With Norah Odonnell, reporting norom the nations capital. Reporting from t odonnell good evening, and thank you so much for joining us. As we come on the air, the Democratic Candidates for president are hoping what happens in vegas tonight wont stay there but will jump start their campaigns heading into this weekends caucus. Its the ninth debate for democrats, but theres a newcomer. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg arrives with a target on his back. Hes facing accusations from his opponents that hes trying to buy the presidency, that he made sexist comments as a businessman and that he promoted racist policies as mayor of new york. In turn, bloomberg is expected to make the case he is the only viable alternative to frontrunner bernie sanders, even though sanders now leads the pack in several new polls. Today, the bloomberg and sanders campaigns went at each other, even sparring over the two candidates health. Nikole killion leads us off tonight from las vegas. How you feeling today, senat
For more information about the book fairs and festivals that booktv will be covering and to watch previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab on our web site, booktv. Org. Good afternoon, everybody. We shall get the proceedings underway. When barack obama was first elected president of the United States, he was riding a swell of hope however illusory that hope may have been been across the country that our first black or at least halfblack president would usher in an era of postracial harmony. Seven years later, i think we all know how well that turned out. Obama has healed the racial divide about as successfully as his promised healing of the oceans. Racial unrest in this country has gone from a tense simmer to a raging boil. The left would like to pin the blame for this on what they claim is the rights racist refusal to accept a black man as president. In fact, what has exacerbated Race Relations in the United States is the inherent racism and grievance mongering of the left
Myself, a young kid in the suburbs, going down south to mississippi every summer. That was my childhood experience. Host who happened to be africanamerican guest exactly. And i never saw that. So then i started writing because i was forced to take a graduate class in writing as part of my requirements. And my first writing teacher said you need to be a writer. Forget the scholar. [laughter] you need to be writing, its for important. And she turned me into a writer. She forced know keep writing over and over again. Because then i moved to new york pause thats what youre told to do, and i got another degree. Fine arts in writing for children at the new school. And really tried to learn the business and realized, oh, theres a lot of [inaudible] and theres a lot of rewriting x theres a lot of, you know, trying to figure out that this game is based on relationships too and how youre perceived. So then i really started writing a lot and launched a packaging company, because i realized that i
[inaudible conversations] okay. Let me check the mic first. Can you hear in the become row . Okay. Im barbara mead. One of the founders of politics and prose and i wanted very much to come in and introduce steven bud dan ski because i enjoyed this book so much budiansky. It was such an impressive accomplishment to write this book. Stephen had to delve deep into mathematics, linguistics, engineering, as well as the technical history of codemaking and codebreaking. From those early electric calculating machines that allen touring was instrumental about, that were used during the Second World War. So much of this is local history, or at least the Second World War part is local history because at that time the nsa was right here on nebraska avenue, where nbc is, and it wasnt until 1957 that they moved out to fort meade. So, in that long history of technology that stephen had to master, he started with those machines that were manufactured by the National Cash Register Company in toledo, oh
Larry looks at the life of the attorney general. Thats a look at some of the current nonfiction bestsellers according to the boston globe. Many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on book tv and you can watch them on our website booktv. Org. Good evening. Welcome. Just a few quick administrative notes, please turn off your cell phones if you havent already. Will we get to the q a part of the session, cspan book tv is here filming and we are filming also for the youtube channel, we would appreciate it if you have a question to find your way to that microphone there so not only everybody watching can hear you but jean, whos 83, can also hear you. Please be considerate of everybody else. Before you come up to get your books signed, our staff asked that you fold up the chairs that your seating and in. This must be a crowd of hardcore president ial history enthusiast. Either that or some of you are just looking for a distraction from the president ial history happening befor