greer, liz koch and the organizers for staging this festival during such difficult times. mostan importantly, i would lik to t thank joyce carol oats and paul oster for being huge supporters for many years. paul won the first award way back in i think it was 2007. joyce is a recipient of the national medal of humanities, national book o award and has bn nominated for the pulitzer prize. she has written some of the mosn enduring fiction of our time, including the national best sellers we were the mulvaneys and thefalls. she p has been a member of the american academy of arts and letters since 1978. her last two books are poems and a new novel breathe. this is a really phenomenal novel. i urge everyone to pick up a copy of this n after the progra. it s very moving. it s difficult at points. it s hugely insightful. you willl all grow from this. i promise you. paul is an author. he is the morecipient of awards and prizes.ti his work has been translated into more than 40 lan
it was ultimately the tragic images of present kennedy s assassination and funeral that cemented her in the public life to public mind. jacqueline kennedy tonight on 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span original series 1st ladies, influence and image. from martha washington to michelle obama tonight at eight8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span three. and now book tv coverage of the brooklyn book festival featuring author panels on social change, voting rights, and the middle class. there may be language some people may find offensive. first up a panel on social change. last night i was introduced as nick all right. since this is a book festival i will take that as a clever pun or complement or both. it was apt command i appreciated the introduction. brooklyn law school is enormously proud to once again the supporting and participating with the book festival which has grown to be even though we are observing the 10th anniversary, the largest public free book festival in
barack obama won for individual politician, i think warren buffett won for individual. but here s the point. nobody likes the crony system we re in, but that is the nature of a welfare state. a welfare state must degenerate either into an authoritarian system or a crony system in which the coin of the realm is not i produce goods and services to sell to individuals, it s i ve got a contact who is going to give me a special privilege. that s why bernie sanders, by the way, is so popular right now. democrats see hillary as the queen of corruption. and at least sanders is kind of like a left-wing version of ron paul. he speaks his mind, he has ideals. i think they happen to be the wrong ideals, but i think that s one of the reasons why he s so attractive right now. host: some of the essays in the republican party s civil war include seizing the political high browned for moral intrisht ground for moral liberty, the fourth revolution. we have been talking with the editor an
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