Welcome to this session of the texas book festival with h. W. Brandis. My name is steve hair again. I will be doing a q a with bill. 15 minutes after the session phil will be signing books in the book signing campus between the tenth and eleventh down the street. Please patronized the book signing tent in the bookstore, and pleas by the the book which wont be a problem. This is the book, the man who saved the union, Ulysses Grant and war and peace. If you by this book, proceeds will go to support texas libraries and literacy. It is a great book to read and to find a word because. H. W. Brands is the dixon Allan Anderson centennial prof. Of history in austin. His focus has been for many years on American History and politics and his biographies and histories include a number of tremendous books. This is the just the most recent. Also traitor to his class about Franklin Roosevelt, biography of Andrew Jackson called Andrew Jackson. The age of gold about the gold rush in the 1840s. The Fir
Welcome to our panel two sides of the very public story. I am delighted to be moderating this event with two authors. Use] and the title of his book is mule my dangerous life as a drug smuggler turned dea informant. So weve got a very interesting and lively set of books here. And im going to start by asking chris how it is that he became involved in the job business. Well, my life is sort of the American Dream gone bad. I was a College Graduate and had everything going for me, but is living with my pregnant girlfriend at the time and we had a 5yearold daughter. Christmas was two weeks away and we repeat evicted. I had no one to turn to. I had nothing to sell. I had really no options, so he basically turned to a friend, who i thought would just give me alone because he was in the drug business. Little did i know, he was basically trying to groom me because he wanted me to kneel for him because i didnt look like a typical meal. He willingly loaned me the money and of course you do in me
At a pair of rallies over the weekend, including one in iowa. Is he a naturalborn citizen . I dont know. Honestly, we dont know. You cant have a person running for office the point is, you are not. Trump and cruz go head to head when they appear for the debate on thursday. Katy tur is at the rally in windham where trump, again, has taken the stage. Hes going to be speaking in a soft voice so as not to interrupt donald trump. Katy, always good to see you. Thank you, craig. Hes vowed to be in New Hampshire every monday until the state votes on february 9th and hes right now talking about the poll numbers that just came out, the nbc news polls that show him very ahead in New Hampshire. Hes not talking necessarily about his poll numbers in iowa right now and thats where hes finding much stiffer competition from ted cruz its the first time that hes attacked cruz in front of cruz in one of his rallies. He was testing the lines to the press katy, stand by. We want to listen to donald trump ta