problems implementing obamacare, there is a new budget deal coming, plus republican proposals to modify the earned income tax credit! so with that, this is the sport report. (cheers and applause) (laughter) stephen: first up, folks, baseball. nation, i m as mad as a man who s too angry to finish his similes. (laughter) because my favorite athlete has been dealt a gross miscarriage of sports justice. yankees third baseman a-rod. now, a-rod s a friend. we use the same artist to paint us as centaurs, google it. to me this guy is not just a-rod he s the-rod. and it makes my blood boil to see how he s beings per kated. stephen: a-rod has been shut out of major league baseball s entire 2014 season. 162 games. won t be eligible for any post-season games. new york yankees third baseman has been suspended for the entire 2014 season for using performance-enhancing drugs. stephen: what? that s insane! 162 games? hold on a second. multiplied by how long each baseball game la
facebook.com/booktv. booktv is live from savannah, ga. home to the annual savannah book festival we will bring you several authors including mike redmond, lily cobble, scott bird, john rizzo and debra solomon. we kickoff live coverage of the savannah book festival with gabriel asherman, author of the loudest voice in the room. good morning, everyone. my name is alex gold and i am happy to welcome you to the seventh annual savannah book festival presented by georgia power. into our new venue of the lutheran church of ascension which is made possible by the generosity of fred and john kane. many of you have already attended our terrific special events with our opening and keynote addresses. today your work is cut out for you as you choose which authors to visit during this day that offers dozens of announce writers to established astounding books in the last year. we would like to extend special thanks to our presenting foster, georgia power, individual donors who make satu
us something. so i wrote a book proposal and pursuant to rules, i submitted to cia for review. i mean i knew it was going to be clean. it was basically, an outline. so i got that. and then as be many of you have had this experience, my maiden voyage into the murky waters of new york publishing i remember one frantic day in july of 2011 my agents scurried me up and down manhattan island visiting publishers interviewing publishers. and i ll be honest with you, a lot of publishers were reluctant. first of all, you know i was i had some public profile, but i was not a celebrity. i wasn t a cabinet officer. so it wasn t like it wasn t like my name meant, had any particular he s. i wasn t a show business personality. and the second thing, of course is that they were buying a pig in a poke. i had to tell them, you know i won t be able to show you a manuscript until the cia reviews it and they re not going to review it until i m done. and, of course, there was of when will that be? i
stephen: thank you so much. folks, let s get right to it. we have tons of news to report. obviously the big story everyone s talking about, you have to latest from iraq, problems implementing obamacare, there is a new budget deal coming, plus republican proposals to modify the earned income tax credit! so with that, this is the sport report. (cheers and applause) (laughter) stephen: first up, folks, baseball. nation, i m as mad as a man who s too angry to finish his similes. (laughter) because my favorite athlete has been dealt a gross miscarriage of sports justice. yankees third baseman a-rod. now, a-rod s a friend. we use the same artist to paint us as centaurs, google it. to me this guy is not just a-rod he s the-rod. and it makes my blood boil to see how he s beings per kated. stephen: a-rod has been shut out of major league baseball s entire 2014 season. 162 games. won t be eligible for any post-season games. new york yankees third baseman has been suspended
stephen: thank you so much. folks, let s get right to it. we have tons of news to report. obviously the big story everyone s talking about, you have to latest from iraq, problems implementing obamacare, there is a new budget deal coming, plus republican proposals to modify the earned income tax credit! so with that, this is the sport report. (cheers and applause) (laughter) stephen: first up, folks, baseball. nation, i m as mad as a man who s too angry to finish his similes. (laughter) because my favorite athlete has been dealt a gross miscarriage of sports justice. yankees third baseman a-rod. now, a-rod s a friend. we use the same artist to paint us as centaurs, google it. to me this guy is not just a-rod he s the-rod. and it makes my blood boil to see how he s beings per kated. stephen: a-rod has been shut out of major league baseball s entire 2014 season. 162 games. won t be eligible for any post-season games. new york yankees third baseman has been suspended