Robert caro has appeared on q a and is also appeared through the National Book festival in september. House of stone, you remembered that Anthony Shadid died in syria while covering syria for the Washington Post. His wife will be here representing him and that is not a lottery. Katherine boo has been nominated in the nonfiction category, behind a beautiful forevers about a slum in mumbai india and finally Anne Applebaum has been nominated for iron curtain. That book is just out and she is scheduled to appear under q a and show in december, so you will be able to see her as well and robert caro will be interviewing those others as we go and we will be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their pictures taken that right now we want to talk to the chairman of the National Book foundation and this is david steinberger. David steinberger is the head of the Perseus Book Group. If you would, tell us for those who dont know what is the National Book award . The National Boo
Find. I looked at do we get this in times of political hardship or voices with people in the media planting fears or is it grassroots conflict and economic conflicts that bubble up and become widespread panic. At the outset, i was looking to see if there was a clear difference between alarm and panic. Not all political alarm is panic. What was in my head was after 911 we had good reasons to be concerned about security. When a bomb was detonated my parents had concern because we were the only country with this powerful weapon. In 1834, when a convent was burned down that was panic. So how did we get to that point . As an example of the things that go on in the book i wanted to look at the burning of the convent. And one of the first things i didnt expect to was i bumped into at that event. National success contributed to it. Three National Successes contributed to it. The first was we won the revolution. And once that happened there was concern this freedom of religion we established in
Writers. Really . See from covid, safe from crime and looting. Say from racially motivated violence. Safe from bad cops. Let me be Crystal Clear safe from four more years of donald trump. He keeps telling us that he was president , you would feel safe. Well he is president whether he knows it or not. Mr. Trump, you want to talk about fear . Do you know what people are afraid of in america . Afraid that they will get covid. Afraid that they will get sick and died. President obama and i stop the depression of 2009. We took a bad economy that was falling and turned it around. Trump took a good economy and drove it back into the ditch. Dana President Trump responding to joe biden in an interview that airs tonight with laura ingraham, watch. If it were Donald Trumps america use the expression as im present you would have riots like you have never seen. The democrats have lost control of the radical left. Dont forget, biden wasnt going to come out of his basement until the election. Now he h
Im Terrell Brown. The 113th congress has been sworn in, and today the house takes up its first piece of business, the bill of providing aid to victims of Superstorm Sandy. John boehner was reelected as speaker of the house, but he sparked a flood of criticism from within his own party. Tara mergener is in washington this morning. Tara, good morning to you. Terrell, the speaker changed course after an angry backlash for the delay. Its the first of two votes to send up 60 million in aid to the victims of Superstorm Sandy. Hes trying to rebuild his home but hes run into a problem. His frustration grew when the last session of congress ended this week without acting on a bill to provide Financial Relief to millions of victims. Its like a slap in the face when you really think about, you know, the way were being treated by the government, that theyre withholding, you know, money that should have been given to us, you know, to help us rebuild. Camarada isnt the only one. Ask any family in li
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