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Welcome everyone to the brooklyn book festival. Tonight is the seventh day of an eightday festival where we have presented over 100 programs and almost 300 authors. It has been a tremendous week of literary celebration as were very grateful to have his of the wilkerson and Michael Eric Dyson with us tonight. I would like to say one thing, show the love by purchasing their books in the link below. They are authors with books after all and going to turn over now to both of them to continue the conversation. Thank you very much. Thank you very kindly. Im honored to be here today with a woman who is among the 304 greatest writers in america, arguably the finest writer in america today. I am going to make that argument. So it is an extraordinary honor to be with you, ms. Isabel wilkerson, and to have this opportunity to chat with you. Theyre calling it a a conversation but im just going to fan boy out and as as a sayn the hood, ask you some questions. And see if we can stimulate the convers
The [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the 22nd annual texas book festival. We appreciate you coming out for the authors and just in general great literature. A few housekeeping things, president of houston university. Just a reminder please silence your cell phones or turn them off. After that session here in our authors will be signing books in the book tend and book the booke for sale courtesy of book people. Remember when you buy a book, you support the author, the festival and independent bookstore and it is a Nonprofit Organization and its mission is to support lowincome schools in texas with author visits and donations like the leading rock Stars Program so your purchases go a very long way. And we have a book drive going on to help raise money to rebuild the library is affected by Hurricane Harvey and a donation of 15 at any register to buya a book for a student in the texas book festival and foundation will match with a bo
The books are available in the sales tent, and well be signing in the main author tent just around the corner here. Now, before we begin, clint, did you want to Say Something . Hello, austin [cheers and applause] its great to be back near the hill country where i spent a great deal of time. A great deal of time with lbj. And were going to tell you, were going to give you a glimpse into our book, five president s, now as much as we can for about 35 minutes, and then well open it up to questions and answers for the last portion. First, i have to figure out how to make this thing work. [inaudible conversations] he said it takes a bit. All right. Takes a minute. Clint hill was born in 1932, the middle of the great depression, and his mother realized she couldnt care for him. So she had him baptized and dropped him off at the north dakota Childrens Home in fargo, north dakota. Fortunately, when he was about three months old, he was adopted by a wonderful family, chris and jenny hill and the
Fairly strong. We have at my alma mater against ole miss, not sure what the score was and baylor against tcus a great Football Games going on. We want to talk about the intersection of football, College Sports and Sexual Violence and Sexual Assault. I am from bartlett, texas, a huge football fan in a small rural town, a small football town, we went to three state the 90s so s in÷÷÷÷ football is ingrained not only in myself but the state of texas and beyond and graduated from clemson university, another huge college town. So you can imagine my cognitive dissonance every week during the fall, when i get excited about Football Games but at the same time being Deputy Director at Texas Association against Sexual Assault i know the reality of Sexual Assault on campuses and i know the reality and dynamics of college courts, young men and young women going to colleges and we owe a great deal of both Jessica Luther and daniel solomon for the work they have done in uncovering a lot of the st