Hi everyone i am carolyn greer, the producer of the brooklyn book festival with my colleague ms. Koch. We are in our 12th year this season and so delighted to have all of the fabulous authors participating. This year we had a very special circumstance with this particular program. Which is very important and very compelling on the subject of refugees. We decided to go in a different direction and do it from reporters. Telling from their insight and experiences in the field. And what happened is actually some reporters that we were having come got stuck on current assignment in the field. For instance patrick kane was going to come in his book is quite wonderful and he cannot be here today. And Oscar Martinez in san salvador is doing an investigative report right now. And as of yesterday could not make it out of the country to be here. We are fortunate though to have a very nuanced and experienced reporter Deborah Campbell, with her book. And we have lauren wolf. We hope that you will e
Quite wonderful and he cannot be here today. And Oscar Martinez in san salvador is doing an investigative report right now. And as of yesterday could not make it out of the country to be here. We are fortunate though to have a very nuanced and experienced reporter Deborah Campbell, with her book. And we have lauren wolf. We hope that you will enjoy all the programming on cspan booktv live from brooklyn book festival today. Just keep reading. Here, a few more people. I just want to start off by saying first of all good afternoon. Thank you all for coming. I am lauren wolf. I will tell you about myself in a minute. Before we begin i want to let you know that books by deborah, you can purchase them from barnes and noble and of course all over the city. Also there is a booth that you can purchase it. Immediately after this festival deborah will be signing her book at the table h adjacent to this building. Before i introduce deborah, i am very excited to be here because refugees reporting i
You want to do better when you see the planet from that vantage point. Now joining us on booktv is biographer mar mark elliot whos written a biography about the hollywood icon. We are talking to him on booktv about politics. When did he become political . He was political for most of his life for the better part of the generation he saw action in world war ii off the coast of alaska he was on several missions because he was trained as a radio man and enlisted after pearl harbor. It took about a year to get him called him just before he left he married his wife, they were married for the next 65 years so he was in the illusion that they were about to invade japan for the final push and then the estimate was the army would lose up to a million men. So when the bombs were dropped on nagasaki, he was overjoyed, and even though that was a controversial move more so as the years went by, that kind of cemented the political point of view for the world war ii soldiers in the greatest generatio
Freedom. No wall they can build. Coverage of the baltimore book festival starting at nude eastern on cspan two book tv. Washington journal continues. Host we welcome back to our desk the congressman from virginia who know something about being back from congress. We want to hear your thoughts about the establishment backed candidate. Is that there it has not been enough commentary on the election in general. Againstot just President Trump it was all the way from Bernie Sanders. Of the way from the west. All the way through trump voters. There is a huge revolution going on back home. Knowst know if anyone what is really going on. My guess is that we have seen this black flat for about 40 years. They have been relatively flat for 40 years. The middle class knows something is going wrong. This is not the american dream. Their kids are not getting the jobs they want. You can see and the nfl there is frustration and anxiety. I think that is percolating under the scenes. The establishment do
And the books, from democracy to freedom. Watch the coverage of the 2017 baltimore book festival saturday at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv. Host congressman jerry conley, gerry connolly. The collapse of the Senate Republican Leadership Health care bill yesterday, and the loss of the Senate Republican leadership backed candidate and the chump backed candidate. The definition of insanity is you keep on repeating something that does not work. Repeal theto Affordable Care act has gotten tobad that they managed persuade the public so now we are pulling a majority of republicans favoring the program and a very small minority favoring the repeal. Thatyou see numbers like and you see the reaction back home in terms of the prospective loss, find some other line of work. To persist in that effort really was mad at us and does great and to the republican brand to the seriousness of their endeavor. I am glad a collapsed and i hope they will finally work with democrats to fix that which is broken