But i like that kind of thing. I have been announced may be my favorite five books. Thank you for coming out here and go read this book. Its fun. Its wise. Do i make myself clear . We have copies for sale here and harry will stick around and sign copies. [inaudible conversations] book tv is live today from chicago for at the printes row lit fest, an annual event featuring author discussions an signings. Our live coverage this weekend comes from Jones College prep high school. Youll hear from many authors, including National Book award winner kennedyy. Michael eric dyson, lisa napoli, and many more. Well kick off the coverage with author mary deash dearborn. Biography of Ernest Hemingway. Good morning and welcome to the 33rd annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Todays program is being brawled live on cspan2s booktv. Well have a few minutes for questions at the end of the presentation. The audience has to line tip microphone to your right. Well let you know when. Li please make
Cspan2 with top Nonfiction Book developers every weekend. But Tv Television for serious readers. Hi everyone, thank you for coming to the Tattered Cover and thank you for joining us for tonights author event. Thank you for coming out to support your local independent bookstore, we greatly appreciate it. Tonight we have dan hampton, most of you probably know hes the author of hunter killers and wards of the sky among several others. Hes a decorated pilot and a historian of, okay. A noted historian. Tonight hes going to be discussing the flight, his recounting of Charles Lindberghs famous transatlantic flight from new york to paris. So without further ado, im going to go ahead and turn it over to dan. Lets give him some big applause. [applause] i also tap dance and sing badly. Well, thank you jennifer. And michael, and the Tattered Cover crowd as well as my cspan buddies mark and steve whove done this with me several times before. Probably tired of looking at me. And its good to be back
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Baptist Church in the city of new york. Were delighted that you can join us tonight. Were looking forward to a very informative and inspiring night. Tonight youre joining us for a conversation on women and incarceration and im delighted that the new press who has publishing the book becoming this burden, sent me a note suggesting that we tick a look at the book. Now, i will tell you that across a year, i may get from various publishers maybe 20 or 30 new books. Asking me to read them and i have to share my opinion or else share my share my opinion on a cover or share my opinion with members of our congregation. I cant rad them all but fortunately i read this one and i read it because it had a forward by an author, and an activist and a lawyer named Michelle Alexander. I was coming out of a program similar to this at the library one evening and one of the panelists was the late Vincent Harding i knew him from my days at a student at
Well, good morning, and welcome to the 33rd annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Id like to start by giving a special thank you to all of our sponsors. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan2s booktv. Were going to have a few minutes for questions at the end of the presentation. The audience will have to line up at the microphone to your right, and well let you know when the time comes. Before we begin todays program, please make sure to silence your cell phones and turn off your camera flashes. And with that, id like to introduce our moderator, a Acclaimed Television documentary host, producer and news anchor, bill kurtis. [applause] mary, well get right into it. Yes. [laughter] i should have a moment of explanation. You may be expecting three people up here. Stacy keach will not be with us today. On opening night, a oneman show about Ernest Hemingway, last week, i believe, he had a heart attack on the stage. It was one of those strange things that just, in his words
An opportunity to welcome some of our guests, particularly in the area of the country and prejudice and engage with them in conversations. Wed like to do it two ways today. After our guest speaks, i will begin with questions and then make the floor available to you to ask and argue with them, whatever makes you happy. When he was still a teenager. After leaving the violent far right state movement that he was part of during his youth, he began the painstaking process of rebuilding his life. And in the year 2009, he cofounded an Organization Called life after hate. A Nonprofit Organization helping people to disengage from hate and violent extremism. In 2015 christian decided to share his journey from hate to understanding in the book, and he published the romantic, a book called romantic violence memoirs of an american skinhead. So following his talk ill ask him a few questions and he will have an opportunity to engage with him. Christian, the floor is yours. [applause] thank you, abe.