today s program is being broadcast live on c-span 2 s booktv. we re going to have time end to have a q & a session so when the time comes, please like up at the microphone to your right so that our home viewing audience can hear the questions. with that, i m going to hand it over to your interviewer, amy carr, associate mapping are editor for the chicago tribune. [applause] welcome to lit fest. i m here pleased to be here with lisa napoli. former journalist, current journalize. always a journalist. the author of ray and joan: he man who made the mcdonald s fortune and the woman who gave it all wow. i love this title. thick people don t often appreciate lounge it goes into getting a perfect title. i grew up in new york reading the north new new new york post a book about that man who meat mcdonald s to what we know today and amazing, head-spinning philanthropy of his third wife, joan kroc. when we were putting together the program, liz taylor, who is the chicag
researched this book for five years. thank you for being here with me. we are so happy to have you. her first book was radio shangri-la, which i love the fact that they have a gna, national happiness. we are glad you re here to talk about your new book ray and joe and his third and final ways. the story is so compelling in so many ways. i think we need to go back to the beginning a little bit here because mcdonald s is huge. it s ubiquitous. it is everywhere but it has some modest beginning in the little town in california with a couple of brothers. when you started researching, that take you where? san bernardino, california which is a small town and yes it is two brothers who came from new hampshire she can t know yet if the weather in new hampshire to california and the tony s, but they wanted to make their way in the movie industry like a lot of people did and still do today. and mac mcdonald made their way west and they found out very quickly as many people do that it
others in the nfl. i mean, they answer my phone calls. they answer my questions. sometimes it s on the record. .. my phone calls, the answer my questions. sometimes it s on the record, sometimes it s on background. billy being in major league baseball is communicative, he s a vice president with the league soi have a great relationship .i think because i have, and jim byzantine my business partner, we demonstrated fairness, that were going to say when we think you misstep and when we think you got wrong . when we think you got it right, were going to say that to and i hear from people that they respect that we are honest a host: young talk flint be interviews you have done with players. are the players open to talking with you? guest: i talk in book about going to in the nfl players association event and a representative of the nfl pa, having a problem with me askingf gay questions of their new players. back three or four years ago. there have been a couple who did not wa
the founder, a movie about his acquisition of mcdonald s was released nationwide friday. welcome, everyone. i am cynthia smoot from tampa, the tampa television market, i do the 5:00 and 11:00 news and today i talk to a really great arthur about the new book ray and joan: the man who made the mcdonald s fortune and the woman who gave it all away, lisa napoli and i go way back we worked together at a tv station in north carolina so we are reconnecting now with me, might make her slightly nervous except i know she knows the answers in every single question i m going to ask her because she researched this book for five years. welcome, lisa. thank you for being here with me. her first book some of you may have read. all about i love the fact that they don t have a gnp but a g and h. gross national happiness. we are happy to talk about your new book which is ray and joan: the man who made the mcdonald s fortune and the woman who gave it all away . we mean ray kroc and hi
i m excited about this book. the book that we have bee to. and booktv s live coverage of the tucson festival of books continues here on the university of arizona. we hone you re enjoying the festival and we definitely it invite you to become a friends of the festival today by texting, friend to 520214 book as shown on the sign right over here in the front of the room or visit the friend of the festival booth on the mall your guess makes difference in keeping festival programming tree of chrnlg and supporting critical literacy programs in the community. out of respect for it the authors and fellow audience members please turn off your cell phone at this moment and now i m o going to introduce our authors here with us today so joe, joe is a veteran political journalist he s a founder tore in chief of the memo and editor of large fund of the nation sthiewt. his article have prepared anywhere you host probably ever read them. and he s notably covered every american presidential