Find more information booktv. Org at booktv. Org or consult your program guide. Heres Stacey Abrams. This evenings featured author of course is Stacey Abrams here to discuss her new thriller while justice sleeps. States will be in conversation with our own joshilyn jackson, the author of nine books herself including this Years Mother may i. If you like to continue the work of the Decatur Book festival, you can donate through the link in the chat. They would really appreciate that. I would like to say thanks again for joining us tonight. Were so excited about this amazing conversation and i will turn it over to joshilyn. Thanks everyone. Thank you so much for joining me tonight. I am wildly excited to talk to Stacey Abrams in just a minute. Im sure most of you have heard of her or know who she is putting going to tell just a little bit about stacey before she comes on. She is the twotime New York times bestselling author of our time is now, and lead from the outside. Shes also an entrep
Were so excited about this amazing conversation and i will turn it over to joshilyn. Thanks everyone. Thank you so much for joining me tonight. I am wildly excited to talk to Stacey Abrams in just a minute. Im sure most of you have heard of her or know who she is putting going to tell just a little bit about stacey before she comes on. She is the twotime New York times bestselling author of our time is now, and lead from the outside. Shes also an entrepreneur and some of you might know that she is a political figure. That may have occurred to you. She is a Tax Attorney fell by training and she served 11 years into Georgia House of representatives, seven as Minority Leader. In 2018 she was democratic nominee for governor and she got more votes than any democratic nominee in the history of the state. She has launched multiple organizations that are devoted to voting rights, and to training and hiring young people of color and tackling social issues at the state, national and internationa
[instrumental music] hi everyone and welcome to the national books festival. my name is anna lehman and i m the executive director of the women s suffrage centennial commission. i m here today with megan twohey and gail collins. both incredible authors and writers and journalists and i cannot wait for you to hear what they have to say. i mentioned that i m the executive director of the women s suffrage centennial commission, the commission is a very proud sponsor of the national books festival this year, we are the sponsor of the fearless women trail, which is featuring authors who are fearless just like gail and megan also books and stories about women throughout american history. it s just really a privilege to be here in this place today with these two women. i d like to start us off with some brief introductions for gail and megan and then we will kick it off. megan is joining us, she is the author of she said: breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a mo
interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. all afterwards programs are also available as podcasts. adam: hi my name is adam. i worked with the hard times times for about four years. i ve covered national security including the fbi in a reported extensively on the fbi s russia investigation. it s known as crossfire hurricane. on a think piece for coming on and having his frank discussion with me. he actually came up with the name crossfire hurricane . so much and how he came to use that code name. but before we get into the details of the book, that you have written about. one is you tell us a little bit about yourself and your counter intelligence back out of the fbi. peter: first thank you to cspan for hosting. i started in the in 1996. i ve been in the army prior to that and then college. when into active-duty and then was with the fbi as an analyst with domestic terrorism back in 96. i saw the organization and the ages in a new but that was absolutely wha
washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. this month, pulitzer prize winning author, colson whitehead as our guest. his most recent book is the under ground railroad. mr. whitehead, what s the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the national book award, what is the appropriate response? if only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way that s unexpected and startling and wonderful. just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. why does it put you in a better mood? i ve been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and it s sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. . either you dig the groups of two prospectors or you don t and so you are either along for the ride description or not. definitely when i was writing was my second attem