Welcome to the session of the 25th annual texas book festival. My name is Julie Schwietert collazo and im an author and im also the midrater of this panel, border stories, immigration, refuge and justice. And today im honored to be speaking with the writers who know a great deal about these subjects. Before we begin our conversation, i have a few housekeeping items to review. First, wed like to encourage you to leave mints and a chat box and skinned send kudos to our authors. If you have a question for an author pleasic the ask a question button which in crowd cast. The producerred will send me your questions and well get to as many of these questions as we can. One more housekeeping item. This is a bilingual panel. And in addition to serving as your moderator ill be doing double duty as your translator. This will work as follows. I will ask questions in english and then spanish, will translae answers in the same way. Over ore purist the translation will not be word for word. I will ta
As part of her summer series. Tonight you will hear from five of the last six men who have sat in the oval office. Now the practice of president s books, began with Thomas Jeffersons memoir in 1821. Eighteen president s since have written books prior to the 20th century, president ial memoirs were rare and Ulysses S Grant and mark was an exception since then, it is taken off since the 1950s. First of this evening, is one of our most prolific residents turned author. Jimmy carter. He is the author of 25 books including publicpolicy books, Foreign Policy books, a novel, and he is also written a Childrens Book which was illustrated by his daughter amy. In 2010, president carter appeared on book tv afterwards program where he discussed his white house diaries that he kept while he was in office from 1977 1981. Heres president carter being interviewed by president ial historian. Welcome to washington dc. It is wonderful to see you. I was wondering you fly in here, and you go over all of the
Protesters calling for the president to step down and it is the 2nd night of the Democratic National convention as joe biden edges closer to officially sealing the president ial candidates. The developing news in the past few hours that malis president abraham has resigned after being detained by soldiers in a coup he appeared on state television saying he had no choice but to step down as he didnt want any bloodshed west african bloc ico us has closed its borders with mali suspended financial flows within the country and to cope with the country im sorry and call for sanctions shelob else has all the details. The bamako residence of president Abraham Boubacar Kasia secure and heavily guarded but instead of keeping people out the soldiers were keeping him in. He and Prime Minister abuses say we detained here on tuesday confusion prevailed today with no explanation by the military or government until president keisha appeared on state television announcing his resignation. I want no blo
Rafik hariri and the 1st terrorism trial by an international court. And we take a look at the plight of the people in gaza as only power plant shuts down. Welcome to the program alis president Ibrahim Hooper kjetil has resigned after being detained by soldiers in a coup he appeared on state television saying that he had no choice but to step down as he didnt want any bloodshed the west african blog echo ours has closed its borders with mali suspended financial flows and called for sanctions charlotte dallas reports. The bamako residence of president Abraham Boubacar Kasia secure and heavily guarded but instead of keeping people out the soldiers were keeping him in he and Prime Minister boosts to say we detained here on chew. Day confusion prevailed today with no explanation by the military or government until president keisha appeared on state television announcing his resignation. I want no blood to be spilled to keep me in power and thats why i would like to think a 1000000 people fo
Lebanons former leader rafi careering in the 1st terrorism trial by an international court. And south africa is easing its long but months of restrictions may have already cost hundreds of thousands of tourism jobs. Welcome to the program alis president. Has resigned after being detained by soldiers in a coup he appeared on state television saying you had no choice but to step down as he didnt want any bloodshed west african bloc echo assholes close borders with mali suspended financial flows and called for sanctions charlotte dallas how small. The bamako residence of president abraham. Secure and heavily guarded but instead of keeping people out the soldiers were keeping him in he and Prime Minister abu says say we detained here on tuesday confusion prevailed today with no explanation by the military or government until president cases appeared on state television announcing his resignation. I will no blood to be spilled to keep me in power and thats why i would like to think a 100000