In debt. They started off incredibly well. They published grants memoirs, enormous success, and huckleberry finn. And twain expected to pay himself fat royalties. He wound up receiving no royalties. This is their final list of titles, and i dont know if you can see from there, but any publisher thats going to go out with stories from the rabbis [laughter] is probably going to be in a little trouble. [laughter] so headlines, and it was deeply humiliating, headlines in the newspaper said mark twain fails. I mean, it was brutal. Failure of mark twain, failure of humanist. And hes humorist. And hes this literary superstar, deeply embarrassed, and he gets two main advisers. One of the wealthiest men in america, the righthand man to john k. Rockefeller, standard oil. His nickname was hell hound, and this robberbaron wants to play hardball with the creditors. He wants to offer ten cents on the dollar. Twains other adviser is his wife, libby. She has absolutely no business experience. She writ
Thats npclive. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. Id ask that each of you stand briefly as your name is announced. Please hold your applause until i have finished introducing the entire table. From your right, dylan brown, a reporter from E E Publishing; gene tighe, director of bbn technologies, and a Longtime National park volunteer; maria recio, a correspondent from mcclatchy newspapers; will shafroth, president and ceo of the National Park foundation; elizabeth bumiller, Washington Bureau chief of the new york times; the honorable john warner, former secretary of the navy and United States senator from the commonwealth of virginia. [applause] thank you, senator. Ferdous alfaruque, medical device reporter for medtech insight and a press club board member. Skipping over our speaker for just a minute, rod kurkro, reporter at E E Publishing and the press Club Speakers Committee member who organized todays event. Thank you, rod. Tom crosson, the chief of Public Affairs for
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everybody. When martine. Good afternoon. Youve enjoyed the three days weve had here. You know, my Third Straight year of coming and nature they try to offer a great selection of poetry and discussions, film. Thank you so much are coming to join us. The reception last night, the presentation we had the honorary chair last night. The honorees were [inaudible] and woody king junior. Their messages were very inspiring and really got people fired up. I hope you got a chance to see it. Todays the last day of the conference we want to make sure we have a good time today. This is a black literature and the topic we have come in today. My name is patrick oliver. I thought of the readers and writers raised in chicago, illinois. We supported and not of projects, to encourage young people to become the next generation of individuals who may be at the conference monday. Check us out and speak loudly. Com. Its also my pleasure to be
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Happy to sign your books. [applause] [inaudible conversations] i have a leg to welcome you here tonight to the enthusiasm for issues of our importance to our country that we find of interest were glad to hear hitler dash have you here sweltered over to the moderator. My name is jim and i teach at Northwestern University school of journalism and i will do the moderating. And the codirector for the National Security journalism initiative. And the chief operating officer of the new zealand institute. Founder of redbridge security and is a former senior official in part of home and security. And harvey is part of the American Bar Association National Task force. So whistleblowers leaks and the media. With American Bar Association in collaboration the first is the National Security law of a guide for journalists and scholars the three of us were coeditors were written by lawyers that are experts in their field of National Security. And over the last six years. And to give you some definitio