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January historically is a busy month especially relative to fever taste of sales during the Holiday Season but thanks to michael wolf the last few weeks have seemed well, like a second christmas for many book sellers. Given the surgent demanding for mikes book one frequent question is whether theres any presence dense for this sort of frenzy, of course, weve had best sellers before, and seen people standing in long lines for them. And normally were able to anticipate at least roughly how many bo...

Called them to find out how many offspring they will have, whether they will win wars. It turns out theres a reason that were fascinated with the future. That reason is because there is no greater advantage than knowledge about whats going to happen. Not in nature, not in business and not in governance. If we can know what the future is going to be then we can avoid danger, potentially lifethreatening danger. We can also get the joke of opportunity. If we cant do either of those things, at the v...

And we are glad that they are here to do that for us. Lance has an incredible background. Not much experience with the military or think tanks or education and lance has all of them. Something notable that you might not of known is he is a speechwriter for gentleman here in california and does anyone remember the name george duke mason . He was also the writer for ed neese in the reagan administration. He has that and he is military experience and he is now the head policy person at tr i on the ...

[applause] put in a good word for the organizer. We are keeping this 5 feet apart but thats nice. Would you mind extending became are reset . Let me express my appreciation for you turning out for this event on behalf of susan and him in carl. We deeply appreciate it and we owe a special debt to carl. This is his 23rd panel. [laughter] in 36 hours. I understand the best panel was at 1 00 a. M. In the parking lot of the supermarket across the street from the hotel. And those in your pajamas, i kn...

Widesmunoz and the making of a dream. This is an amazing book that shes going to tell you a lot more about, but just to say that this was called a must read to understand the new america. Our distinguished moderator, tim padgett, is going to be introducing and sing more about laura and our panelists. Paper just to introduce tim, he is wlrn americas correspondent covering latin america in the caribbean from miami here keys covered latin america for almost 25 years for newsweek as its Mexico City ...

[applause] [applause] [cheering] i dont want you to be intimidated, but i practiced these jazz hands for ten minutes backstage. Thats not actually a joke and that is the scary thing about it. Good evening and welcome to the 2018 pen america literary awards. Thank you for being here. [applause] honestly im thrilled to be here, very honored to celebrate the mission to protect Free Expression everywhere. Yes you should clap for Free Expression. It is honestly a weird time to be protecting Free Expr...

Good evening, everybody. Can you hear me in the back . My name is jonathan woollen, the Event Coordinator here at politics and prose. Thank you for coming out on this friday night. If everybody could please silence your cell phones, that would be wonderful. Just dont want any ringing phones. We are recording on cspan comes in and dont want to be the person who goes off in the middle of everything. Also, similar reasons we would like you to come up to the microphone during the qanda. Your questio...

Good evening, everybody and welcome. Before we jump into the event, i want to thank you all for coming. Events like this couldnt be possible if it were not for your generous support and showing up to them so thank you for your support we appreciate it. We have the honor of hosting them only here to talk about the book the rise and fall of marijuana in america. She received her phd from George Washington university and grassroots is based off of her dissertation. The inspiration for such a sure s...

And roger, a man who i dont would not say i agreed with on probably any, any point on the continuum of opinions, has nevertheless been a good friend, a good source, incredibly funny person to spend time with and someone through whom you really get a glimpse, you really get to know something about how powers has worked over this how power has worked over this, practically speaking, generation. So i have known roger. When he was thrown out of fox, i was perhaps among the few people who kept speaki...

Period that you are looking at. The wall street journal was started in what year again . In 89. Host a few years after the Financial Times where i work but its the same era, gilded era. Guest started in london, you started in new york. Host and you are the home team but i want to come back to that because i think the parallels between that era and this era are actually very interesting and something that i think about as a business journalist but first off i wanted to note a point of connection ...