Reading your book, maybe i am reading in to this but did you talk with the queen in crafting your book . Well, the queen, as a policy and is probably sensible from her standpoint, which is that in her entire 60 year reign she has never given an interview and that has helped probably to preserve her mystique and is kept her from having to pick and choose who she might give interviews to. I was lucky to meet her three times and private social settings and i describe her three times in the book. At each of them was brief, but revelatory and in each case it gave little glimpses of that private side, that gaiety of spirit, the flash of wit and so, they were very valuable to me. I also watched her a lot in different settings. I traveled with her overseas. I traveled with her around the u. K. So i could see how she interacted with people. In addition to interviewing people there were lots of other ways that i developed my sense of who she is and how she goes about her job. Was she aware that
She played an amalgam of maybe about a woman who just got caught after 30 years [inaudible] susan something or other. Went back in the joint. So patty plays one of these women who was a terrorist and has been in jail and is up for parole hearing, and the person who has been her parole officer, played by debra winger, is interrogating her, trying to decide whether to let her go or not. I think its pretty cute. Youre going to leave humming selections from marx. And who could ask for anything more. Thank you very much. Plawps plawps block. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] block. Thank you everyone. Get home safely. Good night. Good night. For more information visit the authors web site. David mamet. Com. Up next on book tv, after afterwards with. This week, filmmaker oliver stone and peter kuzck sunday the untold history of the United States and they say the leaders must first face the countrys troubling history of drifting further away from its democratic traditions. One or bo
Bomb and it always fascinated me because i was born the year after it dropped, and a controlled and my father was republican and conservative and served in world war ii with eisenhower. So obama everything we did was in the shadow. I was curious about it. He said the story does have another origin and he went into the 1930s and hes written a book about the scientists but above all he mentioned a figure in 1944 he was bumped by the political bosses. And that led of course to the 45 decision by truman so now we begin the origin of the current idea for the documentary or movie and he wrote the script, it didnt work for me, but that story the other day he is still teaching the class and we decided to go ahead and do a documentary. Not one hour turned into a bigger, our arms were bigger than our stomachs and i think we tried for 12 Hours National Security State story from 1940s to now in the expansionary war and ended up in 2012 but we started in the series now the book we decided this is g
Between in doing so risks grave consequences and the rush of isolated internationally. As you israeli president shimon peres has made his chinese counterpart she didnt seem to be seen. The two leaders are expected to discuss cooperation in fields of science and technology to chinese billionaire li ka shing lost it in a two hundred and thirty Million Dollars to the user of Technology Institute to play for boston based in pay raises. Theres a scheduled to hold talks with chinese vice premier shine shine his light brightness that benjamin is in your last visit to china in may twenty thirteen when he next to the countrys top leaders to extend to restart peace talks with palestinians as soon as possible. Traditionally china has maintained a blend of middle east. Missy has had close relations with the palestinians decades the us to fix it reached it he too has been treated to a new cheaper each other this three day visit to china the chief of the two met with his chinese counterparts to disc
Elizabeth williamson who has family in the area i just learned has written an incredible book and has come to wisconsin to talk to us about sandy hook. I dont that sandy hook has a topic needs introduction though having been in the news more and more often over the last couple of weeks just means that ive been reliving and also celebrating the fact that elizabeth is going to be here to talk to us about it. This book is so important it is not just to look at a tragedy is look life after a tragedy and how people and communities recover from one experience one and where we go. Id like to turn it over to elizabeth williamson. Thank you. Thanks so much connor and thank you all for coming. Thank you for the invitation. Come here for the 20th anniversary of the festival. You. I join you at a pretty moment for this topic because just this past week, a jury in waterbury delivered a nearly 1 billion verdict against alex jones in the damages trial brought by the families of eight sandy hook victi