Next, tom mcmillan, Vice President of communications for the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team. He provides a detailed account of united flight 93 that crashed on 9 11 in pennsylvania. He spoke at barnes noble. Thank you, susan, for making me do a great presentation. Its interesting being here at the cranberry barnes noble, because this is my hometown bookstore. Im usually browsing for books. I want to thank susie and dave and kim for making this possible and also for cspan2 and booktv for covering. We will do a q a afterwards. Im going to start with a question for myself, if thats okay, which is concern i get a lot why would a sports guy write a book about flight 93. Its because no one else did, and apparently no one was going to for a while, and i thought the story needed to be told. Im a history buff, and i go to gettysburg all the time. I had been out to the temporary memorial ten times, maybe more than that. Its only 90 miles from pittsburgh where the flight crashed, and i wanted to
Cows in the morning. My parented moved in and there was no Running Water or indoor baath room. The cows got Running Water before the house because it was more important for the barn to have it. Through education i attended Public High School and public universities. I spent 26 years teaching Political Science at Brown University and met my first billionaire. Eventually i came to washington, d. C. And now work as the Vice President at the leading think tank in the world. We are now seeing billionaires becoming more active in influencing the election process and spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars pursuing their own objectives often in secret from the American Public. It is the combination of wealth and secrecy that most problematic about the period. I wrote the book to provide a much better understanding of who these people are and how they are using their money in the political process. The challenge of having bill billon billionaires is they are able to influence election
Reporter, i like to read a good story. Not good in the sense of uplifting necessarily for cheerful or bright, but what makes a good story. It is something that is really unusual. So we write about mostly little personality stories about Little People caught up in the war for whatever history it is. Or even little sidebars about the famous people. Actually, an awardwinning newspaper man here in 10 and i was doing washington writing about alabamans on the magazine. And then we both move jobs at the same time and met. The really a good story from his newspaper days. I love to write. Between the two of us, we have written 10 books about mostly american history. However, one of our books is on Winston Churchill and that came not of the lecture at oxford. So we have had so much fun doing this and its such a valuable contribution. We dont feel like were just having a good time. We all feel that these books are really valuable and we are finding that many of the good readers of 1415 love to re
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. This weekend on booktv Arthur Brooks is live on in depth. Jason so kill sits down on after words, nick childs and robinship advise africanamericans on how to deal with police and the criminal Justice System in the u. S. , robert baer provides a history of political assassinations and a literary tour of waco, texas. Check out our full schedule online, booktv. Org. You give me your name and the title of the book and tell me how you came to the project. Hi, im lawrence knutson, the title of the book is a wave in the white house, i came to the project because i am a retired reporter for the Associated Press and in my last three or four years i exploited a personal interest and wrote a column about american and washington history. That led me to the publisher of this book which is the White House Historical association. We started talking about it and someone said, wh
That is a Flash Flood Watch in the entire bay area. If you live near a creek, river or stream, you need to watch that closely and winds could top 30 miles an hour, that will bring us Power Outages and downed trees and a blizzard warning now in the sierra. Were going to get it, its going to get here quite heavy and strong. See you soon. Some people in the south bay arent taking any chances with this upcoming storm. They are hauling in the sandbags and hauling out debris from storm drains. We go live to san jose where many people shifted in high gear today. Marianne. Reporter they certainly did. If you take a look at this pallet, just an hour ago, this paletlet was full and now its already empty. Many people say because of the storm last week, they were caught unaware and now they want to be better prepared. Benjamin ochoa needs sandbags, a lot of them and fast. With the storm thursday expected to dump 4 inches of rain in the south bay, he wants to make sure his house stays dry. We have