Tell us what you think about our programming this weekend. You can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an email. Nonfiction books every weekend on cspan2. And now from the 17th annual texas book festival in austin, texas, a discussion of president Lyndon Johnson and first lady ladybird johnson. This is just over 50 minutes. Hi, and welcome to the texas book festival. D my name is carol dawson, and iw love being a moderator every year at the texas book festival, and i particularly love this task this year. Task this year i have had the privilege of reading two books that interlock so beautifully that it provided one hold 360degree experience in reading them. Before we begin, and i introduce our authors, i want to remind you all that all proceeds of book sales at the texas book festival goats the libraries of this great state. So, please avail yourself of the book tent and after a recession is over the book signing tents where you can get both of the signatures of
Good morning. Or as say and say in texas, hi you all. Its a great day to be in austin texas and today i have the honor and pleasure to be at the book festival with the moderator New York Times author and writer, Rachel Swarns. Im going to tell you a few things about rachel because i know you came here to hear her and not me and because our time is limited. She has worked for the New York Times since 1995 reporting on domestic policy, national politics, immigration, the president ial campaigns of 2004 and 2008 and on First Lady Michelle Obama and her role in the obama white house. I met rachel at different events this year where i got a book that she wrote, american tapestry the story of the black, white and multiracial ancestors of Michelle Obama. After hearing her talk, i bought six more copies. I bought them for all of my family members and to give out as christmas gifts. Now after having read her book i can tell you is a good investment. It helped me better understand my own familys
Great day to be in texas and today i have the honor and pleasure to be at the texas book festival serving as a moderator, and im pleased to be here with rachel l. Swams. I will tell you a few things about rachel because you came here to hear her and not me and our time is limited. She has worked for the New York Times since 1995. Reporting on domestic policy, national politics, immigration, the president ial campaign of 2004, and 2008, and first Lady Michele Obama and her role in the obama white house. I met rachel at an event this year where i bought a book, the book she wrote, american tapestry the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of michelle obama. After hearing her talk, id bought six more copies. I bought them for all my family members and to give out as christmas gifts. Now after having read her book i can tell you it was a good investment. It helps me better understand my own family and many mysteries surrounding my own family. Rachel l. Swamss book is a comp
View, are completely unobjectionable. Dick gregory titled his first autobiography, nigger an autobiography. And Richard Pryor with two great albums, that nigger is crazy and bicentennial nigger. Host when you wrote the book, it was published in 2002. What reaction did you get . Host when i do. Guest when i wrote the book i got a lot of reaction, some positive and some negative. And continue to get some positive reactions and negative reactions. Some people took real offense at the title. If there was one aspect of the book that probably got me the most negative reaction was people who complained about the title, and who thought that i was being sensationalist, i was exploiting this term by putting it right there in the title, right there on the cover of a book that would appear in your book stores all across america. And what i said to people was and i still say and i say this unapologetically if you write a book you want people to read your book. There are thousands of books in any bo
Trying to rescue a man. Were hours away from the latest big announcement from apple. Were live in Silicon Valley for this mornings coming out party. Mornings on 2 begins right now. You are looking live at the Fire Command Center for the wildfire on mt. Diablo. This is in dublin. Firefighters have updated us on the progress and their conditions. Theres new information just released. Well give you uptotheminute informs on the fire in just moments. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im Tori Campbell. A big welcome back. Thank you, tori. Good to be back. Im dave clark. Lets go to steve. All right. Thank you. We do have a cooler pattern today. A much, much bigger fog bank. A westerly breeze in place. Cooler inland. Well carry that into tomorrow. Well get a warmup thursday, friday. It look cooler by the weekend. 50sed and 60s. A 8, san jose. 58 San Francisco, 59 in concord. San jose aforecast, patchy fog, 52. San francisco had a nice tweet from raquel in the mish. Very foggy. Feels cool