My name is jim hornfisher and its my pleasure to welcome you to opening session of the 2017 texas book festival. Thank you [applause] thank you. Thank you for coming out in support. First of our authors and second of this wonderful annual event in the 22nd year. [applause] and, third, of al the books discussed and enjoyed throughout this bull Texas Capitol complex here in downtown austin. If i might pause a beat i would ask you to silence your cell phones. Live tv, thank you, cspan. After our session, both authors will be relocated to book sinning tent down the street to autograph their books. Books courtesy of book people, that wonderful independent seller. Buy a book, youre supporting the author, the festival, and a great local indy store and also helping the texas book festival as a nonprofit entity, pure student to mission of support low income schools in texas with author visits, book donations via the reading rock stars program, and to fun grant ford libraries thought the state.
Burch and even the name the John Birch Society is even less known in china than it is in the United States which is not surprising. While the name of mccarthy may be well known or pretty well known in china, the name of a Birch Society did not reach that same level, mccarthy was in Political Office and had a different kind of platform from robert welch. In the Birch Society. I think think if the book were to be translated in published in china then there would obviously the more interest and it would be extremely interesting to know if there is more information in the archives about the incident. As far as i know the communist party to the late 50s and 60s, while they followed american politics at a distance in terms of the Civil Rights Movement and were quite concerned and quite interested in what they viewed as oppression of africanamericans, blacks in u. S. Society and this was evidence of the ills of capitalism. Not to mention imperialism, there was not that much attention, partly