Author timothy eagan. This is live coverage of the tucson book festival. Good morning, welcome, im going to be moderating this conversation this morning with timothy eagan. I want to expand thanks to cspan tv and book tv for sponsoring and will last approximately one hour, including questions and answers till the end of the panel immediately following the session tim will be autographing books at the bookstore, thats 153 by the university bookstores. Because youre enjoying the festival and im sure you all are, please consider joining the festival of the tucson festival of books. So become a friend by visiting the Student Union ballroom or go into our website. Out of respect for the author, please turn off your cell phones, now, if you would. This morning its our pleasure to have timothy eagan. The worst hard time and the National Best seller the big burn. Tims current book just released last week is entitled to immore eat irishman who became an american hero, a biography of thomas mar.
A booch pooch gets the run around. Bombshell revelations that suggest top penn state coaches administrators and officials, including the late joe paterno knew of sexual allegations as early as 1976. That is according to a claim in a Philadelphia Court made public just yesterday. The claim emerged in a dispute over whether the university or its Insurance Company should pay penn state share of about 60 million in settlements with 26 men, who say sandusky abused them when they were children. In those newly unsealed Court Documents wrote that the Insurance Company claimed that, quote, in 1976, a child reportedly reported to head coach Joseph Paterno that he was sexually molested by sandusky. The patternno family wrote once again, his reputation has been smeared with a 40 yearold allegation. The media hype, the paterno family is demanding a public review of the facts. Penn state released this statement. Were aware of the allegations, but the confidentiality agreement preclude us from discus
Please consider joining the friends of the tucsonoi festival of books. Your taxdeductibleyour taxdeductible contribution allows us to offer festival programming free of charge to the public and support critical literacy programs in the community. Out of respect for the author, please turn off your cell phones. This morning it is our pleasure to have with us timothy egan, pulitzer prizewinning New York Times columnist and author of seven books including the National Book awardwinning worst hard time. The National Bestseller the big burn. Tims current boat just released last week is entitled the immortal irishman, the Irish Revolutionary you became an American Hero and biography of thomas mark. I would like to begin by asking tim, may not be a household word, but there was a time when his name was a household word, both here and in ireland, but he has sadly been largely forgotten crowd, thank you. It is great to be here in this lovely arizona morning, huge crowd, cant believe it. People
It is my privilege to introduce professor Elizabeth Barron from the university of virginia who will speak on the election of 1864 in confederate eyes. I think this is a really important topic to address early on in this symposium so that we dont forget that there is a whole other conversation going on in other parts of the country. Professor baron got her bachelors degree from swathmore college. And then went on to teach at wellesley and temple before coming to university of virginia where shes the langborn williams professor of American History. And her first two books were from a womans point of view about womens opinions and activities in the south and in antibellum virginia. Then the biography of a spy in richmond, both of which were extremely well received and the biography won many awards. Then her next book was on disunion which was about the whole debate about the discussion of strategizing about possible breakup of the union dating from 1789 onwards. Most recently her book is
To join the conversation, like us on facebook cspan history. Next on American History tv, we continue our look at the 1864 president ial election between Abraham Lincoln and general george mcclellan, lincolns former commander the battle of potomac. Elizabeth varon examines the point of view from the confederates. This is hosted by the Lincoln Group of d. C. My name is katherine lincoln. Im a loyal member of the Lincoln Group of d. C. And its my pleasure and privilege to introduce professor Elizabeth Varon from the university of virginia who will speak on the election of 1864 in confederate eyes. I think this is a really important topic to address early on in this symposium so that we dont forget that there is a whole other conversation going on in other parts of the country. Professor varon has got her bachelors degree from Swathmore College and then went on to teach at wellsly yan temple before coming to the university of virginia where she is a professor of American History. Her firs