Its been wonderful being with you again, lucinda. Spent thank you so much, dan. You are amazing. You are amazing. [applause] and thank you, all of you, for coming. [applause] you are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. First lets just start with your name and the title of the book. Anne wilcox, with p. J. Wilcox. The name of the book at west point west point 41 the class that went to war and shaped america. How did you come across this project is . My husband and i were working with the general on his memoir and he invited us to 73 union at west point. He was in the class of 1941, which was the last class to graduate before the u. S. Entered world war ii. We went to the reunion and we start hearing stories of other officers that was classmates that were just astounding stories of closing the bulge in the bow of the bulge, and other historic incidents in world war ii they went on to the korean war and vie
Serve, i will serve. He faces anywhere between probation to three years imprisonment. As a firsttime offender, hes open to avoid jail that would allow him, in theory, to still serve. That is from new york daily news. More on congressman graham tonight at 9 30 p. M. Eastern. Up next, dead man walking author sister Helen Prejean. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton on women and the economy and a conversation with former cbs reporter cheryl atkinson. Heres a look at some of the programs you will find Christmas Day on the cspan networks. Festivities start with the lighting of the National Christmas tree followed by the White House Christmas decorations with First Lady Michelle Obama and a lighting of the capitol christmas tree. Just after 12 30 p. M. , celebrity activists and their causes. Samuel alito and former Florida Governor jeb bush on the bill of rights and the founding fathers. On cspan 2, venture into the art of good writing with stephen pinker. The feminist side of a superh
Mcmillan. With all of those things going on, it became a case that was too irresistible to walk away from. The final thing, and this is one of the reasons i was interested in doing a book project is case took place in alabama which is where harper lee grew up and wrote to kill a mockingbird. Everyones read it. Its a beautiful story. The people in monroeville love the story. Theres boo radley street, scout street, atticus bench, all through the community. Yet, when i started saying, look we have an innocent black man wrongly convicted of a crime people had no interest in that. It was a bit surreal to be in this space where they were celebrating this story and watching such an incredibly vicious prosecutors and take place. One of the challenges is that we had narratives in American Literature that we celebrate for the wrong reasons. We give out these awards, the Atticus Finch award, a very famous model that the Legal Profession has embraced but the truth of it is that tom robinson died i
My question is having each of you work throughout your lives on some pretty small to i ammely large films, curious. How have you been able to preserve your own comedic voice in this plethora of media, and where are you willing to compromise . Us, with movies i think there is a temptation to try to acquire as much money for your budget as humanly possible. Its a sign of success on the surface in hollywood, if you thatspensive movies, the upper echelon. If you make cheaper movies, you are the lower echelon. The unspoken implication is you want to be making bigger, more expensive movies. When we were getting more successful, thats exactly what we did. Were able to make a 150 150 Million Dollar movie, so we did. We quickly found that budget robbed us of everything that made us creatively valuable, and everything we enjoyed most about the process itself. If we think of a new idea, we can do it. If someone takes of a joke, we can do it. We learned money actually robs very large,ring which is
Ask why it has not garnered International Attention since then. To conclude, we call for the countries within influence over thedpr k to clarify allegations of massive Human Rights Violations against the stargate e deep in the dpr k, and encouraging members to have free access to and to leave the country. Along these lines, we call upon dprk to make a direct and with thealogue countries of the region. I now return to my role as president of the Security Council. The Security Council has. Oncluded of this agendan item and the meaning is now adjourned. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] all this week, we have been showing you selections from 10 years of our queue and a program. Join us later today at 7 00 eastern as we bring you a conversation with the late syndicated column columnist robert novak. He talked about 50 years of repo