Naomi wolf or whatever, it is to be various bookstores like this all over the country and now my book to raise town hall in seattle, towels books to your here, politics prose in d. C. , when in new york, one in boston. Frankly im not trying to go to more bookstores because its hard work to travel over the place. Now i have two kids and everything changed. It is that, got friends in San Francisco who want to see me. Another some good hucksters in San Francisco. What you have here is very special. I want to acknowledge a couple groups if youre interested in urban design issues in this area, the group to talk to first base enu cascadia for new urbanism and im sure you can find them online, but theyre concerned about the issues of the talking about tonight and descriptive for 20 years has in pushing these issues forward the strongest. I want to acknowledge the mayor who im so glad he is your mayor because ive been following him and working indirectly for many years and seeing great things
But in the end is not giving up. Its about trying and retrying, and trying again. Not letting the pain of failure, this book, because i had my fair share of them, not to let them knock you down but to get up and try again. And to understand that even if an asteroid that goes by that could be a very happy one. But unless you try, you cant achieve anything. You cant succeed in life without trying. This is a book about trying. Sometimes failing, but having arrived at a life, and i in the book with this, a life in which thank you for sharing it with me. [applause] hiwell done. Nice. All right, why dont you scan the audience so i can have a drink of water . I dont think the public has to see that. [laughter] thank you. Well done. Thank you. The title of the book speak why dont you tell the people where the questions came from . They came from coming in the, online, email to them. So some of these belong to the people in the audience. Absolutely, thank you. [laughter] youve done me a lot of
Im jame mcgrath boreas and were here and behind me stands in her name preferences stuck about the man who revolutionized newspapers. When i first had to recommend the book, people react with recognition than they said i was writing about this appellate her. But it is clear they need to name and not anything about his life because blitzer shares his state of the wellknown for a prize, but not for what he did in his life. Very few people remember he was an explosives maker. Carnegie, morgan, rockefeller, all these people. Pulitzer payday Critical Role in the industrial age, the age that made america the way we think ourselves today. Thats right before his time, we didnt have the media we now swimming every day. The notion of americans checking is on their phones are going to cnn or watching cspan picked his relatives thinks cultivated in that. Good it turns out pulitzer nonelected and historical row, let a fascinating life are good at reading, the influence yielded solicitous today. The
Thank you so much. Mother jones has been huge part of this. Im really flattered and honored. Thank you so much. Thank everyone for coming. Ill stick around and would love to meet everyone, so if you have time to talk, i will be here. [applause] and no booktv, Patrick James expense International Relations using themes found in the book lord of the rings. This is about half an hour. And welcome to the scholars circle. The lord of the rings trilogy and its prequel the hobbit have collectively grossed billions of dollars in sales, and now companies are planning to exploit it for think parks, video games, slot machines, other properties. But in the lord of the rings actually act as a means to understand complex politics and International Relations . Our guest with us today says that it can, and hes recently written a book to just show that. Patrick james is a professor at university of southern california. And a director for the center for international studies. This book is like a cold the
Save the world. This is 45 minutes. Im delighted to be atlanta. What a great book festival thiss is. I think the book i wrote is relevant. I wrote a biography of dwightthe eisenhower who is a warrior, was determined to keep us out of asd war. But before i talk about my book they asked me to talk a little bit about the writing life and my own expenses as a writer, so i will. I got out of college and i tried to write the Great American novel, and i wrote about 80d pages of it and i brought it tor my father to read. My father is a book editor, and they came down for breakfast in the morning and he looked up at me and he said, its awful. Hoolt that was our entire conversation. I applied to law school that e ternoon. Pe [laughter] this was before parents believed in selfesteem and all that. Ill. It was awful. It was a mercy killing. It wa [laughter] i went to law school, which was good most of becauser i marriedo my better, to spot the issue, helped my writing. I knew that i didnt want to b