This is lovely to get to interview on a book that i think its fantastic i read in one sitting in founded of silly fascinating so my first question to you is how and the world could you write this so quickly because you are referencing things that happened april and may and the book just came out. It is great to speak with you im glad you enjoyed the book. At was a bit of a frenzied. I publish a new book about every seven years and i give myself a break between but i just wanted to get it out as quickly as possible there are a couple of chapters focused on what we should expect if there is a crisis in the United States of an economic crisis or a major security crisis. And i felt so passionate that there needed to be a political disaster prepared this around progressives that i just wrote what i had never written before also working with a publisher that was committed to getting it out very quickly that Publishing Industry nearly finished the book then it creeps along the process in all
after 1:00, he died from his injuries and was pronounced dead at the hospital. this, of course, leading to an investigation by d.c. police now and would like to hear from anybody that might have information about now the death of 16-year-old malik spears of the district. thank you, aaron. today grief counselors are on campus after an 18-year-old high school student died in a skateboarding stunt. john malvar was a student at washington lee high school in arlington. tony tull is live there. how are his friends coping with his loss? reporter: it has been tough. the few students we talked to were at a loss for words. john was a popular kid, well moan. a lot of people knew him and liked him. graduation, about two weeks away. a time when everybody is manning parties or graduation, what they are going to do for college and now dealing with this loss here at washington lee elementary school. in lieu of interviews, the principal gave a statement this morning. he said washington
my story to the book in fact. while working on the book and the titanic buckson for short to long for over 25 years now, there are times, you know, i feel almost everything can be connected to the titanic and we will play little mind games, 6 degrees of the titanic. but you don t need 6 degrees to be connected to this building and to charles kim who built this building. so, but i will get to all of that in due time. but i do want to say how delighted i am to see such a nice turn out because after last week s anniversary associated media coverage i thought nobody would ever want to hear another word about the titanic. so, all this week i ve had lots of people talking. so i am delighted. by the way, how much time do we have? to we have an hour? okay. if they start shifting in their seats then i will know and i ve taken my jacket off. i am determined to amortize it and use it as many times as possible. the book is called gilded lives, fatal voyage, and i thought i would just t
the tucson festival of books. you can watch the events online live on c-span2 booktv.org. we bring you up panel on the brain. i am moderator this afternoon. my background is i am a neurosurgeon and your scientist here and we are blessed this afternoon to have three books about the human brain that have widely divergent views how the brain works and how we relate to the inner workings hong. we re stuck with the brain designed with hundred thousand years ago but plunged into a world of social networks, a world of overwhelming information coming it is challenged, and the ability to function at of maximum peak in efficiency is in question now. we are fortunate to have three delightful authors who have each taken a look how we change and use our brains. a writer who has contributed to national geographic geographic , less than a year times and other premier publications. and is a voyage complexities of the human memory. he takes us on a trip to the memory championship and look
baathist church for quite a long time and then it was the congregation decided they would move it and so they were going to solve this building and was going to become a nightclub, and it was immediately as that news came out the great philanthropists said we can t let it become a nightclub let s make a senegal and again. and the refurbished it to it s literally just its original glory based on some old photographs and we were fortunate because my eldest son who is now 20 was the surest bullion 50 years to be bar misfud boreman sob and since world war ii to use and we are celebrating those gentlemen and all of the people who brought this back now let s start with today you ve written a book about the obama and is an all admire in book. the administration has i guess disagreed. they have come out with some comments about you. what is it like to be in the upper middle of a political firefight. we are not used to being in the middle of it and what do you make of what is happen