author michael lewis. his most recent book is the undoing project: a friendship that changed our minds . this is booktv live coverage. can you hear me? i am hearing echoes. all good? we found out michael is supposed to do a power point presentation, takes half an hour to find the power point presentation. thank you for being here and the library of congress. thank you, the chairman of the festival. we will have a little chat, a couple of old friends with 1 million other new acquaintances in the hall. we go way back. let s start talking about you are an art history major at princeton and you go to wall street and do really well. you could have been rich, you know? you could have your own plane this morning. instead you go into the book business. so you know, it is just an accident, they didn t know each other. this is an opportunity to express all the resentment. this is the undoing project. so the question is why i quit wall street, you knew you wanted i didn t have an
fire, john young who is not a liar is a friend of mine who interviewed me to become an astronaut, walked on the moon. i believe in this man, he is an honest honorable person. i believe in the space program and i know we have walked on the moon because of the efforts to help advance our civilizations and listen to these conspiracy theorists. some who don t believe the earth is round. i have seen the earth from space, the earth is round. you can t buy into this stuff on you youto be. any more scientists with analytical minds that can discern these different things and understand these things are real. host: you talk about the twang? guest: when you are sitting in the shuttle for three main engines come on and are off from the stack, the entire shuttle rotates forward and we come back, the main engines light, there are eight bolts with explosive charges that are ignited and they blow away and we are off and it is amazing because when you come back up, but weighing on a scree
that flag while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state. the murderer locked up such he hoped this would start a race war. we have an opportunity to show not only was he was wrong, but just the opposite is happening. amy: we will go to columbia south carolina to speak with republican state legislators including one who is introducing the bill to remove the flag, and we will go to raleigh, north carolina where we will be joined by state naacp leader the reverend william barber, who learned of last week messed while he was in jail for yet another protest. and in new york, david goodman, brother of slain civil rights activist andrew goodman who was killed in mississippi during freedom summer 1964. he was killed after visiting a black church that had been burned to the ground. all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. calls are growing and south carolina to remov
now on monday, south carolina governor nikki haley joined the growing number of elected leaders calling for its removal following last week s mass shooting at a historic black church in charleston. that flag while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state. the murderer locked up such he hoped this would start a race war. we have an opportunity to show not only was he was wrong, but just the opposite is happening. amy: we will go to columbia south carolina to speak with republican state legislators including one who is introducing the bill to remove the flag, and we will go to raleigh, north carolina where we will be joined by state naacp leader the reverend william barber, who learned of last week messed while he was in jail for yet another protest. and in new york, david goodman, brother of slain civil rights activist andrew goodman who was killed in mississippi during freedom summer 1964. he was killed after visiting a black church tha
now on monday, south carolina governor nikki haley joined the growing number of elected leaders calling for its removal following last week s mass shooting at a historic black church in charleston. that flag while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state. the murderer locked up such he hoped this would start a race war. we have an opportunity to show not only was he was wrong, but just the opposite is happening. amy: we will go to columbia south carolina to speak with republican state legislators including one who is introducing the bill to remove the flag, and we will go to raleigh, north carolina where we will be joined by state naacp leader the reverend william barber, who learned of last week messed while he was in jail for yet another protest. and in new york, david goodman, brother of slain civil rights activist andrew goodman who was killed in mississippi during freedom summer 1964. he was killed after visiting a black church tha