Online with doctor Danielle Ofri. St. Louis oldest bookstore is turning 51 years this year we would like to thank all of our supporters, and everyone for the outpouring of love for our bookstore. With the Current Situation are still bring you the things you love most with terms like a pickup and delivery to anywhere in the world are series are virtual we have a way to expand your mind and bring new thoughts to make the world a better place bird we hope you enjoy this event we hopefully will purchase a copy for you and all of your friends. We went to keep our books and staff here so thank you so much for your support. We will taking questions from the audience if you type your questions in the comments and everyone on facebook be sure to like us you can see whats coming up. Can also comment on the watch party 70 here and watching. People go into the medical system they go there thinking its the best place possible. They made enormous strides for suffering but theres also no doubt that t
Its my pleasure of author miriam horn choices even. Shes author of two previous books including a New York Times bestseller. She pretty worked for the u. S. Forest service and spent 15 years writing numerous newspaper articles and for magazines including the New York Times, u. S. News, world report, smithsonian. Tonight were celebrating the most release and recent book, rancher, farmer, fisherman. During the conversation we are glad to ian frazier. But first tell us a bit about her book, lees welcome miriam horn. [applause] thank you for welcoming us to this incredible row at the strand and for keeping the strength such a vital part of our lives. Thank you for joining me here. I have been a group be of ian frazier for 25 years since i first read great plains which remained one of my most beloved books ever. If you havent read great plains and you should pick it up on your way out. I wanted to do a couple things before we start the conversation. When its just to its blame a little bit a
I have a lot of faith in him, or a president. I work all the time with bill clinton. We didnt agree philosophically. He was a character, but we talked and a lot of times i didnt want to talk. He would call one night at 2 00 oclock in the morning. I was on trisha side of the bed, she picks up and hands it and says its the president and hands it over to me and i start saying yes, sir mr. President , we will look into that, yes or and i hung up, goodbye and i hung the phone up. She said what did he want. I said i dont know, something about central america. Heres the point, we talk all the time. We walked through all kinds of things. Budget issues, tax issues, defense issues, safe drinking water, you name it. Did we agree . No. A lot of times we pressed each other to the point we would get mad, but we communicate it. That was true with reagan. When i was in the house for eight years, we met with president reagan just about every Tuesday Morning that congress was in session. At 9 00 oclock.
Lets hear it. [applause] hello everyone how are you ladies and gentlemen we are gathered here in this great sovereign state to talk about the faith of the countrys banks, the Federal Reserve. We hope to discover whether the Federal Reserve kept its promise to provide a healthy economy system, full employment, stable and a lender of last resort or is it responsible for the series of the banking crisis and loss of purchasing power of the inflation in average citizen is this economy more stable or is it less stable because of the existence and did and did the fed exacerbate the crisis of 2008 or keep it from getting worse . Are we better off without the fed and if so what shall we replace it with, shall we go back to the classical standard of gold, and can i have been a plus for the classical Gold Standard . [applause] we hope to find out the answers to this most important issue and representing the defense today professor is the cofounder and coeditor of the american prospect magazine an
Here is the quick look at our Coverage Today. Michael weiss his new book called isis inside the army of terror followed by authors and books growing up in an upper class black neighborhood in chicago, of Voting Rights, Artificial Intelligence, looking at past and future technology and a new book out on president and mrs. Johnson. Coming up today on our live coverage to a number to of the texas book festival. For the full schedule go to booktv. Org to get behind the scene of dates if you follow was on twitter or followups are run Facebook Follow us on facebook this is texas book festival and here is Michael Weiss talking about isis. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i am here to introduce Michael Weiss author of isis inside the army of terror your times bestseller. To introduce him and moderate a discussion with question and answer sessions with you as all our other author was supposed to be here he sent his regrets the author of black flag wh