Thank you for coming to this panel. At 2 45. True crime across america. Im the graduate dean at jackson state university, and im happy to be here as a room coordinator. Well have 45 minutes for the session and then leave 15 for q a. The sponsors for our panel are cecile and nancy brown. Are they with us . [applause] im happy to introduce our moderator for this session, james, at i skipped over. Curtis wilkie. An associate prefer of journalism at the university of mississippi and fellow at the university oses center for southern journalism and politics and will take over. Thank you and thank you all for coming, and we appreciate the presence of our guest on the panel here at the mississippi book festival. Its getting bigger and better every year. Im going to start off by introducing very briefly our guests, and well carry on a discussion and i hope you all will have some questions for the panel toward the end of hour our hour. Karen abbott is bestsale august authorize of several books a
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James patterson and i thought about it for a second and then i said why does he owes you money. Coming to the Principals Office accept at my office today i came here with another way of looking at things to help you save lives and to turn everybody into more of a missionary not listeners. We are going to listen but the doers and that is a hard thing in life because sometimes we listen and i dedicate and my wife dedicate to what we are doing making sure that we are doing things. So i will talk a little bit more about that. You are in the position to do things and to save lives. I had friends that talk special practice up in westchester for 30 years or so and i met a guy that had been in the class and i mentioned it to him and he said that its just is just impossible. But from his point of view he said mr. Mahoney saved my life. These kids grow up and get a little older but you have to believe that thats what youre going to do. And in terms of reading, better reading produces better thin
Managing the congress. It becomes a detrimental, but really when youre talking about structural legislative problems, that really is one way in which Lyndon Johnson was much better positioned than almost any president in modern memory. I think we have time for one more question. A question for both of you. It when you talk about being less critical of politicians going forward, are you talking about the number of times or just what our criticisms are . I think there will always be an abundance of things about which we should be critical of politicians, and certainly when i was talking about before in terms of inflated rhetoric in the sense that the public cannot take reality and truth is something we should ask more of from our politicians and do it in a concerted fashion. What i was trying to suggest as we hold them to re our standard in terms of understanding with the important issues are going to be in a moment whereas when you look back in history you really see that is beyond thei