Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and theres a place to buy copies of the books and take them to the tent and have them signed. Follow us out when we leave. To the left, george packer, staff writer for the new yorker magazine, author of asass sins gate, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, written two novels and two Nonfiction Books, a play off broadway, and lives this brooklyn, new york, the new book called the unwinding inner hist
Hemorrhoids, a number of things doing 75,000 miles on horse back, and into this moment of trying to get to the plains of venezuela, a tremendous force, huge Expeditionary Force under the spaniards fighting to keep grip on the colony, in comes the american agents and one of whom was famously a reporter who came down and sort of freelanceing information back to the president and his cabinet and he was not treated well. You can just imagine. They had a scribbling pad in the middle of the revolution, and he was not treated well. The reports sent back to washington were absolutely scathing, a man with that polian ambitions, and you couldnt say anything worse to an american than to a man with those ambitions. Were talking about 1815 and forward. Slavery was one of the gordon wood described it well, and it was our gmp, it was slavery was huge, and the worst thing that washington could imagine, talking about washington as it was very, the the reputation began to get worse and worse in the Unit
Aspects enthusiastic role inn aspects of the promotion. Estivas planning and promotion. Im instructed to remind you this presentation is being taped and you should stay off of the risers located in the back of the pavilion. At the National Book festival in 2001, the final event of what was then a oneday festival was a presentation by scott curt in the Madison Building about his extraordinary biography of charles lindbergh. Scott is back with us today and it is both a pleasure and honor to introduce him for the second time at this festival. Ive known scott for 35 years. He came to miami where i was then living in 1978, promoting his wonderful biography of maxwell perkins. I adjust the year before published one of max perkins authors and so scott and i struck up a friendship that is persistent, although i must say a great physical distance ever since. You know scott is the author of maxwell perkins, is the author of lindbergh, as the author of a wonderful memoir of katharine hepburn. And
On booktv on cspan 2. Good afternoon. I am so glad to see all of you here on this Beautiful Day to join a National Book festival. Mine is in a Community Affairs at wells fargo for the midatlantic region. And so want to be here representing wells fargo is both an avid reader myself. I really dont remember a time in my life when i wasnt an avid reader. I just loved reading. I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina and had the benefit of the library account be an adjacent to backyard. But at the library of congress obviously, but its a wonderful asset to the community. Around the corner to parents to pick out books and am feeling very, very grown up when i got to go by myself to check out books myself. Ive attended here today come you must all know books can take you to foreign lands and give you a different perspective about your neighborhood. They can introduce you to people that came generations before and connect people in real time. My favorite incident happened to me when i
When did you write this question mark this . I wrote that 13 years ago. When i started, i had this feeling about wilson that he is still with us and that is why i wanted to write the book. Ive always been fascinated with wilson. I thought that of all the president and unites get and century, he lingers. White question mark i think there are several reasons, one is some of the programs that wilson initiated that are with us to this day. I think the foundation to the economy and the Federal Reserve system goes back to wilson. Certainly, our Foreign Policy is rooted in a speech that woodrow 1917. Gave in he said that he wanted to wanted to make the world safe for democracy. All of our Foreign Policy decisions since then, for good or ill, are rooted in that. That is something. The other reasons i wanted to write about wilson were thats. Here were ideals and ideas he was so highminded and i do not think that we have had a president who is as highminded as wilson. I think that is a good thin