Thank you, chris, and thank you all for being here today. Delighted you got off to such a good start for the mississippi book festival. To put our best foot forward, put on a court and tie, and governor barbour wore socks in the summer. Anyway, before i make the introductions of the panel, i see former governor william winner in the audience. Were so glad to have you. [applause] and i saw former governor ronny muss grove earlier but i dont know whether he is in here, but he is on the grounds, too. So were glad so many people have turned out. Let me just briefly introduce each member of the panel. The one thing that struck me ive read all of the books, and how its, again, reminder how small and swim hat and interconnected we are in this state because there are characters in these books that appear in more than one book. One member of the panel appears in more than one of the books and its a reminder again of how we really kind of all together in this state. But beginning on my far right
Thanks very much and im very happy to be or to get to talk with julia about a book which is what directly. I think there are very few cities that are able to encapsulate the entire country into a Rio De Janeiro does for peoples impression of brazil. I think there are very few books that capture a seat in its entirety as well as this book does about rio. I think what were going to do his julianne is going to begin by reading an excerpt and talk love it among ourselves and open to discussion up to the audience. So without further ado i will let her read a chapter from the book. Thank you all for being here. I really appreciate. This is a little section from the introduction. It started as a process of tapping like inpatient fingers on the desktop. I was on deadline hunched over my desk in the back corner of the associate press newsroom in San Francisco trying to block out the ringing phones and the reporter chatter. This was october 2009 their president obama plan to Reform Health care w
You will find the candidates, speeches and debates and most importantly your questions. This year road to the white house coverage is in classrooms across the country letting them decide the most important questions for the candidates. Join the coverage on tv, on the radio, and online at cspan. Org. Host welcome to booktv in prime time. Tonight we want to show you some of the panels and authors we have covered at book festivals throughout the year. We will show you panels from vegas, mississippi, harlem. We have a panel on harper lee from the mississippi book festival coming up first. Harper lee panel. [applause] thank you. I thank you. I like being called an expert. I am Anderson Nelson and i want to welcome you to the mississippi book festival and the harper lee considered. I will introduce the panel and we will jump in and the last ten minutes are reserved for audience questions. You can go up to that mike if you questions. This is my panel. We have sterling plumpp first. The editor
Mississippi author, shelby foote. Any understand offering this nation has to be based on an noning of the civil war. The civil war deoffendded us as what we are and it opened us to what we game, good and bad. Its necessary if youre going to understand the american character of the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the 19th 19th century. The crossroads of our being and a hell of a crossroads. Id like to crow introduce my kole legs. On the far right is timothy smith. Mike mallard, justin solonick, and tom parson and ill pitch it to tim. Its beautiful to be here with you today. I think what well do first is tell you a little bit about ourselves and introduce ourselves. My name is tim smith. I live in tennessee. I teach at the university of tennessee at martin. And mississippian at heart, though. A native mississippian, grew up in carrollton and went to ol mississippi misstate, got degrees from both somehow. Egg bowl day im a winner either way. My publications in ter
[applause] the former mississippi Governor Haley barbour needs no introduction. You are familiar with the many years of work in the nations capital, and also hes a man that gets around on the world stage. I was talking several years ago to develop mississippian and novelist who asked the time was doing a teaching summit in dublin and he was wandering around the campus kind of exploring his new settings and he opens the door to the lecture hall and there is Haley Barbour lecturing on International Politics in front of them rightparen ireland. So a governor with many talents but i will say what we have may have been the most significant chapter in mississippi was the politician Public Servant began ten years ago this week as the wind began gathering into what would become the monster storm of hurricane katrina. Over the next years the governor, his wife marcia and First Responders and Public Officials followed from mississippi and the gulf coast worked tirelessly and absolutely an unchar