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Carried it alive and we are pleased to be joined by former radio host and msnbc contributor Charles Sykes whose new book is called how the rights lost its mind is this a book about donald trump . Guest now, obviously he plays a major role but its really about the conservative movement, what happened to the conservative movement and how it enabled him, capitulated to him and how where did you go wrong . How do they conservative movement go from being run by William F Buckley to sean hannity . digital from Ronald Reagan to donald trump . How do we go from edmund burke to and culture . What happe...

[applause] the National Book awards are a huge part of that mission, and it is a thrill to be here with everyone tonight recognizing exceptional literature and increasing the visibility of books which are among the most powerful weapons we have against what has lately felt like an often hostile world. I think this past year has felt overwhelming and disheartening to many people. Its also felt exhausting for women, for people of color, for immigrants, for muslims, for the lgbtq community, for so many groups. To remain on the defensive in nearly every waking hour takes its toll. For some of us, ...

Everyone to the 68 National Book award. [applause] like most people here tonight i have always been an avid reader and i come from a family of avid readers and i have birthed at least one avid reader, the jury is still out on the younger ones. As an only child and the daughter of two only children it wasnt uncommon in our house to find everyone in separate corners, each of us buried in a book. Huge nerds, you might have called us. Its a privilege to be in his room full of huge nerds. I feel right at home. My mothers father was a rare book dealer in chicago so the nerd gene goes back even farth...

Literary criticism and a little bit of memoir. The writers have written in and a couple of years ago, after my mom passed away, id been a really avid reader of the series and i wanted to write one about death and thats how the book came about. Host you have spent several years writing about nat your career. Why . Guest i think ive always been intrigued by death and i grew up in haiti during a dictateyearship, and when i moved here, there was a lot of separation in my life and also we lost a lot of people, and then the recent decade, both my parents have died of pro longed very prolonged way of...

Down facetoface, persontoperson with you, someone who is meant so much for so many people in this country and outside of this country. Thank you for all that you have done, your family has done, in the service of your sons, all three of them. When i read the book that you wrote, the american family, memoir of hope and sacrifice, what i found about was not necessarily about a dark time in your life. I found it to be more about enlightenment for your son, an american hero. For you as a student of law, every family as immigrants. What provided that lightning beacon, but was that torch i found was...