Author programs throughout the country. Heres a look at some events this week. On monday, were in michigan at Hillsdale College to talk with several of the schools professors about recent books. On tuesday, at politics and prose book store in washington, dc, nadia lopez will cause her work as a principal at a school in brooklyn, new york. On westerns, Joseph Stiglitz will look at the future of the euro at barnes noble in new york city. On thursday, at the Hampton History Museum in hampton, virginia, four africanamerican women whose compute additions were integral to americas victory in the space race. On friday, we finish the week in the nations capitol at politics and prose book store where baker talks about his experiences as a substitute teacher in maines Public School system. Many events are open to the public. [inaudible conversations] okay. Good evening, everybody. Can everyone hear me . Yeah . Okay. Good evening. My name is zoe, thank you for coming out tonight and support your
Good afternoon from washington washington it is 12, noon eastern on cspan2 book tv. And once a month, we spent three hours in depth with an within author and this month our guest was scheduled to be steve forbes who this morning you might have heard was on a train en route from new york to savanna georgia when a derailment took place just south of philadelphia. He is safe and now en route back to new york city and joining us live on the phone. Thank you for being with us. Good to be with you. What a morning you have had. Explain what happened. Outside of philadelphia the train was moving along and then it made a sudden jerk like it was going to make an abrupt stop. It wasnt a normal slowdown you have when you come around the curve. Then it moved a little bit and another stop. Then it came to a complete stop and there was smoke and it felt like the brakes were smoldering so we just sat there wondering what had happened. The electricity was knocked out so there was no system. So the rumo
Isis is noted . Tough targets. Norred . Going after civilianings, soft targets. Thats like what you saw in paris last week, concert arenas and restaurants, just going over innocent people going out and doing their daily business but its not the first time theyve done that they did it for years in iraq, killing people in mosques and bazaars and schools, showing no mercy, even Muslim Children being legitimate targets for. The. Thats why theyre different from al qaeda. Host latifee, staten eye lent, youre the last word, go ahead. Caller yes, sir. My question, siris my question is that from the beginning of civil war in syria, the syrian soldiers of Syrian Regime are fighting these people and develop the others terrorist. Recently of course the peshmerga are fighting also, why is want to terminate these terrorists, and the western and United States are not helping the fact their soldiers on the ground to defeat terrorism. Guest just to understand the question, why arent we helping a host i
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Colonist and editorial cartoonist is an awardwinning graphic novelist and the author of nonfiction books about domestic and International Current affairs. His cartoons appear at approximately 100 newspapers around the United States and from 2008 to 2009 he was president of the association of the editorial cartoonist and hes won several awards for his work including the journalism awards and the National Journalism award and best book of the year award. Joining him on stage tonight is chris hedges who spent barely two decades as a correspondent in Central America the middle east, africa and the balkans. Hes reported for more than 50 countries and has worked for the Christian Science monitor and the National Public radio at the Dallas Morning News and New York Times. He was part of the team of reporters at the times and awarded a Pulitzer Prize for coverage about global terrorism. Hes also the author of several bestselling books including ward gives us
[cheers and applause] i will hasten to add, it is a question and a responsibility for all of us. And a hard choice, and a very hard choice. And it is a very hard choice, but i think all of us have some hard choices about what kind of citizens were going to be, what were going to ask of our leaders and also what well ask of ourselves, and what has always made us strong as americans goes back to that incredibly astute observation of detocqueville when he tried to understand what the country was about and looked at our organization and the democracy and the institutions we were building. He said it came down to the habits of our heart. And i think we have to ask yourselves what it means today to be an american in the 21st 21st century and what we expect from each other, what we expect from our government, what we expect from our businesses, our academic institutions, because i am more optimistic and confident about whatunder potential is, but i know we have some hard choices to make to tr