Office and head of environmental group. The proud father of bree who loves the school as well. Let me not only say welcome to you but panelists, this is american Politics Campaign off the rails, now it is time to quietly slip out. I do this routinely because after giving what i thought was a really great lecture at the university i ask questions as i normally do, someone put up a hand and said what does this have to do with sociology, no one was going to do that, it was the third week of the semester so if anyone wants to quietly sign out, now is the time to do so. My job is straightforward, introduce the authors, aggressively enforce time limit so we stay within cspans preference and to coordinate audience participation, so lets get started, my first guest is matt by sitting to the left, the most recent book is all the truth, the politics of what is happening, really interesting. Revisit the gary hart affair and how it changed forever the intersection of American Media and politics. A
Democracy. That is a shame. It is a disgrace. It is really an open scandal. And we need to do something about that. I would totally embrace the comment that we need you as much as we can, first of all to change our policies we dont incarcerate so many people. And secondly for those people have been incarcerated i think we do over stigmatize them. We do hurt their ability to come out of prison and get on with the gainful, productive life. I wholeheartedly embrace the sentiment of that collect. Host gelled in florida. Caller good morning. I have a question for professor kennedy. Some of us look towards affirmative action us to blacks entering university circuit. I happened to be one who graduated from a Major University, white Major University in the state of ohio. This was before affirmative action. Far too many times there is nothing said about those of us who were participants in the collegiate atmosphere, collegiate i guess academia, that existed before affirmative action. What is hi
For our live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. And welcome to day to as live coverage of the 2014 Miami Book Fair civil. This weekend our 17th year in a row of live coverage by the way, 25 authors in 20 hours of live coverage. Today, panelists include New York Times book review editor pamela paul, Walter Mosley, matt bai, charles grow, among others, and to offer College Opportunities for you today. Randall kennedy of harvard is most recent book is called for discrimination and David Rothkopf irans Foreign Policy magazine will be talking about u. S. Foreign policy. Full schedule of todays live coverage from miami is available at our website, booktv. Org. All they wanted and get updates of behind the scenes photos at booktv. Org twitter handle. You can also join us at facebook. Com booktv. If youre in the area, come on down. Cspan bus is here, we are passing a great book bags and some other things. Would love to have you come and say hi at the chamber of commerce day here in miami. The su
Lets get started. Right now, Thomas Eric Duncan is fighting for his life at a dallas hospital. He is, of course, the first person to be diagnosed with ebola in america. And since this news first broke on wednesday, fear has spread. Media coverage has gone round the clock. Twitter has been on fire. In fact, look at this tweet from donald trump, suggesting that the United States should simply bar flights from the hot zone, west africa. Truth is, there are some Real Security concerns in airports as well as some degree of uncertainty about what we thought we knew about ebola. But friday afternoon, the white house said a ban on travel from west africa would impede the response to the Ebola Outbreak. So here are two questions that i want to ask. First, is some of the fear unwarranted, and second, how do we prevent the ebola virus from coming into the country again . Joining me now, two experts, good afternoon mcgreggor skinner is the Global Projects manager for the griffin foundation, a nonp
Right now Thomas Eric Duncan is fighting for his life at a dallas hospital. He is of course the first person to be diagnosed with ebola in america. And since this news first broke on wednesday fear has spread. Media coverage has gone round the clock, twitter on fire. Look at this tweet from donald trump suggesting that the United States should simply bar flights from the hot zone west africa. The truth is there are some Real Security concerns at airports as well as some degree of uncertainty about what we thought we knew about ebola. But friday afternoon the white house said a ban on travel from west africa could impede response to the Ebola Outbreak. So here are two questions that i want to ask. First, is some of the fear unwarranted . And second, how do we prevent the ebola virus from coming into the country again . Joining me two experts, Gavin Mcgregor skinner, the manager for the Nonprofit Organization which teaches people how to handle dangerous diseases around the world. And a m