Coming up tonight. Senator and republican president ial candidate marco rubio on his book money american dreams. At 7 30, Jessica Jackley cofounder of a microlend are looks at the impact of entrepreneurs living in poor countries. At 8 30 eastern thomas cleanston, former secretary of state for east asian and Pacific Affairs weighs in on the issues pertain to the issue of chinas rise and military economy. And then at 10 00 eastern, ralph nader discusses his book return to sender on the unansweres letters to george w. Bush and barack obama and at 11 Eastern Panel discussion on new orleans after hurricane katrina. Youre watching booktv on cspan. Were at the university of southern california, interviewing professors who are also authors and were pleased to be joined by jody agi vallejo. Professor, what do you teach here . I teach classes in sociology and immigration Race Ethnicity we look at how todays immigrants and their children are incorporating into American Society use we invited you
About these three women is how different they are from one another, and its a little startling to get back negative never wouldve been friends except for the fact that they deployed together. Michelle is the youngest of the three women, and shes very unusual i think as a soldier in that she describes itself as a leftleaning pot smoking hippie to me. So she was 18 when she enlisted. It was the spring of 2001, and all she wanted was College Tuition, she was certain she never wanted to be a soldier but she thought she would join the National Guard and a parttime soldier just for that College Tuition benefit. She wasnt sure she would never go to war because she knew the National Guard just did not the point. She felt quite sure of that. And then, of course, when she was in training, 9 11 happened and she did understand right away that maybe the commitment should made was going to be much bigger than what shed been envisioning. When she goes overseas in afghanistan she becomes very close to
Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Thank you so much for that very kind introduction. Im really happy to be here. As you can tell, i have an amazing support team which includes three tiny people under the age of 3. It is a wonder that this book ever got written in the last few years. [laughter] but i told them id tell them thank you to cyrus and jasper do you want to wave . Want to wave . And asa, whos too little to wave, and my mom and the flannerys and so many of you who are familiar and my friends and my distant family. Thank you for coming tonight. So i was told that over the next 30 or so minutes that i should do a reading and speak for about 25 of those. Id like to make that a little more brief so that we can have a little more conversation if theres an interest there, and we can have some questions. But i would like to tell you, and im going to go light on the reading tonight, heavy on just the storytelling. I would like to tell you about the entrepreneurs that bookend what i
Have you come over this is booktv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Heres our prime time lineup. Tonight at 6 45 p. M. Eastern, chris paps reports on the only state capital to file for bankruptcy. Then at 7 45, pulitzer prizewinning science and Technology Reporter john markoff examines the future of robot technology. And at 9 p. M. On after words, minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar discusses her life and political career. Then at 10 eastern, juliana bar bass saw with the Associated Press takes a look at the costs of rio deya near rows 2016 olympics. And at 11, the first women on the supreme court. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Next, a program from busboys and poets in washington d. C. Jessica jackley, cofounder of the online microlender keva, talks about the impact entrepreneurs in the poorest countries and the impacts they have on their communities. Im happy to be able to host Jessica Jackley as we celebrate the publication of clay, water, brick. In this lovely and
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