120,000 people attend this every year that it happens and is held every weekend, booktv offers programming focus on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2 and watching of our past programs online at booktv. Org. Randy boyagoda is next on booktv. He talks about the activism and political influence of the late Catholic Priest Richard John Neuhaus. During this event in new york city professor bordo go to sit down with author and former New York Times review editor Sam Tanenhaus. Welcome, everybody. Do i wait for you . Welcome everybody. Its really great to be able to have an opportunity to host regular booktalk by authors that write about topics of culture and politics, and it especially good when the topic is from the founder of the magazine. [inaudible] randy is an accomplished novelist. Tonight Sam Tanenhaus agrees to interview randy and pull out from him aspects of the biography of new house. Welcomed them both. [applause] at my good ear . I shout. Randy b
Times. All of these things can have a synthesis. We have a great columnist for the time but wheres his Institutional Authority coming from. It comes from the new york times. It doesnt come from any religious confession. We would be hardpressed to have her legislator whose Institutional Authority is religious, commanding a National Voice to someone like Richard John Neuhaus or abraham ashfield where the reverend Martin Luther king. That an unemployed salesman sold the idea to the toy company in 1935. So what the plan is, is ill talk a little bit about the history of the game and then open it up to questions and answers so that way im not just yammering, and you can get some insight on some things that you hopefully will find useful. This is the cover of the book. Most people are familiar with this the little red hotels the greenhouses, mr. Monopoly. The game, most people if you say to them say oh, parker brothers, which is now owned by hasbro. They acquired the company in 1991. And for
[inaudible conversations] welcome everybody. Should i wait for you . Welcome everybody to its really great to have an opportunity to host regular botox by authors that write about topics that concern and culture and politics. Its especially good when the topic is the founder of the magazine and its a pleasure tonight to introduce the biographer of the biography of John Neuhaus Randy boyagoda. Randy is an accomplished novelist and his most recent novel beggars faced which is best described as great gatsby. Its a very good read and i thoroughly enjoyed it. Tonight sam taman house has agreed to interview randy and call out aspects of the biography so its my pleasure to welcome them both. [applause] am i good . I shouts i probably dont need one of those. Randy boyagoda you are novelist writing about john neuhaus. How did you get to this topic . And when did you choose and why . I started working on this book in some ways without even realizing it in 2009 so shortly after i wrote a profile
[inaudible conversations] welcome everybody. Should i wait for you . Welcome everybody to its really great to have an opportunity to host regular botox by authors that write about topics that concern and culture and politics. Its especially good when the topic is the founder of the magazine and its a pleasure tonight to introduce the biographer of the biography of John Neuhaus Randy boyagoda. Randy is an accomplished novelist and his most recent novel beggars faced which is best described as great gatsby. Its a very good read and i thoroughly enjoyed it. Tonight sam taman house has agreed to interview randy and call out aspects of the biography so its my pleasure to welcome them both. [applause] am i good . I shouts i probably dont need one of those. Randy boyagoda you are novelist writing about john neuhaus. How did you get to this topic . And when did you choose and why . I started working on this book in some ways without even realizing it in 2009 so shortly after i wrote a profile
Of concern. It is especially good and too late to introduce Randy Boyagoda author of Randy Boyagoda mitt mac Richard John Neuhaus. Tonight randy has agreed to be interviewed so is my pleasure to welcome both of them. Thank you. [applause] Randy Boyagoda a novelist writing about Richard John Neuhaus how did we get here . Guest first of all the great question i started perking on this book in some ways in 2009 of approach to a profile for him. It was an essay that argued here is the most influential canadian born that none of you have ever heard of. So then at that point i was in the midst of a terrible unreadable academic monograph and to be rescued from the project relies it really was a story about a man in his involvement and i thought your is a story that needs telling. But then i presume after the biography lot of people could write the biography. Then his very good friend who i knew from a shared coincidence because my wife went to college with his daughter. Especially for our aud