Story, those of you who have not been here before its where the 20s in the 60s and 70s were the ukrainian socialist club. The owner actually dennis, in fact he was a defender and is now surrounded in a transition apparently. So were going to introduce someone who does not need an introduction but it fits. We have something really extravaganza, we have opera, discussions, bellydancing, down the bank if you notice a lady with a typewriter, you can go up and say anything and shall write one for you. Lets stop with the conversations and please welcome paul theroux as we celebrate his 51st book apparently,. There are 31 novels, 19 troubled books and one criticism. The wall street journal actually says 56. But anyway he just celebrated his new book on the plain of snakes. And in any case [inaudible] can you hear me. Can you hear me, did you hear the joke. [laughter] thank you very much for being here. I have never been here before to this particular place, it is delightful. I know tony so th
Booktv on cspan2. Vice president pence speaks about the u. S. And mexico economic agreement called the usmca and speaks with the Growth Opportunity that they hope it will spur. From yesterday this is about 25 minutes. Well, hello, Iowa Governor reynolds, senator grassley and senator ernst, former congressman david young, the ep as assistant administrator to speaker of the house pat grassley [ applause ] all the local leaders and guests and neighbors and friends and to rob manning and Manning Farms, it is great to be back in the Hawkeye State. Thank you for that wonderful warm welcome. [ applause ] im really honored to see you all turned out today. Thanks for taking time away from your work and obligations to talk about an issue of great importance to iowa and great importance to the nation, but let me say thanks to a few friends who are with us today, not just not just do i want to thank her for that overly again rou generous introduction, but i have to tell you theres no more dynamic
And thats something we really cant take for granted. The festival begins on individual donations to keep going into say free and you can donate at any level via the southern festival of books through their facebook page. The southern festival of books app. This weekend in person at vessel headquarters. See mac i want to encourage everyone to visit humanities labor literary website. There are wonderful reviews there. You can also sign up for a weekly newsletter information about upcoming author events. And also a great way to be a part of the literary community. In tennessee. Finally, after our session jason will be signing books at the signing tent on the plaza. And plaza. And copies of the books are for sale at the sales area and a portion of the proceeds directly benefits the festival. Enough announcements it is my delight to introduce jason depaul. I could talk for a long while about his decades of extraordinary writing about poverty and immigration among other publications in the N
Press, veteran journalists, political commentator, author. Before hill center, really even opened, bill had an idea that he wanted to sort of and host an indepth conversation that he would moderate with you know distinguished guests and over the years there have been so many very distinguished guests. But i have to say, i think no one more distinguished than our guest this evening. So call my wall street journal editor, Political Editor and reporter neil king. He has just published this extraordinary book, american ramble a walk of memory and renewal. He said he bookshop copies for sale and neil will be signing the book afterwards. Im you will have seen that its just the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive to say the least so without further ado please welcome neil king and bill press. Thank you, marianne. And good evening, everybody. Great to see you all. Thank you for coming this evening. I want to say a big welcome first to our friends here, the hill center. I dont know what n
Opened, bill had an idea that he wanted to sort of and host an indepth conversation that he would moderate with you know distinguished guests and over the years there have been so many very distinguished guests. But i have to say, i think no one more distinguished than our guest this evening. So call my wall street journal editor, Political Editor and reporter neil king. He has just published this extraordinary book, american ramble a walk of memory and renewal. He said he bookshop copies for sale and neil will be signing the book afterwards. Im you will have seen that its just the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive to say the least so without further ado please welcome neil king and bill press. Thank you, marianne. And good evening, everybody. Great to see you all. Thank you for coming this evening. I want to say a big welcome first to our friends here, the hill center. I dont know what number of talk of the hills this is, but there are fun and exciting and none more, marianne