Cspan2, created by americas Cable Television company is a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. Representative rick larsen democrat from washington recently joined book tv to discuss the books he is reading. So congressman rick larsen of washington, what is on your reading list right now. My current reading list is long but is coming into the middle of the summer now so i am working on wreck, the third novel by joe day, is los angeles mystery pointer. An iq is his character. As the third book in the series. Its kind of a detective novel. Is a private investigator and alone and a lot of action and a lot of great relationships. Im working on that in a muscle working on frederick douglass, a biography published recently, im working on that. Its a fairly long book. In popping in and out of that. Quite a bit. Im taking that in chunks. And for the policy, david one of the think tanks in washington dc, is the lead editor of the called china of 2049, and brought
Id like to start this interview by talking about you. I was talking a little more about you but i like the audience to start off honestly in your introduction. You got a note from a professor i believe saying youd never be apolitical scientist, can you talk about that . I put that in the book is i wanted to major in college and it was really torn between going into science and going into the humanities and social science and i finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting and engaging and urgent for me. And in my Political Science course we read all these great political philosophers on up and they were all asking the question what is justice, what is good government, how can you organize government and organize society to make life better for people and particularly to make justice. So i ended up before i decided to become a Political Science major, i already had kind of a lack of confidence in my skills as a humanist for a social scientist be
Congressman rick larson of washington, whats on your reading list right now . Guest it hasnt been long, but its coming into the middle of the summer now so im working on the third novel by joe day, a los angeles mystery writer. Its the third book in a series. Kind of a detective novel. He is a private investigator with a lot of action and good relationships in the book. Im working on that. Im also working on frederick douglass, a biography published recently. Its a fairly long book and so im popping in and out of that book quite a bit, kind of taking that in chunks. The policy wonk in me, one of the think tanks in washington, d. C. Is the editor of china, 2049, where they brought together some reform to look at what the chinese economy might look like and what its challenges are between now and 49. Its an interesting kind of work related book. I dont read a lot of books. I usually read more for entertainment and try to throw in a couple of books about Washington State, my home state as
Authors. And then to be simply made of the intensity of an audience in a Community Like ours with the killing of george floyd it is challenging and introspective and quiet and devastating i was always aware my value is determined by my skin color first and foremost. A poet and essayist a professor of poetry at yale and we find her in her home in connecticut. I really miss talking to you in front of a Live Audience im glad we can make this work but i have to say i will miss that. So thank you and welcome. Thank you for having me. Before the pandemic that you would imagine you would be traveling and talking about this book in front of Live Audiences . I thought as close as i could come to have conversations with different people across the country and try to make that happen this is the next best thing. And to speak to a wide range of people before the election to think how we managed to get ourselves where we are. The things that i say about doing these conversations on the stage is tha
Thank you so much, that was an incredible discussion. If youd like to buy their book, the green button you can click that. Thats it, thank you all so much. Have a good night. Representative rick larsen, democrat from washington, recently joined booktv to discuss the books hes reading. Congressman rick larsen of washington, whats on your reading list right now . It has been long but its coming in to the middle of the summer now so im working on racked the third iq novel by joe your day a los angeles mystery writer and iq is his character and wrecked is the third book in the series. Its a detective novel. Is a private investigator and a lot of action a lot of great relationships in that book so im working on that. Im also working on Frederick Douglass biography published recently working on that, its a fairly long book so im popping in and out of that in and out of that duck quite a bit. Kind of taking that into chunks. For the policy wonk in me, david dollar at one of the think tanks in