Admire. I have been reading his book for years and he is to talk about his biography of mohammed ali. Before jonathan speaks i must mention a few things. Book festival is free but if you would like to contribute you can do that at the corners of the book festival outside or online. Also remind you after his remarks jonathan will head to the signing tends next to the parnassus tent on the main players a so he can sign your book over there. Jonathan is regarded as the top writer of narrative nonfiction, fantastic offer, he has written four bestselling books including two that i read on lou gehrig and Jackie Robinson. He has written for the New York Times and new yorker, esquire and the washington books and the wall street journal. His biography of mohammed ali is one of the most anticipated books of the fall. Rave reviews, the most highly rated book of the fall. There is always a national. Mohammed alis widow is a vanderbilt graduate. If you ever had a chance to be the legendary coach of
[silence bracket good morning, everyone, thank you for coming and welcome to the 29th southern festival of books. It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce jonathan eig, and author i admire. I have been reading his book for years and he is to talk about his biography of mohammed ali. Before jonathan speaks i must mention a few things. Book festival is free but if you would like to contribute you can do that at the corners of the book festival outside or online. Also remind you after his remarks jonathan will head to the signing tends next to the parnassus tent on the main players a so he can sign your book over there. Jonathan is regarded as the top writer of narrative nonfiction, fantastic offer, he has written four bestselling books including two that i read on lou gehrig and Jackie Robinson. He has written for the New York Times and new yorker, esquire and the washington books and the wall street journal. His biography of mohammed ali is one of the most anticipated book
Has made it at the top of my board. 10,000. Jonathan im not an idiot and i am not trying to call the top. Alix it will be a topic of conversation. David there are some things going on inside the business emma chandra is here with first word news. Emma it is the Biggest Online shopping day of the year in the u. S. Ecommerce is expected to rise almost 17 from the year ago to 6. 6 billion. Online spending across the Holiday Season is projected to rise 11 , the most ever. Germany is edging closer to getting a new government. Chancellor Angela Merkel has began negotiating with the social democrats over a potential partnership. She says any Coalition Partner would have to support a balanced budget and probusiness policies. And there will be Royal Wedding bells in the u. K. Next spring. Prince harry is engaged to american actress meghan markle. The announcement came when his father, prince charles, puts him fifth in line for the british throne. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by over 270
Julian malvo, steve forbes and nobel prizewinning economist joseph stiglitz. Of this is a topic that interests you go to our website at booktv. Org and in the search bar type economics book and you will find a large archive of authors and materials would all of these are available to watch online. Host welcome to nashville and the southern festival of books. He will hear from many offers throughout the weekend including National Book Award Finalist Patricia Bell scott and nancy maclean, talk radio host eric erickson, basilica other liza monday and many others. For complete schedule visit booktv. Org or follow along on social media sites on facebook, twitter and instagram at booktv. We are kicking off todays coverage with biographer jonathan i on the life and politics of mohammed ali. This is live coverage on cspan2. [silence bracket good morning, everyone, thank you for coming and welcome to the 29th southern festival of books. It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce jon
And journalist matt life from 3 00 a. M. Eastern on sunday. Next, a look at the future of the internet and sec regulations. A policy cant conference in washington dc. This is an hour and a half. Ok, we are going to get started now. One minute. If everyone will take their seats, please. You become so quiet when i say that that i should not even wait the full minute. That is fantastic. We are going to get started now. I think that was a terrific session to get the conference started, talking about regulation more generally, although i knew there would be. I think throughout the day we are going to hear about that neutrality, or restoring internet freedom. Internet proceeding. Did hear a little bit during the previous session. Call this the allstars panel. I am not sure i came up with another name. We do have a group of allstars here. Inare going to the digging to Certain Communications issues. I want to do brief introductions. Everyone here has the brochure where we have got the full bio