now condoleezza rice on democracy. [inaudible conversations] [applause] and actor price is going to be interviewed for us by one of the best interviewers i know who has his own show on bloomberg or national book festival cochair and very generous supporter mr. david rubenstein. [applause] please welcome both of them.plea [applause] and thanks, and enjoy. thank you very much for coming. thank you very much or having me here and welcome everybody.yo thanks for being here. it s a great event, great event. [applause] it s hard to believe but you ve now been out of government for about nine years bo so before we get into your new book on democracy which i highly recommend that we will talk about it tell us what you been doing since he left government other than writing three a selling books, this is the third but other than that you were teaching at stanford and what ozzy doing? i ve gone back to what i consider to be my real profession are they had thatat digression i
that is the bio they use it as wisdom about what it s about. i think. oh yeah. like author writer who lives in columbus. i was like, so none of the carnegie that new york times bestselling like none of that. i don t got a flex in front of family. okay. well, i m a flack for you have run a family you know that s what family to write that i m just so honored to be in conversation with you tonight about this book. a writer so deeply and part of book for me was also trying to grow as a writer, to grow out of simply kind of an academically trained writer into a writer who was bringing in her own story, bringing in history, bringing in theory, and kind of melding into some kind of form that was legible and accountable to the communities i feel accountable to. and so your writing was so helpful in that process and thinking about what that could be. let me start with a little bit of a reading and then we ll jump into a conversation and then we ll move q&a. and i hope you all have som
center operations. allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee, for five minutes. ms. jackson lee: ask to address the house for five minutes, and revise and extend. the specrying,vomiting, and eigs pregnant the yuck woman walked in labor pains for an hour in search of an ambulance. she was 23 years old. her journey did not end with that. she finally got to a place where a taxi was there, she had to convince this taxi driver in the midst of confusion, desperation, lack of food to take her 12 hours in labor to a place where she could deliver her baby. that is the plight of almost 650,000 women in pakistan. where the floodwaters are monstrosities you would not imagine. in visiting pakistan, the congressional pakistan caucus, in the last 10 days i could see water as far as
family. okay. well, i m a flack for you have run a family you know that s what family to write that i m just so honored to be in conversation with you tonight about this book. a writer so deeply and part of book for me was also trying to grow as a writer, to grow out of simply kind of an academically trained writer into a writer who was bringing in her own story, bringing in history, bringing in theory, and kind of melding into some kind of form that was legible and accountable to the communities i feel accountable to. and so your writing was so helpful in that process and thinking about what that could be. let me start with a little bit of a reading and then we ll jump into a conversation and then we ll move q&a. and i hope you all have some great questions for. us questions, questions, questions. just emphasizing that life. so. i wanted to start here because. there s a part of me that i was really torn about what to read tonight. i don t want to give too much away. was temp
lindsay. and and welcome to the stage page to my conversant for the evening. i m so thrilled when i ask for his bio. you literally gave me like one line which bogus i m an honor that is the bio they use it as wisdom about what it s about. i think. oh yeah. like author writer who lives in columbus. i was like, so none of the carnegie that new york times bestselling like none of that. i don t got a flex in front of family. okay. well, i m a flack for you have run a family you know that s what family to write that i m just so honored to be in conversation with you tonight about this book. a writer so deeply and part of book for me was also trying to grow as a writer, to grow out of simply kind of an academically trained writer into a writer who was bringing in her own story, bringing in history, bringing in theory, and kind of melding into some kind of form that was legible and accountable to the communities i feel accountable to. and so your writing was so helpful in that proce