Afterwards except for Nicholson Baker who has to go off or go to his next session. Thank you so much. Lets have a round of applause for our panel. Booktv is on twitter and facebook, and we want to hear from you. Tweet us, twitter. Com booktv, or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. Now that 2014 is coming to a close, many publications are releasing their endof the yearbook list. Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger is on the list with his take on International Affairs in world order. Then in the teacher wars, Dana Goldstein provides a history of Public School teaching. Jeff hobbs recounts the life and death of his former College Roommate in the short and tragic life of robert peace. Jo becker in forcing the spring, and in fire shut up in my bones, charles below recalls growing up in louisiana in the 1970s. One of the idiosyncrasies but also one of the beauties of small town america is that things kind of pass it by. And so you it is timeless in a way, and it
Really price any further. The argument that i would make is one of effect it has and that is drowns in yemen despite the Obama Administrations rhetoric to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda, that its not drowns or airstrikes that are driving. It is civilian casualties. Its the individuals being killed along with the al qaeda targets. When i was in yemen, i was talking to someone whos very, very close to al qaeda he said look, you know, theres a difference between yemen and afghanistan and yemen and afghanistan are arabs and a knock at the country. In yemen archenemies in yemen. They move around much easier than they did. They can be a member of al qaeda and can be no locally. Maybe some people known them as he tribesmen another see the u. S. , for instance you would see them as an al qaeda member. The u. S. Thinks its killing an al qaeda member and maybe it is. But hes been a killed on the ground and yemenis seen being killed is in fact the tribesman. This is a challenge that the u
We will start by asking you how you came to write the book and then step back to talk about the frame and what you cover then get back into news feed assumptions you make in the of booking and your title is forcing the spring inside the fight for Marriage Equality to get inside that part you fully embedded yourself with the team, activists and lawyers from proposition viii which is the constitutional amendment that took away mayor rich writes for samesex couples in california. How did this come to pass . You said you were interested because you reported on of coming out in favor of Marriage Equality which it was published three months after the lawsuit was filed purpleheart did you make the first call . Guest yes. I picked up the paper i saw a opposing cancels and litigation filed the lawsuit. I had known both men and i cover them and i thought whenever the story is of how this conservative icon ted olson came to embrace this house to be a fascinating story. I was in between investigat
Host its wonderful to be here today. We have so much to talk about so before we get started i thought it would be useful to share with people our format which is that i want to start a little bit by asking you about how you came to write the book and the experience of being embedded in and step back and talk about the frame of the book and what youre covering here and get back to the particular assertions you make in the book. You talk about. The book is called forcing the spring with the subtitle inside the fight for Marriage Equality and to get inside this fight as you say to fully embedded yourself with the team the activists and the lawyers and plaintiffs who challengechallenged californias proposition 8 which was the course the constitutional amendment that took away the marriage rights for samesex couples in california. For starters im interested in how this came to pass. He said at the end of the book you got interested in the story because you interviewed ted olson and reported
So the you have some instances like that. One woman in the confederacy who practiced charlottesville, but moe people who could claim to be doctors, acted as nurses, even though they may have been doing doctoring kinds of behaviors. Host do you know what the pictureonthe fronts of the book . Guest it is a hospital in washington, dc. I believe its herwood hospital. And what you see there is one long ward, as so often the wards were. They were long, narrow rooms, stove in the middle. Mosquito netting hanging up there. In washington, dc, they called that one part of time foggy bottom for good reason. It was very boggy, mosquitoey, and the men got relief with the mosquito netting, and you can see this is a series of pictures shot at christmastime. You dont see it in this picture. And there are women visiting and it was sort of a festive day. Theres also although it doesnt you can barely see it in the front, that thing there, my editor thought it might be a water bowl for an animal or maybe