End. He has written quite a bit. Theres long list of things that he has written. Is authored major pieces on ethics stereotyping in ambassador magazine. He also has talked about, of actors like stanley, john turturro. Is a labor journalist for the National Education association for a decade. He has one numerous awards, and he has a digital poetry book called the list goes on and on. He has won various awards like a digital Book Publishers of america in 2014 and if theres anything ive left out, steve, please [inaudible] thank you, joann. You deserve ive never heard a a poet before get the words plutonic and madonna in the same phrase. Prices come really priceless. This is common here today, their number of people who are my former colleagues the administration. A number of new friends, fellow writers who ive met here, and representatives of some 50 colleges and universities. Sharing the panel with fred is really, this is deja vu all over again because 20 years ago i was working on an ar
1968 was the year where the real decisions between the party that we see now were first locked in cement and we saw as one of the more poignant scenes in this book what literally became the last liberal standing on a Republican Convention stage in 1968, and it was the moment when mayor john lindsay of new york was forced at least half against his will to second the nomination of spiro agnew to be president of the United States after lindsay himself wanted to get that nomination, he then had to second that nomination for agnew and that was the last time a National Republican of significance stood on a Republican Convention stage as a liberal and john lindsay eventually left the Republican Party not long after 1968 so we now have a world in which when people hear that you are a democrat or they hear that youre a republican, they think they know everything about you. Its not just a know whether youre a liberal or conservative, they think they know everything in 1968 had more drama and cha
And ambassador magazines, he also has talked about john to touro, the labor journalist, for the National Education association for a decade, he has won numerous awards and has digital poetry book, the list goes on and on. Various awards like the digital Book Publishers of america in 2014 and if there is anything i left out, please i dont need that appear. Thank you, joann. We deserve to remember in the annals of poetry, i never had a poet get the words katana and madonna in the same phrase. It is priceless, really priceless. A number of people, former colleagues from the cuomo administration, new friend, fellow writers i have met here, representatives of 50 colleges and universities, sharing the panel with fred, i was working on an article 20 years ago for ambassador magazine about stereotyping against italianamericans and who did i call but the expert where fred was, we chatted a long time, we had never met in person until today. It is pretty awesome for me to be here with fred on the
Site at booktv. Org. Okay. I do double duty here. So i am welcoming Steve Villano who is next, and he is a native of brooklyn, new york, and is the former head of governor mario cuomos new York City Press office with decades of experience in Public Service, public education, Public Health and is the ceo of several national and nonprofit organizations. Im just going to skip to the inhere. He has written quite a bit, theres a long list of things that he has written. He has authored major pieces on ethnic stereotyping in ambassador magazine, he also has talked about actors like Stanley Tucci and john turturro, hes a labor journalist for the National Education association for a decade. He has won numerous awards, and he has a digital poetry book called we haiku. 9 the list goes on and on. He has won various awards like the digital Book Publishers of america in 2014, and if theres anything ive left out, steve, please [inaudible conversations] [laughter] thank you, joanne. Its you deserve to
Later in march its the virginia festival of the book in charlottesville and the National Black writers conference in brooklyn, new york. In april were headed to texas for the san antonio book festival, and well be live once again at the Los Angeles Times festival of books. For more information about up coming book upcoming book fairs and test values, click festivals, click the book fairs tabben our web site, booktv. Org. Lets dive in a little bit more. Who is eric garnersome. Eric garner excuse me, who was eric garner. Yeah. The reason i wrote this book, let my back up for a moment, is because on the day that the grand jury decided not to indict the Police Officer responsible for or his killing and ill use a different word, but i cant legally but i went over to staten island, and i started talking to people in the street asking, you know, what was he like. And i immediately found that everybody had a story about this guy, and he was, he was just interesting and funny and complicated an