Broadcast live on cspan 2s were going to have time end to have a q a session so when the time comes, please like up at the microphone to your right so that our home viewing audience can hear the questions. With that, im going to hand it with that, im going to hand it over to your interviewer, amy carr, associate mapping are editor for the chicago tribune. [applause] welcome to lit fest. Im here pleased to be here with lisa napoli. Former journalist, current journalize. He man who made the mcdonalds fortune and the woman who gave it all wow. I love this title. Thick people dont often appreciate lounge it goes into getting a perfect title. I think this is a great headline. I grew up in new york which is the master of headlines but i got lucky. It is a book about that man who meat mcdonalds to what we know today and amazing, headspinning philanthropy of his third wife, joan kroc. When we were putting together the program, liz taylor, who is the chicago tribunes literary editor at large, w
Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan 2s booktv. Were going to have time end to have a q a session so when the time comes, please like up at the microphone to your right so that our home viewing audience can hear the questions. With that, im going to hand it over to your interviewer, amy carr, associate mapping are editor for the chicago tribune. [applause] welcome to lit fest. Im here pleased to be here with lisa napoli. Former journalist, current journalize. Always a journalist. The author of ray and joan he man who made the mcdonalds fortune and the woman who gave it all wow. I love this title. Thick people dont often appreciate lounge it goes into getting a perfect title. I grew up in new york reading the north new new New York Post a book about that man who meat mcdonalds to what we know today and amazing, headspinning philanthropy of his third wife, joan kroc. When we were putting together the program, liz taylor, who is the chicago tribunes literary editor at large, wa
And in europe, some of the early trading, you see some modest declines there ftse is the biggest decliner, down by a quarter percentage point. Look at whats going on with the dollar the dollar which has been under pressure broadly for many months, you can see its up against the euro today at 117. 06 down against the yen at 110. This morning wti down another 7 cents to 46. 71 President Trump disbanding those two Advisory Councils, the announcement coming as one council was dissolving already the president in bedminster, new jersey eamon javers is nearby in bridgewaters eamon . The president will wake up here in bedminster, new jersey to a changed landscape in the relationship between Corporate America and the president of the United States. We saw this dramatic moment yesterday as you just described as the elite ceo Advisory Council was deciding to disband. The president issuing a tweet saying he had instead folded both of his ceo Advisory Councils heres what the president put out. Rath
Researched this book for five years. Thank you for being here with me. We are so happy to have you. Her first book was radio shangrila, which i love the fact that they have a gna, national happiness. We are glad youre here to talk about your new book ray and joe and his third and final ways. The story is so compelling in so many ways. I think we need to go back to the beginning a little bit here because mcdonalds is huge. Its ubiquitous. It is everywhere but it has some modest beginning in the little town in california with a couple of brothers. When you started researching, that take you where . San bernardino, california which is a small town and yes it is two brothers who came from New Hampshire she cant know yet if the weather in New Hampshire to california and the tonys, but they wanted to make their way in the movie industry like a lot of people did and still do today. And mac mcdonald made their way west and they found out very quickly as many people do that its hard to make it
Others in the nfl. I mean, they answer my phone calls. They answer my questions. Sometimes its on the record. My phone calls, the answer my questions. Sometimes its on the record, sometimes its on background. Billy being in Major League Baseball is communicative, hes a Vice President with the league soi have a great relationship. I think because i have, and jim byzantine my business partner, we demonstrated fairness, that were going to say when we think you misstep and when we think you got wrong. When we think you got it right, were going to say that to and i hear from people that they respect that we are honest a host young talk flint be interviews you have done with players. Are the players open to talking with you . Guest i talk in book about going to in the Nfl Players Association event and a representative of the nfl pa, having a problem with me askingf gay questions of their new players. Back three or four years ago. There have been a couple who did not want to talk to me for su