know. he basically helped establish our sense of sort of soul rhythm. reporter: forever bearing his creative soul, he released four albums in 18 months and had been touring. tmz reporting he was forced to take a break recently because of flu-like symptoms. he may have known the end was near, saying at recent show, quote, wait a few days before you waste any prayers. president obama offering sympathy saying prince, quote, few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly or touched quite so many people with their talent. several celebrities also speaking out. katy perry tweeting just like that, the world lost a lot of magic magic. long live the king. and lenny cravitz, my musical showed me the possibilities within myself a few of the many sympathies being expressed. steve: the heavyweights weighing in. jen: it was prophetic when he said save your prayers for days to come. steve: add on thing to say. jen: tmz was the first to break the ne
afterwards except for nicholson baker who has to go off or go to his next session. thank you so much. let s have a round of applause for our panel. booktv is on twitter and facebook, and we want to hear from you. tweet us, twitter.com/booktv, or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. now that 2014 is coming to a close, many publications are releasing their end-of the yearbook list. former secretary of state henry kissinger is on the list with his take on international affairs in world order. then in the teacher wars, dana goldstein provides a history of public school teaching. jeff hobbs recounts the life and death of his former college roommate in the short and tragic life of robert peace. jo becker in forcing the spring, and in fire shut up in my bones, charles below recalls growing up in louisiana in the 1970s. one of the idiosyncrasies but also one of the beauties of small town america is that things kind of pass it by. and so you it i
in a nonfiction book, this is the place to be. we have four really different books, but they re all really amazing. we have two finalists for the l. a. times book prize and i want to point this one out to you now and this one out to you now here. that s why i like to bring the books, so you can actually see them. we also have two finalists for the penn literary awards one in biography here, jeff hobbs book with, and one in science writing, joshua horowitz s book. and i think it s worth noting that this book here is actually on two of those lists, and he s our youngest participant. this is not his first book but it s his first book as far as i know of nonfiction, so it s quite an achievement. we also have books that are going to take us to places that really, in my mind as i read them can change how we look at the world. books are going to take us underwater, going to take us hundreds of feet underground, they re going to take us into the amazon and to pittsburgh and to birmi
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
excellent and go sanitize about lessons learned in the classroom. hopefully learned lessons today you can take back to the office and try and help the young people who work for you. thank you all for being here. thank you to our panel and enjoy bea. [applause] thank you for your questions. [applause] [inaudible conversations] now, more from our set at the expo america. jeff hobbs, when did you first meet rob koreans? first aid freshman year at college. we randomly assigned to live in the same room. he was there when i arrived. he was a quiet, black man. he said what he said. it was a frantic day. his mother was there and slowly, very slowly our friendship developed. wordage out of college? we went to yale. rob and i thought at first over the irony i suppose that i was a white guy from the country or ran sprints for the track team and he was a black guy from the third who played water polo. he was the captain of the team. it was remarkable to watch and play initiat