Degree in writing in addition to his book hes of the author of rebel yell, and empire of the silver moon, it was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in National Book critics circle award. Sam spent most of his career as a journalist including bureau chief, National Correspondent and Senior Editor for time and as executive editor of texas monthly. We are delighted to have you here with us this evening your latest book, hymns of the republic, the story of the final year of the American Civil War and to my immediate right is Donald Miller and i hope i can call you don. He is the author of several New York Times bestsellers including masters of the air, americas bomber boys who bought the air war against germany which is currently being developed as a miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and tom hanks which is evobably the closest ill ever get to meeting those guys. [laughter] he previously worked as a consultant for the hbo series, pacific, anchorage abated to several episodes of ameri
Years of the 20th century, by the way. Thats whats interesting. The jim crow rules, thats when they came in, when i talked about that transit, the boycotting the Transit System being segregated in mobile. I mean, up until then it was a very different world. Up until then black people could go to the restrooms. Not that they often had the money to go there, but they could go to white restaurants. So that changed. And the south is at a crucial juncture now, and well see which way things go. [inaudible] okay, thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next up, former white house president ial events director josh king talks about his book, off script an advanced mans guide to white house stage craft, Campaign Spectacle and political suicide. Mitchell schwartz, andrew frank and steve barr, swaggering advance men who learned the craft on walter mondales campaign against reagan in 1984, served as my role models. They were the democratics answer to Michael Dever during that sum
Paperback this august. I really think the Trump Supporters in a large part of the country agrees that immigration and illegal immigration is one of the key issues that we need to address and people, as we have seen are fed up with both parties answers and solutions to that party and and problem and looking for something new. And talk about your gregory history division. We launched it a couple years ago. We had always done a handful of history books but that was something our market really loves and something we really love so we have a dedicated history section. One of the most successful books that we publish this year is a book called nine president s who screwed up america. We profile nine president s and we compare them, we judge them by how well we feel they followed the constitution that they pledged to uphold. That was the litmus test and we profile nine president s who we felt did not do a good job of honoring that. Thats an example of how they try to approach our history book
Now the importance of sound and politics from los angeles this is a little over an hour. K, and swaggering advancement whove learned the craft on the campaign against Ronald Reagan in 1984 served as my role models. They were the democratic answer during the summer of 1988 and they taught me well. He was the lead advanced with selfconfidence and quick humor. [laughter] was that selfserving by the way blacks they got four pages but it is known as the Great Teachers are to be clear on that. Hes a good friend and a lot of people here worked with him and worked with me. We worked o on democratic polits together so its nice seeing everybody that he has written an interesting book most of you have bought and he said he woule sign everybodys. He the debate many people said when they heard on the radio they thought nixon had won but when they watch the tv version everybody said they thought heke looked younger, he was shaven and he had a 5 00 shadow and suchlike that. In the last 50 years i gue
Know that secretary clinton has her team well wired and they log everything trump has said going back a year or even more in some cases, we dont know what they are getting ready to spring on him in the weeks before cleveland, or maybe in september right after labor day. Any hope to that trump or at least for trump sake with secretary clinton. It probably happened to marco rubio and that party probably was a selfimposed error which is repeating over and over again his line in the debate, broke brock obama knows exactly what hes doing. You think about that, he comes up to the iowa caucus when a strong third place. Hes starting to get heavy and or cements. Hes hes starting to get real republican money behind him. If he just kept that momentum through iowa and New Hampshire republicans got behind this 45yearold candidate it couldve been a very different situation. I think people dont understand and certainly i havent cover politics for a long time now. I dont think i understood intervene u