other people s idea? steven johnsons is the guest next month on in-depth, the science writer will look at the computer culture and networks in politics, live, sunday october 7th at noon eastern here on c-span2. presenting thoughts on what a second term for the obama administration would look like. the author contends the president s policies would great ly reduce america s global influence. it s about a hour and ten. [cheers and applause] thank you. please, sit down. i m excited and thrilled to be here with barack obama in this election year, i think we are dealing with one of the most mysterious and odd figures ever to occupy the oval office. a few days ago, i received a phone call, i didn t recognize the area code, and the phone call was actually from kenya, and i answered it, and it was actually george obama, the president s half brother. he s the youngest son of barack obama, senior. he said, i m calling because my 2-year-old son is in the hospital with a serious
of course we are aaa. these are loser countries in the aaa category. they are loser nation, and they can t compare with us. we have to understand, we are not aaa. when you got $15 trillion in debt, you can t be aaa. when you have triple that in liabilities, you can t be aaa. the british impeer roar left this i took the wrong assimilation pill before i woke up. the deplorable british imperialist [laughter] distilled generations saying to be born an englishman was to be get first prize in life. they turned the thought around to turn the ruling class too smug to see what was coming. do you think, he wrote, the laws of god are suspended in england because you were born in it? to be born a citizen of the united states is to win first prize in the lottery of life, and as britain did, too many americans assume it will always be so. do you think the laws of god will be suspended in favor of america simply because you were born in it? think carefully about that question. when you
[inaudible conversations] good everyone here on this first national bookl festival in our history to continue for a second day. thank you for coming. [applause]nd thank you for bringing the sun out and making it clear that pure humanity can always overcome the most inaccurate of weather predictions. a special thanks to wells fargo who has been sponsoring the history and biography lypavilio. we re coming to the closee to this national book festival and all of us at the library of congress hoped you enjoyed it as much as we have in planning it. it s joyous event but, you know, it s also an important one. the ability to read is a key to the ability to read. is the key to life. and expanding our horizons of our society and building and sustaining a dynamic responsibility writers who have brought us the ongoing american creative spirit and mccullough of in public and national way here at the height of her account. in the 11th national book festival could nonfirst have been the
maybe this was an overstatement 25 years after the emancipation proclamation, but as he looked around and saw the status of african-americans particularly in the south picking the same cotton they had picked under slavery and living similar live said they had lived under slavery, he wondered what was gained by the emancipation proclamation and what was gained by the bloody war. we are commemorating the 150th anniversary of the civil war this year and for the next four years. it s important that we honor those who gave their lives for their respective causes, but it would have been a greater tribute to our nation, and they lived. for more information on book tv s 2011 city tour, visit c-span.org/localcontent. milledge but to the coverage of the 11th annual national book festival when washington, d.c. from earlier today. first we spoke to jennifer glavin project manager for the national book festival. then we headed to the history and biography tent for the presentation by eu
earlier we could be here all night. bring the mojitos and we ll have a party in the morning. there s a lot of things in the book. and my editor, my fantastic editor [applause] kept telling me you re over word count. you have to cut at the point, 20% and i wouldn t figure out which stories to cut out because they were all interesting to me. it was just like a miracle, i guess, john decided, hey, we re going to leave a lot of these stories in and we didn t actually have to cut it out but i actually had more to tell. i was talking to bill the other night, i go we just missed this story i wanted to include. we both laugh about it because, obviously, we can t add it in now but there s lots of other stories, that i could in the next book. .. a world renowned cryptographer talking about how vulnerable the street was and a minute ago i am using this problem. so what i did is as a hacker would i hacked into norton and analyzed it myself and found out there were 30 bits of en