Write they will book needs to acknowledge this design not to know phil. It is down on any mac. True places never are. So melville was referring to the South Pacific home in that quote, but he was also alluding to the fact that whenever well third solved, the lines between fact and action are very blurry. In fact, moby dick as you may know, was based on a true event that they will ship prior through whale. So i thought about that particularly when it is time to choose a subtitle. I have long intricate ones, but my publisher, god bless and said no, do them a subtitle you can have on this book is a true story because if he dont seem that on the cover of the book, no one will believe this is true. They will think its a novel. Its too fantastic. And hes right. I team near for the story. I stuck around for the whales, but it really fell for the stories because the sydney writers in the audience no comment before you embark on this project, you want to feel. God forbid and unfold story and so
He dies under robert elys command and this is a devastating a devastating impact. He feels this loss very sharply. I am just curious how do they compare with characters today in washington . [laughter]. So i think he would find that interesting and i will take a pass on the question because it is just too hard because the civil war is just the meet period we can all agree that the country never has to undergo that again thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host and thanks for watching booktv, 48 hours of Nonfiction Authors and books every weekend on cspan2. And today we are live on the campus of the university of Southern California home of the Los Angeles Times festival of books. Today there are several author panels ahead on the plushing industry biographies Publishing Industry, biographies of World Leaders and science, and well also sit down with tom hayden, travels smiley and hugh hewitt among others while they take your calls. You can get sched
In a nonfiction book, this is the place to be. We have four really different books, but theyre all really amazing. We have two finalists for the l. A. Times book prize and i want to point this one out to you now and this one out to you now here. Thats why i like to bring the books, so you can actually see them. We also have two finalists for the penn literary awards one in biography here, jeff hobbs book with, and one in science writing, joshua horowitzs book. And i think its worth noting that this book here is actually on two of those lists, and hes our youngest participant. This is not his first book but its his first book as far as i know of nonfiction, so its quite an achievement. We also have books that are going to take us to places that really, in my mind as i read them can change how we look at the world. Books are going to take us underwater, going to take us hundreds of feet underground, theyre going to take us into the amazon and to pittsburgh and to birmingham, england, whi
Well talk about all of it tonight and then some starting with new cnn reporting on concerns among people close to the president about what he might do next. Cnns jim acosta joins us now with the very latest. Jim. Reporter yeah. What is the latest on how President Trump wants to handle the Senate Impeachment trial . Reporter john, ive been talking to my sources. Weve all been talking to our sources over here at the white house all day long. The latest is that it sounds as though the president is coming around to this idea advanced by Senate Republicans that a lengthy trial filled with witnesses is just too dangerous to his political future. You know, hes gone through this impeachment process, and as painful has it has been and as much as he wants to be exonerated and as much as, yes, he wants to bring in witnesses, he wants the whistleblower, he wants hunter biden and so on, Mitch Mcconnell, lindsey graham, his allies in the senate have impressed upon him and his top aides over here, pe
House speaker nancy pelosi. After wednesdays house impeachment vote, her next duty was to hand over the case to the senate. She is choosing to not do that just yet because she says she wants to ensure a fair trial. The first Family Spending this weekend through the holidays in florida, President Trump has expressed his desire to have an extended senate trial with witnesses. Now, thats reportedly not the vision of the Top Senate Republican majority leader Mitch Mcconnell, but the president said this week hed go along with whatever senator mcconnell decides. President trump this evening is speaking to a Student Action summit in West Palm Beach finishing about 20 minutes ago. He railed against the democrats in the house who impeached him insisting they are violating the constitution and that they have no case against him going forward. With President Trump now facing a senate trial, some trump votevot votevot voters believe the impeachment push will guarantee he will get reelected in 2020