The [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the 22nd annual texas book festival. We appreciate you coming out for the authors and just in general great literature. A few housekeeping things, president of houston university. Just a reminder please silence your cell phones or turn them off. After that session here in our authors will be signing books in the book tend and book the booke for sale courtesy of book people. Remember when you buy a book, you support the author, the festival and independent bookstore and it is a Nonprofit Organization and its mission is to support lowincome schools in texas with author visits and donations like the leading rock Stars Program so your purchases go a very long way. And we have a book drive going on to help raise money to rebuild the library is affected by Hurricane Harvey and a donation of 15 at any register to buya a book for a student in the texas book festival and foundation will match with a bo
Movement and shares her thoughts on how to move the president s agenda forward. [applause] now to the main event. Its now my pleasure to introduce todays key note speaker, americas most listened to woman in political talk radio, laura ingram. She can be heard between 10 and 12 on am 850. Laura is a former white collar defense attorney and Supreme Court law clerk. Her nationally syndicated talk show is ranked in the nations top ten rated shows and heard coast to coast in nearly 250 markets. Shes the editorinchief and cofounder of lifedebt. Com and the author of several New York Times bestsellers including the obama diaries, power to the people, shut up and sing and the hillary trap. Laura has been a guest host on many of fox news channels programs as well as a contributor to abcs this week. It was also recently announced that she would be headlining fox news new prime time tv show which will debut in the 10 00 hour one week from today. [applause] fox news has said that laura aims to cut
Right now we are pleased to join us professor corey fields was written this book, black elephants in the room, the unexpected politics of africanamerican republicans. Professor, are you a republican. Guest i am not. Im a bit of an outside perspective on the experience o. Black republicans. Host are you a democrat . Guest i guess i wouldt probably classify my politics as independence, leftleaning. In a lot of ways its the extent to which my own politics did not really rise up to the surface in regards to doing the research are getting people to talk to me. I think in some ways beingk outside of the Republican Party and the republicans seen actually made people more willing to open up. There is less risk. The networks of the republicans are fairly small as you might imagine, less republican activists. Everybody knows everyone else. So to be able to come in and beo someone that nobody knew while presenting some challenges, also created opportunities. In the end i feel like it help not be
Bestsellers including war letters, letters of a nation and behind the lines. Andrew carroll edited on a pro bono basis operation homecoming, iraq, afghanistan and the homefront, the words of us troops and their families which inspired the Emmy Awardwinning film of the same name. In 1998 Andrew Carroll founded a legacy project, all volunteer initiative that honors veterans and activeduty troops by preserving their wartime correspondence. Andrew carroll has traveled 1250 states and more than 40 countries including iraq and afghanistan and he has collected an estimated 100,000 previously unpublished letters and emails. Andrew carroll donated his massive collection to Chapman University which is where rogers and my son went to school. The legacy project has been renamed the center for american war letters and is part of Chapman University. Andrew served as the centers director. Andrew is embarking on the Million Letters Campaign to seek out and preserve at least 1 million war related corre
My name is cynthia chaldekas. Thank you for coming here tonight. Im a librarian at manhattan library. Im happy to present John Mcwhorter. Were lucky that john has come more than once. He has been very kind about that. This is his third visit. Tonight he will speak about his most recent book, talking back, talking black, truth about americas lingua franca. John mcwhorter is associate professor of english and comparative literature at Columbia University where he teaches linguistics, western civilization, Music History and american studies. New york times bestsellerring author and columnist for Time Magazine and regular contributor to the atlantic, the wall street journal, and the Washington Post and he is the author of 16 books, and tonight he is going to be speaking about his most recent book, talking back, talking black. Without further adieu, John Mcwhorter please. [applause] thanks, folks. Thank you for coming here tonight. What i want to talk to you about, for not too long is the l