Look for these titles in bookstores is coming week and watch for the authors in the near future book tv and this is book tv live coverage of the 2016 Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Over the next seven hours you will hear from several authors including eric larson, Kenneth C Davis and brian burrow. We began todays coverage with a discussion on politics featuring former pres. Obama adviser David Axelrod, author of axelrod, author of believer, and nationally syndicated columnist Clarence Page, author of culture, lawyer. This is live coverage from chicago on book tv. [inaudible conversations] all right. Welcome to the 31st annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. My name is tom for scholars. Before we get started i would like to send a special thank you to our sponsors. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan2 book tv. At this time there will be a q a session and we ask that you line up in front of the microphone so that the home viewing audience can hear your question
I can only work with look with envy at my calling across the aisle. You can pretty well guess, obviously the occasions that i lose, i would be a winner if i was in the majority. I went on more than the issues. If you got to be in the majority, would you do things differently . Rep. Michel we have talked about how we would reform the house of representatives. There is no question we proliferated this place with committees, subcommunities and all that. The problem is that in an attempt to give everyone a piece of the action so they can make your show or somebody elses or get some visibility, we have gotten to the point where there are so many people in positions of some authority, but then there is a saying that when we dont from them for the Opposition Party persons name, you just say mr. Chairman or chairman, and youve got it because everyone is a chairman of something. The problem with the Committee Structure is that more committees there are, the more staff areas, the more staff ther
I can only work with look with envy at my calling across the aisle. You can pretty well guess, obviously the occasions that i lose, i would be a winner if i was in the majority. I went on more than the issues. If you got to be in the majority, would you do things differently . Rep. Michel we have talked about how we would reform the house of representatives. There is no question we proliferated this place with committees, subcommunities and all that. The problem is that in an attempt to give everyone a piece of the action so they can make your show or somebody elses or get some visibility, we have gotten to the point where there are so many people in positions of some authority, but then there is a saying that when we dont from them for the Opposition Party persons name, you just say mr. Chairman or chairman, and youve got it because everyone is a chairman of something. The problem with the Committee Structure is that more committees there are, the more staff areas, the more staff ther
Of government at harvard university. Since joining the faculty in 1992, profession so 1992, he is a member of the core faculty within the carr center frp human rights policy and is a faculty affiliate. In the wake of the 2000 president ial election bs, professor king directed the task force for the National Commission on election reform chaired by gerald ford and jimmy carter. That culminated in land marc Voting Rights in 2002. He later oversaw the evaluation and new Management Structure for the Boston Election Department and he served in the Advisory Board of americanelect. Org. In the past professor king chaired the Bipartisan Program for newly elected members of the u. S. Congress and he corrected the executive program for Senior Executives in state and local government. Professor king is the author of three books and published in a range of journals including the american Political Science review and the journal of politics. Please welcome david king. [ applause ] thank you. Is thi
John happy acela primary day. Voters in five different states get their say in the president ial nomination race and all signs point to another victorious evening for donald j trump, billionaire and Hillary Clinton, not quite billionaire. There are 172 delegates for grabs and a lot of bragging rights. What would make this a great night for donald trump and what would make it a super duper mega monday night for donald trump . Mark 15 contests left and five of them are tonight. The numbers have been crunched and looking at the different scenarios and these states all have different rules. Under this scenario, and i have crosschecked his work, his worst night, barring some surprise, he will win all five states. His worst night gets him over the number that the other campaigns have said if he gets that many, hes closer to being in a position to being in a majority. John he could be under 100 delegates. You its on to get 60 of the remaining delegates. That would make it more of an uphill fi