Last june sparked a national debate. His latest book is called between the world and me, written in the form of a letter to his 14yearold son. I am pleased to have him at the table the first time. Welcome. Thanks, charlie. Rose its a pleasure. Id like to talk biography first. Tell me about growing up in baltimore, about family, about influences, about shaping identity. Yeah well, i was very fortunate. I have six brothers and sisters total. I lived in a household in west baltimore, down the street from where the disturbances in baltimore started earlier this year. You know, the world you grow up in, what you know in terms of what you go out and see and then there is, you know the world thats on tv. The world that i knew was one in which there was a great deal of violence among the neighbors, violence shaped the social customs of vehicles and a kind of larger violence that was not as obvious, was not somebody pulling out a gun not necessarily five boys jumping another one, but societal v
Last june sparked a national debate. His latest book is called between the world and me, written in the form of a letter to his 14yearold son. I am pleased to have him at the table the first time. Welcome. Thanks, charlie. Rose its a pleasure. Id like to talk biography first. Tell me about growing up in baltimore, about family, about influences, about shaping identity. Yeah well, i was very fortunate. I have six brothers and sisters total. I lived in a household in west baltimore, down the street from where the disturbances in baltimore started earlier this year. You know, the world you grow up in, what you know in terms of what you go out and see and then there is, you know the world thats on tv. The world that i knew was one in which there was a great deal of violence among the neighbors, violence shaped the social customs of vehicles and a kind of larger violence that was not as obvious, was not somebody pulling out a gun not necessarily five boys jumping another one, but societal v
Interesting thing was it was building a network with women entrepreneurs, the loneliness, you hear about so and collaborative. It is not, working together introducing to investors, advisors, mentors, build her confidence, she got home and her husband looked at her and said who are you . Wheres the old carrie . This is the new carrie, she is so confident. Fran meyer, cofounder of match. Com, one of the advisors at the women start up lab. She says i want to partner with, take your vision and scale it and make it into a billiondollar company so fran meyer is her cofounder and ceo and carrie is the techy one and they spread the company to 40 different markets across the country and it is booming. Back to the collaboration, sisterhood of finding people who will help you not just scale your business and find investment but build the confidence that you can do it, youre not alone. You have a network of supporters. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Reporting on an ev
To my children, i will try to read this without crying. These thoughts, words, recipes, to cherish. Christy and i will die one day. We all will die. We do not know the future but i know these things are true and want my children to know they are true. I worry more than i should about my kids, my mind races to order stories, if it gets lost or snakebites, devlin going swimming, what if she falls in and around. I hope it is natural to be overprotective and over worried and overthink the dangers that lie ahead for our kids. I just want them to love god, love us and be kind, most of all your mother and i love you so much. We go into your room and watch you sleep. Iq part of the fabric from your favorite stuffed animal in your travel bag, and rub it in my hands to remind me of you. I can listen to it and here you. I love you, your mother does too. When the day comes you can no longer see a facetoface, we will be behind the veil of eternity watching and waiting to hold you once again. Thank
My name is nathan but 3 and i will be your host for an hour here. I want to welcome everybody who is watching on booktv to the southern festival of books sponsored by humanities tennessee. I want to say thank you to all those who donate, your individual donations make this event possible. Thank you very much. If you would like to make a donation see me afterwards and i can introduce you to the right people who would love to talk to you. A little bit of housekeeping. I will going to introduce our offer Erick Erickson and Erick Erickson will speak a little bit and read through his book and we will open the floor to questions. If you do have a question, we are live on booktv so we want the audience at home to hear. Erick erickson is the popular host of atlantas evening news, 95. 5 fm and a. M. 750, former editor of red states. His website, the resurgent, he is a Fox News Contributor who at the atlantic called the most powerful conservative in America Today. He studied Political Science an