High school at the 2016 Chicago Tribune printers role printers row lit fest. Welcome to the 32nd annual Chicago Tribune, printers row lit fest. I want to give a special thank you to our sponsors. The theme of this years festival is whats your story . And we encourage you to share the stories that you here this weekend on twitter, instagram or facebook using the prlf1. You can download the printers row app. It has content for subscribers and a complete printers role that schedule. Downloads and get five dollars off of printers row lit fest merchandise. Today we will broadcast live on cspan2 booktv. If there is time at the end for the q a session with the author we ask you to use the microphone located to the right so the home viewing audience can hear your questions. Before we begin today we ask that you send your cell phone and turn off your camera flashes. Please welcome Senior Writer and columnist from the Chicago Tribune and todays interviewer, rick kogan. [applause] thank you. This
Village in steel. Ng im not going to concentrate much on the book. T my editor, jerry kern, is a huge fan of the book. He has specific questions. Im goingdi to talk more about int a sense the process. Sense. You are now in what you call the dark country of no ideas. That is a term i didnt come up with. My good friend and publicist came up with it when i am looking for a period to describe my next book. When i finish a book i have no other idea on my plate and start from scratch. It is a longish process taking about a year before starting the next project during which i am unpleasant and snappish and pissy. That process do you sort of read not indiscriminate and go from there . I wish i had a way to distill the process. It is mostly chance. I do things that i hope will try to jog things lose in my mind. I will walk through the stacks in my Favorite Library in seattle and just pull books at random and just read to see what the book is about as a way to expose myself to new things and boo
Reporter, one of the biggest. How does it feel . How does what feel . What you have done has never been done before. You are an outsider. U. K. Men and they call it the summer of trump. I hear that. [applause] and this is the top guy. He said its never been done. How does it feel . I said ill be honest, to me it doesnt feel anything because unless we win i have wasted my time. And he said, now you havent. What you have done is incredible by the way that was a while ago. I think is afraid to write the story but he said what you have done is incredible and i said i understand what you are saying but im telling you unless i win , meaning unless we win in the primaries, and we cant have these politicians and they longer. We just cant do it. We cant do it. We cant do it. All talk, no action, no ability. They have got one ability. They have an ability to get reelected. Thats their only ability. Thats what they have to do. They have to get reelected so i said, and i told him if i dont win i c
Have great instability and unrest. The tears are in control and they have their hands on deadlier weapons. Lets talk about hillary. [laughter] secretary clinton had a very adjusting approach to emails. [laughter] as secretary of state. I would like to get your thoughts both on her decision that she conduct oliver business including sending topsecret emails on a private server that resided in a bathroom in denver and what you think that says about her being commanderinchief backs its not a trick question. [laughter] i dont think shes qualified to be commanderinchief to i think the question of the private server anybody whos been there and gone through the process whether secretary of defense or part of the cabinet dealing with highly classified information all the time there some reason why she did it and i assume we are going to find out what it is as they are now aggressively pursuing what was on the server and in the last couple of days they found there were more topsecret papers on
Pole. Youll also see books about the u. S. Border patrol, israel, fracking, the taliban in afghanistan and the American West in 1776. All this and much more, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors on cspan2. Booktv, television for serious readers. Up next, a. J. Baime appeared at the Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest to discuss the arsenal of democracy about the creation to have u. S. Bomber force prior to americas entry in world war ii. This is about 40 minutes. Thank you very much, john, and thank you to everyone whos here on a beautiful, sunny day. A its good to see you, and welcome to lit fest. If this is your first time, this is one of the great festivals of chicago, and were glad werere getting a good turnout today and there is a lot to do. Thank you for coming to this event. To theres another one right after, it. A friend of mine, rick kogan, will be conducting a discussionr so theres a lot to do, so, please, stick armed. Anything occurs to you, well give it at least ten m