Virginia and who worked as a midnight janitor. Most people who write books about the future do so from a position of what id call coastal privilege, and i guess part of what i wanted to convey was that there wasnt any blue blood in this body and i wanted to talk about a whole bunch of different issues from the perspective of somebody who grew up in West Virginia and worked as a janitor. Host you write that people in West Virginia were doing their best to imagine a slow descents. Guest how old am . I im 45. Just turned 45. And the first 220 years of my life were spent 20 years of my life were spent in West Virginia and i thought it was normal to just try to manage descent. Economics, money, inherently difficult situation and it wasnt really until i left West Virginia that i came to understand that wasnt how it was all over the world. And a lot of what we have seen is that has continued. That feeling of economic helplessness has continued apace in the 25 years since i left. Host when peo
Seniority is very important in my my workplace. So scalia, although he was three years younger, he was appointed to the court many years before i was. Thats why it is skill he ginsberg. You can watch this and other programs online booktv. Org. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome dave and carl. Was your name again . Carly harrison couldnt be here but im in his place. He probably be famous if youre an enormous spelling. Thanks for jamie for putting on this incredible writers always thought we would do in the few minutes we have left is where both to briefly talk about our newspaper careers, first we need to thank the festival for fitting a million and a half people in this room. Thats a National Park service estimate. Ive never seen a crowd this big its an amazing credible crowd. So for those of us i dont know were going to tell you about our careers. And then well talk about little bit while well talk about florida. I started the newspaper business in 1971 and work for newspaper the pennsylva