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Capitalism. We conclude tonights primetime programming at 11 00 eastern with james votess book Freedom National taking a look at slavery 18611865. Visit booktv. Org for more on this weekends television schedule. Next on booktv, barbara matusow, editor of scooped it recounts the life of her career Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter jack nelson who died in 2009 at the age of 80. Barbara matusow is joined by former president jimmy carter, former mayor of atlanta and u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations andrew young and former Justice Department spokesman Terry Adamson. It is a discussion of jack nelsons memoir scoop the evolution of a southern reporter. It is about an hour. Good evening, everyone, good to have ....
How Popular Culture prevented the wire. How was aware presented from the 1940s . How was it presented and comic books from the 1940s . How was it presented in athletic events from the 1930s and the 1940s . How was it presented in tin pan alley in music from the 1940s . And now on booktv, encore booknotes. Richard ben cramer appeared on booknotes in 1992 to discuss his book, what it takes. In the book mr. Cramer profiled the president ial election, george h. W. Bush, robert dole, gary hart, richard gephardt, joseph biden and Michael Dukakis. Mr. Cramer died this past monday at the age of 62. This is about an hour. Cspan Richard Ben Cramer, in your book what it takes the way to the white house. Is there any one thing that was a thread through the six candidates that you followed that would tell you what it takes . Gu ....
Carter library and museum for hosting this and cosponsoring this and also the Emory University library, particularly the manuscript and archives and rare books library. Which costs papers and wisdom of a great number of journalists, white, africanamerican, of all sorts and we are so pleased five of those are Pulitzer Prize winners and the latest among them is at the 11. Barbara matusow is so generous and made jack nelsons papers in our position and there is some rich history and i encourage everyone to take a look at them. We are here to celebrate the life, memoir, papers of jack nelson with people who knew him extremely well. Jack is a man of the enormous influence and consequence in the nation. The story of jack nelson for those who dont know is a story of news reporting and the latter half of the 20th century. If you look at his career, starting off, he was born in alaba ....
To biloxi where he starts peddling newspapers. He was a newspaper boy. An honorable way to begin. Thats how i got my start. Of. [laughter] he gets his paris job at the daily herald his first job at the daily herald down in biloxi gulfport. Just purely serendipitously, its where i got my start, okay . [laughter] he portrays himself quite openly as a very gullible reporter, and i certainly hope that when youve bought the book and youve had a chance to look at it, youll be as entertained as we were by some of his early stories of falling for ruses and having great faith that everyone was telling him the truth. As you find out later, they werent always telling the truth. Of course, he then begins to develop a reputation as a very tough, hardnosed Investigative Reporter which gets him beat up a couple of times and sends him fleeing to the atlanta constitution where he continued to get beat up. [laughter] he did some just breakt ....
And for cosponsoring it, and also the Emory University woodruff libraries, particularly the manuscript, archives and Rare Books Library which houses the papers and the wisdom of a great number of southern journalists; white, africanamerican, of all sorts. And were so pleased that five of those are Pulitzer Prize winners, and the latest among them is jack nelson. Barbara was so generous and has made jacks papers our possession now, and theres some rich, rich history in them. And i encourage everyone to go to marble and take a look at them. Were here tonight to celebrate the life, the memoir, the papers of jack nelson with some people who knew him extremely well. Jack was a man of enormous influence and consequence in the nation. The story of jack nelson, for those who dont know, is the story of news reporting in the ....