Will be doing a call in program with cspan said he cannot sign books until 4 00 then he will have a very short window before he passed to catch his flight t consign books from 4 00 through 4 20 p. M. I hope you can catch him then. [laughter] that is at the bookstore attend on the ball at the university of arizona bookstore they are purchased at that location if you are enjoying the festival we encourage you to become a friend of the festival your taxdeductible donation allows to offer programming free of charge learn more about friends of the festival benefits that the information with our at tucson book festival website at of respect for the author and fellow audience members please turn off yourself comes at this time if he thinks you have please double check to make sure it is actually off. With that i am very pleased to introduce the founding dean of the university of California School of law which the six short years as one of the finest law schools in the country. A prolific scho
Every weekend, booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, on cspan 2 keep watching for more television for serious readers. Booktv is live this weekend from the tucson festival of books. Start agent 1 00 p. M. Eastern 10 00 a. M. Pacific well be covering several author panel on topics such as race and politics, Supreme Court, environment, immigration, and more. All this live from the university of arizona the site of the seventh annual tucson festival of books. I give an example in god, guns, grits and gravy of this guy who is heading green peace in europe, and so he is all about wanting to reduce co2 emissions. But in all of an audit of green peace shows he is flying from his home to lux. Boring a couple of times a month, and the output of co2 he is expending because of his jet travel is like 100 times that of the average person. And so when confronted about it, here was his answer. He said well, the train trip would take 12 hours and that would be time away from my f
6 37 tonight to talk about labor in the southwest. Most of all we are delighted to be here at the tucson festival of books with this to talk about abortion and politics politics 202 is the area code 74882000 for the city in Eastern Central timezone 7488201 for those of you in the mountain and pacific timezones. Katha pollitt welcome to booktv in tucson. Thanks for being with us. Thank you so much for having me. Host when did we as a nation start having discussions debate about the issue of abortion . Guests oh well in one sense there has been a very long debate going back to the 19th century which was when abortion was criminalized. A lot of people dont know that abortion was legal in the United States until after the civil war in most states. Then there was a big campaign against abortion and Birth Control and became completely illegal even to send information through the mail. It remained that way until the 60s. Host that when you say was legal was it because it wasnt illegal or was
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