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Everything on my mind of what had happened the other night. Last night i had gotten a house, what about tonight . I had to sleep in the car tonight. I might get a good deal tonight. What will happen . How will i get home today . I want to thank everybody, a few people to thank. I want to thank the festival of the book. I want to thank amnesty international, a lot to help me get here. I want to thank bill for the introduction, and my one man publishing super power team. And an incredible other book, the black history of the white house. Max and so many other activists across the country, take back the land and other housing disorganization as i definitely the reason i am here because they educated me to everything. I want to thank the family that are struggling, actually fighting back against one of the worst crises, financial, social, physical that this country had gone through. Without their willingness to talk to me. None of this would be here. So i am going to speak about my first b
Time, she was 11 and it was in the middle of a massive heat wave. It was at least 100 degrees, people had died in the city for lack of having airconditioning. No airconditioning in their home so all the lights were off, trying to keep the home cool. She is standing in the middle of her living room in the dark sweating, and i asked her could you tell me about your familys egyptian two years ago . She closes her eyes. This is the story she told me and it is important to say when children tell stories it is important for journalists to fact check them and verify some stuff because childrens memories are not necessarily always the most factual and every single one of her details checked out. It was probably the most powerful telling that i heard throughout reporting this entire book. The police were at the door running footsteps on the stairs and martha biggs, this is big as. Then Gemayel Biggs remembered the founding of this followed by the deliberate side of a battering ram. She and her
Online discussion of the biography of stoically, michael. Look for the booktv tab at booktv. Org. One thing that is interesting about politics and movements in the 60s in a way that i think is different from our contemporary society is activism was something that in a large manor was considered it had an impact on popular culture. This is something we take for granted in the sense carmichael is not a rock star. Not to diminish him but a context of what happens when somebody who has that look, this activist where the cameras are all over, who was on the cover of every magazine in essence, all these different magazines, time, life, all these covers, very enormously charismatic, was married to this beautiful woman. How do they proceed in the black community but internationally . An iconography of the e way. Black panther party. Not just a Political Party but a party that images are seductive and attractive. When we think about all of that it is wrapped up in there. Not only a formidable a
And also very good about corruption. They went to get installed of big guns. That this is where were going is what fascinates me. Gaul other than the revelation i thank you had a lot of fun writing the book. Then you think now what am i going to do . But i really felt it was fun. Yes. Is there a movie deal . We are working on it. [applause] i will not say anything until it happens. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] here is in the house we have the book for sale on the counter. That was a wonderful presentation. Give her another hand. [applause] [inaudible conversations] host joining us now on booktv, what do you write about . The latest book is called the eyes on target about the navy seals but it is different about the culture culture, what makes them different and unique. They spend millions of dollars to discover how when a navy seal is made what makes some people make it through basic training and 70 fail their luck at demographics and family background and