Look for us at the Annapolis Book festival in two weeks later from the campus of the university of Southern California for the 19th year but tv will be live from the Los Angeles Times festival of books. For more information about the book fairs and festivals into what previous festival coverage click on the book fairs tab on her website. Good afternoon welcome to the cato institute. I am Vice President and publisher here and i had look forward to some time to our book for him today on what washington gets wrong the unelected officials who actually run the government and the misconceptions about the American People there as many reasons for that of course its hard to imagine right now as we are about three weeks out to the election that president elect donald trump to the brink of office a book that might be more timely for this moment in america and indeed of the turnout for our book for him form suggest there is widespread interest in the content of this book have to say also i am del
For influence. So in that context jazz really comes to the forefront. We are thinking about why that guy is running around in the congo and why they are traveling to far flown places of the world like pakistan and south asia. What are they doing there . Well talk about big ideas. I want to talk about this. Who is that . Armstrong. Yes. You were probably hesitant to say. You know who it is. There he is. You cant miss that smile and that gaze. You know, he gaives people that gaze when he is talking. Probably americas most prominent jazz musician during this whole period. Certainly when it starts and also before that. He already toured europe commercially and he was prominent figure but just American Culture generally. And so before we get into unpacking this image the reading was from a different book than this. It is kind of extract this part that deal with africa. You got jazz and the cold war in africa. The rest of this book blows up the world. Fabulous book. I recommend it. It is goi
For influence. So in that context jazz really comes to the forefront. We are thinking about why that guy is running around in the congo and why they are traveling to far flown places of the world like pakistan and south asia. What are they doing there . Well talk about big ideas. I want to talk about this. Who is that . Armstrong. Yes. You were probably hesitant to say. You know who it is. There he is. You cant miss that smile and that gaze. You know, he gaives people that gaze when he is talking. Probably americas most prominent jazz musician during this whole period. Certainly when it starts and also before that. He already toured europe commercially and he was prominent figure but just American Culture generally. And so before we get into unpacking this image the reading was from a different book than this. It is kind of extract this part that deal with africa. You got jazz and the cold war in africa. The rest of this book blows up the world. Fabulous book. I recommend it. It is goi
Basically whomever it took it to its next technical step. The important thing when we are talking about tv is it the mechanical means of conveying information or is it the thing that is used that is it the content on the tv itself. I look at the question very often when i teach tv history, future tv and such which is ive come to defined television as debt which we see on the instrument which traditionally we have called television or whatever content is created that we view on any means whatsoever but it is still thought of as primarily, video primarily television communication. So we are still in the midst of inventing television as we speak. What began the discovery of the instrument in which we watch television . There are two forms of television, the original experiment where Experimental Television was the mechanical system and so the mechanical system that goes back to baird and he had a wonderful moment which he was showing his puppet, bill in a public demonstration and there wa
Station we did a live radio history of the beetles it shows how well we could work together. We have a nice give and take and when we write we have not been in the same city for years. It is long i have this idea, this idea, and bounce, bounce, and we come up with something that is the ultimate. I have to entertain my coauthor. If it doesnt make his cut it is not good enough. I think we benefit from having to one up each other. Unfortunately, we barely scratched the surface of this book, watching tv. Our guest has been walter podrazik, coauthor. Cspan where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Now on booktv, the parents of the late Trayvon Martin sybrina and tracy martin discuss life and death and the judicial cy system in their book they cant kill us all. This weekend marks the fifth anniversary of Trayvon Martins death. Host thank you both again for jo