Welcome to book tv in depth this is especially or fiction on indepth and last month was David Ignatius who writes about the cia. This month we have Colson Whitehead is our guest his most recent book is the underground railroad. What is the appropriate response mr. Whitehead when your books are praised by the president obama and ohio oprah and the National Book award . It takes the pain away. [laughter] this book has taken off in a way that is unexpected and wonderfu wonderful. So i think my lucky stars i sleep a little better, a better mood generally, and try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . I have been writing 20 something years doing fiction 20 years. And no one particularly cares. So i have the pride of thinking i did a good job with the book and the bonus of other people to see that as well. Host your first book was about elevator repair people. How do you sell a book like that quick. Exactly. So when i send it to my agent with the concept
Archival footage are included in the Award Winning film from 2003, which documents the nonviolent protest that quickly lead to similar citizens throughout the south and helped energize the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s. We have the right to protest. This is a nonviolent movement. Resistance. From the busboy cart in montgomery, alabama 1960, virtually Nothing Happened in the arena of civil rights. It was dead. Absolutely dead. Even martha luke earth do even Martha Luther king said that. In 1960, things to change dramatically, in greensboro. It is the origin of all of those events that occurred subsequent to february 1st, 1960. I happened to be there. Mcneill happen to be there. When you hear a railroad, the train is coming from far away and its coming closer. You become increasingly aware of the tracks of the trains. That track is what divides white from black. That is what separates the white ghetto from the black ghetto. It is the track that heads somewhere, but you dont know ex
The pantheon of monsters. It was the last one to be included. Everyone has their own pantheon, you can come fight me later. [laughter] in my opinion, creature was the last one. She was one of disneys first female animators, she was an actress, she was an illustrator. Everything about Millicent Patrick was larger than life. It has been the greatest honor of my life so far to tell her story. If you read the book, you know there are pictures in there because millicent lived a very visual, cinematic life. I have a treat for all of you. Ive got some photos that have never been seen before. I have hundreds of them i was not allowed by my publisher to put in because we could not fit 700 different photos in the book. So i would like to take you through while telling you about millicent and why she is a trailblazing artist and one of the most important women we have ever had in the film industry. I would like to take you through her life a little bit with some awesome photos. Can room or i ca h
And to be on a den of fide federal agents that are kidnapping people in Portland Oregon theres a lot to get to also naomi kara vonnie will bring us the weekly offensive and Natalie Mcgill has some mind blowing old news about perhaps the only american to ever get paid reparations for slavery but 1st heres my interview with kevin gestalts kevin thanks so much for joining me you know this for having me so youre doing excellent journalism and one of the topics that i think youre one of the best on is julian assigns so i wanted to start off with talking about him obviously theres always developments in whats going on with him the continued persecution of joined us on recently they added extra indictments more indictments they added on a few weeks ago i mean there were already 17 indictments 17 or 18 by the Justice Department against him what the hell of a adding on and whats the point of. Theyre just window dressing theyre trying to make their case look better but it really rests upon this
And one of the topics that i think youre one of the best on is julian assigns so i wanted to start off with talking about him obviously theres always developments in whats going on with him the continued persecution of joining us on recently they added extra indictments more indictments they added on a few weeks ago i mean they were already 17 indictments 17 or 18 by the Justice Department against him what the hell are they adding on and whats the point of. Theyre just window dressing trying to make their case look better but it really rests upon this Conspiracy Theory that theyve never been able to prove that julian assad and recruited Chelsea Manning to work for wiki leaks and she was inside the pentagon systems acting as some kind of spy and truly wasnt a military whistleblower and in effect the reason why we saw this super ceding indictment where theyre now criminalizing not just julian assigns but its an escalation because they name weekly leaks staff in the indictment and theyre