colonnade signing books, so as soon as the session ends, we ll head right over there, and you can get your book signed at that point. it is a thrill for me, my name s andy brennan, i m with par nasties books, and when i got an advance copy of spain in our heart, i thought it was a fantastic and important book, and i told adam a little while ago that that wasn t the case with king leopold s ghost. in that case his writing and the subject matter was so powerful that i found myself having to put it down regularly and take a breath before i could come back to it. but spain many our hearts in our hearts is an incredible book, and we re very, very excited to have adam here. without further ado, adam hochschild. okay. thank you, andy. [applause] and it s good to see all of you here in nashville and to know that more of you are watching this on c-span. so my book is about the spanish civil war, and i want to set the context for it by rolling back the clock to the 1930s which
this topic firsthand with much authority and much sensitivity. randall horton is a poet having won or gwendolyn brooks poetry award and national endowment of the arts in literature. he teaches at the university of newhaven and serves on the board of directors of pan-american prison writing program, it is his life before these distinguished honors that gives him the authority to write this powerful book about forgiveness and what it is like in the prison industrial complex both during and after and the effect that writing has. michael mckay is a writer having published a book on the palestinian/israeli conflict. .. we are fortunate to have randall and michael with us today. they will speak and do some reading, and then we will have a few minutes towards the end of the hour to take your questions, and i will turn over to did you a critical first, michael? to michael. thanks everybody for being here. the title of my book is where the river bends: considering forgiveness in
dylan roof gun down tween 9 african-americans at the manual amd at charleston, south carolina, republican presidential front-runner donald trump fired up his silent majority audience of thousands in july 2015 with a macabre promise, don t worry, we will take our country back. you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. we are back live in nashville. next, authors randall horton and michael mccray discuss their books, this is booktv on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. my name is mary gray james and i welcome you to the southern festival of books session on forgiveness and what forgiveness really means. life in and after prison. our office today can speak on this topic firsthand with much authority and much sensitivity. randall horton is a poet having won or gwendolyn brooks poetry award and national endowment of the arts in literature. he teaches at the university of newhaven and serves on the board of directors of pan-american prison wr
politician in american history to bobby kennedy being the one to model themselves after. and now they to say one last thing i have written a book on very strange topics including superman wrote the biography of superman but i would like to present this church. i will not make template on tonight. [applause] but wonderful round of applause. [applause] you could not have known that is what everybody called me when i was mayor of. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] authod michael mccray discuss their books, this is booktv on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon this is the southern festival of booksks center dog forgiveness and what forgiveness really means. the authors today will speak of the topic firsthand with much authority and sensitivity. dr. randall horton is a poet having won national awards and endowment of the arts teacher one negative teaches it university of new haven and serves on the border directors of the prison breaking program. those honors
the opportunity to strike a new grand bargain that leverages more efficient donor action to parallel changes and u.n. agency so that collectively we are more strategic and more effective and more efficient and more nimble. we will also have the opportunity and the obligation to grapple head-on with the sharp decline and adherence to basic humanitarian doctrine and the fact that the greatest impediment to reaching people in need in chronic conflicts today is the willful denial of humanitarian access by all parties. second, in september, president obama will host a summit on refugees on the margins of the u.n. general assembly. there s no question that the global refugee crisis putting the host countries to the test and it is also putting people to the test. most refugees face futures without education or jobs or the hope of normalcy, often for a generation. unfortunately, the debate on the global refugee crisis has sparked has been more about rhetoric. some of it hateful tha