Topic and its usually the easiest ways, what are you reading now, we keep one up about a month and sometimes maybe i will have two or three books that im reading and ill say here take the picture this month, next month, one of her. To ever post reviews . No ive never done too much of that. I just dont dont have a lot of time to write reviews. If i put the book up there means i think it was a pretty good book. What are you reading right now . I thought i take a little break and this is one of those classic cases we see the movie so you want to read the book, the martian. Who is it, were, i think andy we are, and then i got intrigued by this new netflix things, the man in the high castle which is an old book, 62, used to read Science Fiction when i was a kid and for whatever reason i do not read that one and a guy named philip dicks who is now dead, so those are kind of the things, i just finished up a biography of roger sure knows, wonderful one on washington it was a fabulous book and
Report on the leadership of russian president boris yelton and Vladimir Putin and nashville authored local authors to take in the city at literary sites. That is just some of what you will see this weekend on booktv. For complete Television Schedule go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. We kick off the weekend with a panel on the history of race in chicago. It is from last weeks printers row lit fest. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. I want to give a special thank you, the theme of this years festival is what is your story . We encourage you to share the stories you this weekend on twitter, instagram or facebook using hashtag p rl f 16. You can keep the spirit of lit fest going all year by downloading the printers row apps where you will find all the Chicago Tribune premium books contests, free and discounted ebooks for subscribers and complete printers row lit fest schedule. D
Libraries. I like to own t they might loan me a book or Something Like that. I do go to bookstores and just browse like everybody else. I read reviews. And you know, i just see something or hear something, there is no particularly systematic way. Or i decide i want to, you know, i want to read something on fillintheblank. You just go to the internet and pop up something about this and there you go. And then i try, if i am going to have an opportunity to meet an author, the other night at the library of congress, we had this president ial series that they are doing and i didnt have a chance to meet him but i was an admirer of evan thomas who wrote a book i friend of mine got me that was autographed from him. So i wanted to make sure i read being nixon which is one of the best and sympathetic portraits of Richard Nixon i have ever read. One of the nice things in this business is you have those opportunities more than others do. Host on the night evan thomas was at the library of congress
Read . Look, i like anything that Steven Ambrose wrote. He was really a lot of range in in writing. Very good, obviously, john John Mccollough is an excellent historian. It have focused on british history and, you know, these were not all all, you know, histories but, boy, churchill was always worth reading whether its memoirs, whether he had a wonderful little book called great contemporaries written in the 20s which nexton did a follow on kind of book himself. I like to read Richard Nixon stuff. I like to read about Richard Nixon. Fascinating politician of my life and i thought the things that he wrote were really quite good. Did your reading help you in your work as a congressman . It does. History in particular provides a lot of context, a lot of analogies, frankly a lot of understanding because most people when they get to congress they sort of think history begins with them, but youre really stepping into the flow and if you read particularly contemporary history, a lot of intere
Them and she had and how do we fight this sort of forces that fight and can some ways selfishness or selfjustification and societally how do we stop this inventing in our schools and education . This is the institution which record providing the american dream, the only semifunctional one. I wonder to what extent we reduce the problem to how we make the schools better. Why . The answer comes back to kids. When you see Public School students, you understand they are being largely deprived of opportunities that should be theirs. Those schools need attention. They need funding. They need political will and people to come teach even if they dont teach all that well. For a time. I think we are about out of time. Thank you all for coming and for participating. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] congressman said break away the recommendations for books on your website . Ive always been a big part of my life and i was actually a pretty Smart Communications is idea b