You are watching the tv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see here online at booktv. Org. Spent as barber explain this is a book about scaring the emerging diseases and where the emerged from. And where they emerge from generally is wildlife, is some other species, nonhuman animals and the particular nonhuman animals other than our domesticated animals. If youve been following certain stories in the news over the last few months of you know that one point of entry into this subject is a daily newspaper itself. Youve probably heard about antivirus killing enterovirus killing three people innocently this summer. People have been dying in north texas of west nile fever. I think in that house a alone thereve been few 15 people who died of west nile fever distance july. There has been an Ebola Outbreak again in centra central africa,e democratic republic of the congo has an Ebola Outbreak that has killed three dozen people i think by now and its still going on.
I know all of the ones in seattle, and there is one there called, but burger king, those are pretty good. You cannot grow up better than that. Sure whatw, i am not to say except thank you very much. This has been a terrific and wide ranging conversation. Thank you very much. I am especially grateful to bank of america, our partner on this, and to all of you for coming out to inaugurate this new series. And you can come to our website at politico the centers for Disease Control will hold a briefing sunday to provide an update into the investigation into the first ebola case diagnosed in the u. S. Expected to begin at noon eastern and well have live coverage here on cspan. On newsmakers, kansas senator jerry moran talks about the 2014 election landscaper running nation including the campaign of pat roberts in kansas. Heres somebody whos been around. Hes viewed as somebody who doesnt spend enough time in the state by many measures, isnt that his biggest problem in the race . I dont think
You can find us on social media you can send us an email these are some how some of the numbers were broken down. Journal,ll street the rate slips below 6 since the recession started. The economy shows sluggish growth. The New York Times in a frontpage story says also in the washington post, we are joined now by reporter who will be breaking down the numbers with us and diving into the data. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Thanks are having me. Host what drove the improvement this month . , theres the things always a debate over the decline in unemployment if people are finding jobs or losing their attachment with the labor force and not even being part of it. One of the good pieces of news is it looks like it was more people finding jobs. The number of jobs rose substantially. There was a decline in the labor force. We have seen months where people are dropping out and it makes it look like an improvement. This was not one of those months. There really were job gains for people.
History. He wins and 72 over mcgovern , the biggest landslide in history. In fact, at dec. 72 he says someone asked not to write a book about all of this. And having the most successful presidency of all time. But, boy, how the mighty have fallen. That story, of constantly looking at the interest, how someone can be the most powerful person and take that kind of cataclysmic fall, and these tapes are forming of just a part of the story. They need to be supplemented with memo, oral history. I wanted to think john dean for coming here to austin and providing your insight and firsthand knowledge and stealing the buck. [applause] and he wrote a biography of warren harding. [laughter] [inaudible question] [applause] [inaudible conversations] and that was a conversation about the nixon presidency. We will be back with more live coverage from the texas book festival after this short break. Coming up next a memoir. [inaudible conversations] interested in American History . Watch American Histor
Be live from austin with two other events. Today you would hear from authors charles blow francis fukuyama. For complete schedule go to booktv. Org. We will begin at a panel on president Richard Nixon featuring former Nixon White House counsel john dean author of the nixon defense and historian Douglas Brinkley and luke nichter editors of the nixon tapes 19711972. Journalist Robert Draper is the moderator. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] this is a wide broadcast on cspan. We will keep things moving smoothly. Thank you very much. We will have introductions in a moment and then we will move forward into our first panel of the day. Thank you all very much for being here with us. [applause] good morning everyone. My name is Robert Draper and im with the New York Times magazine. Our abiding fascination with the 30th president of the United States Richard Milhouse nixon has been stoked by two remarkable books