Welcome to this session of the texas book festival with h. W. Brandis. My name is steve hair again. I will be doing a q a with bill. 15 minutes after the session phil will be signing books in the book signing campus between the tenth and eleventh down the street. Please patronized the book signing tent in the bookstore, and pleas by the the book which wont be a problem. This is the book, the man who saved the union, Ulysses Grant and war and peace. If you by this book, proceeds will go to support texas libraries and literacy. It is a great book to read and to find a word because. H. W. Brands is the dixon Allan Anderson centennial prof. Of history in austin. His focus has been for many years on American History and politics and his biographies and histories include a number of tremendous books. This is the just the most recent. Also traitor to his class about Franklin Roosevelt, biography of Andrew Jackson called Andrew Jackson. The age of gold about the gold rush in the 1840s. The Fir
Welcome to our panel two sides of the very public story. I am delighted to be moderating this event with two authors. Use] and the title of his book is mule my dangerous life as a drug smuggler turned dea informant. So weve got a very interesting and lively set of books here. And im going to start by asking chris how it is that he became involved in the job business. Well, my life is sort of the American Dream gone bad. I was a College Graduate and had everything going for me, but is living with my pregnant girlfriend at the time and we had a 5yearold daughter. Christmas was two weeks away and we repeat evicted. I had no one to turn to. I had nothing to sell. I had really no options, so he basically turned to a friend, who i thought would just give me alone because he was in the drug business. Little did i know, he was basically trying to groom me because he wanted me to kneel for him because i didnt look like a typical meal. He willingly loaned me the money and of course you do in me
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