Was an improbable dream. Its hard work and its controversial. Without information, there is no freedom. And its journalists who provide that information. Window rolls down and this guy says, hey, he goes to 11 00. [laughter]. Sam gwynne, welcome. Its nice to be here. Nice to see you, old pal. Good to have you. It is nice. Congratulations. Back together again. It is indeed. For the first time on any american stage. Indeed. Its like the beatles reuniting, actually, right . No, im just overwhelmed with joy for your great success. Thank you. With these two books, and the Stonewall Jackson book especially because honestly, i know that over the last ten or 15 years we have seen a resurgence in interest in the civil war as a topic for books, but this book really seems to have left ahead of many of the others. And the thing that i find most remarkable is your vision. Looking out and saying this guys going to be an interesting subject for a book because hes such an Unlikely Hero and such an unl
Being on the Supreme Court was an improbable dream. Its hard work and its controversial. Without information, there is no freedom. And its journalists who provide that information. Window rolls down and this guy says, hey, he goes to 11 00. [laughter]. Sam gwynne, welcome. Its nice to be here. Nice to see you, old pal. Good to have you. It is nice. Congratulations. Back together again. It is indeed. For the first time on any american stage. Indeed. Its like the beatles reuniting, actually, right . No, im just overwhelmed with joy for your great success. Thank you. With these two books, and the Stonewall Jackson book especially because honestly, i know that over the last ten or 15 years we have seen a resurgence in interest in the civil war as a topic for books, but this book really seems to have left ahead of many of the others. And the thing that i find most remarkable is your vision. Looking out and saying this guys going to be an interesting subject for a book because hes such an Un
Of Human History that a test to quince reality. How does it tie in with what you do as a physical theorists, fit theoretical physicist . It doesnt tiein at all to what i do as the theoretical physicists. As i human being, physicists are people. We live in Human Society and my mind, religion and science have been the two most powerful forces that have shaped human civilization so if you are ignorant of religion or you dismiss it, you are discounting a lot of Human History. Are the incompatible . I dont think they are incompatible. I have many scientific colleagues who are devout believers. There are fewer scientists who are devout believers than in the general public, but the fact that there are scientists who are devout believers shows that they are not incompatible. I think there are not incompatible and all if your belief in god is the kind of god who does not intervene in the physical universe. A god who sets things up and sits down on the sidelines. That is not incompatible at all
Every weekend, booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, on cspan 2 keep watching for more television for serious readers. Booktv is live this weekend from the tucson festival of books. Start agent 1 00 p. M. Eastern 10 00 a. M. Pacific well be covering several author panel on topics such as race and politics, Supreme Court, environment, immigration, and more. All this live from the university of arizona the site of the seventh annual tucson festival of books. I give an example in god, guns, grits and gravy of this guy who is heading green peace in europe, and so he is all about wanting to reduce co2 emissions. But in all of an audit of green peace shows he is flying from his home to lux. Boring a couple of times a month, and the output of co2 he is expending because of his jet travel is like 100 times that of the average person. And so when confronted about it, here was his answer. He said well, the train trip would take 12 hours and that would be time away from my f
Iraq war, an inside look at google and much more. For more information on this weekends 48hour Television Schedule can, visit us online at booktv. Org. Up next on booktv, s. C. Gwynne recounts the life and military career of confederate general thomas stonewall jack soften. This program, from the atlanta history certain, is just under an hour. [applause] our speaker tonight, s. C. Gwynne, lived in austin, texas. He is a prolific writer. He has written for Time Magazine for 12 years where he won a National Headliners award for his reporting on the to columbine shootings. Hes written for the boston globe, dallas morning news, San Francisco chronicle, he was executive director for the Texas Monthly between 2000 and 2008 where he wrote on various high profile subjects from karl rove to the Bush White House to the infamous houston surgeon, aka dr. Evil, and this was included in Harper Perennial press best American Crime writing anthology in 2006. Gives you an idea of what the doctor was up