dinner later that same day for wounded soldiers. and i might hop around a little more and talk about writing, about the military which i have done i want to do more of it. i am a recent father and want to hang out with my baby and talk about my baby but i won t do that tonight. somewhere between e elizabeth and prince senate looked at my speedometer and realized i was going 120 miles per hour. in my mind i was in the desert driving home the. we were spraying fire everywhere me driving with my left hand and my m-16 in my right and the barrel out my window and letting loose on first. didn t care who or what i hit. i let the engine dropped speed slowly. in the shoulder ahead of me and i changed and his leader truck. i first thought was a vehicle born explosive device and then i saw the white and child holding hands in the rear of the vehicle. they waved. the man wore dirty overalls. in black and white it could have been a scene out of a novel by steinbeck. people driving beat
bill. so this is the life and legacy of greta got king, and is greta scott king. yes. .. and so right it, 68, april 4th , the manuscript in the mailbox. got the news that evening. my father had been a fast assassinated. at that time i came to a atlanta to help mother with the funeral arrangements and then the children put the first couple of years and helping my mother with the establishment. at that time my mother said, you know, maybe a want to write my own life story. in 1969. it is no longer in print. in 2004 and 66 she knew about the manuscript, very much wanted to completed. said, why don t you go ahead and complete the manuscript in 2004. of course, i needed, again, to do some more work because from 66 to a 2004 law had happened. as a result of a few months, maybe a year later on mother became ill. so she could not focus. sixteen months later my sister passed. 2008, 2009, she started completing this particular book. a had a conversation with her one day. she said
sure was great. .. [applause] this is such a treat for me because david and i are old friends. when we worked at the washington post, we always knew when you wrote a particularly delicious piece of copy because david would send a little notes and i still remember that years later to read this book was so wonderful to dive into. most people in this room have fled much about barack obama and every chapter you learn new things about him but you also learn how much about this country. when i first talked to you about this it wasn t clear that you were writing a biography is why you to tell me a little bit as we begin about the process how you came to write this particular book, was in the book he planned to write? i think it was a less ambitious book and maybe even more focused on the question of race and less biographical but it became clear in research the more it became a biography full-blown and i fully expect 20 years from now or however many years from now some new ro
there is a lot of fans that read wired but even then when we added the board and pick the six popular ones and then added for titles to sort of introduce some diversity into a list of finalists, people still a broad group of people really decided they wanted gail s look and they think that anything anyone read in high school or college, people didn t necessarily want to read a project. they wanted to read something new. what is the process here? had people already started reading american gods? good heavens, yes. we have a lot of traffic. at least as successful as they could have wished, probably more. in fact, we are as they keep saying this is one big experiment. one book, one twitter, one big experiment. if no one has ever tried to conduct a global book club before and it is so international that there is no inactivity overnight, because that is when all the people, everywhere from india to poland are reading the book and reading about it or goes so, it is what we ha
spoke about his book at politics and prose bookstore in washington, d.c. this event is 45 minutes. well, i m always happy to come to politics and prose. i never get as good audiences in any bookstore i speak in as in this one. and as barbara said, this is the third time i ve had the pleasure of speaking here. i came to this book in a police car way. peculiar way. i was teaching at beirut university as barbara mentioned. i was asked to do some research and i responded i can t do any research on soviet-middle east policy. see if you have any literature and see if you can make some of the contradiction and i realized many knew none of the history of the politics, culture or anything else of the middle east. they knew no mideastern language than i do. and i never claimed i knew russian but because of the generosity of our government in translating a huge volume of materials from the russian current digest of the soviet press and an english-speaker like myself had access to