million. Its about getting the base out and finding the base and having them turn out in enormous numbers. Who do yo
It cant be explained or afforded. Sed to be joined with you by the bestselling talkshow host ben shapiro, the people versus barack obama coming out in paperback this month and we will talk about that but whats on your mind clicks the president ial race is on my mind. If i have to watch Hillary Clinton faked being a human for much longer im not sure that i can take it. In the animation business it is to say if you ever watch polar express, it is realistic enough that it looks like human beings but not realistic enough while you are watching. Hillary clinton actually has an address and bought while jim her try to imitate human is slightly odd and you wait for the glitch to go off in her head and she turns in from star trek. On the republican side of the aisle its watching them each other and not thinking about the race for a few minutes. How unique are you in los angeles, young jewish, conservative, pretty outspoken. The Orthodox Jews felt right so they tend to vote and the secular cultu
Most of them are christians and how the money for the faithbased funding and its almost impossible to get the information without suing for the freedom of information act to get the information and a lot of the money is funneled. Host you know what, we are going to leave it there. Ben shapiro final comment. Tesco government involvement is significantly more dangerous for religious or could it issues to be about than not. The strings are always attached as far as the federal government, i would recommend people look at where the money is going because a lot of the time it goes towards adoption projects and House Building for the homeless. I object to that on the grounds i dont think the government should be involved. That is nothing to do with the money being spent on an attempt as an issue. Im not worried about that in the united states. Host ben shapiro, bestselling author, editor at large at breitbart the people vs. Barack obama the criminal case against administration. His most rece