Im the provost at the university of tennessee at martin and tiff pleasure of hosting this session, shared history, americans of hispanic and african decent. Southern festival books remains completely free thanks to Strong Community support f youd like to donate to support the festival, you can do so on site at the Festival Headquarters or online via the humanitys tennessee website. You can purchase copies of the books that will be discussing today at the books sales area which is up on the Memorial Plaza and after the session both of our authors will be signing books at the signing tent. Our session today is going to focus on two books, dr. Kerry gibsons book el norte, epic and forgotten story of hispanic north america and Kristina Coles american founders how people after african decent established freedom in the new world. In just a minute we will hear from both of the authors and after that questions from the audience. Dr. Carry gibson grew up in United States and graduated from the
And thats something we really cant take for granted. The festival begins on individual donations to keep going into say free and you can donate at any level via the southern festival of books through their facebook page. The southern festival of books app. This weekend in person at vessel headquarters. See mac i want to encourage everyone to visit humanities labor literary website. There are wonderful reviews there. You can also sign up for a weekly newsletter information about upcoming author events. And also a great way to be a part of the literary community. In tennessee. Finally, after our session jason will be signing books at the signing tent on the plaza. And plaza. And copies of the books are for sale at the sales area and a portion of the proceeds directly benefits the festival. Enough announcements it is my delight to introduce jason depaul. I could talk for a long while about his decades of extraordinary writing about poverty and immigration among other publications in the N
Would the tune into it on weekends, usually as author sharing their new releases. Sat watching the nonfiction authors on booktv is the best television for serious readers. On cspan they could have a longer conversation delve into their subject. Booktv weekend, they bring you author after author after author that spotlights the work of fascinating people. I love booktv and im a cspan fan. Now Edward Larson on his book the return of George Washington which examines the political career of our first president from the 15th annual National Book festival in washington d. C. This is just under an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is adam kushner on the editor of the Washington Post sunday outlook section which is our weekly section for analysis and essays and commentary and arguments in narrative storytelling and Investigative Journalism and most happily for this day and nonfiction books are rich. Washington post is a charter sponsor for the Na
How he was feeling worn out and tired, freight his memory was going. Jefferson would say tell me more. Their relationship has been studied quite a bit. There has been a lot written about it. But it was clearly a nuanced relationship. The men respect each other. We tended to focus on the points of division. I saw flaws in china. When he feels jefferson was made a promise when he feels he broke the promise washington takes a personal. His own diary which is interesting. A big round. The conversation that came out. Good research to be done. I great storehouse. Hindered younger graduate students. Now, Like Washington and get paid for doing this tonight. Yeah. So, that means you can help out. Do that in an orderly fashion. Dont even have to read it. When i tune in on the weekends authors sharing and knew releases. The best television for serious readers. They can have a longer conversation delve in. Author after author after author. Now, the return of George Washington. This is just under a
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is adam kushner and im the editor of the Washington Post sunday outlook section which is our weekly section for analysis and essays and commentary and arguments and narrative storytelling and investigative journalism, and most happily for the state Nonfiction Book coverage. The Washington Post is a charter sponsor of the National Book festival which is now in its 15th year. Its amazing and im extremely excited to introduce today eric larson. I cant believe i fumbled that. Excuse me, edward larson. Edward is the endowed chair of law at pepperdine and a full University Professor there which means he is a martyr. The professor has nine books and he won the Pulitzer Prize for his book summer of the gods which is about the scopes trial and our endless numbered ending still disputed debate in america about science and mutual and policy. I also noticed any seamlessly endless list of publications is written for the washington outpost section, t