Of Georgetown University and author of lets get free. Also this week in the presentation of the J Anthony Lukas prize for nonfiction writing. Former army officer and historian looks at us involvement in the middle east. War correspondents christina lamb, Janine Giovanni and kim barker share their reporting experiences and we talked to local authors and visit literary sites in mississippi. For complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and office, television for serious readers. We start with erin mchugh who talk about political blunders throughout history. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening. Welcome, thanks for coming out here on a brisk spring evening. Appreciate you being here. If you would take a moment to look at your cell phones and make sure they are turned off. Following todays reading and question and answer you will find me outside, we have plenty of books available including one new were than todays. Great Gra
Good evening welcome to the barnes noble event and thank you for coming out on a spring evening. We appreciate you being here. If you could take one moment and look at your cell phone and make sure they are turned off, we would appreciate that. Following todays reading and questionandanswer, immediately after you will find me outside of the glass doors. We have plenty of books available to purchase including one even newer than todays. Like my teacher always said, great Graduation Day gift. After words, they will be more than happy to sign them for you up here, im sure. We are very happy to invite up in the guest category, our guest this evening. When she is not running the first line of defense upstairs at Customer Service here on the barnes noble or serving as a bouncer during our broadway events, a a roll of which she is most effective at, this publishing executive is busy writing awardwinning books. We are delighted tonight to present one of her latest political suicide. Just dumb
Focus on social justice issues, there is fiction and nonfiction, helping us understand the past in different ways, narrative trails, and understand our history, victims and crises better to storytelling and help us imagine new futures so it is a book about the central conversations we are having today and new ways of thinking about them. From perspectives outside what we consider to be the mainstream. Whether that is people coming from racial background, national background, people who have political ideas outside the mainstream, i use the term mainstream loosely, i really mean people outside the mainstream discourse, probably in the center of american life. Host what are some of the books you have published . Guest between the world and me, it came out last year, won the National Book award, a big bestseller. It is a great example of the kind of writer i want to work with Going Forward because someone who had a big idea in that book, to talk about the idea of race, the idea of the bod
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