They if theres no explanation, we drop them. Its post setting. All the books, we think, on the, are good. Some every bit as good as harry potter, gone with the wind, or kill a mocking bird, but those people deserve to have a voice, and we are helping them find it. As they help writers find their voice, the selfpublishing book expo helps them find each other. Writing, as we know, is a fairly solitary endeavor; right . When you are a writer, and youre traditionally published, you have an agent, an editor, and then youre a Marketing Team and a publicity team. For what its worth, whether they do everything they say they will do, they dont, you have is a team. When youre a selfpublished author, you have none of that. I think one thing that the show affords these people is a chance to if they selfpublish, lets say, everything is done online. They never get to see a face. Two things this affords particular authors. One is to meet the people behind the companies, to actually look at the faces of the people at nook or create space, and go out eyetoeye with the people. Thats number of one. Number two, to go iotoeye with each other. They never get to network or say i tried this and it was awful. I tried this, and i had great success. You know, so a show like this puts them under one roof to talk with each other, and that was a goal for us, to the be able to have these People Network and talk to each other. They could learn from each other. So, what is the future of the Publishing Industry . The authors who write good books and maybe five or ten years ago would have been picked up by a traditional publisher dont have the opportunity anymore so they do it on their own. I think that thats sad, and with the rise of selfpublishing, if people continue to do it right, what we see now is traditional publishers, now, a lot have armings a they recognize the talent out there, when you selfpublish, you build an audience, and they dont want to im not alone that way. I think it did that to many americanmuslims. It sort of forces do you grapple with the notion of what it means to be americaislam after 9 11 was on trial. And the talking pun daunt on tv an expert suddenly. You were told that you couldnt be a woman and be a muslim. You needed to be liberated from it. The violence of islam was inherit to the theologies of islam. There was a lot coming at me. And as a mother after a toddler at the time and two children, one my daughter was starting cinder i was worried about their future. If being muslim is just a label or something that we are as a family because of sort of ancestral loyalty, why put them through that challenge. It had to be more. Hence of the beginning of this journey. So the terrorist blow up two beautiful buildings in our city, our state, our country, what is the impact on a fern person like you, who is a living a comfortable life in manhattan. What impact does it have on you . What do you think about those people . The audience that is listening. How do you think they have affected your life . Well, first and foremost effected the life they took away so sanchly that day. From my perspective coming at it from muslims, the pain of those lost to the terror that day. The morning that we were all doing together mourning we were doing together is come powbed by another challenge many of by vur chew of we were guilty by association. That was difficult. As a mother, even more so as you grapple with trying to make sense of it all for two very innocent children. Yeah. Your son was, what, he was only three and my daughter was just beginning school. I remember, sadly, that her first day at school was the morning of 9 11. The First Official day of school, and i read about it in the book where i packed a tiny miniature as a spiritual kind of protect my daughter thing. Like christians carrying a cross. Yes. It was a big oversized backpack. As i watch the images, the horror of that day, the buildings going up in flames, and thinking that very same miniature packed so lovingly in my daughters backpack was used to wreef havoc and the hate and destruction. And the juxtaposition of those two realities was mind numbing and confusing at the parenting level. So the journey, has been for, for me, a journey of learning and owning my religion. Understanding the issues and we can teach our children to disassociate and disengage. Im told this is also true to the we have stereo types throughout. You are trying to develop your identity. You can say im not quite muslim or not quite changing names right now there is a lot of, you know, people are shying away from celebrating or doing rahm in the office. Its a natural reaction. Its a difficult journal any. Of what it means to be Truly American and muslim and interests have changed for a better world. Watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. This list is a strategy for following some of our wellknown southern talent. And were look at some of the legends of the area. We begin with an exploration of the writing of the general war in chattanooga. Welcome to the university of tennessee in chattanooga. The john c. Wilder papers we have here at the university, a collection that we acquired around 1960 from one of general wilders daughter who was stiff still alive at the time, donated these collections of military documents and letters that her father wrote to her mother in indiana during the war. After the war, there was a lot of Union Officers did, they moved to chattanooga from indiana or from the midwest, and it became a prominent businessman in town and industrialist throughout the south opening a series of mines throughout tennessee and the North Carolina and he was an entrepreneur opening up hotels. He was always working, new, ventures, moneymaking opportunities, and he would get them roming and stay with them for two or three years and sell and start something else. He was the mayor of chattanooga in 187 0 and postmaster as well. He was a prominent citizen in the late 1800s for chattanooga. Its appropriate that we get this collection of letters that he had during the war that he wrote to his witch. One thing i find very interesting is a lot of letters start off like letters that we used to write, starting off by asking the person, why havent you written more, letters to his wife, i have not received a letter from you, always complaining about that, but i think back in the civil war, they were not as detailed in writing letters. In world war ii, especially, soldiers letters had to be acceptability by their superiors. This gives indication of what they are planning to do and gives information about the forging missions that his troops went on, the battles, and one thats interesting that he wrote, his division missed out on the battle by a day, got there a day late, but writes home on april 16, 1862 from the battlefield, writing to his wife what he sees just a day after the battle, and he says, i will not attempt to tell you of the awful destruction on the battleground which covered his face of about 25 square miles. The dead lay on every acre of it. When we came here, there was just about two rebels for each one of ours, probably about 3,000 in all, dead. Hundreds of trees slivered with splintedders, gun carriages, dead horses, heads, arms, legs, and mangled bodies combine to make up a picture of horror that it would be well for our infernal political leaders to look on, and if they did not, then learn to mind their own business to be made of part of it. He was one of the first officers on either side of the war to equip soldiers with the repeating rifle giving his troops a real big advantage over the single shot rifles that most of the soldiers use. The guns fired seven shots versus the shoot and reload, shoot and reload so he really gained the upper hands on confederate troops in the war. Because of them getting the repeating rifles, they were just a lethal division to encounter, and it was because of that they were known as the white men brigade. Prior to that, they were the hatchet brigade because all the men carried hatchets, not for warfare, but camp necessities. He also was very instrumental in the battle just across the bodder into georgia here. One of the last troops to lead union troops to lead the battlefield, protecting general george thomas, who later became known as the rock, and he protected his troops later in the last part of the war. Later in the summer of 1863, he was done with the war. He was sick. He went home for the remainder of the year. When he rejoinedded the outfit in early 1864, he was reduced, and i believe half way through the war through 1864 he was pretty much done, and then he did receive a promotion to the ranks of Brigadier General at that time, but most of what he accomplished during the war, he did as a colonel. This letter he writes from the camp in kentucky in january 18, 1862, and he writes, my dear wife, i have not written you for some time as i have been plight sick with pneumonia, but taken new years day and not yet quite able to be duet, expect to be by monday to resume work. We are lying still here, and no prospect for an advance on the enemy. Our men are half fit for duty, this is the unhealthiest camp ive seen. West virginia, no comparison to it. When you see a soldier and officer writing home during the war and the war that he enlisted in, he was not drafted, but it just gives a good historical account of the things that they face, the obstacles and triumphs they have. It was a hard life. Allot of people dont realize that the casualties in the civil war were not battle wounds. It was illness and sickness and while wiltedder experienced that, and writes im not feeling well. At one point, they carried him by ambulance, and its obvious in some of these that when he was in the middle of some of the hardest fighting, he was sick. He was able to still leave his men, and as soon as the battle was over, apparently, he would collapse and was taken to the hospital where he was recovering or go home to recover. One thing i think is significant in his career in the fall of 1862, he was sent when he was home in indiana gathering troops, he was taking them back to the battlefield, and he was diverted to a little town in western kentucky because the confederate general braxton brag was headed north, and he had to wait for the full union troops that was going to be there for a pretty big battle. He went there with a couple hundred troops and got completely surrounded by the Confederate Army of 50,000. He held them off for several days waiting for the union troops that never came, the union armies never came, and eventually negotiated a surrender by, and i dont know if this has been done in warfare before, but we went in under a plight of troops to the confederate camp and fought out a confederate officer he understand was a gentleman and asked his advice. He pled im not a militarily trainedded, what can an officer do in this situation where im pretty much told not to surrender, but you surrounded me with 50,000 men to my 500, can i see proof that your army is big as it is . His officer said, sir, this is not how wars are fought. Later in his memoirs, he wrote, but i took an instant liking to the man and wouldnt have, you know, led him astray for anything, so they gave him a tour of the Confederate Army and saw, you know, he was outnumbered, and at that point, wilder then negotiated a surrender or negotiated men were not in prison, but sent home, and like i said earlier, he was sent home and two or three months later, the union army worked out an exchange to come back in, and im sure the confederates got somebody to exchange for him. I thought it was a very unique approach to a very desperate situation when he was left hanging out to dry, and he was able to hold off army that out numbered his probably 101 if not a thousand to one. This book is mud slinging, scandals, and disaster, and, actually, i edited together with David Bueller of the university in abu dhabi. Sensationalism is an interesting thing that exists to sell newspapers, has all kinds of forms, but it goes only to a certain limit because its as much entertainment as it is shock. Well, the interesting part of this starts with a chapter by joe campbell who is very good historian and has written about yellow journalism of the late 19th century, 1890s of new york, and he finds a lot positive about it,ments us to take another look at yellow journalism, and as a positive in the muck raking aspects and the telling the truth about whats going on kinds of aspects, and the other thing we have to remember is what was said who came to america in 1830s, on a mission from the french government ended up writing democracy in america and at a very good look at america at that time. What he said was the scandal mannerring is essential to american democracy. He said its interesting also, and the interesting thing, the book, the book does not make a negative just, and sensationalism is fundamental, with every story, the most famous picture that ever appeared in a newspaper was skipping centuries to 1927 which was a picture of somebody in an electric chamber that was a camera snuck in that appeared on the front page of the daily news, actually, shot by chicago tribune, a camera on his ankle, and so this is been going on a long time, and it is essential, especially in political terms, to our democracy. Do you feel that it has changed . It changed throughout the 19th century, so sensationalism has been around a long time. We start in the book, and the beginnings of sensationalism in the American Press had to do with politics, and the mud slinging and scandal mongering of the late 1700s and the early 1800s and jefferson and accused, turns out correctly, of sleeping with his slaves, the press went after them horribly, and that is the same at this moment, but this is going through different periods in different times. For example, when i first got into this business, back in the 60s and 70s, i had a friend, rivers, my professor at stanford who talked about the kennedy era when he was a reporter, and during the kennedy era, everybody knew, and everybody kept a list of who they thought jack kennedy was sleeping with, but nobody ran the story, so in different periods and in different situations, we either as a culture run the story and run with the story as i think we would today, but im not sure, or we wouldnt, and no one ran with the eisenhower questions. No one ran with kennedy while he was alive. As a matter of fact, the kennedy story didnt come out until the 70s when revealed one of his exlovers was the lover of a mafia god, and when that broke, that broke the wall, and suddenly, there was stories. From the 60s to the 70s its changed, and this changed all through at the 19th century. The press where it started was lots and lots of political newspapers in every town, and with the coming of the steam engine and press, it was possible to sl big mass circulation of newspapers in cities, and so from being a political press, we went to being a press for everybody, and as a press for everybody, crime stories came on and became a big thing. Newspapers ran phone yi stories on purpose for the entertainment value, and then conflicting newspaper would say, oh, no, thats a hoax, and the first one would say, no, it isnt, and this went on throughout the 19th century. Very much the intertapement function as well as disasters then and now, ships sinking or buildings falling down was front page news of the mass circulation newspapers. Now, the newspaper business became more and more a mass circulation business going from 30 and 40,000 in beginning mass circulation to hundreds of thousands at the end of the century. Sensationalism takes three forms. Either or. Either the topic is sensational, a war, an explosion, a death, or the treatment is sensational, or the degree of the treatment is sensational, so you can have a war, or you can add horrible adjectives; right . Which would be in the tone, or you can do the horrible adjectives 50 times. Horrible adjectives fit the times; right . What they say about president obama on news shows is if it were about a private citizen would be libel all day long; right . Every possible negative thing, and the worst imaginable language. We dont pull punches today, but in the 50s and 60s, that was unheard of for a Network Commentator to make a negative comment on the president of the United States. Is there some particular thing as you put the book together that youre hoping that people would get from the book, what would it be . I do believe that the only way we understand ourselves today is by understanding our history. He supposedly said that harris not only is a war governor, but a fighting governor. He was born in franklin, tennessee, couple counties west of chattanooga, in 1818, he was the son of a fairly prosperous farmer in the last of his big family. He had a brother who was an attorney who moved to west tennessee, just opening up west tennessee in that time period, was acquired from the indians, became a politician, jacksonian democrat, certainly west tennessee was slave territory, became a slave owner himself, quite a successful warrior in his time and became involved in democratic politics, elected a state senator, and his initial saying as a politician was to dispute the proviso, a suggestion by an orderman congressman in 1847 that the properties or the territories acquired as a result of the mexican war are organized as post states opposed to slave states or along the line, and that created excitement in the south, and he spoke sought clearly on that at that time. He later became a congressman from his district in west tennessee, and then later became the governor of tennessee, elected in 1857, and ironically succeeding Andrew Johnson, tennessees most prominent unionist, and governors most prominent successionist. They invoked the power to have tennessee declare its independence in may of 1861. Tennessee never seceded. As a matter of fact, the declaration of independence, as it were that tennessee enacted, said were not expressing opinion on the abstract doctrine of succession, but invoking our ancient right to a revolution, and so harris invoked that right on behalf of the state of tennessee, but in doing so, he really trampled on aspects of the tennessee constitution because the tennessee constitution had several references to its relation to states relation with the United States, and governor harris basically amended the constitution in a way that violated the amendment provision of the tennessee constitution. Ironically, he felt like he was vipped kateing the souths rights under the United States institution, but by doing so, he perfectly trampled on the tepees constitution. In a positive sense, tennessee was bound up in a terrible controversy in the late 1870 s in the early 1880s over the state debt. The state ra