Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20140427

Writing in his journal more and more inviting letters and saying you know the way this is going this is not going in that direction that i want. He really believed that it was important to empower people and for them not to have a sense of dignity and could not live in poverty and be comfortable but not to forget where they came from and to help people who were still living in poverty and to help the cause. That is a lot of the reason why he starts out on his own to organize farmworkers that i think that really strong feeling that i have empowered these people and now theyre using that power towards goals that i dont support becomes very significant later on when you try to understand some of the decisions that he made and the degree to which he wanted to maintain control because he never one to be in that situation again. He talks about that quite a lot. Later on, the cso was a membership organization. Once he is running a labor union a lot of people support labor unions because they want to make more money and they want better conditions. Not everyone joins a labor union because they believe and want to better the lives of other people and sacrifice. He felt very strongly that you needed to educate workers in order to share this philosophy that he had. That became a tough issue. A coming up next to michael malice reports on the life of the late north Korean Leader kim jong il. He spoke with other immediate consultant cole stryker at housing works bookstore cafe in new york city for an hour and 15 minutes. Thanks for coming. We have a couple of great hooks here on sale. Dear reader is the book we are celebrating tonight and something i finished earlier this week and found completely captivating and im glad to see you all here and im sure that will be illustrated in tonights talk as well. The man of the hour michael malice is someone that i met at the release party of his book that i wrote and we got to know each other because he spent the entire night chatting up my mother who was visiting new york for the first time. From what i understand michael being soviet born basically wanted to learn more about what his parents went through growing up under soviet rule and decided to take a trip to north korea. He bought every book of propaganda he could find presumably all of these written by kim jongil the former ruler of north korea and collated that into a pretty interesting book. He pitched it around and nobody understood it so he decided to put it out himself and a very successful kickstarter later. He selfpublished and now you have the finished product