If i can add one more thing, remember the beginning of the United States of america. Economy of the this Southern States in the northern states is very different. They were very different from each other. Even today, the economy is very different. We found a way to deal with that and the regulators are the same is true in europe and china and india. Same is the same is true and brazil. This country deals with gaps between the rich and poor, agriculture, and earthen industrialize an evolving in much the same way that were going to have to on the global stage for a the problem has been solved and can be solved. Host good afternoon, we have a caller from new york city. Caller hello, im so happy youre taking my call. My question is this fiscal cliff that we are approaching. If president obama allows it to happen, what kind of catastrophe are you talking about . Im kind of concerned . So negatively will this affect the industry . How bad will it really be out there on wall street and main s
[applause] thank you very much indeed. First of all, it is slightly weird to be writing a book called the men who United States at a time when given all the recent troubles in washington in seems more disunited than for a long time. I know good people turn off their cellphones but i can so i am going to play you a short clip of music at the end so i hope that nobody telephones me during this presentation or i will feel like rudy guiliani. I dont know if you remember when he had to answer a phone while addressing a huge political campaign. The scope that doesnt happen. What i want to try to do tonight is tell you about the background of this book which is a big plum pudding of an affair and once i have told you how it will come in to being, two plums from the putting and illustrate what the book is all about but first background. It is the context story. As you might be able to tell i am english. I fell in love with this country quite literally when i first arrived hindered in 1962 as a
Needing a part of this truth. Article tv this weekend on cspan2. Online for this months booktv bookclub, we will be discussing the liberty amendment by marco van. Join the conversation at booktv. Org and click on bookclub to enter the chat room. Up next on booktv, after words with the executive director executive director of the American Society for muslim advancement. This week burqas, baseball, and apple pie. In it, the coauthor discusses her attempts to assimilate into u. S. Culture while confronting both americans who fear her family because of their faith and fellow muslims who she says distort islam. This program is about one hour. Host most people would not think about this when they look at you. Tell us about your story. Where do you come from . Guest i am often told that. So it is sort of a double whammy that way. Originally my father left around 1948. He was a 16yearold in the 1950s and landed in chicago and ended up graduating and spending a year at the university of illinoi
My fellows reads your buck general writes an essay seven o are a star in the book. There is a whole chapter. Is mostly observation i had this breakfast in january january 1989. Said you were coming friday . The correct . Great. Because that is the pits tebet. I had a piece in the magazine today some of that was the promotion of it. Good. So youll have to follow me. I got on twitter. How were you . Good to see you. I think most of these are presigned. But i can. Family okay . We but they are fine. My daughter just got married my daughter reintroduce husband they just got back from their honeymoon your coming down. And civic i decided one year ago i go to the gym every day. Just in my basement. I just cut al bred a and car. Bread and cards. Go ahead. Go by as many as you can. I will bring them all to you. I cannot remember if it was in the book but your story in 2000 as one of the Great Stories of all time about Election Night 2000. [laughter] the first light of my book is Election Night
Know that i am palestinian and often im told you dont look like a muslim so its sort of a double whammy that way. Originally my father is from tiberius and he left around 1948 he came to the states as a 16yearold in the 1950s and landed in chicago and ended up majoring in engineering and graduated from the university of illinois, champaign. And, my mother is from and she was very young in 1948 and her father was a Civil Engineer. He ended up being employed in kuwait and so my background if you will has my father going back to the oilrich gulf states seeking a job as a young man at around the age of 26 or 27 meeting my mother in kuwait and starting a family. I also grew up in dubai. Host so they didnt have an arranged marriage . Guest oh not at all. In fact he has a Civil Engineer was working on a home and he would watch her going in and out of the house often and he fell in love with her. So yes, they were eventually introduced by mutual friend. Host and then you came to america and ob