Chicago and in 2005 went back to ethiopia. Talk about disobeying your parents. He wanted to become a farmer. The agriculture piece was interesting, you could leave medicine in the United States and work in agriculture, ethiopia and find yourself contributing, doing in some ways better, feeling more alive, more in charge, more influential, is really surprising to some people. He had 400 employees, drives five cars, white and two kids, gained a little weight, doing really well. Running a business, that is a really exciting dynamic for so many people like myself, first, Second Generation immigrants in the United States to realize your home country has opportunities your uniquely positioned to seize. That will be an essentials piece of effort thats story. We are out of time, but that is a fantastic place to leave it for now. This book is full of brilliant stories like that that wraps the anecdotal around the analytical strand. The book is the bright continent breaking rules and making change in modern africa. Dayo olopade, thanks for being here today. It is a brilliant book if you want to understand the continent better, you will buy it. Thank you, great to be here. [applause] [inaudible conversations] visitooktv. To [inaudible conversations]f the search. You can share anything you see on booktv. Org easily by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. Booktv streams live online for 48 that the blind 24 era at he less managing editor for esquire magazine then chief speechwriter tear george h. The real bush vice here later the sun king and other turf. Of the great book has a great title that is important if you write a great book given a great title including fellow white house mess no way touche treats the first lady. [laughter] Supreme Court and think you for smoking by the way. His literary circle, the round table that is a celebrated group of new yorkers that met regularly the inheritors of that tradition was buckley but the late Christopher Hichens and one can only imagines. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce the author of bloody enough about you. A cultural critic and historian mr. Christopher buckley. [applause] hello. Please turn yourself loans back on. [laughter] what an honor to be introduced to have a pleasure of some years now to know him with his delightfully a beautiful wife and the first lady who is a connecticut girl i will point out. And also an author so you will be hearing from her later in this festival. I hasten 2. 0 to that how much did you pay for those cheap seats . [laughter] i have South Carolina connections. My grandparents were from camden 1938 so i spent time growing up there. It my case it is an ongoing process. Play uncle with there the Buckley School of public speaking and certainly most importantly i had good fortune to marry a South Carolina girl who is sitting over by the exit. [laughter] and why she showed good sense with in a, lets not go there. Katy went to medical school here in columbia and here the name that was eliot spurring he was of a classmate of f. Scott says as scott fitzgerald. A class men from a guilty a yankee institution of Higher Education and when the great war broke out he volunteered as of Fighter Pilot shot down a considerable number of times. That is a technical airplane term. [laughter] then he came home in did became a huge best seller but to say they did not continue to be a writer. [laughter] to afford the fighter things in life he went into the family business, textiles and made a far Better Living i suspect that if you would have remained a writer. Is that a surprise . [applause] but its even so they still referred to as referred to me as that yankee. [laughter] the title of my book is the nfl about you but i will not bore you to tell you how truly wonderful is but it is attractively packaged. [laughter] and reasonably priced. Often of the introductions make me think the about the author paragraph slap on the back flap. You are familiar with them. They arent what they pretend they did not write. [laughter] integrated is writers since fitzgerald. [laughter] after a number of books i got bored with the paragraph there was nothing more to say or there wasnt to begin with so i started to make them up. [laughter] and in this book is said he has been an advisor to every american president since William Howard taft. [laughter] why not . So i was on day Deborah Tannen of the book tour instead of water boarding and sending in seal team six, we could find out where been lauded was hiding much faster so i was walking into of a drive time radio interview. These were generally not occasions of dialogue. That is the greek term. [laughter] there is up hierarchy of there in radio land. So to hear that you have the drive time radio interview that it consists of someone barking ignoramus questions at you in between the traffic reports. I walked into the studio and the host i saw him hunched over the about the author paragraph. I a new right away this is all he would know about me. [laughter] he looked up at me looking like the cromagnon. [laughter] and i said he said you were adviser to William Howard taft . I said yes. [laughter] now something was not right to but he said we will go with that. Are you willing to talk about that . I said yes. [laughter] and we did. [laughter] i have not been invited back but it was kind of worth it. So to mention book titles anybody guess how the new books are published in the United States every year . It is about 1 million. I am not sure they all can read. [laughter] but most of them are from carol oates. [laughter] the others are all titled 50 shades of grey. But titles are very important with the brand you go in to a bookstore. Remember those . Detroit nokia was of course the rich patron and petronius is terracotta because youre a menu that. [laughter] or you could take another influence right under the 20th century, adolf hitler. Hitlers original title for mind calms was 94 and a halfyear struggle against lies, stupidity coward ms. Would you have wanted to be the editor . Cover and the title. No, you tell it. [laughter] sometimes titles get into trouble when they are trained pleaded in to the billing riches. This memorably happened to john steinbeck. When his novel, the grapes of wrath appeared in japan under the title angry raisins. [laughter] you wonder how moby dick went out. [laughter] really angry wail. Speaking of fish, peter benchley, the grave of robert benchley, the algonquin round table had a timecard coming up with a table for his famous book. They had gotten it down to three choices. The jaws of death, leviathan rising in the shark. So you probably figured out what book we are talking about. His father, Nathaniel Benchley mischievously proposed, wanted to call it who is that noshing on my leg . [laughter] you can imagine the hope he bars in the movie. Whos that noshing on my leg slightly undercut it. So anyways, it titles are problematic. The catch22 was originally titled catchy team for the eight years he was working on it was catchy teen. Just before the catch22 was to be published in august of 1961, his publisher said theres the sky leon uris whose ringing out a title called me in the 18 peered at the worker. We care of two books with the number 18 of them. Joe was beside himself. So that is five a catchy teen experience the day of the department of motor vehicles. This very reasonably priced book is called but enough about you. My first collection of years ago, so its a big moment when you have enough to recycle old stuff. Publishers hate collections because they dont sell, but im sure today youre going to prove them wrong. Anyway, have been enough for collections is a big deal for every rider. So i was very puffed up and full of selfimportant as opposed to say now. I was much younger then. I said lets call it food free to you get it . Been the classic french word. The trouble is when an american announces this american announces this word, sounds like a prelude to. They did not think this is a selling point, the monetary aspect. So they fit now, lets not call it that. So there was a piece in the hook and inexperience i had i said lets call it wanted by a dictator. He requires some explanation. In 1991 i found myself is the editor magazine affords and i have a readership of 9000 forbes readers and communism had just fallen. The soviet union had just fallen. Boris yeltsin that you miss Horace Yeltsin . God, he was such an improvement to what we have now. He was always standing up on tanks and ive been sort of obsessed with the fact that although the russians had got rid of communism, they still had unread score, sort of the sleeping duty from. Although the lines to view it were much shorter. There are actually alternatives now on a saturday night. We want to do tonight . Wiki go see see lenins body again. The perfect date. So i said that if we can give mr. Lenin a push. So i wrote up a hoax article, saying we have just received some very hot information that the russians were so strapped for hard current see that they were going to auction off lenins corpse. But they were very concerned this would need to a dignified manner and the courts could not be used for commercial purposes, absurd depilatory or floor . And that it would be the auction would be conduct to play sealed bids. So then i had to figure out what the opening bid would be for a dead commie tater. This was preebay. Now we would know it can second. [laughter] i thought 15 million sort of felt great and so one night about 430 in the afternoon, the news organizations, before the 24 7 news cycle, the good old blessed days. So in fact stood out to about 40 or 50 news outlets thinking maybe we get a wire story out of it. The switchboard lit up like a Christmas Tree and so we went home so he wouldnt have to lie. [laughter] were journalists. We have ethics. [laughter] a couple of hours later on the nordic track over continuing battle of the bulge. I was watching Peter Jennings worldviews tonight and that came leonards embalmed face. Then i thought it was kind of like remember when you were a kid and you put iraq on the Railroad Track in the next to the grownups were talking about the derailment. So the next morning at about 6 00 iphone wearing and it was steve ford. And this was a little earlier than steve typically called me. In fact, she never called me. In fact, steve never called me again. And he said the russians have gone ballistic. It was like that scene in the movie, that are strangelove when they come in and say mr. President , its premiere kiss off on the hotline and is hopping mad. The minister of the interior, mr. Cannot be prolonged cough had broken into a russian tv program, into the russian opera. The mine volvos. I always wondered about the soviet union. Heres a country with 30,000 Nuclear Warheads and no dermatologists. And then we got gorbachev and he had the whole thing. Anyway, he had roped in into Russian Program to reinsurer annexation that he was not any type pains to denounce me personally i said raisin liar and an international provocateur. I thought core. [laughter] so eventually everyone got their sense of humor back. Six months later i was on the train going to new york from washington and i hope you Washington Post and theres a huge headline, kremlin dilutes with authors from one good. The weird thing about it was this was a hoax and its in a front page New York Times story. It had apparently eludes the 900,000 readers, you know, people who try to dynamos of american capitalism, are apparently too busy to read the newspaper. They were just added in the talks they had come in from dallas, texas. Not ross perot, which would have made it very, very good. He was accompanied by a letter only an american could have it. It had the sweetness and innocence to it. You said we just needed our Corporate Headquarters david dallas and i was discussing this with our interior designer and he says he thinks mr. Lenin would make a fine addition. [laughter] so anyway, there is that during the book. So i can tell thats very with charlie rose that they could get a word in edgewise. They said now, the dead dictator its not really selling. I dont know, maybe this goes to the sort of whole pointless as im attempting satire in america because you know, youre really in a basically amusing contrast with tomorrows front page. I was introduced once i spoke software in ohio. He was one of the civic occasions at 11 00 in the morning we are working on the seat of a thousand unassertive 50 shades of blue hair and all women and four has been to have been dragged along. Albert come on, youre going to get culture today. [laughter] a very sweet lady introducing me, chairman of the lecture committee introduced me as a satirist. [laughter] and she kept repeating it. She kept sort of going back to it and saying well, he became a satirist anyway, so i said we still need a title. I said okay, lets call it bass holes in the story behind those policies to write short humor pieces for the back page of the new yorker and i become sort of fascinated and says that the proliferation of books on fly fishing. Fly fishing used to be just fly fishing. You stand in ice cold water up to your you know what catching and you go home and have a pretty good day. And people started bringing out books that invested by fishing these mystical attribute. Fly fishing through the midlife crisis, fly fishing through the third divorce. And they have actually serious arguments over whether or not what kind of fly fishing with each of the apostles. St. John was a marvelous dry fly fisherman. Saint andrew was a nymph so i wrote a piece on the new flyfishing with Publishers Weekly and one of the books was a novel called kills, about a vengeful trout. And then everything took called bass holes and this is an attack on bass fisherman i appear flyfishing purist who battled bass fisherman care about these women but big and cold, which sounded pretty good to me. So this being america, the piece came out of people started going to bookstores asking for these books. They were furious they couldnt find them. They go to the guy at barnes noble behind the counter in the book they wanted was bass holes. So you go we dont carry bass holes. I read about this in the new yorker. We still dont have it. So i said to random house, look, ive done the market research. There is a hunger in the land for a book called bass holes. They said no. Precede new yorkers. So i said okay, ive got it. Lookout President Park. Their reaction was pretty much yours. What is he talking about . The story behind not such was a way to work at the white house in 1981, shortly after John Hinckley shot president reagan. John wilkes booth shot lincoln to avenge the south. Shot president reagan and aaron away you have to trigger three of idealism in the american political assassin. But it was an attentiongetting event. If you remember what they called for traveling staff of mr. Bush, the french would call upon trash. You are given a briefing by the secret Service Concern of what to look for in some insufficient like this, to be an extra pair of eyes and ears. This briefing took place in the darkened basement room in the Old Executive Office building, the marvelous building right next to the white house. In its day it was the Worlds Largest building. If you are building on washington. Sitting in a darkened basement, watching home assassination movies, americas funniest home videos, with expert commentaries , some who had been the. Is that berger found, back and forward. You know, the ultimate Debbie Downer movie. When Arthur Bremmer shooting, George Wallace and then we had this really arresting video footage of an attempt of President Park of south korea. You surely remember President Park. And hes at a podium much like this, slightly larger crowd 5000, 6000 people. My typical crowd. This is much, much smaller. The stage is full of his secret service guys, the guys with dark glasses with machine guns. Mrs. Park is sitting over here. Do you have to do this when he speaks . Well, she is looking up at him with this expression. This is my absolute favorite part. He skated to the pirate. So in the middle of all of this, a guy appears and starts to walk down the aisle right in front of the podium. Pausing to smoke a cigarette he gets to about their and he reaches in and pulls out a 357 mag m. He takes his time getting comfortable. He wants to get a good platform. Then he starts firing. At the podium. President park just as this. [laughter] like this happens all the time. You almost hear him going. I. Hate this part. Im dying up here. [laughter] and now his secret Service Detail sense says that some name is amiss. Panther like reflexes. One of them has some thing that i thought was interesting from a career point of view. He goes and takes cover behind mrs. Park. [laughter] lets hope he never comes to this. Hes trading shots at trading shots with this guy, using the first lady as a shield. Its now very quiet in this room. I was just a pot smoking english major who had gone down to washington for speechwriting and i started having a i dont think im in kansas city were moment. The issue giving the briefing says we dont do it this way. And i said good. Thats good. I like that. And he said if something goes down, which is a phrase ive managed to live my life up to the point without the phrase its going down occurring, he said if something goes down you basically have two choices. You can dock or you can take the round. I said i got the duck part. What was that second part again . Fondness i was of George Herbert walker bush, i was reasonably confident that if it came to that i would probably go for th