Welcome to the 2019 mississippi book festival. This morning we celebrate the fifth anniversary of her literary long party. [applause] we are honored to have so many distinguished authors and friends join our celebration from the Mississippi State capital. Today more than 170 authors will visit with thousands of booklovers making connections through the love of books and the written word. Cspan has been with us since the very beginning and we are grateful for the partnership we start today by recognizing the readers to mississippi culturally a landscape. The writers trail is an ever list the places all over the state that mark significant places in the lives of mississippi authors. Ida b wells and richard ford are the very best writers. Two is famous for Investigative Journalism. And ford is famous for his novels. The hardhitting pieces about lynching of the 20th century achieve such notoriety that was known by some as the most famous black woman in america. Her marker will be placed in
Cox, along with these television companies, support cspan2 as a public service. Having recently joined the mississippi book festival board of directors, i have the pleasure of working with scott on the board. Hes something of a lifer, hes been on the board since the very beginning of the book festival in 2015. Scott is also a member of the Mississippi Arts Commission and the Mississippi Institute of arts and letters. He is an artist, champion of the arts, a coowner of cat books in gulf port. Thank you very much, and welcome to our session this morning on nature and the environment. For most of my life my entry to American History was through the biographies of our founding fathers, washington, jefferson, and then threw to lincoln, frederick douglass, theodore roosevelt, Martin Luther king, shirley chisholm, henrietta lacks, james baldwin, dwight eisenhower, among many others. But then two years ago i was fortunate enough to read jack davis the bald eagle. And then whole new world open
Thank you gentlemen thank you so much for coming to this discussion would also like to thank our sponsors the Mississippi Arts Commission and please be reminded that the panelist will be signing autographs, their autographs outside in the author 10. If you need a copy of of the book you can go to the book tent. Thank you. This is book tv lives coverage of the first annual mississippi book festival held in the state capital in jackson. Theres an author panel discussing native daughter eudora wealthy who won the pulitzer in 1971 for her book the optimist daughter. The next author panel will begin in about half an hour. Well bring that to live as well. While we wait heres an interview conducted recently with mississippi native author john grisham. So john grisham what are you doing in new york city question mark. The mpa happens every year, signs and books this morning, hanging out last year we were here and had a lot of fun. Carl and i were on stage for about an hour and we could have go
Now, on your screen, is a live picture of the Old Supreme Court chamber in the Mississippi State capitol. Booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and well be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here . How is this actuaos [inaudible conversations] one day i asked myself how did they get here in the first place . How is this possible . To investigate and found the most astonishing thing. To be traced back to three people. One was brandenburg who had spent his life investigating the properties of the human ear steadying frequencies that were inaudible. And he came up with the md three encoder to shrink the compact disc by 90 percent. But he could not monetize the invention and was locked out and in desperation 1995 he posted it as a free public down the road to a his website within a c
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Schiff, for five minutes. Mr. Schiff mr. Speaker, for nearly three years, the arab middle east, an enormous arc stretching from the atlantic to the indian ocean, has been in turmoil, millions frustrated by a lack of Economic Opportunity, repressive politics and a social structure often at odds with the modernity, have taken to the streets demanding change. Their future hangs in the balance with the former regimes on one side and the religious rule on the other. Faced with these daunting realities, the Obama Administration maybe in the midst of a strategic reevalua