Booktv, television for serious readers. Welcome to watermark books and cafe spirit is my great pleasure tonight to introduce tom clavin. He is has written a book about dodge city kansas and were thrilled about that. I want to just give you some of the accolades hes already seen. Someone said it is a musthave for history buffs. Another critic says fans of western u. S. History or lovers of Larry Mcmurtry should covet this nonfiction book. Nancy was the former mayor of dodge city and former chairwoman of tourism and Historic Preservation in dodge city agreed. I think that its very high price that she said this. You will enjoy this book even if you dont read history. It just flows along. Tom clavin is a number one New York Times bestselling author. Hes worked as a newspaper and website editor. Is a magazine writer, tv and radio commentator, and a reporter for the New York Times. Hes received awards from the society of professional journalist, the marine corps heritage foundation, and a Na
Devices please turn them off and walter will discuss his book for 25 minutes and then take as many questions as we can fit in. We encourage questions. After the q and a its a great help if you fold up your own chair and place it against the book shelf. Thank you. The signing line will be here and books are for sale upfront. He tells the story of Freeman Bernstein, boxing promoter, and card shark. And the man who pulled the conon the nazi government which resulted in one of many an effort. He is his great uncle. Walter did get hustle. He has covered every president ial election since 1980, and has written for roll call. Time, newsweek and the washington post. He has served as bureau chief, as a speechwriter in the carter white house. Is a lecturer. And were pleased that he is here tonight. [applause] i want to thank politics and pros, which is one of the great bookstores. I love it. And i love that politics and pros, is delivering. And looking around. I dont know how many are old enough
The biggest point drop in over a year. The broader index closing at the lowest level in two months. And if youre feeling a little nauseous after this weeks trading, you have good reason. The dow is exhibiting the most volatile period in five months. The blue chip index closing up or down at least 100 points. And 12 out of the last 18 sessions, yeah, its about twothirds of the time. The vicx is spiking. The gauge is up 39 pest over the last month. We know its down 4. 5 for the s p 500. The dow at this point is now just 83 points above where it started the year. So talking about potentially wiping out the gains for the year. We wiped them out one other time and then put in good ones. But when you think we deal in gains per year that some people say we should do 7 or 8 . When you can 2 in a day, it can be december 27th and flat and be up 7 for the year. Im ratcheting down all of my just, you know, i normally remember the media. But we went up to 17,000 on the dow over the last few years.
Wherever they want, listen to whatever music, eat whatever they want, that doesnt mean they are cynically free. That is the emphasis. You have to engage in democracy. My dad used to say, if your user rights, you want to lose your rights. If you had to pick another country in the world, only if you had to, where would you find a country that would maybe do it better than us . On possiblyending holland, scandinavia, canada. I think our democracy is being depleted. It is weaker now. More concentrated power in the hands of few against many, and government snooping, corporations playing with our country, exporting jobs and industry and all the fine print that we have to sign the dotted line, the poverty is increasing. We are not competitive anymore when it comes to justice. We are not the standard. Australia has a minimum wage. If youre over 20, it is 16 and . 90. If youre under 20, disease at 13 an hour or 11 an hour and has a lower unemployment rate. By the way, you have to vote in federa
With e county courthouse the jurors and a lot of sales people going through town and up in my dads strapbrestaurant. They talked. They talked about sports, ankees, red sox, local factory situations or politics in general. Even though they would always answer whether they ere republican or democrat or neither, that isnt the way they talked. Hey talked in terms of what people react to when they work and live in a community. It was not ideological. I began it realize that they with labels, red state, blue state mentality. Hey just came in talking about things on the ground. Nd when you go from the abstraction of ideological clashes which the manipulators to divide and rule us down to where people live on the grounds it is a different type conversation. Host how long did you work for your dad in the restaurant and your age . Guest i was in high school. Princeton. Ers from law n summers from Harvard School until the great flood destroyed the main street in 1955 and my dads restaurant. Host