Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and theres a place to buy copies of the books and take them to the tent and have them signed. Follow us out when we leave. To the left, george packer, staff writer for the new yorker magazine, author of asass sins gate, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, written two novels and two Nonfiction Books, a play off broadway, and lives this brooklyn, new york, the new book called the unwinding inner hist
For today and cspan 2 booktv so make it all proud just to give a brief sense of how we do things in the next 15 minutes. Im going to introduce just an art. Make sure thereve book will have a discussion. I think the title of this panel is rebuilding or evolution informally in my mind. It is detroit and austin that the beginning and end of all things. That appeals more to my grammatic sense. So jeff kerr is the author of austin texas history. The first was austin, texas then and now. The next was republic of austin. On the most recent one of the reason we are here this morning is seat of empire the embattled birth of austin, texas, which is a history of the founding of boston and the battle in the republic of texas over by this capital would need. Jeff also raised a regular history and he is practicing pediatric urologist at the same time. If we have and the emergence sees. The author will take care of them. Mark binelli is the author of vincennes msi, contributing editor to relate to an
Counterterrorism. One of the things he said to congress, we believe you can no longer look at activities that would traditionally be protected by the first and fourth amendments. We no longer look at them as protected by the first amendment. We have to look at them through the lens has been potential precursors to terror with them. Nobody stopped to say, wait a minute, the n. Y. P. D. Is in the constitution. Congress said thank you. There is a fundamental shift in american policing that new yorkers have given them the political cover. Pray kelley remains very popular. So they have the political cover to do it. Host we have been talking with matt apuzzo come closer prizewinner for investigative reporting. Here is his book cowritten with adam hall a thank you for recovery knowledge. Cspan2. Booktv. We are live on and television. Just to give you a brief sense how we will do stains stains, i will introduce jeff and mark that will have the short passage then we will have a discussion and 5
Was in the most buccaneer times, after the civil war. We had rockefeller. The robber barons making a lot of money. I think it was easy for them because they had been running around with low rent con artists , now lets go with the big boys. They were beautiful and they were tough and they were driven. They were driven for power and individualism, but they could have been courtesans, they could have kept in a fine manner if they wanted. They pushed for their and dependence and womens independence. Independents and womens independence. Two little remembered victorian sisters changed the course of american womens rights and American History. Sunday on q a. Itself is not unusual. Similar streets have popped up in other cities. Beaumont, texas. Fort worth, texas. Denver. What makes ogdens 25th street unique is that it grows right in the middle of the mormon settlement. Arose right in the middle of the mormon settlement. The railroad was bringing in nonmormons. It swelled the length ranks of
People, that we should put the purpose part off till the last, even though its really the first thing, because it will make all the rest, i think, make more sense in that way. I think that its very important to understand we live in a time when, for a whole variety of tends topolicymaking be dimly understood, often distrusted, and disconnected from the consequences of the policies being implemented. That most intensely in the development, the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care act, but i also feel it in many other areas as well. One of the problems is that if a policymaker is a political and is covered primarily by the political press, there is a craving that borders on a date if to have a storyline. The once people settle on storyline, there is a craving which borders on blindness to shoehorn every fact, every development, everything that happens, into the storyline, even if thats not the story. Of you who are students here, the first thing i want to say is, i spent a l