Good morning good afternoon good evening. The Second Annual Schaumburg Center leader is one Literary Festival. s programs here at the Schaumburg Center coming to you live from new york city in my little one in my living room thank you for tuning in for conversation with authors from across the world life magazine profile of James Baldwin talked about where he grew up which is where he became the Schaumburg Center and said the pain and heartbreak those that connected me to all the people who are alive to introduce us to those with the joy and the sorrow and to spark the imagination and then to confront the present a plan for the future thank you to all the moderators 11 00 a. M. To 5 30 p. M. Eastern and alexandria and those thinkers who exhibit what i described previously earlier the Schaumburg Center for adults and young people i hope you will add to the list we have createds by visiting the website at Schaumburg Center one of the leading cultural institutions to research preservation
To what you would call a prom i was equivalent of a freshman at the university and i came home at 2 00 oclock at night the light was on. America is in the war. Yes. Was that touch you so much . What did that mean for you in hungary . How old were you . 18. Yes. With the late author john lucas in depth form 20 years ago since 2000 over 130 leading nonfiction and fiction authors of our time have appeared close to underscores my head, head, woodward, and just to name a few over the next three hours our goal is to review the last 20 years of indepth but also to ask you some questions and sure they are. Who is your favorite in depth and guest and a favorite author 202 7488200. 202 7488201 mountain pacific you can text your thoughts as well. The same year William F Buckley junior, milton friedman, gore of it all and Arthur Schlesinger junior all appeared. He was a portion. And then to go to harvard if i hadnt chosen the army instead. But schools control the opinion of the children of the ric
Grunwald a writer with political magazine i live down here in miami we know something about Climate Change down here, im working on a book about it myself. I really want to thank all of you for coming this is such an important topic. This is the only planet with pizza. We do need to try to save it. This is a tough topic that not everybody wants to hear about. These guys have done is really incredible. I remember interviewing al gore he said when he does talk siesta think about three budgets what is talking about climate yes to think about a time budget because people can only listen for so long he has to think about a complexity budget because people only have so much tolerance for that and then he is to think about a hope budget because is only so much climate people can take the doom and gloom before they start to nod off. We have an incredible panel here guys will have tough times with the hope budget. David has written an incredible book about how we are all screwed. [laughter] nat
Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
Internet. Media come along these Television Companies support cspan2 as a public service. Good evening i am tony clark from the Carter Library im really glad youre all here. I think this is going to be a fascinating evening. Because it kind of tells why we are in politics in libya right now. R when i was growing up folk music was a big deal. There is a group called the chad mitchell trio that had a song called the jon birx society with lyrics like if mommy is a commie you have got to turn her in. It was really a funny funny ansong. They would sing things fighting for the right to fight the right fight for the right. Sometime you should google chad mitchell trio in the jon birx society song the billboards along the time that the highways would say impeach a Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren or get the u. S. Out of the un. They were very well known by the 60s by the end of vietnam war you did not hear much about them. You will hear tonight their influence carried much further. The influe