Allows to focus on that. All right. Thank you, ricardo. Thank you to the attendees. A round of please. A reminder. Also, the nowhere bookshop outside in the festival marketplace has book sales and signing the next event will come in shortly. And so theyre asking us to boogie out of here pretty quic i im logan ward a long Time Magazine feature writer, author of the memoir see you in 100 years. Its about an experimental year i spent with my Family Living in the shenandoah valley, using only the technology from the year 1900 or earlier. But were here to talk to dean king. Ive known dean for decades now, since my earliest days in new york. I consider him a mentor and a friend. Youve got his boilerplate info, so im not going to reread that hes written many books and magazine articles. He produces tv series. My five word description of his books are he brings history to life. Its a nonfiction writer of. One of the things i most admire about dean is how turns his personal passions into, his l
The result, a monumental, bipartisan, 3. 5 billion solution, that will go to the voters in 127 days. [applause] this is a once in a Generation Opportunity to change the trendline on education funding. The stakes are high. For the cynics out there, looking to stop this plan or rooting for its defeat, if youre hoping this lawsuit will be resolved any other way, it wont. And to my democratic friends, even if you voted against sending it to the ballot, now its on the ballot. You cant sit on the sidelines. Please, put politics and partisanship aside, and put our kids and teachers first. [applause] ive promised to put all my energy into ensuring its passage. So let me just say, im voting yes on prop 123, if youre with me, raise your hand. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. K you. In the past year, ive visited schools all over the state, meeting teachers, principals and parents. They looked me in the eye, and ive listened. To those parents and educators, i want you to know, ive heard
Whom she married in 1836 and he was 10 years older and a professor of theology. He was retired. She moved in with her oldest children, 20 girls, her twin rls, in their 30s. She was worldfamous and she had reached the pinnacle of fame in her 40s. Now she is in her 60s and still writing to support the family. We will tour the mark twain house and museum and learn about mr. Twains professional successes and private lives private life. Twain looked into hartford as a place to settle with his new wife and children and came to the city. He was tickled to death. He said this place is beautiful. His family would come into the library after dinner. It was a very special spot. For instance, the paintings across the top on the wall here and the knickknacks on the mantle, they would ask for a story. To startwas he had within cat on the end. He had to continue across the mantle and incorporate each and every knickknack and could not go out of order and could not repeat himself. He would have to end
Is that we dont have a dog in the fight. So we dont have a reason to say to them, youre not making the world a better place. And until we do, or until were willing to say it regardless of the fact we dont have a dog in the fight, were not going to be effective. In our own political in getting our political will understood by our own government, and i think this is across the board, from the tea party to occupy, everyone believes the same thing. We are not a safer country today as a result of the war of the last 14 years, and washington is in a bubble that doesnt hear it and doesnt see it. Okay. So the first person who goes out there and buys a book and brings it back for me to sign, would you bring me a cookie, please, and thank you for coming tonight, and please buy a book and ill sign it for you when you bring it to me at the podium. Thanks, cspan, for being here and our local [applause] [inaudible conversations] youre watching booktv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Tonigh