Up to the War Memorial Auditorium upstairs and the book signing, i encourage you to continue discussion with both authors once you get there so we will get started. Patrick phillips is an associate professor of english and a poet as well, previous book he produced, eulogy for a broken mechanic was a National Book award finalist. Todays book we are talking about is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome patrick phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a conversation, questions and comments but a little bit about the book blood at the root a racial cleansing in america and how i came to write it and a little about the story. The book began with the conversation in a taxicab ten years ago when my friend who some people may know, poet laureate of the us but at the time she was not yet. Ten years ago we were at a professional conference and natosha and i were old friends but one night she decided
Two distinguished authors to our panel, doctor Patrick Phillips and doctor jason ward. We will have presentations by both Patrick Phillips and jason ward and after both panelists are finished with their presentations we would like to open it up to discussion. Following discussion, we will go up to the War Memorial Auditorium upstairs and the book signing, i encourage you to continue discussion with both authors once you get there so we will get started. Patrick phillips is an associate professor of english and a poet as well, previous book he produced, eulogy for a broken mechanic was a National Book award finalist. Todays book we are talking about is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome Patrick Phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a conversation, questions and comments but a little bit about the book blood at the root a racial cleansing in america and how i came to write it and a littl
Decider. To adjudicate competing worldviews and privatization, deregulation and austerity these are the buzzwords that have become common sense. If we live in that kind of state we have the other thing going on. My book has that assumption but in each case to give us a bigger story what it means to be nobody. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Be change you are watching booktv on cspan2. Live coverage of the southern festival of books in downtown nashville was the last soccer panel of the day the look at violence in africanamericans throughout history. Offers Patrick Phillips and jason ward. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the southern festival of books and this particular session. Standing against oppression, racial historical violence. It is our pleasure to welcome two distinguished authors to our panel, doctor Patrick Phillips and doctor jason ward. We will have presentations by both Patrick Phillips and jason ward and after both panelists are finished
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is adam kushner and im the editor of the Washington Post sunday outlook section which is our weekly section for analysis and essays and commentary and arguments and narrative storytelling and investigative journalism, and most happily for the state Nonfiction Book coverage. The Washington Post is a charter sponsor of the National Book festival which is now in its 15th year. Its amazing and im extremely excited to introduce today eric larson. I cant believe i fumbled that. Excuse me, edward larson. Edward is the endowed chair of law at pepperdine and a full University Professor there which means he is a martyr. The professor has nine books and he won the Pulitzer Prize for his book summer of the gods which is about the scopes trial and our endless numbered ending still disputed debate in america about science and mutual and policy. I also noticed any seamlessly endless list of publications is written for the washington outpost section, t
Frustrated that people dont understand the fabulousness in his strategy, dont you get it, he was defensive, he was not he was not someone who could explain to you. Theres a great absence when it comes to obama and isis and it is an absence of how he thinks about isis, not just what to do about it, what your strategy supposedly is but how should we think about it, how should we view it, what kind of threat is it, how should we be prepare to go meet that threat, what are the possibilities, he doesnt speak about any of those things, which makes you wonder, my god, is he not speak because he doesnt want to actually share his thoughts which makes everybody uneasy. And now theres, you know, theres this and now theres a president who is acting less like a presence and an absence. It does no good. It was very bad leadership the past week. We are going to have to leave it at at. The name of the book the time of our lives. Peggy noonan, thank you. Is there a Nonfiction Author or book that you wo