Capitalism. We conclude tonights primetime programming at 11 00 eastern with james votess book Freedom National taking a look at slavery 18611865. Visit booktv. Org for more on this weekends television schedule. Next on booktv, barbara matusow, editor of scooped it recounts the life of her career Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter jack nelson who died in 2009 at the age of 80. Barbara matusow is joined by former president jimmy carter, former mayor of atlanta and u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations andrew young and former Justice Department spokesman Terry Adamson. It is a discussion of jack nelsons memoir scoop the evolution of a southern reporter. It is about an hour. Good evening, everyone, good to have everyone here. My name is Hank Klibanoff and i will be moderating this wonderful panel tonight, as director of the Journalism Program at emory and coauthor of the book about coverage of the Civil Rights Movement, featured tags quite prominently. First of all i want to thank the Carter
Carter library and museum for hosting this and cosponsoring this and also the Emory University library, particularly the manuscript and archives and rare books library. Which costs papers and wisdom of a great number of journalists, white, africanamerican, of all sorts and we are so pleased five of those are Pulitzer Prize winners and the latest among them is at the 11. Barbara matusow is so generous and made jack nelsons papers in our position and there is some rich history and i encourage everyone to take a look at them. We are here to celebrate the life, memoir, papers of jack nelson with people who knew him extremely well. Jack is a man of the enormous influence and consequence in the nation. The story of jack nelson for those who dont know is a story of news reporting and the latter half of the 20th century. If you look at his career, starting off, he was born in alabama across the state line, moves as a child from biloxi where he starts telling newspapers, he was a newspaper boy,
Dominical the middle of the atlantic ocean. Six years ago in bermuda i embarked on a 140 foot sailing ship, the seat association education, i was at sea for three weeks away from telephones, internet and libraries. But i was in the middle of a Research Project on Benjamin Franklin that required me to read material in french. I decided to use my time at sea to revise my french by reading a novel in that language. The book i chose is a small paperback edition of jules vernes around the world in 80 days First Published as a newspaper serial in 1882. When i wasnt on watch or otherwise busy on the ship by slowly made my way to the book. My french was good enough to my surprise that i enjoyed the story and as a historian i appreciated it. A detail. Especially the nature of the sense the protagonist racing around world. At his london club he remarks offhandedly that scheduled travel services could take a person around the globe in a period of the days. Proved it, a challenge him and he is off
Adamson to discuss his life and career. On sunday now on book tv, a few programs for authors to have been nominated for 2013 National Book critics circle awards. First, after words with steve call. His book takes a look at the corporation that has greater revenues than the economies of many western nations. This is a little under an hour. Hi. Thank you so much for joining a state. Congratulations on what is quite an achievement. Thank you. First of all, i really enjoyed the book. It read like a novel. I mean, it really read like nonfiction in places, which are short and as a writer you encountered some of that feeling as well. I know as a reporter who has dealt with exxon mobil a good chunk of her career, how difficult it probably was to probe this company. Lets start there. White exxon mobil . Added you come to the subject . Why this company . How was it how did it differ from some of your other subjects . It is an interesting to me it was an interesting journey because, as you point
The dark side of the personal finance industry tonight at 10 00 on after words on cspan2. And look for more book tv online like us on facebook. Next on book tv, barbara matters seldom editor of scooped recounts the life and career of her late husband, a pulitzer prizewinning reporter jack nelson who died in 2009 at the age of 80. Been joined by former president jimmy carter, former mayor of atlanta and u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations andrew young and former Justice Department spokesman Terry Adamson in the discussion of jack nelsons memoir, scoop. The evolution of a seven reporter. It is about an hour. Good evening, everyone. Its good to have everyone here. My name is sink, and i will be moderating this wonderful panel tonight. And the director of the Journalism Program at emory. And coauthor of a book about News Coverage of the civilRights Movement, featured jack quite prominently. First of all, i want to thank the Carter Library and museum for hosting this one and for cosponso