Mac. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and its Book Review Literary life panel will begin in just a minute. They are running a minute or two behind. This is live coverage on booktv on cspan2. This is the first panel of the day. Pamela paul, book times editor will be there. Walter mosley will be fair, ann patchett as well. After. Com a call in with Randall Kennedy for discrimination, race affirmativeaction and the law. He is a law professor at harvard. After that, david brock, david rothbard, his most recent book called national insecurity, American Leadership in an age of fear. We will do a callin program with them so you will have a chance. This panel is just starting. Good morning, everyone. Good morning and welcome to Miami Book Fair international. This is our 31st year, as you know, and it is truly a pleasure to see all of you here on a wonderful, sunny and bright south florida morning. Thank you so much for bein
The south during the u. S. Civil war, that the winners would want cuba because there had been a lust for taking cuba for decades previously. This had been this effort to make cuba a state of the United States of america. So thats one idea thats sirlating in the circulates in the minds of the rulers in cuba. Another idea thats circulating is they should be in solidarity with their comrades who are slave owners in the south in order to defeat the north. But then again, as i said if the south had won, the south would be after cuba ousting the spanish. But in any case, at the end of the day they decided to open their ports to the Confederate States of america, socalled. But after the defeat of the Confederate States of america there was tremendous pressure on cuba to abolish slavery, and a bloody war e erupted to that end leading to the rise of a figure who may be known to many of you. Im speaking of antonio ma say owe. Like many of you know, he was considered to be a hero amongst black am
For our live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. And welcome to day to as live coverage of the 2014 Miami Book Fair civil. This weekend our 17th year in a row of live coverage by the way, 25 authors in 20 hours of live coverage. Today, panelists include New York Times book review editor pamela paul, Walter Mosley, matt bai, charles grow, among others, and to offer College Opportunities for you today. Randall kennedy of harvard is most recent book is called for discrimination and David Rothkopf irans Foreign Policy magazine will be talking about u. S. Foreign policy. Full schedule of todays live coverage from miami is available at our website, booktv. Org. All they wanted and get updates of behind the scenes photos at booktv. Org twitter handle. You can also join us at facebook. Com booktv. If youre in the area, come on down. Cspan bus is here, we are passing a great book bags and some other things. Would love to have you come and say hi at the chamber of commerce day here in miami. The su
Book fair is held. Joining us now on our outdoor set is harvard professor Randall Kennedy, a frequent guest on booktv and on cspan. His most recent book which came out last year which is talking about, for discrimination race, affirmative action, and the law professor kennedy, has a affirmative action been successful in this country . I think its been very successful over the past several decades. It has helped with the desegregation of American Life, particularly in Higher Education and in employment. And i think that it has done a very good job in a variety of ways. It is help to rectify past injustice. It is help to bring into important discussions, people have been excluded and, therefore, enriched or public debate and our learning in various schools. So i think it has been a success. Thats certain what our gym about. Host where did you come up with the title . Guest it was the last thing that was part of this project. I did not have a working title. The book at to be published. I
Of america incarcerates a large percentage of its population than any advance industrialized democracy. That is a shame. It is a disgrace. It is really an open scandal. And we need to do something about that. I would totally embrace the comment that we need you as much as we can, first of all to change our policies we dont incarcerate so many people. And secondly for those people have been incarcerated i think we do over stigmatize them. We do hurt their ability to come out of prison and get on with the gainful, productive life. I wholeheartedly embrace the sentiment of that collect. Host gelled in florida. Caller good morning. I have a question for professor kennedy. Some of us look towards affirmative action us to blacks entering university circuit. I happened to be one who graduated from a Major University, white Major University in the state of ohio. This was before affirmative action. Far too many times there is nothing said about those of us who were participants in the collegiat