this festival is a a nonprofit that is funded exclusively through donations. one of the ways to help us through this kind of programming is through the friends of fall for the book. to learn more please visit that website again. we ask that you please remember to silence your cell phone and thank you in advance of filling out a survey which will help fall for the book improve the festival in the future. thank you to our main sponsor, african and african-american studies. so we are pleased to have fear marylouise patterson and jeffrey stewart, two writers who examine key figures of the harlem renaissance, langston hughes and alan locke, respectively. in letters from langston dr. patterson explores relationship that her family but particularly her mother had with langston hughes, and in the new negro: the life of alain locke, jeffrey stewart chronicles the education and career of the central figure in the harlem renaissance. it s important say something about the subjects t
More information you have in your head that you can explain to the next person the more impressive that you will be and the senatest person in the room should win the argument. They have the facts and so they should clearly win. And that is called a policy wonk. And i had many years on television and we would have a policy wonk on. And i could hear people turning off my show, going to a channel because it is boring, boring. The way you communicate, as Ronald Reagan taught, by example, is not through the mind. That is flow of information. I will give you information. Here is facts, here is figures, here it is all laid out for you. Where you move people, where you actually convince people, make them feel that you understand, that you have something to say is when you communicate with the heart. There is a huge difference. So when i do television, i always have some facts and figures. I know my material. And throw out a few because it gives me authority. If i tell you 56 million babies ha
next, from 18 to help texas book festival in austin, discussion went off there is ricardo ainslie and alfredo corchado on mexico. this is about 45 minutes. good afternoon. thank you for coming tonight. we are happy to be here at the texas book will. they asked me to tell everyone, please turn off cell phones to rejoin her of the conversations. with that, let me get dirty. i am shannon o neil. i work at the council on foreign relations very focused on next month america more broadly unedited and pleasure tonight at talking with two wonderful gentleman, who have written wonderful books are really impressive impressive books about mexico. the first one on my right is ricardo ainslie. his book is called the fight to save juarez. this book tells the story of the border city, which many of you know i ve had the unfortunate tension in recent years of being not only the most violent place in mexico, but by some accounts the most spineless in the world. he tells the story of thi
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