Member for the mississippi book festival. The visiting writer in residence at Mississippi Valley State University and the former chairman of the National Endowment for the humanities, where he was awarded. Where he awarded 500 million in grants to cultural universities. Scholars for seven years. He directed the nea operation homecoming, writing the wartime experience program, taught therapeutic writing workshops for u. S. Troops during their deployment on domestic bases and in military. He has published in humanities inside of Higher Education and the wall street journal and other. He has coedited an essay on flannery oconnor. Hello, so glad youre here. It is my distinct honor to introduce and to interview jeff shaara his new book which on notice signing is at 3 00 and i think youll to be there after you hear this and. And jeff is well known to us. Hes signed many of his books here, the state hes the author of more than 15 york times bestseller. As you certainly would know, gods and ge
More including the. Mexico along wh these Television Companies support cspan2 as a public service. And Emmy Awardwinning journalist and former executive spent 24 years at nbc to produce Network Political coverage longtime executive producer and managing editor news political programming. Currently she is executive director of the women in politicsti institute at American University t faculty member in e school helicopters. Shes been included in washingtons 50 most influentiae journalists and gq powerful people in washington. [applause] thank you all, its so nice not too far from my home town in orleans. [laughter] i feel like you are under oath now. An interesting discussion. No recollection of that. [laughter] we are here to talk about washington, we are obviously approaching your already consuming headlines across the country andnd become more so. The great panel today and i will start with an i introduction, te White House Correspondent for usa today and also covered the cut 2020 pr
Until. All of a sudden they really dont. That point is a little bit too late, so while its a terrific book and i just want to remind everybody, ben and jonathan are going to be signing copies of their book at 1215. So we hope you will out and join them for that. And appreciate everyone being here of applause for a moderator, wasnt she really. Jon Parrish Peede is a board member for the mississippi book festival. The visiting writer in residence at Mississippi Valley State University and the former chairman of the National Endowment for the humanities, where he was awarded. Where he awarded 500 million in grants to cultural universities. Scholars for seven years. He directed the nea operation homecoming, writing the wartime experience program, taught therapeutic writing workshops for u. S. Troops during their deployment on domestic bases and in military. He has published in humanities inside of Higher Education and the wall street journal and other. He has coedited an essay on flannery
Award winning journalist and former tv news executive. She spent 23 years at nbc where she produced Network Political coverage and served as the longtime executive of meet the press with tim russert. She also was the managing editor of nbc news political program. Currently, she is executive director of the women in Politics Institute at American University and a faculty member in their School Public affairs. She also has provided on air analysis to several television networks, including cbs news, msnbc, nbc news and cnn. And shes been included in washingtons best and most influential journalist sites. And gq is powerful people in washington. Thank you all. Its so nice to be in jackson, mississippi. Not too far from my hometown in new orleans, i see an lsu shirt here. Go, tigers, go tigers. And i feel since were the Supreme Court, i feel like these guys are under oath now. So be ready for a really interesting discussion with our. I have no recollection of that. We were here to talk insi
I want to get a few points across please put your cell phone on silent. If you would like to share on social bdm ago to a book festival. Thank you. Welcome to the session on southern history and we also want to thank our sponsor for this session. I would like to introduce you to robert who will be our moderator for today. He is a member of the board of directors for the mississippi book festival as well as a director for the center at Jackson State University whereja hhes also a professor. He is also an author. Thank you and welcome. Glad to see everyone here this afternoon. Im going to go down and introduce our panelists today. First, we have to my immediate left adrienne is the author of water tossing boulders help of chinese immigrants led the first sitedevice to desegregate schoon the south. She currently serves as managing editor of the daily paper in williamsburg virginia and at the school of journalism recently served as the writer an and a resident at the delta State University