clapping . Thank you so much clapping . Wow. Welcome to the peoples house of San Francisco. Historic. Historic day today for all of us for the struggles for many, many years i want to thank all of you for sharing this historic moment in San Francisco, california. Wow. Its been a long road. Many years but gosh it feels good to have love triumph overcome ignorance to have equal it triumph over discrimination to have that diagrams end right here in San Francisco. Wonderful, wonderful. Its a great place to be today in this hall where so many marriages have taken place and so many people have loved each other. Were the very first one with phyllis. Thank you phyllis thank you very, very much. And many more weddings to the celebrated in San Francisco many more. I know all of you have had some of those feelings before just maybe over 9 years ago and, of course, in 2008 when i had the prim of sharing that moment. I want to thank all the people behind me its an incredible history. Mayor willie b
Saturday, 12 and 9 p. M. On sunday, and 12 a. M. On monday. You can also watch after words online youre kind of booktv. Org and click on after words in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. Welcome today to a booktvs live coverage of the 2014 texas book festival held in austin, the state capital. Over the next six hours will hear from nine authors on such topics as social change an instant, the Death Penalty, the global history of train travel. Author and professor ilan stavans starts off with a discussion about his latest book, a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. Hello and welcome. Happy sunday morning, everybody. I name is nathan. Im here with ilan stavans, professor of latin american latino studies at amherst college, author of last time i counted about 10,000 books. The latest of which is a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. It is do you call it a graphic novel if its nonfiction . We have in
The Virginia Republican primary, even though cantor massively outspent brett. Cantor is the first House Majority leader to lose a primary in over a century. Will this mark the end of Immigration Reform push in washington . Peace laureates and over 100 academics have accused Human Rights Watch of being too close to the u. S. Government. We will host a debate. And we will look at the surge of children coming over the border into the United States. Over 1000 kids are now reportedly being held in a warehouse in arizona. We will speak with you was a prizewinning journalist sonia , asrio and Jose Luis Zelaya a child he left honduras in search of his mother. Years old, i was 13 i made the decision to come to the United States to be up to look for my mom. To come to this country and that theyth the woman said carried me and loved me. So for about 45 days, i took a journey from ponderous to the United States by myself. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, t
The Virginia Republican primary, even though cantor massively outspent brett. Cantor is the first House Majority leader to lose a primary in over a century. Will this mark the end of Immigration Reform push in washington . Peace laureates and over 100 academics have accused Human Rights Watch of being too close to the u. S. Government. We will host a debate. And we will look at the surge of children coming over the border into the United States. Over 1000 kids are now reportedly being held in a warehouse in arizona. We will speak with you was a prizewinning journalist sonia , asrio and Jose Luis Zelaya a child he left honduras in search of his mother. Years old, i was 13 i made the decision to come to the United States to be up to look for my mom. To come to this country and that theyth the woman said carried me and loved me. So for about 45 days, i took a journey from ponderous to the United States by myself. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, t
Welcome today to a booktvs live coverage of the 2014 texas book festival held in austin, the state capital. Over the next six hours will hear from nine authors on such topics as social change an instant, the Death Penalty, the global history of train travel. Author and professor ilan stavans starts off with a discussion about his latest book, a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. Hello and welcome. Happy sunday morning, everybody. I name is nathan. Im here with ilan stavans, professor of latin american latino studies at amherst college, author of last time i counted about 10,000 books. The latest of which is a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. It is do you call it a graphic novel if its nonfiction . We have in English Limited lexicon to address the growing genre of the graphic novels, graphic books. When hes a graphic book you really would have two meanings. It is illustrated or too violent and sexual. We need to nonfiction book