Ticket for having its an honor to be one of the most independent bookstores. They stand for saying that first of all, i will mention as one of americas great independent bookstores this book is available and we do have books all over the country and all over the world or if you are local we do offer instore browsing and curbside pickup, tell me a little bit about this book. I knew i wanted to write a book i have lots of ideas for the books, i had to have the first book, if you dont like this i wont write any others but if you do have lots of books in my head, i wrote different proposals to the publisher and i got rejected by lots of publishers a lot of authors do another one publisher who came to me from the press and his name is Stephen Power and if it wasnt for stephen i boudin to begin because it was unheard of in the public industry, he edited my proposal and sent it back to me and literally, that does not happen, he says rick if you write this book i will publish and i said i dont
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Came to do this show you heard about the hacking of twitter, the fact that trump asked out onto facebook get his message out. Facebook got a lot of criticism for a lot of things over the years, and actually wrote a column recently questioning why Mark Zuckerberg has not fact check the president. Tell us your take on this. What is this relationship between facebook and the white house, between facebook and free speech . Im going to throw you a big question to launch you off track you first, thank you for doing this. It is good to connect with you again to some virtual see. Like a lot of things you cant just keys out in the one problem of facebook from its dna and its origins. In the case of trump, obviously he wasnt a factor in the early days. It wasnt something they talked about in the dorm room when they started it up by the time Trump Campaign got rolling in 2015, this became an issue for facebook. It was lathered on top of sort of the messy way they dealt with controversial content.
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