For complete Television Schedule booktv. Org 48 hours of nonfiction books an authors. Television for serious readers next we kick off the weekend with dana joya on why poetry matters. [inaudible] good evening everyone if youre stapgd theres still a few seats up here. Over here a few places. Welcome to tonights trinity form evening conversation with dana joya im president of the forum and on behalf of us wii all delighted that you are here. And were also delighted to get to partner with howard and roberta who are sponsors this evening in getting to host what is sure to be a fascinating event. If youre new, i know many of you seem to be new faces. A little bit about us. We exist to provide a space and resource for leaders to engage life greatest questions in the the context of faith and Great Questions of life linked to our notion of truth, beauty and goodness, and historically one of the most important means of disterns and internalizing those notions of truth, u beauty and goodness of
Booktvs recent visit to many destinations on our cities tour go to cspan. Org citiestour. Book passages honor to welcome New York Times bestselling author, doctor David Kessler, and his new book capture unraveling the mystery of mental suffering. Why do we think, feel and act in ways we wish we did not . In the new book, the author explores this question. Over the course of his investigation, David Kessler identifies an underlying factor behind our emotional struggles and mental suffering. It is the first new theory on Mental Illness and 50 years. Capture is an intimate critical exploration of the most enduring human mystery of all, the mind. Let me give a warm welcome to doctor David Kessler. Thank you, monica and thanks to book passage. One of our favorite bookstores and thank you all for coming out this evening. The journey that led to capture began 25 years ago at fda. We began investigation into the Tobacco Industry and had to learn everything, became very interested, smoke one an
Host and so database the period you must be very proud. You should be required reading at every college and university. What were you thinking about when you decided to write this book . Ask out and, weve had such a phenomenal change for women in politics on the democratic side at least over the past 30 years. People have been asking me to write this book for years and i thought you know, ive got to get the record out on what weve done and how its changed. Of course in the process was remembering all of these remarkable women, wonderful races and win in the world is a different place when you look at the congress now. Three quarters of the women in congress or Democratic Women, which were very proud of and they are making a terrific difference as you are when you see them in action all the time. Yes, absolutely. I think back about when i first came into office. I want to thank you because obviously we didnt spend as much money and those days being 60,000 was huge. Im appreciative as ma
Office and head of environmental group. The proud father of bree who loves the school as well. Let me not only say welcome to you but panelists, this is american Politics Campaign off the rails, now it is time to quietly slip out. I do this routinely because after giving what i thought was a really great lecture at the university i ask questions as i normally do, someone put up a hand and said what does this have to do with sociology, no one was going to do that, it was the third week of the semester so if anyone wants to quietly sign out, now is the time to do so. My job is straightforward, introduce the authors, aggressively enforce time limit so we stay within cspans preference and to coordinate audience participation, so lets get started, my first guest is matt by sitting to the left, the most recent book is all the truth, the politics of what is happening, really interesting. Revisit the gary hart affair and how it changed forever the intersection of American Media and politics. A
Thought this would happen. He was ready to sell it ought and the American People had no expectation this would happen. The idea of being a little crazy, well you have to be a little crazy to take it on. After words airs on booktv every saturday at 9 a. M. And 10 p. M. Featuring several authors including paul beatty, michael eric dyson, dee watkins and many more. For a complete schedule, visit us online, booktv. Org. And starting now, a panel on hiphop and literature from medgar evers college, host of the 13th annual National Black writers conference. This program contains language that some may find offensive. Im now here representing, im an mc invited here from york college. I will be associate professor in the department of teacher education, where i chair and ive been charged with talking to educators. And the job has to be having teachers, even some of whom who love our children, to start teaching from the love of our culture, from the love of our heritage, from the love of our sou