Coming. We are quite pleased to be hosting James Stewart here this evening. Anyone who has followed his journalism and his books over the past few decades his familiar with his skills as an accomplished storyteller. The insight and detail he has brought to his reporting of financial scandals, corporate goingson political and legal affairs. Jim was educated as a lawyer and worked as an attorney at a prestigious new york firm for several years before entering journalism to help launch the American Lawyer magazine four years ago. In 1983 he joined the wall street journal where he won several awards including a deadline writing prize for coverage of the abInsider Trading scandal. Enter pulitzer for coverage and 1987 of the stock market crash and the downfalls investment baker markets abmartin siegel. 90 to 92 he left aband started writing for the new yorker. For the past eight years hes been a columnist for the New York Times and his weekly common sense look at the world of business, the g
Are here in the room and all of you watching at home at cspan book tv, we are delight today start the third day of this years fourth day celebration, today we will do 32 events, i hope you are all staying all day. [laughter] we couldnt be more delighted, thank you for making more time in the morning and check out schedule and come back for more things tomorrow, we will star today, how we win, shes in conversation with hannah and i will send you over to them. [applause] okay, what have i dont . Anyone who knows me, technology is not my friend. [laughter] hi, welcome to madison. Thank you. Let me just tell you a little bit about sarah, her bio is on the website, its in your information and its on the book that you all will be buying many copies of. [laughter] but sarah is a very incrediblable woman, she was getting ready to leave after president bush the second and getting ready to go until Hillary Clinton brought her in the office and said, talk to me about what youre doing and she said
Remember her name, mrs. Soandso from the philippines. He said, she is the Richest Woman in the world. I thought the queen of england was the Richest Woman in the world. But who knew. He turned to her and said mrs. Soandso, this is james stewart. Hes the most famous journalist in america. [laughter] at which point i knew she was not the Richest Woman in the world. [laughter] he can be charming and funny in a mean way. But at the same time, i remember that interview i was on my way to washington to do more reporting and i mentioned i had to leave to catch the plane. He said, right on my trump shuttle i will give you a free voucher. I said no, mr. Trump, i couldnt possibly do that. He said at least let my chauffeur drive you to the airport. I said no, a taxi is fine. We are all the same traffic. For weeks and months after that he was always trying to give me something. Tickets to this, going to the a a helicopter flight to atlantic city, i had no interest in going to atlantic city. So i s
A couple of notes for you, please silence your cell phones as always. Also, if youd like to ask the question this evening, right over here in front of the wisconsin book festival banner there is a microphone, we are joined across the nation on cspan booktv today so please ask your question from the microphone. Also as a special treat, artist will santino is here and will be graphic recording throughout the event. Writing down things they discussed, questions we ask and then his piece of art will be on display after stop here is Angela Batista from a [applause] abi want to give a big thank you to Madison Public Library, the Madison Public Library foundation and all our amazing sponsors for making this whole thing possible. Thank you. And thank you for coming out to the wisconsin book festival to hear adam rippon talk about his new book beautiful on the outside i dont think he needs an intro, everybody in this room probably knows him. If you dont, get a tv. [laughter] check your internet
The host of the secrets of wealthy women podcast. And the editor in chief. Christopher bedford. I cannot wait to talk to you about the gym coming report. The former federal prosecutor indra mccarthy on the gym. I think his first reaction safe to say was in dismay. At what they said on twitter. Jody arrington is here on the china trade talks. In the Fox News Contributor. Adult in 101. Teaching adults to be adults. Lets check the futures this morning. To wrap up this month and this week. 175point point gain on the dow futures. This is ahead of sundays deadline on heightened tariffs. They weighed in on the china trade. They been taking a lot of money out of our country. Its hard for them to get used to the fact that it cant be that way. This is having a tremendous impact on china. The primary thing is tariffs. Its having a devastating effect. The president also mentioned trade discussions that took place yesterday. Ahead of sundays deadline. What you make of where we are right now and how