I am pleased to welcome craig to the store this evening as his first visit at politics prose also though wanted his book is called kissingers shadow but he would be likely known for his earlier book which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award. Also the empire and of necessity a professor of history at New York University and has written for a variety of publications including the New York Times and Los Angeles Times and a recipient of fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation it draws on recently available government sources as well as biographies and work from a controversial subject as a student at harvard to look at kissingers political philosophy back to the cambodian invasion arguing for their current militarization of American Foreign policy. Evan thomas praised the book for the literary flair and a sharp eye for the absurdities of politics. We are happy to have him here with us this evening. [applause] what a very nice turn now. Thanks with a lovely i
We are marking 15 years of booktv on cspan2. Here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. All weekend we are live from the 2013 southern festival of books in nashville would some of the operas featured are kitty but the run end of light care, the removal of tennessee governor ray blanton in 1979. And the jfk association. See a complete schedule of the days events and also a look at a late alexander cockburns book a colossal wreck. Aero difficult political scandals and American Culture at 9 00 on sunday. A 00 p. M. Sunday your thoughts what does not apply here. Up next representative john lewis, a democrat from georgia. The 14 term congressman talks about his role in the Civil Rights Movement, Race Relations in the obama event political partisanship on capitol hill, he has written wind a memoir of the movement, across that bridge life lessons and a vision for change and march book 1. Congressman john lewis, who is elwin wilson . Guest id met him in 1961. I was part of the fre
A colossal wreck a road trip through political scandal, corruption and American Culture and you will hear about alexanders fondness for road trips, his enduring quest not really to get through political scandal and corruption but to reveal it and his real love affair with American Culture which comes through strongly in the pages of this book. A little background just so you know, the book is coming at out now. You just heard he died a year ago. He was working on this book pretty much until the day that he died and it was pieced together partly thanks to the process that he and jeffrey developed at counterpunch for every year the the end of year y would publish to greatest hits column of their pieces of the preceding 12 months and this enabled alexander to keep a good track on his favorite parts of his own as they say in england. And the book was then put together with extraordinary help from daisy, from jeffrey and from andrew in between feeding his animals which were brought into the
Time for a period of general speeches followed by debate and a procedural vote on a u. S. District court nomination. Thatll be followed by a vote on legislation sponsored by senator Claire Mccaskill dealing with Sexual Assaults in the military a. Also on the agenda, Senate Democrats plan an allnight session to talk about Climate Change and other environmental issues. Over in the house, theres no legislative business today. The chamber will gavel in at 2 00 eastern for a pro forma session. The house will return tomorrow at noon with eight suspension bills being considered including a resolution that calls on the u. S. To impose sanctions on russia for its intervention in ukraine. You can watch live coverage of the house on cspan and the senate here on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you today as a Public Service by your television provider. Host and fadi chehade is the president and ceo of the Internet Corporation for assigned names and num