Next former congressman barney frank recounts his life and political career. This is 50 minutes. Thank you. Welcome, barney frank. [laughter] i was hoping that you could say a little bit about the story that you tried to tell in this book. [applause] it is there were two teams. A normal teenager in terms of my interest. 1954. Stand up. Smearing democrats. Fascinating. Something about racism dash chicago. And i wish i was. I watched. They can do that. At the same time i knew this was a terrible conflict. An executive order. Automatically disqualified. We were bad people, evil. And so i began to say, g, influential government and society. Ive never we will be because i am gay. By the time i retired there was this disparagement. 2012 when jan and i had married. Samesex marriage that turns out the the chair of the community of the financial services. As i got to be more influential in government government to be less influential in society. What i want i want to crusade for now is how peop
Overwhelming against it. I was drug czar, director of National Drug control policy, 8 990. We didnt have this kind of research then. We had some, smattering. But now it is overwhelming, the harm that marijuana does. And i just have to believe or want to believe the American People are not informed of these facts. And so the point of the book was to get these facts out so they can make a second judgment on this, an informed decision. Let me get to the end of my story. I think in colorado which has been kind of ground zero here, that they will reconsider at the end of the day. Host uhhuh. Guest try to put this jeepny back in the genie back in the boding and recriminallize because theyre starting to see the results. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. And its day two of booktvs lye coverage of the Los Angeles Times festival of books. On your screen the campus of the university of Southern California, home of this 20th annual festival. Yesterday we covered programs
Claudia rankin discusses her book, citizen an american lyric, a finalist for the National Book award. Hi, everyone welcome. Im Bridget Mullins a professor here at usc in the master of professional writing program and im so thrilled to be here with Claudia Rankin today. An and i want to thank the l. A. Times festival of books curators for asking me to be the moderator and the interviewer today because there are so many amazingly qualified people on this campus at the moment, and im just sitting in the catbird seat. Couple of announcements before we start. Please silence your cell phones. And theres a book signing following this session. The book signing is located at signing area one and its noted on the festival map in the center of the event program. And that personal recording is not allowed. So i as i just mentioned i am so delighted to be here with Claudia Rankin. Just by way of introduction, how many of you have read citizen . Oh, great. [laughter] this will be a conversation. Oka
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And turner communities into different kinds of communities. Ill explain what i mean, but first i want to tell you why that into this project. I dont know who this tourist is, but shes pretty. I went into doesnt forward to the chernobyl zone and wrote an article about it. An added or contacted me and wanted me to read the whole book about this Pivotal Moment in history. Theres about five books about chernobyl. I looked into it and i realize theres these two places in the world, these two plutonium plants that have more. Chernobyl is a household word. But whos heard of my word in this, handford. [inaudible] was there last summer. So i thought maybe id rather tell a story about these two places. As i started looking into it, i was concerned, why dont we know much about it . Of course, chernobyl was an accident that occurred in the course of a couple of days. The cameras rolled the next couple of months. It was a camera ready event. Same as fukushima. These places, these plutonium sides, t