Its good as they are a person its better on the page. Enjoy the book. [inaudible conversation] thats incredibly inspiring because you guys do it too had dan, which is connecting flight to the pursuit of memory and truth in forcing people to confront a history they dont want to confront, including cambodians themselves. Im afraid were about an time. You are welcome to ask your question that way. I want to thank our panelists peter and [applause] as good as they are in person, they are better on the page. Enjoy the book. But [inaudible conversations] good afternoon welcome to the Cato Institute. I am Vice President and publisher and i would heartily like to thank you for coming here, for our viewers on mina being broadcast by cspan. You may not know unexpectedly the washington subway system, the metro was closed today so the people who have joined us here have made great effort to hear something about this book, lessons and censorship, how school is subvert First Amendment right to refin
Author timothy eagan. This is live coverage of the tucson book festival. Good morning, welcome, im going to be moderating this conversation this morning with timothy eagan. I want to expand thanks to cspan tv and book tv for sponsoring and will last approximately one hour, including questions and answers till the end of the panel immediately following the session tim will be autographing books at the bookstore, thats 153 by the university bookstores. Because youre enjoying the festival and im sure you all are, please consider joining the festival of the tucson festival of books. So become a friend by visiting the Student Union ballroom or go into our website. Out of respect for the author, please turn off your cell phones, now, if you would. This morning its our pleasure to have timothy eagan. The worst hard time and the National Best seller the big burn. Tims current book just released last week is entitled to immore eat irishman who became an american hero, a biography of thomas mar.
Wilmington, the train was moving along and made a sudden jerk like it was going to make an abrupt stop. This isnt the slowdown during the a curve. It came to a complete stop, there was smoke, smelt like the brakes were smoldering so we sat there wondering what had happened. The electricity was knocked out so there was no pa system. So the rumors started to fly but after about 25 minutes one of the crew came back and started to explain what happened. The first two cars were hit badly but we were lucky to be in the next to last car of the train so we felt the impact obviously but didnt get to smashup that the first two cars had. They hit, it was explained, a device on the track. They were doing maintenance and of course an investigation will be to be looked into why that was on the tracks while the train was coming. You are taught at an early age in science that when an object like a train is moving 80 Miles Per Hour it takes a long time to come to a halt. Host this is around the identif
Represent the biggest paradigm shift. The debate in the Republican Party now is, one, should there even be a Republican Party, and if there should be, which path instead of cronyism and corporatism, which path it should pursue in pursue what trump is advocating, a return to White Nationalist dixiecrat americanism, or it should be a truly conservative party that is trying to conserve the values that made this country exceptional. Host this is his most recent book. Heres a look at what is on primetime tonight. We kick off the evening at 7 15 p. M. Eastern with Katherine Ross argue. That students First Amendment rights are not respected. Then at 9 00, the 2016 guggenheim prize in military history is awarded. On after words at 10 00 p. M. Eastern, former u. S. Civil Rights Commission chair discusses voter rights, corruption,. And fraud. We finish up our primetime programming at 1 1with the tour of the Folger Shakespeare library in two weeks booktv will be live from the library with a progr
Most important slave conspiracies in american history. He spoke about it at the university of richmond 20 years ago and hes going to be interviewed about that book later today for television. Most of dr. Egertons work has been on the subject of slave resistance, colonization and abolitionism during the American Revolution and Early National period. You will find a partial list of his publications in your program. His work deals with the intersection of race and politics. His most recent books deal with the mid19th century. Years of meteors, steven douglas, Abraham Lincoln and the election that brought on the civil war. And the wars of reconstruction, the brief violent history of americas most progressive era. His talk today will draw mostly from that final book and the title of his talk today is black activism in the wars of reconstruction. Ladies and gentlemen, doug egerton. Thank you. Good morning. Nice to be back in richmo. I have already learned at least one important lesson this m