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Youre watching booktv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Heres a look at whats on prime time tonight. We kick off the evening at 7 30 p. M. Eastern with the son of the late author and journalist hunter s. Thompson who remembers life with his father. Then at 8 30 former state Department Official talks about the growing influence of china and india. Michael peach, ceo of the publisher hachette book group, talks about his publishing career at 9 30 p. M. Eastern. And at 10 on boob tvs after words booktvs after words program, Mitch Mcconnell discusses his memoir, the long game, with senator lamar alexander. We finish up our prime time programming at 11 with neil bass couple who recalls the nazis race to build a nuclear bomb and the allies efforts plan to destroy their Nuclear Facility in norway. That all happe ....
Mortician. I would be glad to sign books if anyone has them. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. [applause] the book signing will be out here. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] now joining us on book tv is Melissa Warren runs the show there. So he moved to downtown vegas and allocated a bunch he was sort of joining a momentum that was building to make a downtown sector for native las vegas that wouldnt focus as much on the tour toist industry that the strip focuses on but also the local population. Writers block was opened by myself and my husband scott. Scott has more of the literary background than i do. He ran a hit area notforprofit in new york, he was the cofounder and executive director of 826nyc which is part of a National Network of not forfor profits notforprofits. We were told that they were interested in opening something similar to 826nyc where ....
Before we get started id like too thank our sponsors. We will leave about 10 minutes at the end of the program for a q a session, so if you have questions please sign up at the microphone to your right and ask questions at the microphone so the home viewing audience can hear the question and before we begin, please silence your phones and turn off camera flashes. With that i like to welcome my professor of Digital Media strategy at the Mcdill University in todays interview her, owen youngman. Thank you, tom and welcome here to Jones College prep. Great to have you here. Im sure you dont mind being in this airconditioned venue on this hot chicago day. We are delighted to welcome son of the north shore, justin peters, formally wrote a lot of things i read in the clumpy journalism review as well whos recently published boo ....
So, just like the jehovahs witnesses in 1943, the consequences are stark. Barnett held that people, including young students, could not be forced to say what was not in their minds. A concept we today called the rule against compelled speech. The court emphasized the constitutional limits on the states coercive power, which exercised by, quote, village tyrants or by the federal government. And it underscored that the First Amendment was designed to protect noncon officialists of all stripes them court particularly focused on schools because the case involved two Elementary School girls. It said because schools are educating the young for citizenship they must scrupulously protect individual rights. If wire not to strangle the free mind at its source and to teach youth to discount important principles of government as mere platitudes. You can watch this and other programs ....
Mojave desert, about 42 Million People every year visit the city for its many casinos, shows and restaurants. With the help of our Cox Communications cable partners, for the next two hours well learn about the history of the city and tap into the literary scene here with local authors. We begin our special feature with its former mayor, Oscar Goodman. Mayor goodman, how did you become a lawyer for the mob . Oh. The refuted mob, of course. All by accident. Its the most amazing thing in the world. I came out to las vegas with my beautiful wife in 1964 and, basically, i would take anything after i passed the bar that would walk in the door. I had a motto in my office where theres a fee, theres a remedy. And carolyn was, believe it or not, one of the first card counters even they they didnt call them that at that time. An ....