Amy the Nobel Peace Prize goes to a coalition of four organizations, including a labor and Employers Union which had themselves been at odds. Well speak with sarah chayes of the Carnegie Endowment for peace in paris for more. Then, disaster capitalism making a killing out of catastrophe. For three years, ive investigated what happened after the spotlight fades from disasters developing countries. What comes when the money and goodwill ends . It is like a political ngo and these people are employees. They are getting paid often it creates atmosphere reliance on foreign money. Amy well speak with journalist Antony Loewenstein. Then juan Felipe Herrera, the first latino u. S. Poet laureate. He is the son of mexican migrant farmworkers and the author of 28 reasonscluding, 187 mexicanos cant cross the border. It is one of those places where we can really present new ideas to even new audiences. On whatn Felipe Herrera it is like to live outlaw and brown in the United States. All that and mo
Two years the last jews were sent to auschwitz from paris a week before the liberation. Questions . Well, you have been a great audience. I really appreciate it. The become is for sale back there. [applause] thank you very much. Journalist an inside gopal is the author of no good men among the living from the perspective of three men, taliban commander, warlord and a Village House wife. The book was a National Book award finalist. The author talked about the book at the southern festival of books. This is an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i think well begin the session this morning. Anand gopal has been a journalist for the wall street journal and christians science monitor. He is a fellow at the new America Foundation and will speak to us today about his first book no good men among the living america, the taliban, and the war through afghan eyes. Anand will be signing books directly following the session.
War about everything from collaboration and in 1941 a book called the plague the bubonic plague. That is as far as i am concerned, that is an allegory of the occupation in france. I think one of the great probably the greatest writer about the moral and ethical complexities of living under occupation. Yes. Could you help us ill try. And explain what it was like for the jews under occupation, and i know its a very big topic but i dont think we all know exactly what it was like. I didnt know a lot of these before i started. I tried not to make this book about the jewish experience, although its a major chapter in the book about the jewish experience, because i wanted to show that the jews werent the only ones who lived in this environment of anxiety and tension, demoralization, et cetera, but there was no doubt that they were the targets of nazi able policy. We first have to recognize there were two kinds of jews in france. Immigrants, many of whom had pled poland and germany during the
Brilliant at it. I mean, you would take train rides around the country. Six weeks in the spring and fall and he talked about simple language. He said the Harvard Audis think i talk into folksy language, but i know i reached them. Speak softly and carry a big stick. It summed up his entire administration. He then gave Maxwell House a slogan good until the very next stop. He was able with his relationship, but he was so interesting. He had a mida shave. When the barbarous shaving hand he is answering their questions and they say the barber has to keep up with him as hes moving around. He understood the press was an important channel for him to reach the public and so he would read their articles ahead of time. Investigative reporters would be able to criticize him. They would criticize them. He didnt have the relationship of the press that he had so the president was drifting and the progressives were moving further forward than teddy was at the time. It was a desire to be back in office
Something that happens. When his father died he just got involved in activities. When his wife died in the life is gone out, he died he would never marry again, he goes to the badlands and is just on a horse for 10 hours a day. He said finally bit that night because constant activity prevented over thought and then he did come back and eventually marry and have a fulfilling marriage with edith,s girlfriend and monitor as much as they couldve loved anybody. The little girl who was born when his wife died i think represented the dead wife he couldnt remember and didnt want to remember because he had to move forward. Its a terrible thing in some ways. So we did give ally to his sister for a while but edith, the new wife in old friend brought her into the family. In his memoir he never mentioned the name. And comprehensible and just the opposite of somebody who wants to believe the more you talk about the people you loved, the more you keep them alive, he just had to keep moving forward. W