Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the 33rd annual chicago printers wrote lit fest. My name is thomas and im i like to think the possible sponsors. Todays program is being broadcasted live on cspan twos book tv and we will use the time at the end for audience questions so when the time comes please line up at the microphones to your right. Will hope the audience will be able to hear. As always, make sure to silence your cell phones and turn off your camera flashes at this point in time. With that, please welcome the colonists from the Chicago Tribune mac praised him in presenting that award voyage through the history of u. S. Rhetoric. [laughter] so even as professor of history at the university of florida, also a finalist for the book critic circle award and i just learned today that while in undergraduate school iibram was interested in being a journalist working for a newspaper. We essential could have used him in that profession but im sure that he has been able to get a lot more a
Continues live on book tv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] okay. Welcome, everyone. To the 33rd annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Well get going here. Id can like to give a thank you to all the sponsors. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspans booktv. Well have have time at the endf the presentation for audience questions. We ask you to line up at the microphones on the right. Please join me in welcoming ore into veer, jennifer white, cohost of wbezs morning shift and host of the wbez documentary podcast, making open practice oprah. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Michael eric dyson wears a number of hats. At Georgetown University he is a professor of sociology, contributing opinion writer to the New York Times and a contributing editor of both the news public and espns the unfee feeted web site. Also an ordained baptist minister, which informs the shape of this newest book, this
And were back now live from Jones College Prep High School in chicago and the Chicago Tribunes annual lit fest. Starting now mark bowden talks about his recent book, americas involvement in the vietnam war. Good afternoon. Good afternoon and welcome to the 33rd annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Id like to give a shout out to our sponsors. This program is being broadcast live on cspan 2s book tv. At this time id like to throw it over to our interview, Chicago Tribune film critic michael phillips. [applaus [applause]. Thank you, thanks for coming out today and its my pleasure to talk with mark bowden about his new book hue 1968. For those of you who dont know his resume, hes a National Correspondent for the atlantic, contributing editor vanity fair, a writer, and author of many books on subjects all over the literally all over the world, from colombia and pablo escobar, an account to dday, to the killing of usama bin laden, many subjects. Probably best known for blackhawk dow
This may be where we can get cooperation with the russians. And the printers row lit fest continues. Up next, author david kalan talks about modern day philanthropy. Philanthropy. Good afternoon and welcome to the thinking tribune annual lit fest. Id like to. We have a grayhaired approval. I met him in downtown new york city literary regular parties and gatherings that use to invite people, fact brigades and phone brigades before the internet and knew him over the years and went on to work with him when running World Policy Institute and he was at the most National Think tank, we worked closely on a number of projects, so i had the pleasure to read his earlier books, the cheating culture, the moral center, he has written seven of them and i have always been impressed by david because he asks really hard questions. He comes up with an opinion but is very good about seeing both sides and trying to find where things come together and where we can come up with solutions. He is not an ideol
With sydney blumenthal, former Senior Advisor to president bill clinton. His book is a look at the political life of Abraham Lincoln. With that, im going to throw it over to our interviewer, elizabeth taylor, the literary editor at large for the chicago tribune. [applause] hi. Thank you. Are these mics on . Great. You can hear me . Thank you so much for coming out. This is a wonderful turnout for a wonderful book, and were delighted to be here. Ive actually in this chair, year ago, talking about the first volume of Sidney Blumenthals four to be four volumes on lincoln, and im really excite it excited about this one. I loved that one and this is even norwich. Wrestling with the angel. So, like to set the stage. Begins in march 1849. Lincoln returns to springfield to practice law. 1849. And then 1856, nonothing party, nominates bill moore for president , National Convention for the Republican Party. We have that blackdrop. Whats the title about . Host wrestling with his angel is a title