Join the conversation with phone calls, tweets, texts and facebook messages. On booktv on cspan. Welcome. Thank you for joining us for our latest future tense social. This is very exciting for me because aim other huge fan of erik larsons books and we got to listen to a little churchill as we were warming um. Im andres martinez, the editorial director of future tense, collaboration between new america, and Arizona State university. We look at the implications of impact of technology on society and im prefer of practice our Cronkite School of journalism at Arizona State university. Its a pleasure to have you here and your latest book othe splendid and the vial a saga of churchill family and defiance during the blitz. Erik is the author of such fabulous books as dead week in the garden of beats, thunder struck, devil in white city. I have read most of your book but not read your first book. Was intrigued looking at your biography that you wrote a book called the naked consumer. How compa
Julian castro is joining us, everybody. cheers and applause also on tonights show, why billionaires are having nightmares, why nazis arent jerking it and kentucky slaps donald trump in the face. So lets catch up on todays headlines. Lets kick it off with election day. It is the one day of the year when its not creepy to hang out in an elementary school. And yesterday we saw that democrats are still riding their blue wave. Democrats claiming victory in two key races they say are precursors of what is to come. In sirnlgia the former red state turning blue. Democrats securing control of all levels of power for the first time in a generation. In kentucky Democrat Andy beshear claiming victory over incumbent governor matt bevin. The president made the kentucky race a referendum about himself. If you lose theyre going to say trump suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the world. This was the greatest. You cant let that happen to me. Trevor yo, man, say what you want about trump but
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Dow futures up by almost 65 points s p up by five and a half, nasdaq up 24 comes after a week we saw gains in the markets take a look at what happened overnight in asia. Green arrow there as well indicating it was up only onetenth of 1 . Hang seng up and shanghai up. In europe, more of the same, gains across the board dax, and france, cac up by almost 1 . Check out crude Oil Prices Oil down by almost 2. This morning up 31 cents we have seen a big take down in gas prices here are big stories this morning. Shares of nestle sharply higher, at record high after activist investor dan loeb announce stake in the company theyre erjing nestle to improve margins, shed noncore businesses earlier nestle considered sale of the confectionary division. Argues nestle should sell 23 stake in the cosmetics maker loreal. Shares at an alltime high today as well. In auto news, the company at the center of the biggest safety recall in history filed for bankruptcy takata saying it would be bought for 1. 6 bi
Here is a look. The idea the state is more important than the people is not new. Russians have had a collective identity. For us, it is a collective concept. We consider ourselves to be part of the whole. To be russian means to share the same cultural and historic identity. For years, he inspired the kremlins ideology. He says the elected identity comes from patriotism, projection of power, and respect for rule. Putin taps into all three. Connecting it to its imperial grandeur. It is not something additional or artificial. It is not something additional or artificial because it is our breath, our skin, our organic way of life. Today, the kremlin uses the patriotism to convince the population and convince them that only a powerful state can protect them from enemies. Enemy number one, the u. S. America is on the brink of the revolution. Reporter they accuse the u. S. Of humiliating russia are expanding nato to russian borders and supporting revolutions in former soviet states and satell