Can get a sense of where to find me or what ever doing institute please join me to welcome john. Banks for coming to a the last event we have had an amazing glasssteagall and. And as the author of 12 books like blackhawk down at the Philadelphia Inquirer 20 years now writes for vanity fair and the atlantic the writer in residence at university of delaware it in 1968 of the tet offensive at the turning point of the of war in vietnam. [applause] and Kurt Andersen is the best selling author and contributors to vanity fair and the New York Times his book reader of studio 360 the peabody award winner and in fantasyland the liquid history of america to show what is happening in our country today in the fake news moment we are living through is the ultimate expression of our National Character. [applause] the of the floor is yours. Thanks for coming i am honored to close out the book festival i will talk for a couple of minutes then kirch will come up to tell you about his book then we will h
Are you gonna run for president . Think i just got an f from you, actually. audience applauding kurt andersen, welcome. Happy to be here. Good to be with you, congratulations on this book. Well talk about it first, fantasyland, the timing of this book is exquisite. Im assuming its not entirely accidental. It is entirely accidental. It is entirely accidental. It is entirely accidental. I started thinking about this book many years ago. Really decided that it was a book i was going to write as my next book in 2013, started writing in 2014, still no donald trump on the horizon. No one had talked about fake news . No one had talked about fake new or post truth or any of that. Alternative facts . Alternative facts was not yet a phrase. And then, really as i was finishing the draft, i put him in the book. I dont think he, donald trump that is, would have appeared in this book had he not run for president. And this book would have appeared without donald trump. This book indeed would have app
Welcome to matter of fact. Before we turn to the latest political firestorms, we look at americas natural storms. Hurricane irma left florida, devastating homes and businesses. And houstonians are still digging out of mountains of debris from deadly hurricane harvey. Catastrophic damage and a long recovery ahead. Throughout this show, well lk at moments where ordinary people face these extraordinary challenges and how they have met them with bravery, compassion, and even acts of kindness. These folks are powerful reminders that despite our current divisions, we are at our best when we come together. Partisan political divisions are the focus of a case the Supreme Court will hear in just two weeks. The case, out of the state of wisconsin, is sending shock waves across the country. The question before the court is it ok for the Political Party in control of the state legislature to draw maps that give an overwhelming advantage to their own party . Heres some background. Electoral distric
Nuclear weapons in 1994 based on a commitment by the United States, the united kingdom, and russia guaranteeing ukraine easte ukraines territory. I think kim jongun looks at this and says Nuclear Weapons are the only way to guarantee the survival of my regime. Then kurt an dedersen and a k at his book, shofantasyland h america went haywire. Thats true of science or thats true of whatever. In america, we had so dely ji delegitimized all those gate keepers and gone to an extreme of liberty and democracy that your opinion, your belief, your hunch, your feeling in your gut is equal to or superior to anybodys fact. The attack in manhattan, bob gates, and Kurt Andersen when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We begin tonight with a cbs evening news and the developing
Nuclear weapons in 1994 based on a commitment by the United States, the united kingdom, and russia guaranteeing ukraine easte ukraines territory. I think kim jongun looks at this and says Nuclear Weapons are the only way to guarantee the survival of my regime. Then kurt an dedersen and a k at his book, shofantasyland h america went haywire. Thats true of science or thats true of whatever. In america, we had so dely ji delegitimized all those gate keepers and gone to an extreme of liberty and democracy that your opinion, your belief, your hunch, your feeling in your gut is equal to or superior to anybodys fact. The attack in manhattan, bob gates, and Kurt Andersen when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We begin tonight with a cbs evening news and the developing