U. S. Senate debate between two leading candidates senator ron johnson and former senator Russ Feingold. Tonights event originates from green bay, wisconsin as wl u. K. Tv. At wluk t hymie is lambeau field, the symbol for excellence. Tonights debate continues the longstanding commitment to excellence and public service. The debate is underwritten by foundation and the Wisconsin Association of independent colleges and universities. Radiobeing broadcast on and television stations across wisconsin and on cspan. ,ets go to our moderator member of the wnba hall of fame and professor of integrity, joe geisler. Our goal tonight is a debate that helps voters make choices. Thatanelists ask questions are relevant, factbased, and fair. Candidates answer with specifics. No ducking, dodging, or changing the subject. The panelists have researched and done their part. We are incorporating a social so that we can pitch in on a topic or two. Viewers can do this via wbad ebate. Wbadebate. There counting
Decider. To adjudicate competing worldviews and privatization, deregulation and austerity these are the buzzwords that have become common sense. If we live in that kind of state we have the other thing going on. My book has that assumption but in each case to give us a bigger story what it means to be nobody. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Be change you are watching booktv on cspan2. Live coverage of the southern festival of books in downtown nashville was the last soccer panel of the day the look at violence in africanamericans throughout history. Offers Patrick Phillips and jason ward. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the southern festival of books and this particular session. Standing against oppression, racial historical violence. It is our pleasure to welcome two distinguished authors to our panel, doctor Patrick Phillips and doctor jason ward. We will have presentations by both Patrick Phillips and jason ward and after both panelists are finished
The firm was founded in 1923. Began publishing mostly trade books. The original book had academic plant to them because mr. And mrs. Norton like to go to the peoples institute which is a sort of adulteducation branch, cooper union in new york city and one can imagine mrs. Norton tugging and saying, someone should publish these lectures. It was mr. Norton kept his day job in importexport industry but began to published from the peoples institute. We were first founded at peoples Institute Press and operated under that name for three years. Mr. Norton 1926, the firm was reincorporated as w. W. Norton and company, he quit job in the industry and became a fulltime publisher. How long was mr. Norton active . He was with the firm for 19 years, 1926, he died unfortunately rather suddenly in 1945 after which the firm began an evolution through the generosity of mrs. Norton who was incredibly proud of this publishing that she and her husband had started. By the mid 1950s or formerly in late 195
Debate, most of the important work has already been done. It is informative to watch, but it is not necessarily the real business being done. Its actually not rational for most voters to spend a lot of time informing themselves about politics. Because most voters have complicated lives. Informing yourself about politics it takes a lot of time for very little reward. I find it rewarding to study politics because i find it fascinating. But the probability of one voter casting the pivotal vote in an election is pretty much less than the probability of getting struck by lightning. So, its not really rational to invest a lot of time learning about politics unless you enjoy learning about politics for its own sake. Because it is not rational for individual voters to do that, you wind up with a lot of voters who are relatively poorly informed. The problem is the if the electorate as a whole is poorly informed, then you wind up with the possibility of bad decisions been made where income and i
Authors and publishers. Lots of attendees today. Nadir watching ralph nadir sign books right now. [inaudible conversation] mr. Nadir discussing selfies. All three of these authors just c concluded their author discussions live on booktv at the brooklyn book festival. The sun is peaking through. Looks like we are in the clear. Lots of people in attendance today. The festival has several author discussions. If you are here today go ahead and post videos, pictures from this event using the bkbf for brooklyn book festival. I am going to go ahead and leave this signing and wonder around. Peeking through we are outside the brooklyn law school. In the courtyard there a few tents setup. Brooklyn law school. The line for signing. We are more panels after the one that is currently airing that will be covered live on cspan2 booktv. Booktv is live from new york city. This is an author panel from the brooklyn book festival on immigration and it begins now. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you have c