Stuff on cnn and k if i read it. Thanks for joining us but i will not do a lot of talking today because of a distinguished panel today that has written and have written some really neat books. The format today will be we will have a conversation, partially about the books but also the state of the above can Party National election and we feel that evolves. We would do that for about 30 minutes is want to get to your questions so you can ask directly of our panelists. Lets start with the first panelist hugh hewitt, really needs no introduction but nationally syndicated talk way to show host, you see on tv all the time but can you tell us about your new book and the name of that out . Sure. We get the demo went because we did not bring copies of her books. Are you doing a book signing later . Perfect. You usually hold it up and brian lamb at cspan is dying laughing now. My book is called the fourth way, it came out, so supposedly written but the day after the earthquake, Simon Schuster s
With this years lukas fridays ceremony our program is a little bit of the introduction and i hope an interesting discussion with our three winners and then with more celebration to come so thanks for all of you to share this part of the evening with us first i will tell you about this prize is you may not be as acquainted with it as we are but this is a prize in memory of tony lucas who inspired my generation the first time we started to taken college what we wanted to write and our generation grew up with a narrative nonfiction searching about social issues and Common Ground so when he passed a lot of people were inspired by his life to create this prius this is where the enterprise began it has expanded gradually for the Senior Executive in the netherlands at the time of his death in the 1997 as a reporter of serious history his children established the prize as part of a the lucas fridays project and his family has generally underwritten the prize since the inception in 1998 his wif
On trial. A book she discusses managed titled records of the salem witchhunt. 12 individuals worked to complete the book. This presentation is part of an all day Salem State University presentation. Host welcome back. I am thrilled to see you all here for what should be a really interesting session. I would like to introduce to you my good friend and partner in witchcraft studies, margo burns. Margo was one of the leading experts on the trials. One of the editors in the records of the salem witchhunt. In some degree, she probably has forgotten more about the individual documents than i will ever know. We asked her to speak about those records and the Amazing Things you can learn from a close read of them. I should also mention that she is the author of my favorite articles on the salem witch trials. It looks at the issue of false confession that i strongly recommend to you. Margo burns. [applause] thank you. Just so you know, i have a completely different read on the coercion of false
It is my pleasure to welcome you for discussion of this book. The big stick the limits of soft power and the necessity of military force. What we are going to do is the author should have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give him the first turn to my colleague, and residents and counselor for budget chair assessments. Sounding conspiratorial here. Henry kissinger, director of Global Affairs for his comments. Then we will turn to the other, eliot cohen and open the floor to you for your questions and go from there. With no further ado, eliot cohen. Great to be here. Important that every book event remember it is to sell books. A copy of the big stick, television audience, a very important book. On groundhog day we are meeting and that is very apropos. By the way those who dont know Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, we are in for another six weeks of winter. The movie groundhog day is one of my favorite movies. Those who have seen it know that bill murray wakes up every day and i
Then at 10 00 p. M. Eastern time, on book tvs after words program, capital Founding Partner discusses income inequality with the former chair of the council of economic advisers during the bush administration. We wrap up in prime time at 11 00 p. M. Chuck collins will be the author hes the greatgrandson of meatpacker oscar meyer and he talks about wealth inequality and his decision to give away much of his inheritance. Of morning welcome to the Cato Institute. I am a senior policy analyst and also editor of Human Progress which is an educational website that tries to put together as many statistics as human wellbeing as possible in order to present to our users and our more real picture of the world than the headlines would suggest thinking about the headlines, it is perhaps an understatement to say that we live in an era of great pessimism. This pessimism is not distributed evenly across the world. It is felt very acutely in many western democracies including ours here in the United S