Hello this afternoon, hi. Thank you for coming. Good to see you all. I think we need no introduction or at least robert caro who i hope you have read all of his books and as enamored of them as i am. We are here because we are enamored to talk about writing. Not so much the subject matter per se but why writing matters. And we both feel, as im sure you do, that writing matters quite a bit. How it matters, is really a task for the writer to come to terms with. How are you going to get people to read, to turn the page, to be as enthralled with your subject as you are. And you know mr. Robert caro is working on he has a master of the enthralled. We thought we are talking a little bit about that. Recently and hope you saw this, there was recently a interview with bob and one of the things i thought was so wonderful about this was bob talking about certain working methods. And one of the things he said reminded me of walt whitman. And that, if you read whitman, one of the things you know ab
That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello this afternoon. Thanks for coming. Good to see you all. I think we need to know introduction. At least robert caro, i hope you read all his books and are as enamored of them as i am. We are here because we are enamored, to talk about writing. Not so much the subject matter per se, but why writing matters. We both feel, as i am sure you do, that writing matters quite a bit. How it matters is a task for the writer to come to terms with. How are you going to get people to read, turn the page, to be as enthralled with your subject as you are. If you know robert caros work, you know he is a master of the enthralled. We thought we would talk a little bit about that. I hope you saw there was recently an interview with bob in the paris review and one thing that i thought was so wonderful about it was bob talking about certain working methods was one of the things he said reminded me of walt wh
The industrial sector, they are going to have to go through the knowledge economy, which means theyve got to be successful in school. And thats not happening in an awful lot of enclaves. Please join me in thanking kay. [applause] thank you. This booktv on cspan2. Television for serious red readers. This has a place just pretty soon after the assassination of kennedy, and bob told us about the things that need to be done, left hanging, decisions about railroad, featherbedding, about wage price guidelines, political deadlines like the state of the Union Address and the budget for the next year, never find the election of the next year and whether or not johnson would receive the Democratic Party nomination. Time was running short. And then this is bob goes on to say this is passage that i think is really sort of representative and wonderful of something, but. Tangled with and complicating the time factor and every a factor associated with the transition looming over every aspect of johns
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Then we turn to bill oreililly and the growing sexualharassment scandal at fox news. , fox news has a very tired tattered playbook. And that is attack, attack, attack, especially women who speak out against their moneymakers. Amy more than 50 advertisers showoycotting oreillys over his history of sexually harassing women, but the fox host has picked up the support from one big fan President Trump. He says hehe does not think oreilly did anything wrong. We will get the latest. Plus, we will look at u. S. China relations. Pres. Trump we cannot continue to allow china to rape our country. And that is what theyre doing. It is the greatest theft in history of the world. Amy that was donald trump on the campaign trail. Today, he is hosting chinese president xi jinping at his maralago g golf resosort. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President donald trump said wednesday a chemical weapons attack in syria