Good afternoon. Im Barbara Alvarado some im a bilingual educator, interpreter, organizer and work with the Madison Public Library and Community Engagement with the design and implementation of spanish bilingual story times. Aim honored to introduce a conversation between david maraniss, great writer and historian, who works with the Washington Post and maria acran newscast. Both david and marie are colleagues at the Washington Post. Very humbled to introduce marie aanna, author, editor, journalist, literary critic and member of the Scholars Council at the library of congress. Marie is peruvian american and a work embodies who she is as an historian, novelist, essayist, and a human being in this modern world. Her books include american chica, cellophane, the writing life, bolivar, american liberator, and silver, sword and stolen three crucibles. Silver, sword and stone is an a history of latin america for over a thousand years, going back, but brings all this history into our present da
She will be joined in conversation by author and journalist david marinus. For a complete schedule of our live coverage from wisconsin visit booktv. Org. In the meantime, heres part of a program that airs tomorrow afternoon with economist Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell talking about their travels to socialist countries. Its no surprise to anybody now that socialism is back and popular. A lot of the focus has been on young people and millennials were attracted to it but of course the president ial debate to see among mainstream democrats now the New York Times had a year long and 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution a yearlong column called red century. I think exactly one, and that year was dedicated to the economic aof the system. If a handful mention of atrocities instead you got articles like why women had better sex under socialism. Which even if true, i dont know how we witness against 100 million dead bodies. But this is the atmosphere that was taking hold as we were do
reporting on turmoil inside the trump legal team that s representing the former president in the classified documents investigation. meanwhile, another republican senator is saying that the former president cannot win the 2024 election. we will have those comments and what they mean. it comes as the republican field in the race for the white house is about to add another name. plus, the naacp calls out florida governor ron desantis, we will have more on the organization s warning. also ahead, we will recap president biden s trip to japan for the g7 summit which included a meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. and preview his meeting today at the white house with speaker kevin mccarthy as both sides are trying to find a compromise that would avoid a default on the country s debt. with us we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us, also with us
Mississippi or their hometown in many instances. They were going overseas to fight for a cause. They were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. I had one letter from an individual who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. He went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. We always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war . What my question is, what if we had not entered that war . The world would be a vastly different place. As for its relevance today i would not have know this if id not been researching this book, again i was not aware of the consequences. All of this trouble in the middle east that we are having right now, so so many of those countries involved, involved after world war i. Promises were made after world war i and we do not look up to them. Conflict is still resulting today because of that. So if it is
[inaudible conversations] youre watching booktv on cspan2. Joining us now from chicago and the publishers convention is ron charles who is the editor of Washington Posts book world. Mr. Charles, what do you do for a living . Guest i assign most of the daily reviews in the Washington Post, and every wednesday i write my own review. Host of books . Guest of books, yes. Host how many books a week, seven books a week . Guest we review 20 books a week, and we get about 150 of them. Host about 20 books a week are reviewed in the post. Guest right. Host why isnt there a standalone book section . Guest there is online, but we decided about four years ago to spread the reviews out through the paper to try and see if we could find more readers. It seemed like a disaster at the time to me, but i have had to admit that we do, in fact, have more readers for book reviews now. We just put them in places that people read more. Book world, the old book world, the supplement, was much beloved but tended