Mac. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and its Book Review Literary life panel will begin in just a minute. They are running a minute or two behind. This is live coverage on booktv on cspan2. This is the first panel of the day. Pamela paul, book times editor will be there. Walter mosley will be fair, ann patchett as well. After. Com a call in with Randall Kennedy for discrimination, race affirmativeaction and the law. He is a law professor at harvard. After that, david brock, david rothbard, his most recent book called national insecurity, American Leadership in an age of fear. We will do a callin program with them so you will have a chance. This panel is just starting. Good morning, everyone. Good morning and welcome to Miami Book Fair international. This is our 31st year, as you know, and it is truly a pleasure to see all of you here on a wonderful, sunny and bright south florida morning. Thank you so much for bein
When they got trapped, what trapped, what happened exactly . Was there an explosion . A massive explosion. The structure of the mountains gave way. It was way. It was like an earthquake underground the way the men described it. The stone walls began to undulate. There were explosions. Another told me it was like listening to a machine gun fire at them. So they were trapped below. It was it was like basically living a massive collapse underground. They had enough food for 25 men to last two days. As the days went by they began to ration. They lived on a single cookie a day and then a a cookie every two days along with a spoonful of tuna as some dirty Industrial Water was trapped with them and they gradually began to die. They could hear drills coming for them in the stone caverns, so the drills started coming down, but they kept missing them. They lived this existential tortured two weeks waiting to be rescued, found even. No one knew they were alive for two weeks. They believed they wo
For the mass level government large. For me resilience also involves personal resilience and many of the steps that you mentioned are also steps on a personal level. There is another presentation that will be made tomorrow by a woman by the name of Rebecca Alexander who plays Peter Alexander of nbc, isnt msnbcs sister who is very accomplished because she has a retinal good journey of disease where shes losing her vision and her hearing and the book is not fade away. She talks about whats necessary for personal resilience which is not to look back. Can i ask you . Im sorry. Can you comment about personal resilience . There are important narrators about resilience. My answer is really to create and all of us more resilient people so that we dont have to build it only after we face adversity and there were numerous personal examples in this book that do reflect heroic individuals preparing and responding effectively but thank you. Thank you for this lecture. My name is alex and im an inno
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] a [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. It is a sunny day in miami. I am the dean of the college at Miami Dade College ended is the pleasure to be with you today for the 2014 Miami Book Fair international. The book fair is great for for the support of the night foundation, American Airlines and many other generous supporters. We would like to acknowledge special people in the audience today. I see some of you here. Thank you for your continued support. [applause] todays presentation features two speakers. We will reserve time for q a. If you entry would have been given an index card. Please be certain to jot your questions down on the card and pass them to the right on this side and on that side as well. We will be collecting them throughout the program. At this time we invite you to silence your cellphon
Democracy. That is a shame. It is a disgrace. It is really an open scandal. And we need to do something about that. I would totally embrace the comment that we need you as much as we can, first of all to change our policies we dont incarcerate so many people. And secondly for those people have been incarcerated i think we do over stigmatize them. We do hurt their ability to come out of prison and get on with the gainful, productive life. I wholeheartedly embrace the sentiment of that collect. Host gelled in florida. Caller good morning. I have a question for professor kennedy. Some of us look towards affirmative action us to blacks entering university circuit. I happened to be one who graduated from a Major University, white Major University in the state of ohio. This was before affirmative action. Far too many times there is nothing said about those of us who were participants in the collegiate atmosphere, collegiate i guess academia, that existed before affirmative action. What is hi