Later in march its the virginia festival of the book in charlottesville and the National Black writers conference in brooklyn, new york. In april were headed to texas for the san antonio book festival, and well be live once again at the Los Angeles Times festival of books. For more information about up coming book upcoming book fairs and test values, click festivals, click the book fairs tabben our web site, booktv. Org. Lets dive in a little bit more. Who is eric garnersome. Eric garner excuse me, who was eric garner. Yeah. The reason i wrote this book, let my back up for a moment, is because on the day that the grand jury decided not to indict the Police Officer responsible for or his killing and ill use a different word, but i cant legally but i went over to staten island, and i started talking to people in the street asking, you know, what was he like. And i immediately found that everybody had a story about this guy, and he was, he was just interesting and funny and complicated an
Church, one of the sites of the savanna book festival. Starting now is offer Celeste Headley talking about the importance of civil communication. Good afternoon. Hope you are enjoying the book festival. My name is our styles and im delighted to have you join me in the 11th annual savanna book 1st. The festival is presented by georgia power. David and nancy cintron, she and family foundation, and mark and pat, many thanks to jack and mary romanos come our sponsors for this glorious venue Trinity United Methodist church. We would like to extend special thanks to our individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. 90 of our revenue comes from donors just like you. We are very excited to have savanna book festival apps available for your phones, just look in your program for instructions for how to download it. Immediately following the presentation, celeste will sign copies of her book out here and if you are planning to stay for the following
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And by being heard. We have about 25 minutes left. I can keep talking, but there are usually a lot of questions. [laughter] so im going to go ahead and take questions if you have them. If there arent any, i will keep going. Celeste, over here. Far back. Oh, i see you. Here. [laughter] a couple years ago you came to savannah, and you did a ted talk, and it was one of the best ever. Thank you. Thirteen million views, ladies and gentlemen. [laughter] [applause] tell us, if you would, something you learned doing a ted talk. Next time get a haircut and put on makeup. [laughter] [applause] that is what i learned. [laughter] other people will be watching this. Brush your hair. [laughter] yes. Oh, wait, they want me to here and here. Theyre going to bring you a microphone. [inaudible] okay. You talked a lot about the challenges to great conversations, but you didnt say anything specific about how to have great conversations. Well, thats because i wrote a book about it. [laughter] and it took m
And recount the stories of each men from cradle to grave literally. And tracked parallel histories. Both corrupt on the frontier and both came from rough circumstances, both reviewed in their own tribe, both became superstars, husbands, fathers, sons, warriors, shared a bloodied history, they were enemies for quite some time until they hooked up in Buffalo Bills wild west show. And president s in general sought his advice. His friends included Frederick Remington and mark twain, bronc busters who could drink him under the table and might have even been better writers. Ranch cooks who needed a job. He was open to all. He had no airs. What you saw was what you got. Even if what you saw was sometimes a mirage. He was the simplest of men, as annie oakley would say at the end of his life, as comfortable with cowboys as with kings. Before the term was forever linked to his name, william f. Cody grew up in the wild, wild west. Once he was a boy, not a superstar not named for the animal he wou