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Author Michael Lewis. His most recent book is the undoing project a friendship that changed our minds. This is booktv live coverage. Can you hear me . I am hearing echoes. All good . We found out michael is supposed to do a power point presentation, takes half an hour to find the power point presentation. Thank you for being here and the library of congress. Thank you, the chairman of the festival. We will have a little chat, a couple of old friends with 1 million other new acquaintances in the hall. We go way back. Lets Start Talking about you are an art history major at princeton and you go to wall street and do really well. You could have been rich, you know . You could have your own plane this morning. Instead you go into the book business. So you know, it is just an accident, they didnt know each other. This is an opportunity to express all the resentment. This is the undo ....
Fire, john young who is not a liar is a friend of mine who interviewed me to become an astronaut, walked on the moon. I believe in this man, he is an honest honorable person. I believe in the Space Program and i know we have walked on the moon because of the efforts to help advance our civilizations and listen to these conspiracy theorists. Some who dont believe the earth is round. I have seen the earth from space, the earth is round. You cant buy into this stuff on you youto be. Any more scientists with analytical minds that can discern these Different Things and understand these things are real. Host you talk about the twang . Guest when you are sitting in the shuttle for three main engines come on and are off from the stack, the entire shuttle rotates forward and we come back, the main engines light, there are eight bolts with explosive charges that are ignited and they b ....
Couple old friends along with 1 million other acquaintances. Weikel and i go way back. Lets start out talking about, you are an art history major at princeton and you go to wall street and do really well. You could have been rich. You could have your own plane at this point. Instead you went into the book business. Tell us how that plays out. Guest joel and i were classmates in college. It was an accident. He thought it would be good, they didnt know we knew each other. This is an opportunity for joel to express all the resentments he feels. This is the undoing of joel and michael. The fact so the question is why i quit wall street. I didnt know i knew what i wanted to do with my life in college. You wanted to be there. When i got out i didnt have any plans. It didnt occur to me partly because of how i grew up. I grew up in new orleans. It didnt occur to me that i would have to. Hence our history. It was a place for careers to die but it was a great place to study and i loved it. When ....
You were in art history major at princeton; right . Venue go off to wall street a and do really well. Michael, you could have been rich, i mean, you could have your own plane at this point. Instead he went into the book business. Tell us why you did that. Are back about . So you know, joe and i were classmates in college and its an accident that he was asked to interview me. They did know that we knew each other. This is opportunity for joel to express all the resentment he feels. Thats correct. Its actually the undoing of joel and michaell. Yeah, so the question is why i quit wall street. So, i didnt know i wanted what i wanted to do with my life when i was in college unlike you. You knew you wanted to be a journalist and a writer. When i got out i didnt have any plans. It didnt occur to me partly because of how i grew up. I grew up in new orleans where no one really did anything for a living, so it didnt occur to me that i would have to. Hence our history, i mean, it was a place wher ....
Was october of 2012. A cab driver beaten badly in peninsula talking exclusively with abc7 news. Several people witnessed the attack walked by and did nothing to help. Abc7 News Reporter vic lee spoke with the victim and has his story tonight. Reporter february 15th just after midnight, 60yearold solomon solomon nyugen was celebrating valentines day but he did not want the full face shown. He came up to the cab saying he had drank a lot. Reporter he had a dress shirt in a pink or reddish tie. Told nyugen to go to geneva avenue and asked for specifics but he couldnt give any. I stopped asked can you give the address . Sleepy and drunk. I opened the door he run away and then i follow him. Please give me the fare. But he attacked me and then i almost. Reporter the dash camera keeps recording as a passenger knocks him to the ground outside the taxi. It was a brutal attack. You can see the man on top of nyugen repeatedly beating. The 60y ....