in manhattan and stood toe-to-toe with a manhattan d.a. they are highly intelligent people there to do a job at low pay considering what they can make in the private sector. committed public servants. superb trial lawyers and they don t want to be in this type of office. mr. bragg is setting us on a path that is going to harm every citizen in manhattan. bill: last question here, though. how do we reverse this? or does it have to get really bad before that happens? hopefully shows like yours can help mr. bragg see his job is to protect victims, not give a pass to actual violent criminals in the street. bill: thank you, michael. he is here in new york city. thank you for coming on and we ll speak to you again. 22 past now. dana: charles mcgehee, one
half a century of writing in 14 books in print and no one had ever written a biography. i wanted to find out who was kurt vonnegut the author of these books that suddenly became so popular, so suddenly. you know, he was out of print, as i say in the prologue in the mid-60s. by 1970 he had a body of work that had been resuscitated from the ash heap of literature. god bless you missed mr. rosewater, sirens of titan, mother night, cat s cradle, works before he had been just somebody who wrote paperback books that ended up in drugstores and bus stations next to mr. lefty and conan the barbarian. no suddenly the next great literary thing. you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. and now our final panel from the virginia festival of the book. author of you need a schoolhouse author of the tuskegee airmen an illustrated history talk about fighting for civil rights through education and war. good afternoon. welcome to the viejo festival of the book sponsore