Will be sent said along to ther who answer them at the end of the presentation. Also we encourage you to support todays featured author by purchasing her book from independent book seller, politics and prose. Finally i big thank you goes out to the featured sponsors. The blair family foundation, downtown crowne, and montgomery college. Lets get started. Tonight we have got author casey cep to talk about her bestselling book furious hours murder, fraud, and the last trial of harper lee. She tells the true story of murder, revenge and courtroom drama. Beloved writer harper lee spent years working on telling this story. Now casey cep brings the story to life from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama. Casey cep is a staff writer at the new yorker. After graduating from harvard with a degree in english she earned a master philosophy in theology at the university of oxford as a rhodes scholar. In interviewing case tonight is eugene, an awardwinning veteran journalist who has an eclect
It Anthony Bryan logan is a conservative political commentator i telling us about rules of the bank that means you can jump in and want and i always appreciate it ok auntie let me go to you 1st did you know as i saw these images over the last few days of people being forced to take the knee and apologizing for their skin color or their ancestry or oh i dont know what particular groups they were black lives matter or other groups it doesnt matter to me i think just that gesture in itself should be an affront to all of us i mean when i see those kind of images i think oh maoist china and the red guard and i think of the camaro rouge i think oh stalinist trials where people have selfcriticism i find it quite horrifying and i think were going in the wrong direction in the country we should value all lives and no one should apologize for what they look like go ahead. Or you can pretty much know down right there b. C. Of value last and you know we seem to be having this thing where are you g
This is not a 3rd world country no one should have to live like that. For example that someone lives right there. Next to somewhere where a dead body could be in this house right now. You can drive and i dont know any weekend. And if you drive around enough i think i think you will see yellow tape at some point. And we all know what the yellow tape means when it became obvious when the yellow cape come out that means a family body is day. 20. 1 you know. We need to be able to have people come out a separate. Positive thing good to come here after the next os like i said. Baltimore has a problem with killing murder. It has a problem with drug abuse it has a problem with gangs some of the poverty areas in the city have not changed for decades particularly where the riots were in the madama area that has been a poverty stricken area for generations. And its not changing it needs to change wed like it to change so far we have not broken that cycle of poverty and crime and really desperatio
[applause] im happy to introduce the moderator for the session. Hes not only im sorry, i skipped over. The moderator is curtis wilkie, associate professor of journalism at the university of mississippi, and hes also a fellow at the university over the center for southern journalism and politics. If you will take over. Thank you. And thank you all for coming. We appreciate the presence of the guests on the panel here at the mississippi book festival it is Getting Better and better every year. Im going to start off by introducing very briefly overcast and we will carry on a discussion i hope that you will have some questions for the panel towards the end of the hour. Karen is a bestselling author of several books, and her newest eden park is aof pick for august. Maybe some of you read it said it captures the bill of the age and the gangsters. They also call her but a well researched highly engaging work filled with intrigue, infidelity and headline catching courtroom drama. Its good to h
Investigative journalist, Fortune Magazine contributor and Andrew Carnegie fellow. Articles on pharmaceutical counterfeiting, gun trafficking and coercive interrogation by the cia have Won International attention and numerous awards. She lectures frequent on the topic of pharmaceutical integrity, bottle of lies the inside story of the generic drug boom, her second book was published by echo harpercollins in may and is a New York Times bestseller. Based on a decade of reporting the book takes readers deep into the overseas manufacturing plants for the majority of low cost and eric medicines revealing and endemic fraud and dire conditions. Educated at oxford where she was a rhodes scholar, Katherine Eban lives in brooklyn with her husband, two daughters and dog romeo. Doctor marty makary is a surgeon and professor of Health Policy at Johns Hopkins university and author of the New York Times bestseller unaccountable, and influential voice for physicians, in the wall street journal and usa