Welcome to booktvs fiction edition. Youve written 50 fiction books. Lets start with devil in a blue dress, the book that launched a series who is easy rawlins . Guest a kind of every man for the black community in the middle of the twentieth century. His whole view of himself has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of others, from texas and louisiana moved to los angeles. What we do is follow him as a kind of unofficial detective. What he does is reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. Host how did you come up with the name . Guest i was writing a story and there was a voice speaking firstperson talking about a party he was given and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and a woman he was in love with who was in love with another guy and mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking and says hey, e the, how are you doing . That
Middle of the 20th century. Is been to world war. And to his whole view of himself in this world of community of potential has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no on another because of what is born. And he and thousands of others southern black people from texas and louisiana have moved to los angeles. And we follow him as this kind of unofficial detective. He reveals what life is like in parts of los angeles had not been talked about. Host how did you come up with name. I was writing a story and a voice was speaking firstperson, and i was talking about this party that he was given and talking about how he was trying to pay money to raise his rent. And then he was talking about this woman who is in love with but she was in love with this other guy and then mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking aces hey how you doing. And thats where he came from. Host what voices he supposed to represent. Walter what he represents is now the africanamericans
Executives from google testify testifying the company censorship policy. We also hear from andy parker the father of the journalist who was killed on live tv and a conservative communicator said that google and youtube try to restrict video content for texas sanity senator ted cruz chaired the hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. The series of votes on the senate or the just concluded so welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media bias with witnesses from ace books and twitter. As i noted then any inquiry into big tax censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what we are doing here today. Googles control over what people hear, watch read and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Googles domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that to google is now a common
Id ask each of the witnesses for the second panel to please take your seats. I apologize for that delay. We went through the three votes we had. We will now begin the second panel of five witnesses. Each witness will have a fiveminute Opening Statement followed by rounds of questions. Our first witness is Mister Dennis prager. Dennis prager is a bestselling author, columnist, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and also the cofounder of Prager University, an institution of Higher Learning on the internet which produces fiveminute videos in which experts distill complex topics in political science, history, philosophy, economics and psychology. Mister prager was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the us delegation to the vienna review conference on the helsinki accords. He was also appointed by george w. Bush to the us Holocaust Memorial council. Our second witness is facing kint, ceo of Digital Content, a trade association that serves the unique needs of Digital Content companies. Be
View of government funded by these Television Companies and more including comcast. You think this is just a Community Center . It is more than that. Comcast is creating wifi enabled places so students have the tools to be ready for anything comcast support cspan along with these television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] in partnership with the library of congress, cspan brings you books that shaped america. Our series explores key worvetion literature that have had a profound impact on the country. In this program, Willa Cathers 1918 novel, my antonia. Set on the nebraska prairie at the end of the 19th century, its told through the reminiscences of jim, an orphan by, who traveled west to live with his grandparents he befriends the daughter of their immigrant neighbor, antonia. When jim and his grandparents move into town, anton