Tv, more television for seriousreaders. Joining us on the tv is Alan Crawford. His book how not to get rich, the financial misadventures of mark twain. Mister crawford, where doyou want people to learn if they pick up your book and read it . I wrote it in part as a spoof of books about successful people. And how if you just do what they did, then you too can be a Great Success in life, because having read a lot of these books, i found them all woefully useless. Theres even one you might have heard of called the art of the deal. Terrible book. Pt barnum wrote a book called the art of money getting and barnum had made a Great Fortune at this point but mark twain went broke. He wrote the art of money getting while he was broke and the sales of that book enabled him to rebuild his fortunes and go on to be pt barnum chapter 2. 0. Its fascinating mark twain who was so good at so many things, who was the bestselling author of his time, who made more money on the lecture circuit that he even d
Readers. Joining us on book tv is Alan Crawford, here is his book, how not to get rich, the financial misadventures of mark twain, richard crawford, what do you want people to learn if they pick up your book and read it . I wrote a and part of the book about successful people. And how if you just do what they did, then you two can be a Great Success in life, because having read a lot of these books, i find them all useless, even when you might have read heard of ia terrible book. In the art of money getting, he made a Great Fortune at this point but mark twain wrote the art of money getting while he was broke and the sales of the book enabled him to rebuild his fortune and going to be 2. 0. I think its fascinating with mark twain who is so good and so in deep of the bustling author of the time who made more money on the lecture circuit they needed as an author thought he could do anything. His great obsession and life was to make a Great Fortune and as a teenager before he was even mar
Viewing on cspan which has been a supporter from the first year. We appreciate them very much, im with goodwin with the Mississippi Department of archives, if youve not already done so please silence your cell phones. Our panel this morning isa spotlight on mississippi civil rights. We thank bradley both cummings from sponsoring it, theyve also been withthe w book festival since the beginning, where grateful for that early support and for their sticking with us. We are in this room today, thanks to foreman watkins law efirm. We appreciate their support. Our panelists are Natalie Adams, Michelle Purdy and hezekiah watkins. Purchase copies of their books from vendors outside and you can find the times our authors will be signing in your programs. We will hear from our panelists forabout 40 minutes, and open the floor to questions. Please come to the podium in the center of the room to ask your questions. Be carefulof the ramp, dont trip. Now let me welcome our moderator, pamela said dc j
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You know im Maryam Namazie in london youre watching aljazeera also coming up Israeli Forces rape of a palestinian man who shot dead three of the Security Forces in the occupied west bank the u. S. President announces hell be visiting hard kane at puerto rico but not before sparking controversy over its financial debt saudi arabia reverses its ban on women driving saudi women will be able to take the will for next june. Iraqi kurdish leader must have barzani has said the yes vote has won mondays referendum on secession he said Iraq Central Government in baghdad should now engaged in serious dialogue instead of threatening sanctions iraqs Prime Minister body one kurdish officials against declaring independence a body says he wont allow the country to be divided Charles Strafford reports from erbil. The rhetoric and threats continue and from both sides iraq to me as at that i still is still occupying some parts of can of coke and some parts of iraq i still is still a threat to the cities