the supermarket or on the street is, so, what s your book about? it s a fair question, and a good one. and often extremely challenging to answer because you have spent thousands of hours writing thousands of words, you have a ton of information if your head in your head, and you re writing one story, but that one story includes many other stories. and suddenly you have to figure out how to condense all this information, all these stories in a 15-second sound bite of ten words or less. well, i ve got it down to three. well, seven, actually, if you include american phoenix is about. and one of the things that helped me get there was someone asked me, so, if your book were made into a movie, how would you pitch it? and i answers the titanic meets rocky. [laughter] american phoenix is about, in essence, disaster and survival. it s about disaster of epic proportions that involved a lot of water and engineering failure, the failure of design that killed a lot of people. and i
out, my share of the path. and dick cheney on coronary disease. his book is also coming out in 2013. sarah weinman of publishers marketplace and bob minzesheimer of usa today, we appreciate your time today on booktv. sarah kilborne recounts the crew of her great-great-grandfather, william skinner, a textile manufacture in the mid-19th century. the author recalls skinner s immigration from london and his career ascendancy from a worker and a silk mill to the owner of his own factory, the mill village, skinnerville. in 1870 for a dam burst near skinnerville and destroyed the town and forced william skinner to rebuild. this is about an hour. thank you, bill. and thank you for your support of american phoenix. and thank you all for coming out tonight. and thank you and thank you, c-span, and booktv for being here. it s a real honor. and i m thrilled to be able to share with you american phoenix, american phoenix: the remarkable story of william skinner, a man who tur
Philadelphia Philadelphia University of the Arts workers, students and community members rallied April 27 in solidarity with staff seeking to unionize and with faculty still bargaining for their first contract after a successful union drive. Speakers at the rally of over 40 people included UArts faculty and staff union leaders,…