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Record of the nation during the andod of Victor Navasky from the current period when katrina vanden heuvel is the editor and leader of the nation. It is a great privilege, to have the records of a journal of opinion. The strength of our democracy believe rests on the survival of opinion, and the opportunity for the expression of those opinions. To be in a position, to protect forever this material is a great privilege. We now have the opportunity to learn some of the back story, magazine, so writing its 150th anniversary. I promised victor that i would start by asking how the heck he ended up coming to the nation. Victor thank you. Edgarscame from funeral. He played a role that is not publicly known. Was thedgar when he editorinchief and then publisher of dial press where he i see in the audience marvin, he would go to he wouldd say put his manuscript on the desk. Edgar was working on what became the book of daniel, a great novel. ....
Will be doing a call in program with cspan said he cannot sign books until 4 00 then he will have a very short window before he passed to catch his flight t consign books from 4 00 through 4 20 p. M. I hope you can catch him then. [laughter] that is at the bookstore attend on the ball at the university of arizona bookstore they are purchased at that location if you are enjoying the festival we encourage you to become a friend of the festival your taxdeductible donation allows to offer programming free of charge learn more about friends of the festival benefits that the information with our at tucson book festival website at of respect for the author and fellow audience members please turn off yourself comes at this time if he thinks you have please double check to make sure it is actually off. With that i am very pleased to introduce the founding dean of the university of California School of law which the six short years as on ....
Every weekend, booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, on cspan 2 keep watching for more television for serious readers. Booktv is live this weekend from the tucson festival of books. Start agent 1 00 p. M. Eastern 10 00 a. M. Pacific well be covering several author panel on topics such as race and politics, Supreme Court, environment, immigration, and more. All this live from the university of arizona the site of the seventh annual tucson festival of books. I give an example in god, guns, grits and gravy of this guy who is heading green peace in europe, and so he is all about wanting to reduce co2 emissions. But in all of an audit of green peace shows he is flying from his home to lux. Boring a couple of times a month, and the output of co2 he is expending because of his jet travel is like 100 times that of the average person. And so when confronted about it, here was his answer. He said well, the train trip wo ....
Tucson a book festival on booktv. [inaudible conversations] please a and gentlemen will come to the nation magazine 150th birthday party. [applause] we are here at the tucson festival box with cspan booktv we have folks across america looking bad we are delighted to have them join us. [applause] my name is john and i write about politics with the nation. Is indeed dead is celebrating its 150th anniversary. 150 years of travel rousing and agitate the and investigating an objecting to call out the ugly of uses of Corporate Power to embrace the duty of movements for social and economic justice. [cheers and applause] it has spent zero long journey of 150 years we had to figure out where we would go with the pit. 4 the next 150 and we decided look at terry for the sun to soften several books because were told day pineda little speaker truth to power. [laughter] [applause] pooley are here to celebrate and highlight the courage to work ....
Been passed through our generations, thank goodness, to give us a kind of a spark that i think is special. Now, i will quote from a couple of people about texas. Someone said yet another person has made that very tough decision when learning that their company was moving to texas, that hard decision about whether to move or throw themselves in front of a runaway train. [laughter] and then there is molly ivins who was a dear friend of mine. You broke the mold after molly ivins, and she said i dearly love the state of texas, but i consider this a harmless perversion which i only discuss with consenting adults. [laughter] well, so i know were controversial. But i wanted to go back and look at that beginning. And in the early 1800s, it was part of mexico. And the women who came to texas were basically genteel southern women. They were educated, they had refinement, they had a quality of life that was pretty good. And they married husbands who were adventurers. Now, why would men from the e ....