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1850 was also the year that a compromise was forged, the last great compromise, they didnt know it then, but we know it now, that saved the union. It was a compromise forged by the north and south that involved a number of major changes to the way territories good to come to the United States involving passage of the fugitive slave act and other compromises that neither side was happy about, but it did preserve the union for the tumultuous decade to come. Host what was the compromise . Guest the compromise of 1850. The compromise, you mean the specifics, included introducing the idea of organi...

Hi everyone i am carolyn greer, the producer of the brooklyn book festival with my colleague ms. Koch. We are in our 12th year this season and so delighted to have all of the fabulous authors participating. This year we had a very special circumstance with this particular program. Which is very important and very compelling on the subject of refugees. We decided to go in a different direction and do it from reporters. Telling from their insight and experiences in the field. And what happened is actually some reporters that we were having come got stuck on current assignment in the field. For i...

[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, please find a comfortable seat and before we begin i need to tell you that theyll be a book signing afterwards and its outside on table h and all the authors will be there with their books and let me introduce the speakers for today. The first speaker will be darrell pinckney, and then i dont know who wants to be the second speaker but we might as well do it in order. Yasmine el rashidi, the bottle of egypt, and important pieces for the new york review and lastly on my right, masha gessen who has written several books about russia, including the man wi...

Quite wonderful and he cannot be here today. And Oscar Martinez in san salvador is doing an investigative report right now. And as of yesterday could not make it out of the country to be here. We are fortunate though to have a very nuanced and experienced reporter Deborah Campbell, with her book. And we have lauren wolf. We hope that you will enjoy all the programming on cspan booktv live from brooklyn book festival today. Just keep reading. Here, a few more people. I just want to start off by saying first of all good afternoon. Thank you all for coming. I am lauren wolf. I will tell you about...

Oh, god, i cant ad lib so i will do something to read sorry. I dont know anything about immigration. You live with an immigrant, my boyfriend said but i think of you as englishman in new york just passing through, yes, im an immigrant just passing through. Its change showed me how racialized immigration is for me as a subject. Is there a distinction between company xenophobia and racism, maybe frightened or whatever but they wont be proceeding from priority. Elizabeth ordered council to promulgate an order to expeople black from kingdom because they had become numerous, because it because they...