[inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] here s a look at some of the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. on saturday august 20 second, book tv is live at the second annual mississippi book festival held at the state capital in jackson. features former senate majority leader trent lott a pulitzer prize winner biographer john beauchamp. coming up on september 18 is the brooklyn book festival held in downtown brooklyn, new york. later the annual baltimore book festival will take place at the city s inner harbor. on saturday september 24 for the for the 16th euro book tv will be live with author talks and call in segments from the national book festival hosted by the library of congress at the washington convention center. for more information about the fairs and festivals that book tv will be covering in to watch previous festival coverage, click the book pierce tab on our website, booktv.org. representative marshall blackburn, what is o
of his radio commentaries from the late 70s at the most interesting thing. the really good written out in longhand. very few scratch outs. he just set down and wrote. there good. i said somewhat that we would give you they are somewhat, their preferred out there sometimes. but they were original and interesting that has that quality in that little bit rush limbaugh quality. it s kind of compelling. over the presidential field. i just didn t didn t write up of exactly this in the paper tomorrow, but details. but you know it s sort of funny because reagan is the patron saint of the republican campaign, when they did the cnn debate at the reagan library, the candidates they spoke of reg at 38 times, they only mention got ten times. that gives you a sense of the actual hierarchy of the part republican party it is a largely false myth that there building up both the idea reagan as a conservative peers as opposed to pragmatists. but but in terms of what he thought. reagan thoug
librarians are people who help people. and information rich world. a question i did not follow up on it is your dad still alive? no. so did he have brothers and sisters. guest: no. i m an only child. it s interesting when you say is your dad still with us, some of his image that he liked jazz and he was also a studio musician so he still talks music and everything but he also is a studio musician. so sometimes a minimal and i can hear my dad playing background on a song and that is quite a feeling. who is your favorite jazz musician? guest: miles davis. i think it s because i actually met him and he was pretty cool back then and s i have always felt that there was something about him and as an eight or 9-year-old to have a person, i didn t know how cool he was then but he was nice to me. so you probably are not old enough to have been to mr. kelly s or the house in chicago? i knew about the london house. my dad played there. that was a group that they took in so
uniform. today it s a completely different you get discounts and people recognize you, i am grateful for that. i like to thank all of you for coming out especially again and all of our sponsors. when people asked me why write a book about veterans and why write another sob story about veterans, but the message of this book is the exact opposite. the message of this book is optimism about our future. the message is about the importance of service in a democracy. it is something of a message that i hope gets out there and i hope each of you at some point can experience what i have experienced. going out and cleaning the school in brooklyn or helping after a tornado in oklahoma, it really makes your heart sing. thank you so much for coming. [applause]. [inaudible] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible] i have a picture up on the wall, one. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible c
my guess is a question-and-answer portion please raise your hand and wait for the man with a microphone to come by in order to ask a question. i also have a new website platform. closing early tonight. we expect this to be a lively discussion and are not asking anyone to leave early but we will close down promptly at 855. the bathrooms also close of a 45 tonight. tonight we are very happy to welcome yummy park with her memoir in order to live in north korea girls journey to freedom. she was born in north korea under the rule of kim jong-il where she spent much of her childhood hungry and fear of the governments controlling rule and with only a knowledge of what state-controlled media told her. at 13 her family made a daring escape into china but she would then face further challenges of being sold to traffickers. before finding freedom and south korea. her new memoir which is called an elegant wrenchingly honest work but vividly represents the plight of many north koreans det