evening especially would have meant a great deal to him. unfortunately, he s a bit under the weather, is so he sent me in his stead. i m humbled and honored to make the introduction. it s been said that there s the story and then the real story and then the story of how the story came to be told. the book whose 50th anniversary we celebrate tonight, making it, is an important story any way you look at it. [laughter] and tonight we re going to tell the story behind the story. in his book, norman says that all writers who become famous go through ups and downs. these fluctuations, he says, reveal less about the writer s actual work than they do about the changing fashions of the times. here s how he put it in his own words 50 years ago. every morning a stock market report comes out on reputations in new york. it is invisible, but those who have eyes to see can read it. did so and so have dinner at jackie kennedy s apartment last night? up five points. was so and so not invite
would create a diplomatic relations and that was the original purpose in the book. no one believed including my publisher thank you dan simon, i started to doubt it myself. when it happened i had to rearrange the book and i was fortunate to update it. its arts with a detailed account of how it happened on december 17th, the beginning of normalization. the rest of the book is about the preceding 55 years or 60 years and i interviewed for many hours a former leader of the cuban revolution and government his daughter in havana said it should be called two old guys talking so i made that the initial chapter. host: tell us about ricardo. guest: you have to write this book because nobody knows him. if that is true, you are talking about a man who after many decades the cuban foreign minister, cute and united nations representative in new york at the cuban head of natural assembly which is speaker of the house of representatives. he has been a public human figure, he knows more
he dies under robert ely s command and this is a devastating a devastating impact. he feels this loss very sharply. i am just curious how do they compare with characters today in washington? [laughter] .. so i think he would find that interesting and i will take a pass on the question because it is just too hard because the civil war is just the meet period we can all agree that the country never has to undergo that again thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host: and thanks for watching booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. and today we are live on the campus of the university of southern california home of the los angeles times festival of books. today there are several author panels ahead on the plushing industry biographies publishing industry, biographies of world leaders and science, and we ll also sit down with tom hayden, travels smiley and hugh hewitt among others while they take your
presidential scandals. this a good day to have a former high-level national security official to give you some perspective. president trump has only been in office, like, 2 1/2 years. he s now looking for his fourth national security adviser who i think if he finds that person will actually be the fifth person to whom he has offered the job. but today was, like, a banner day for all of them all at once. start with the first one. president trump s first national security adviser mike flynn, he spent today in federal court where he learned of his new probable sentencing date. the date on which he will find out if he s going to jail after he pled guilty to a felony for lying to federal investigators about his secret contacts with the russian government. now, today was sort of a good news/bad news day for mike flynn. starting with the bad news, it just maybe this is just me, it does seem to me kind of ominous that the likely sentencing date he got today in court is december 18t
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