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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome to midlibrary. Please take a moment to silence her cell phone if they arrived. This event is being shown by cspan booktv. The microphone will be there and it will not project into this room, so please speak loudly and clearly. Tonights program is a talk based on the book search of hunger, chief justice and money in the 21st century. This is called into question and china levens. Here he discusses pushing the ball of eradicating hunger out of reach. The rise in the price of food staples of the world market, the practice of using corn to make ethanolbased fuel. The Global Warming and its resulting extreme weather pattern with severe droughts particularly in africa and increased function of china and india which produced as the supply of grain for direct consumption by people. Approach of hunger received a stark review at Publishers Weekly which stated the stellar addition to Development Policy literature. David
Unlike any other. We need to preserve, protect and defend it. We need to retake it from the elites who are bullying us and forcing us into conformity. We need to crush Political Correctness and encourage all of you, barnes and noble are here with advanced copies of my book. I am happy to personalize and sign them for you. If you love america and hate Political Correctness, this is the book for you. We saw an opportunity for the National Center for policy analysis, please ask us. We stood at a place called little round top, gettysburg. When you talk about standing and facing adversity, about the common man who became uncommon in his valor, a professor at boutin college, not a professional military officer but there he stood in charge of the 20th may regimen, they start coming up that hill, he knew he was the last in the line of the army of the potomac, cannot surrender. Casualties mounted, casualties mounted, they ran out of ammunition. Alabama ready for one last time in charge. Colonel
[inaudible] its a very good read. I thoroughly enjoyed it. And tonight Sam Tanenhaus has agreed to interview randy and call out for him aspects of the biography, so its my pleasure to welcome them bothful thank you. [applause] am i good here . I can shout, so i probably dont need one of these. So Randy Boyagoda youre a novelist, and youre writing about Richard John Neuhaus. How did we get to this topic, first of all and why . Right. I started i started working on this book in some ways without even realizing it in 2009, so shortly after neuhaus died. I wrote a profile for a torontobased magazine called the walrus. Im from toronto, and it was basically an essay that argued heres the most influential canadianborn intellectual in the past 50 years that none of you have ever heard of. So i wrote this interview and i kind of left it at that. At that point i was in the midst of a terribly unreadable second academic monograph and as a rescue from that sort of project, i realized that here rea
120,000 people attend this every year that it happens and is held every weekend, booktv offers programming focus on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2 and watching of our past programs online at booktv. Org. Randy boyagoda is next on booktv. He talks about the activism and political influence of the late Catholic Priest Richard John Neuhaus. During this event in new york city professor bordo go to sit down with author and former New York Times review editor Sam Tanenhaus. Welcome, everybody. Do i wait for you . Welcome everybody. Its really great to be able to have an opportunity to host regular booktalk by authors that write about topics of culture and politics, and it especially good when the topic is from the founder of the magazine. [inaudible] randy is an accomplished novelist. Tonight Sam Tanenhaus agrees to interview randy and pull out from him aspects of the biography of new house. Welcomed them both. [applause] at my good ear . I shout. Randy b