Readers. Heres our primetime lineup tonight, starting at 7 00, Carol Anderson describes the guest i am reading a book that Robert Barwell road, a biography of alex haley. Alex haley was in tennessee. Hes in the news right now because this is the 40th anniversary, which people may have forgotten was the best watch Television Show ever, the last episode of hers about 85 of the American Television said watched some part of the 1977. Alex here they spoke about slavery really told it in such an terms that had been presented for. That has been with the movie. It just jolted the country and it filled up the library is with americans searching for their family histories. Robert norrell is a university of tennessee professor who wrote a book about his two books, the autobiography of malcolm x, which he wrote in the six days, race which he wrote in the 70s, which the author says are the two most bugs about black america in the 20th century and maybe the two most important books about American Cu
Covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look at them to air in the near future on the tv on cspan2. Senator lamar alexander, someone asked you for a recommendation for a book about tennessee or tennessee history, what would you recommend. Guest i would recommend alec stewart, by john griese. Alec stewart was a cooper, its a barrel maker. He lived up maker. He lived up in Hancock County which is one of our remote counties and John Rice Irwin is the creator of appalachia and he interviewed alex stored about his life. He was a a remarkable man. He can make anything. He could pull teeth, he he could catch a squirrel, skillet, fright, eat it. He was so interesting that he was invited to washington to be part of the smithsonian folk festival on time. If you want to get a sense of how some Mountain People lived and totally off the land, alec stewart, john reiser. A lot of things politicians from tennessee, that janes couple of president s andrew jackson, what about bi
He wrote a book not as many people know about. It is a short book and i think it is about the role of religion in america. I read polks diaries. He sat down and must have with a quill pin, this was 1840s, and he wrote sometimes lengthy notes, probably 1011 at night. Something like senator houston showed up at 9 p. M. For an interview. Took a long time but where read it all the way through. I dont know of any president who has written such detailed diaries. What is counterly on your reading list . I am reading a book at robert nole wrote. It is the biography of alex haley. He was a tennessee man and he is in the news because this is the 40th anniversary of roots which people may have forgotten was the best watched Television Show ever. About 85 of the American Television sets watched some part of roots in 1977. Alex haleys book is about slavery really told it in su such in terms that had not been presented before. When that was combined with the movie it just jolted the country. And it
Librarians are people who help people. And information rich world. A question i did not follow up on it is your dad still alive . No. So did he have brothers and sisters. Guest no. Im an only child. Its interesting when you say is your dad still with us, some of his image that he liked jazz and he was also a studio musician so he still talks music and everything but he also is a studio musician. So sometimes a minimal and i can hear my dad playing background on a song and that is quite a feeling. Who is your favorite jazz musician . Guest miles davis. I think its because i actually met him and he was pretty cool back then ands i have always felt that there was something about him and as an eight or 9yearold to have a person, i didnt know how cool he was then but he was nice to me. So you probably are not old enough to have been to mr. Kellys or the house in chicago . I knew about the london house. My dad played there. That was a group that they took in so you can still hear their music
As a 17yearold, i couldnt understand. Reading this anthology i finally understood what it meant to be in a community with folks writing for and in some ways putting our community on our back and going where we are going. But i think it is much more daring in this American Literary enterprise to write to your folks. Its hard to say that in this room that is mostly white life of a young black folks out there im talking to you when i say this, it is imperative. You cant love somebody if you dont communicate to them. We will tell you to communicate over. It is a necessity to understand you come from a people who made a living two and four the deep south. [applause] i think we are out of time. This has been a great panel. [applause] [inaudible conversations] senator lamar alexander, if somebody asked you for a recommendation for a book aboutn tennessee or tennessee history, what would you recommend . Ale alex stewart. He was a barrel maker. He lived in Hancock County which is one of our rem