Booktv on cspan2. To our digital bookstore and finally the lit fest loves social media. So feel free to take pictures, post messages and upload them to twitter, instagram, facebook hughesing the prlf2015. Please turn off your cell phones and flash on the camera and i will introduce our moderator rick perlstein. I will give a short introduction were Bryan Burrough although for the research in his most recent book days of rage i joke we should call him bryan burrows. Thank you. I am here all week. And he writes for vanity fair, he writes books, and the book for which he is best known other than his most recent one is barbarians of the gates that came out in 1990 over the merger of rjr reynolds and nabisco. His latest book is an accomplishment of research, story telling and moral inquiry. And it is something based on the facts we know and that is domestic terrorism. He takes the story back to 1969 or so. And all the way up through the middle of the 1980s. And one of the striking facts in
I have somebody close to me that company. O. Of a drug [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] wasnt it a treat to have a sitting president speak at the values voter summit earlier this morning . Wow. [cheers and applause] he really does consider you his foot soldiers and thats every bit of what you are. Thank you so much. And we didnt have a single heckler. Did you notice that . Bough. Except the media. [laughter] no. We are certainly grateful for that. Ok. A couple of quick housekeeping announcements i need to get out of the way. We want you to be sure to visit the f. R. C. Store. We have a lot of great tshirts and other resources that you want to check out. A great souvenir to take home with you. Want to be sure you dont forget to get your ticket to the f. R. C. Action pack reception. That is tonight between 5 30 and 7 00 p. M. In
Look for these titles in bookstores is coming week and watch for the authors in the near future book tv and this is book tv live coverage of the 2016 Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Over the next seven hours you will hear from several authors including eric larson, Kenneth C Davis and brian burrow. We began todays coverage with a discussion on politics featuring former pres. Obama adviser David Axelrod, author of axelrod, author of believer, and nationally syndicated columnist Clarence Page, author of culture, lawyer. This is live coverage from chicago on book tv. [inaudible conversations] all right. Welcome to the 31st annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. My name is tom for scholars. Before we get started i would like to send a special thank you to our sponsors. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan2 book tv. At this time there will be a q a session and we ask that you line up in front of the microphone so that the home viewing audience can hear your question
Look for these titles in bookstores is coming week and watch for the authors in the near future book tv and this is book tv live coverage of the 2016 Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Over the next seven hours you will hear from several authors including eric larson, Kenneth C Davis and brian burrow. We began todays coverage with a discussion on politics featuring former pres. Obama adviser David Axelrod, author of axelrod, author of believer, and nationally syndicated columnist Clarence Page, author of culture, lawyer. This is live coverage from chicago on book tv. [inaudible conversations] all right. Welcome to the 31st annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. My name is tom for scholars. Before we get started i would like to send a special thank you to our sponsors. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan2 book tv. At this time there will be a q a session and we ask that you line up in front of the microphone so that the home viewing audience can hear your question
So people know where youre coming from, on that dayin 1949 when the republicans took back the house of representatives, did you have a smile on your face or scowl . I teach a course on the u. S. Cong, and for part of that course i have the students play a member of congress, and they try to get a bill enacted through their house of representatives. And thats a great experience for the students and for myself, if for no other reason than at the end i get to play speaker. And then i also teach a course called power in american politics where we learn about different aspects of power in the United States, power of interest groups, power of congress, power of the president , power of people, power of voters. So those are some of the classes that i teach here at catholic. Host why dont speakers traditionally vote on legislation . Guest speakers traditionally do not vote because its a legacy of this hybrid position of speaker, as i mentioned before. They are seen as both a partisan leader, b