They will be signing books at the big tent thanks for joining us at the san antonio book festival. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. Before restarting idled take care of some details san disease ben is here today so if you want to tell your friends about the talk it will be on the booktv web site in about five days. You can watch it when they scheduled it or also on the booktv web site in today because they are over here we just have one microphone for questions so if the audience would please go to the microphone to answer questions asking questions we can get you on camera and on the audio tape as well. I am one of the founders of politics prose san this is a real treat for me to come and introduce Richard Zacks has written his new book chasing the last laugh it has a wonderful subtitle. Mark twains raucous and redemptive roundtheworld comedy tour it was of a great deal of fun to read when i was having some much fun reading it i thought i that the author had even m
When swanson, the secretary, found the dummy account she was floored. This is rita, after all. She immediately brought it to the attention of the mayor, who wasted no time in calling the fbi. Six months later they were ready and one morning in april 2012 rita called into the Mayors Office where the fbi was waiting for her. Rita confessed. After all she was caught redhanded. There was nothing much she could do. And fully cooperated with the fbi. This is not the mayor was so upset by now when asked what his thoughts were on the episode was he said, turned out Rita Cromwell didnt give a shit about this town. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Mike jacobs, its a pleasure to get a chance to talk to you here at the carter center. I am also welcome the audience thats come out tonight to listen to our conversation. Mike jacobs is the author of panic at the pump the Energy Crisis and the transformation of american politicness the 1970s. Mike is a teaches history and Pu
In debt. They started off incredibly well. They published grants memoirs, enormous success, and huckleberry finn. And twain expected to pay himself fat royalties. He wound up receiving no royalties. This is their final list of titles, and i dont know if you can see from there, but any publisher thats going to go out with stories from the rabbis [laughter] is probably going to be in a little trouble. [laughter] so headlines, and it was deeply humiliating, headlines in the newspaper said mark twain fails. I mean, it was brutal. Failure of mark twain, failure of humanist. And hes humorist. And hes this literary superstar, deeply embarrassed, and he gets two main advisers. One of the wealthiest men in america, the righthand man to john k. Rockefeller, standard oil. His nickname was hell hound, and this robberbaron wants to play hardball with the creditors. He wants to offer ten cents on the dollar. Twains other adviser is his wife, libby. She has absolutely no business experience. She writ
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