Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living under a rock you know about mark levitch and his book this town that caused a lot of stir and conversation. Number one New York Times best seller followed up with a collection of his fantastic articles over the years called sitcitizen ci
Will be doing a call in program with cspan said he cannot sign books until 4 00 then he will have a very short window before he passed to catch his flight t consign books from 4 00 through 4 20 p. M. I hope you can catch him then. [laughter] that is at the bookstore attend on the ball at the university of arizona bookstore they are purchased at that location if you are enjoying the festival we encourage you to become a friend of the festival your taxdeductible donation allows to offer programming free of charge learn more about friends of the festival benefits that the information with our at tucson book festival website at of respect for the author and fellow audience members please turn off yourself comes at this time if he thinks you have please double check to make sure it is actually off. With that i am very pleased to introduce the founding dean of the university of California School of law which the six short years as one of the finest law schools in the country. A prolific scho
Andrei cherny formerly of the Democratic Party. [applause] dot everybody can say that in arizona and get applause. But the book readers are what we call the base. [laughter] dot thank you for that. Currently the ceo of aspiration. Com. Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living u
Every weekend, booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, on cspan 2 keep watching for more television for serious readers. Booktv is live this weekend from the tucson festival of books. Start agent 1 00 p. M. Eastern 10 00 a. M. Pacific well be covering several author panel on topics such as race and politics, Supreme Court, environment, immigration, and more. All this live from the university of arizona the site of the seventh annual tucson festival of books. I give an example in god, guns, grits and gravy of this guy who is heading green peace in europe, and so he is all about wanting to reduce co2 emissions. But in all of an audit of green peace shows he is flying from his home to lux. Boring a couple of times a month, and the output of co2 he is expending because of his jet travel is like 100 times that of the average person. And so when confronted about it, here was his answer. He said well, the train trip would take 12 hours and that would be time away from my f
Tucson a book festival on booktv. [inaudible conversations] please a and gentlemen will come to the nation magazine 150th birthday party. [applause] we are here at the tucson festival box with cspan booktv we have folks across america looking bad we are delighted to have them join us. [applause] my name is john and i write about politics with the nation. Is indeed dead is celebrating its 150th anniversary. 150 years of travel rousing and agitate the and investigating an objecting to call out the ugly of uses of Corporate Power to embrace the duty of movements for social and economic justice. [cheers and applause] it has spent zero long journey of 150 years we had to figure out where we would go with the pit. 4 the next 150 and we decided look at terry for the sun to soften several books because were told day pineda little speaker truth to power. [laughter] [applause] pooley are here to celebrate and highlight the courage to work of the nation and does. We dont want to spend too much ti