Two friends and fellow activist, jane and amber. The last time that we were together was protesting washington d. C. So its just perfect we are here with our favorite washington d. C. Politics and prose store. Im counting the days we are able to do that again. They need is greater than ever and hope all of you will read this book and then join us when we protest again. Joining us in california where it is so dark outside on the smoke that looks like its the middle of the night. Its very disorienting and the compelling need for protest is just so apparent. Im almost at the loss of words about how extreme the situation is. So jane fonda needs no introduction. We all know her illustrious legendary awardwinning acting career, currently with the netflix it which i i really recommend. Diabetes. As blizzard decades long work of being an activist and an ally for critically important social and Environmental Justice issues. Everybody knows jane the actor inching activist. I want to introduce a
Book row dwindled until after next three years this grant is the sole survivor now run by thirdgeneration owners. I want to thank all of you for your support. Without oil demand booklovers and authors like carl and steve we wouldnt be here today. So tonight rex had to with us carl hoffman and steve benen for a double book club. Carl is a former contribute editor at wired and National Geographic traveler and is travel on assignment to 80 countries. Picky set author of five books, savage harvest was in your times editors choice, New York Times bestseller, the Washington Post notable book of the year come has been translated into nine languages. The last wild man was a finalist for the Book Competition and edgar award. Lunatic express was named one of the ten best books of the year by the wall street journal. Tonight marks the launch of its latest book, liars circle a strange and terrifying journey into the upsidedown world of trumps maga rallies. Stephen is produced on the Rachel Maddow
Of congress about the books they are reading. Joining is now on book tv tom cole a republican from oklahoma, congressman wiebe asked you this question before, youve always had a large reading list, what is on your current reading list. I just finished the splendid and the vile by eric larson, wonderful account of him and his family, there in the worst year of the war right after becomes Prime Minister in 1940, the day of the german invasion in the countries in france and basically what it was like to stand alone against not see germany until june of 41 the russians are in the war and obviously by december 41, the United States is in the war, youve seen the book, its a wonderful read about a guy that i consider the greatest person of the 20th century and the supreme ordeal of long and brilliant career, ive also been reading, i just picked up the greatest story of the name of jean edward smith, great biographer, i read his biographies a grant in eisenhower, by far the best eisenhower bio
Ticket for having its an honor to be one of the most independent bookstores. They stand for saying that first of all, i will mention as one of americas great independent bookstores this book is available and we do have books all over the country and all over the world or if you are local we do offer instore browsing and curbside pickup, tell me a little bit about this book. I knew i wanted to write a book i have lots of ideas for the books, i had to have the first book, if you dont like this i wont write any others but if you do have lots of books in my head, i wrote different proposals to the publisher and i got rejected by lots of publishers a lot of authors do another one publisher who came to me from the press and his name is Stephen Power and if it wasnt for stephen i boudin to begin because it was unheard of in the public industry, he edited my proposal and sent it back to me and literally, that does not happen, he says rick if you write this book i will publish and i said i dont
Thank you for watching wherever you are and really thrilled with engagement level weve had with all of you. Well be doing a lot of fun stuff, and pretty compelling conversations in the fall. I would say would probably not be doing any inperson events since 2021 which is a bit of a bummer obama but we want to be safe and smart with what we are doing. We will keep bringing you guys interesting conversations with authors, so we have everything from a wonderful event coming up in october, a conversation you wont want to miss. Everything from that to a conversation with matthew mcconaughey. If thats not a wideranging list of events, its going to be quite a fall so stay tuned. You can follow all our defense on magic city books. Com. I will go through the whole list here. Tonight im so thrilled to have a conversation with mychal denzel smith in the book that seems like it was written for the moment were living in, although books are written quite a bit before the published in print it and Eve