And you can watch full programs on our website, booktv. Org. Welcome back everybody. Lets get started. Imdealer kites, your room host of the day. Were a little weary by this time but im glad to be here. Im also chair of the brick 11 literary society. Turn your cell phones off, thank you all for coming. Lets thank our sponsors, we need to do that in every session because they are so important to the success of the fair so thanks to knight foundation, poway gel, or a gain of construction, bachelor foundation, the degroot foundation. As always, thank you to all the friends of the book fair. We hope everybody who is in this room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all the activities that are available for friends during here. We thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miamidade college. Thanks to all. [applause] we have a big crowd for a mighty important author to let me start by introducing his introducer. Marcia dunn is a longtime miam
Book does well maybe these places will not be so obscure. Places like the glowworm cave, people in new zealand know about. So sometimes its a case of case of spotlighting places that are only known locally. Im bringing in more people from outside so they know about it. In general that is a concern. In terms of cultural sensitivity , absolutely this is a big concern of ours after we never want to point to something to say thats weird, what are these people doing. We include things in the book because we want to celebrate them. We want to show i get a sense of what is out there the world. One of the prime reasons press doing this is how do people see the world. What perspectives can we view this from. So that was definitely something we thought about in terms of the language and tone we are using. Speaking to people who are part of these groups anywhere in these museums. That trying to to represent them without talking to them. I mean even the concept of exploration and discovery is a li
National correspondent, our guest today is correspondent for the st. Louis postdispatch and the author of emperor union the aftermath of the battle of gettysburg. We welcome our guest and Live Audience today as well as cspan tv. In his new book, chuck explores one of gettysburgs most famous stories, that of a father, a journalist searching for his older son in the haze of battle. We will also touch on the journalism practices of the day, Battlefield Medicine and the overarching cost of the ultimate sacrifice for the full measure. The famous documentarian and press called mentor ken burns set of imperfect union, chuck raasch has written an important important book, one that contains an aerial view of the greatest battle ever fought in north america. Chuck was one of the five original longform writers at usa today when it began in 1982, served as a correspondent forget thatnews nervous and a graduate of south Dakota University legally completed as journalism at stanford is a proud member
Parliament. Mps began two days of debate on the bill triggering our formal exit from the European Union. We voted to give the people a chance to determine the future referendum. Now we must fulfil our side to deliver on the result. Scottish nationalists say they will vote against the bill. One conservative says he willjoin them, rejecting the idea that exit will be good for trade. Apparently you follow the rabbit down the hole and emerge in wonderland. Also, are concerns about prisons falling on deaf ears . And debate about Donald Trumps ban on some was in countries entering the us. It is divisive and wrong. Muslim. The big brexit debate. The first day of discussion on the bill following the process of leaving the eu. They will finish their debate and vote on wednesday. The government was forced to bring in the bill after losing a case in the Supreme Court when the governments intention that ministers alone should be able to start the process was challenged by campaigners who said it s
Car. Youll be heading out into more cold weather, windy withins, and were tracking the snow. Meteorologist krystal klei has the details. It is a cold forecast. That cold air holds on tight through the whole workweek and the cold air keeps our ground cold. When the snowstorm comes in on tuesday, its going to start accumulating right away instead of melting like we saw with the last setup on friday. 24 in philadelphia right now, 18 in allentown. Wilmington at 21. 20 in Atlantic City and 19 vineland. Its cold out there. In fact, it feels cooler than it truly is. As a result, a lot of us feeling like were around 10, 15 degrees outside this morning. Radar and satellite for us. In our area, clouds down south, more clear to the north. Today well see a mix of clouds and sun in the forecast. We stay dry oather wise. We know a system will be impacting our region. It will impact the mid atlantic and northeast, the whole area. For us, philadelphia, northern delaware and areas north and west of tha