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next on booktv from our recent coverage of the chicago tribune printers row with dust, kevin schultz details the relationship between william f. buckley junior and norman mailer. today s program is being broadcast live on c-span2 s booktv. we will leave some time at the end for audience questions then you can just come out up to the microphone to the side of the stage so the home viewing audience can hear the question. he can keep the spirit of that test lit fest going year-round with a subscription to the premium book section fiction series in membership program. also please download the app for more info on lit fest as well as access to our digital book store store. we encourage everyone to post messages and photos to facebook instagram and twitter using the hashtag pr al f15. before we begin we ask that you turn off your cell phone ringers and any flashes on your cameras. with that, please welcome our interviewer for today s program jane daly. [applause] than ....
welcome to the 31st annual chicago lit road book fest. my name is tom and before we get started i would like to thank our sponsors and thank all of you for coming. today s program is being broadcast live on c-span2 spoke tv. we will leave sometime at the end for audience questions and you can just come on up to the microphone up to the side of the stage so the home viewing audience can hear the question. you can keep the spirit of lit fest going year round with a subscription to the printers row journal. that s the tribune s premium book section fiction series and membership program. also please download the trip took ask for more info on that fast. we encourage everyone to post messages and photos to facebook, instagram and twitter using the hashtag pr al f15. before we begin we ask that you turn off your cell phone ringers and any flashes on your cameras. with that please welcome our interviewer from today s program jane daly. [applause] hi. thank you. i m jane dal ....
. subscription to the printers row journal, the premium book section. you can also download that the trip books out for more information on that fast and for access to the digital bookstore. lastly, we encourage everyone to take photographs and upload messages to facebook, twitter, and as to grant using the hashtag puerto rico ls 15. with that i will throws it over to: mcmahon for the introduction, associate editor of the chicago tribune. [applause] thank you. thanks to everyone for coming today. thank you for braving the weather and coming to let fast. happy to have this every year and happy that you came today it is my pleasure to introduce scott simon. scott is one of those rare people that does not live in chicago does not spend all his time in chicago but feels like a chicago icon. i think it is partly because of the way that scott work chicago into the books he writes i think there is more about it like the chicago sensibility of us got. think it is okay that we ....
her life and career. and we spoke with mike huckabee. he talked about politics and culture. wes moore was here for his book the work sharing the quest to find meaning in his life. and booktv talked about his book, gateway to freedom, detailing the history of the underground rail road. and cornel west talked about his book the radical king a collection of speeches by martin luther king junior. and tax reform was the discussion from the book end the irs before it ends us. and appearing recently was the author of be safe love mom talking about being a mother to four military officers serving in a war zone. and we looked at the life of the first lady through childhood up to the whitehouse. afterwards airs every saturday at 10 p.m. and sunday at 9 p.m. you can watch all episodes on our website. you are watching booktv on c-span2. live coverage of the chicago tribune printers row lit fest held every year in downtown chicago. scott simon is the next author. he will be talkin ....
to the point where there are tens of thousands of people involved, and we see that also rolls over into the freedom rides in 1961. ,e see that continuing to roll culminating in the march on washington in 1963 and the southern christian leadership conference gigantic birmingham demonstrations where king writes these fantastic and eloquent letters from birmingham jail. we are going to take a little bit of a step back. what is happening there between 1961 and 1964? , we knowke was created they were involved in the freedom rides at the end. but what are they doing as an institution? we know they are wedded to nonviolent direct action. what is it that they are doing? what they re going to do is plan and execute one of the most ambitious civil rights demonstration to call it a demonstration would not do it justice. they called it the mississippi summer project, but colloquially it becomes known as freedom summer. we will see how large freedom summer in 1964, they would do a ....