Came about your book. I was sent this book by the good folks at cspan and they were like, we have this new book coming out. The mind if we send it to you to check it out . Id love to check it out. And i read your book and i was blown away by it. Just the power, the honesty , the critique of a larger structural challenge thats taking place and how it impacts individuallives. So it is really a distinct pleasure. Host guest youvery much. Host and even before, i had so many questions i wanted to ask and i didnt prepare to sit down with you, even before that i love to talk to you about your process. This is a new type of, its not your first book but its a new type of book then what youve done before. What was your process to getting to the point where you were like, i wanted to tell this . Guest there are a lot of different pieces to that in all honesty. Michael was an amazing person and he himself was a very talented writer. He had a hard life that ended early but before he died, we always
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, please find a comfortable seat and before we begin i need to tell you that theyll be a book signing afterwards and its outside on table h and all the authors will be there with their books and let me introduce the speakers for today. The first speaker will be darrell pinckney, and then i dont know who wants to be the second speaker but we might as well do it in order. Yasmine el rashidi, the bottle of egypt, and important pieces for the new york review and lastly on my right, masha gessen who has written several books about russia, including the man without a mace, totalitariaism. We will be talking about immigration, theres so many different ways to address it. We will start with darryl. Oh, god, i cant ad lib so i will do something to read sorry. I dont know anything about immigration. You live with an immigrant, my boyfriend said but i think of you as englishman in new york just passing through, yes, im an immigrant just passing through. Its
Where we are right now in las vegas. What is freedom fest . Its the intellectual at the entertainment capital of the world. This is the most unique events in las vegas because usually las vegas is about entertainment and so forth. But we are renaissance gathering where we taught philosophy, history, science, technology, healthy living, music and dance. A liberal arts education. We have over 300 speakers, we have many authors. One of the subtitles is great ideas great books and great thinkers. We are one of the few organizations that has a conference where the center of our exhibit hall is a bookstore. We sell people hundreds of books and freedom fest. We are delighted to have book tv as part of the freedom fest. Host what political philosophy is behind freedom fest . Guest we are nonpartisan, we have a lot of wealthy investors here and its hard to pinpoint politically what investors are for example two years ago we had donald trump came at the last minute. He appears seven 11 on 2015.
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They can build. Watch our coverage of the 2017 baltimore book festival saturday starting at noon eastern on cspan2s book tv. We are joined by representative marsz i cap tore democrat from ohio serving the 9th district, also a member of the Appropriations Committee and here it talk about amongst other things the state of renegotiation of nafta. Good morning to you. Pleasure to be on your program. Thank your listeners for listening. Talk about the state of nafta, renegotiations. Whats the purpose of the federal government at this time and what do you see happening with that . Well, the president during his campaign talked about the renegotiation of nafta and it is under way. For our region of the country, this is a very prime issue. I have a map here showing how many of our great lake states have lost jobs and how many jobs ohio since 1993 has lost over 34,900. 35,000 jobs to outsourcing and to low wage platforms and michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, indiana, i mean this whole region wa