book you talk about the golden triangle of freedom. your leaping right in, aren t you? i have to tell you people always ask me how i write my books and with this book if you can keep it which is my newest book, the book on luther is coming out in a couple weeks but this book i m talking about america and at the very heart of it is the golden triangle of freedom. but what i find funny is that i never heard of it, no one s ever heard of it. a number of years ago dear friend of mine alec guinness wrote a book calleda free people s philistine . again all founders understood this. quickly it s that freedom requires virtue. when we say freedom we mean self-government requires a virtue. virtue in turn requires faith and then faith in turn requires freedom. to explain it, the founder said they wrote this over and over and over. you can t have self-government or actual freedom unless the people govern themselves, which is to say less the people have some semblance of virtue, you c
to 270 electoral votes. here is how it stands based on the calls. trump with 19. clinton with 3. we map it out on the ice for you in democracy plaza. the map will fill in with a lot of red and blue before this night is over. again, 270 its the magic number that will elect our next president. come on inside, we say a big good evening. i m lester holt alongside election night team, savannah guthrie, chuck todd, tom brokaw. savannah, whatever happens tonight. history will be made? we have an unconventional candidate against an unprecedented candidate. this election has changed so much about our politics, it up-ended every assumption, redefined what it means to be a republican or democrat in this country and it will be very exciting to see who turns out tonight. who shows up to vote. what that coalition might look like for hillary clinton or donald trump. i think we are in for a cliffhanger on the senate side. who is going to control the senate by end of the day. chuck, set i
the projected winner. delaware, will also go to hillary clinton. district of columbia to hillary clinton. illinois, her home state goes to hillary clinton. as well as the state of maryland. and massachusetts also in the clinton column. mississippi, we projected donald trump wins in mississippi. new jersey, to clinton. oklahoma the projected winner donald trump. rhode island, hillary clinto and tennessee, donald trump. let s look at the count right now in the race to 270. at this hour, based on the projections, clinton stands with 75, trump with 66. 66 in the race to 270. now, a couple others we want to mention right now. we are watching maine. too early actually. looking at missouri up there. but too early. maine is too early. but, clinton is leading there in sorry. my bad there. missouri was too early. we got trump is leading there. the colors begin to fill in. the race to 270. savannah guthrie. watch big senate races. yeah, promise you a cliffhanger. the democrats are
stories like that that wraps the anecdotal around a kind of analytical strands so the book is the bright continent: breaking rules and making change in modern africa, dayo olopade, thank you for being here today. is a brilliant book. if you want to understand the continent better, you will buy it. thank you, good to be here. [applause] thank you for attending today s session. thank you to our moderator, doug foster and our great author, dayo olopade. e-book the bright continent: breaking rules and making change in modern africa on sale now in the main lobby. she will be signing copies just outside the auditorium for anyone interested. thank you very much, enjoy your afternoon with the bit fast. c-span2 providing live coverage of the u.s. senate floor proceedings and keep public policy events and every weekend booktv, for 15 years the only television network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. c-span2 created by the cable-tv industry and brought to you as a publ
married his high school sweetheart. involved in manual labor, didn t really have any skills. hated manual labor, hated having a boss. bill knapp loves being his own boss and really didn t like being told what to do. tried a restaurant. he thought if i owned a restaurant, i could be my own boss, and it was true. he bought a building with a restaurant in allerton, but he soon realized a restaurant was too much work. so bill and irene, his wife, put the building up on the market. a real estate agent listed it and had a client to see the building, but the real estate agent couldn t show the building, so he asked bill if he could show his own building, and so bill said, okay. bill took the client down to allerton, sold the building and then was mad the real estate agent demanded his commission. bill said, hell, i sold the building. knapp said, i m going into real estate, i can do this. he fell into real estate, joined a small firm here in des moines coulded hollis realty. quickly