And growing community, that is where we are gathering around not only professional writers but folks who write for their own enjoyment and creative purposes and anyone who loves to read anything. We have ongoing collaboration in vanderbilt university, helping us program a special track every year. This year among a couple tracks we have going on we have one, all the kings men, the Pulitzer Prize is celebrating the 100th anniversary so the pulitzers at remember, the festival has some sources of funding, but mostly it depends on donations from people like you. You can donate on the festival web site, from the app, on facebooking, or you can do it the oldfashioned way, in person at the Festival Headquarters here. [laughter] we will be ending the session about ten minutes before the hour or so. First, well hear from dr. Daryl carter. He, hes written a book called brother bill president clinton and the politics of race and class. Hes an associate professor at east Tennessee State university
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just standing by social security could send them falling off a populist cliff. joining us now to give us some historical perspective is al fromm. his new book the new democrats and the turn to power chronicles those years and offers advice. welcome to the show. delighted to be here. let me start with a thought. you are old enough to remember when vietnam and crime haunted the democratic party. i m old enough to remember the last time hillary clinton was the inevitable nominee for president. give us some perspective here, and should she run on bill clinton s legacy, on barack obama s legacy or specifically on some of the new democrat third way centrist bill of goods
0 tis the night before congressional recess, and all through the house, there s lots of stirring. debate continues in the house of representatives as congress moves towards a vote on that $85 billion bipartisan budget deal. but don t let all that bipartisan holiday spirit mislead you. there are all kinds of political attacks on this plan, including a potentially significant split for republicans. many criticize john boehner for caving to tea party republicans, but the speaker neared his boiling point. i came here to cut the size of government. that s exactly what this bill does. why conservatives wouldn t vote for this or criticize the bill is beyond any recognition i can come up with. that was pretty interesting. he also turned the famous rhino charge back at conservatives, challenging tea partier s ideology or a shift in the way that the caucus is going to attempt to govern. the fact that we have a budge set a great thing. we need to underscore that. that s what martha stewa