Slash impeachment. Booktv continues on cspan2, television for serious readers. Good evening and thank you for coming. Im tim carney, visiting fellow here tee american enter pies institute and the commentariy yesterday for the Washington Examiner and we have great discussion weapon brought here chris arnade, the author of dignity which came out this year. Its an excellent book. I read it love it. Well be selling it afterwards. Its beautiful. And i say beautiful because its also a photo book as well as a great collection of stories that really reveal america. So, chris is the first guy ive had on stage at i who has a ph. D in physics then used that to go into finance, and then when he had this job in finance, he started going for walks during the day his walks got longer and longer, he ended up at hunts point chit nose terribly close to the financial district and he was exposed to what he called the back row of america. And this is drug addicts, drug dealers, prostitutes, and convinced h
Bradley, 1953 publication of the conservative mind, what was the reception . Pretty incredible. Far more so than anybody wouldve expected. When it came out it came out in may of 1953. It took about a it took about a month for to catch on. Once i did it caught fire. Roughly 75 or 80 publications in the English Speaking world. Everything from the Chicago Tribune and the new york times, london types, times literary supplement, they all reviewed it, sometimes two or three times and going through the summer feeling like maybe they didnt do it justice the first time. So it caught fire in a way that most academic books never even dream of doing. And certainly as a young man he hopes he would have a good career, and it went well beyond what he was expecting. It put his publisher on the map as well. Who is kurt . Guest russell kirk was born in 19882 to a very poor family in plymouth, michigan. His family has always, they all point back to 1623 and his mother side. They come over they come over
So the books and no money at the very interested in the ideas here but a very esoteric. He ended up getting a full scholarship to Michigan State and he could have gone anywhere but he went to Michigan State, graduated in 1940, got a masters and then a fairly new university and was drafted into the military for five years and didnt get out until 1946. Then he got scotland and wrote the conservative mind and a reputation as i said a few moments ago thats when it exploded from the conservative mind which was just a dissertation to think about. From that point forward from 1953 until his death in 54, he was regarded as the touchstone for the modern conservatism up to the goldwater movement and once the movement in 64 this old days could fizzled it went down and that isnt where he was in 196a 1962 but had a good run. What were some of the ideas that were revolutionary . I think its important to put in the context of the times he is deeply worried about the fascism and nationalism into commu
Platform which most of our authors do, they do not want to be exclusive with amazon or if they want to have more leeway in prices,they will choose a nonexclusive option which gives you a 30 royalty. So Amazon Amazon gets 70, the author gets 30. And we think thats a ridiculous because amazon is providing the technology and the platform and that is all they do. They are not investing much in terms of labor at all. They aregood at it and you paid regularly, if you are exclusive you are also part of their library, basically its a Subscription Service where the reader can pay Something Like 10 per month to a whole library books. And there they pay based on a pool. It is completely nontransparent what that pool consists of our how they arrive at the authors. So we have for that authors have got into that pool, which you have to have exclusive arrangements, have had to made much less money doing so. The authors who really can make it selfpublishing, they generally cheat them out of options. H
Contrary to conventional media about consumption, and new survey finds that the nature of news itself the idea of the socalled filter bubble. There are relatively few differences by generation, party or socioeconomic status in the level of interest with which people report following different topics. We want to learn from you this morning as we go through the papers in this first hour on the washington journal how you get your news. Whered you get your news and how do you get it marco you can also make a comment on our twitter feed. You can take part in the conversation currently going on on facebook facebook. Com cspan. And you can send an email to us. Heres a little bit more of this study by the Media Insight project. There are five devices or technologies that majorities of americans used to get news in a given week. First call up is from ralph in manoa, new york. On a democrats line. Caller i am a uaw worker from upstate new york. I get my news straight from my union from cspan als