Post a comment on our Facebook Page, facebook. Com booktv. If you all for being here i am Tim Henderson director of i would like to briefly encourage you all if you have not done so, to support the southern festival. Which we keep free and open to the public every year and have done so for 29 years. By making a donation to the festival. You can do that online humanities tennessee. Org are our Facebook Page or in person on the plaza at the headquarters done by union avenue. We appreciate your support and appreciate you all being here this morning. A very quick note about the q a portion of todays events. You should be holding an index card if you have a question that you like to ask. If you would pass those towards the end of the aisle, someone will come by and collect those cards and they will be used for q a afterwards. This time, i would like to welcome this mornings guests. Bruce barry is her vantage and where he teaches courses in ethics, Public Policy and negotiations. Is the auth
Floor to questions so without further ado one thing i want to mention, a lot of people tend to conflate all families with chronically Homeless Individuals and they are two populations with different sets of needs so you might bear that in mind. The introduction to my book is called the family room, a place to sleep. For most of us it is a given in our lives along with a roof over our heads and our own front door to close, ever since the beginning of the european colonization of north america jamestown in 1607 and the mayflower pilgrims Plymouth Colony in 1620, communities on the source have had to deal with those among them who did not have a place to sleep, people who could not provide for themselves or their children and had no one to give them shelter. Despite the fact the new world offered any ablebodied person an abundance of seafood and fertile soil life was not easy. Disease, war and accidents were constantly leaving families to fend for themselves. A woman could be widowed in t
Would also turn out to be true and not because of some historical accident, but because our Economic System was intentionally rigged in favor of corporations and wealthy americans over everyone else. Trickle down economics was woven into the National Conversation consciousness as if it were written into the founding documents of our country. Two hundred years of struggle and progress had been intentionally reversed over the course of the last 30 years. If a foreign power had announced that was its plan for america, we would have gone to war. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] and were back live in nashville, and heres author Richard Schweid live from the southern festival of books. [inaudible conversations] thank you all very much for coming. Thanks, of course, to the southern festival of books. Open the floor to questions so without further ado one thing i want to mention, a lot of people tend to conflate all families with chronicall
Community of readers. So thats who were really trying to gather around over the course of the weekend. Not only professional writers, but folks who write for their own just enjoyment and creative purposes. And anyone who loves to read anything. Any connection with the local universities here, absolutely. Weve got a longgoing collaboration with the [inaudible] at vanderbilt university. They help us program a special [inaudible] all the kings men. Absolutely. Thats right. This year among a couple of special tracks that we have going on, we have one that is, you mentioned all the kings men, the Pulitzer Prizes are are celebrating their 100th anniversary, and as part of commemorating the centennial, the robert m. Warren center at vanderbilt [inaudible] some of which actually talk about robert warrens influence as a poet and as a novelist. So really its important artists who won pulitzers in two categories rarely. So, but the Warren Center at vanderbilt, very special partners of the festiva
The robert m. Warren center at vanderbilt [inaudible] some of which actually talk about robert warrens influence as a poet and as a novelist. So really its important artists who won pulitzers in two categories rarely. So, but the Warren Center at vanderbilt, very special partners of the festival every year. Youll also see University Presses set up all over the plaza here, the folks at the University Presses and at Humanity Centers around the state, really important to help us make this such a great and diverse program. Tim henderson, whats your background . Howd you get involved well, ive been at humanities tennessee for nearly 20 year, identify been the e. D. For ive been the e. D. For just over four. I mean, i came out of academia and was teaching english literature, got back to nashville after many years, had found the council, and it was just love at first sight. I mean, the work that humanities tennessee does is not only important, its an enthusiastic group and a great bunch of su