York city was hurtful and helpful to the union you during the civil war, and the positive and negative aspects of studying abroad. Now, thats just a few of the programs youll see on booktv this weekend. For a complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Its television for serious readers. And now we kick off this weekend with a panel on history of civil rights. This is from last months mississippi book festival. [inaudible conversations] welcome, everyone. Im Chris Goodwin with the Mississippi Department of archives and history. F if youve not already, please silence your cell phones. Welcome to the civil rights History Panel number two. Sponsored by the mississippi humanities council. We thank them, we also thank the Mississippi Legislature who lets us hold this book festival in this beautiful state capitol. We could not ask for a grander setting for it. Thank you to the authors, theth panelists. They are all authors. Their books a
Watched the announcement of the announcement of the book awards live on cspan2 on november 16. Member of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on book tv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Next up, former white house president ial events director josh king talks about his book, off script and advanced mans guide to white house stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle and political suicide. Mitchell switch, andrew frank and steve are, swaggering advancement who loom the craft on watcher mondales campaign served as my role models. They were the democratics answer to michael during the summer of 1988 and they taught me well. Schwartz was a lead advancement brimming with selfconfidence, and quick humor. [applause]. Was that selfserving and not by the way, i had to read that. Whos out here claimed that he was his mentor but in the book he got four pages that was known as a great teacher. So just to be clear on that. Josh is a good buddy and a good friend and a lot of people w
[inaudible conversations] thank you for coming. Nice crowd. First of all, i have to deal with the title of this panel, which really, through history, laws of nature, laws of man. The title is a little difficult for me as a political reporter, i write about the laws of man and i never think about the laws of nature unless im covering a Natural Disaster, like our 1994 earthquake. Our panelists have two tasks, most important for them is to talk about their books in such a compelling manner that you will all brush out afterward, by copies and have the authors assign them. The book signing is in signing area number one. This is noted on the festival math in the center of the program or one of the volunteers in the room will help direct you i have been thinking. The laws of nature explains like the formation of the great coral reef, once thought of as permanent and now, we know theyre not. We hope the laws of man can save them from global warming. These of books deal with these two conflicti
So ive been thinking, the laws of nature explain the events like the formation of the great ice packs in the coral reefs, once thought of as permanent. Now we know theyre not. And we hope the laws of man can save them from global warming. These books deal with these two conflicting forces, i guess, in engaging way with really gripping writing. In reading them, i wondered how all this history that were going to be talking about todayr affects us. I thought that all three books were essential to our understanding of todays world. Michael schuman is the author os confucius and the world he created. He has covered asia and the Global Economy for the wall street journal. He lives in beijing. Hes also the author of the miracle the epic story of asias quest for wealth. In this latest book, he tells how confucius attempted to bring a system of order, respect and responsibility to his unruly world, an effort the communist government is continuing today. Marys book, mary beards book is spqr a hi
She coauthored the smartest guys in the room about the fall of enron, but more important than that, she actually foretold it a few years earlier when she started asking questions, is enron overvalued x is it transparent. Actually, when she says there may be another issue brewing, we probably ought to sit up and listen. To my left, ben strauss, hes written in depth on College Athletics, but hes really dived into the very rich and multidimensional Human Interest stories behind College Athletes and athletes around the world. Actually, hes got my sons dream job. Frankly, my dream job. So its really great to have you here, and thank you pote for coming both for coming to this years Annapolis Book festival. American dream, american greed, you know, its a very provocative title. And i think today were in for a real treat. Were going to try to have a very lively 30minute discussion, and im going to try to leave room for about 10, 15 minutes of audience questions before we break, and we have a