[ applause ] dont get carried away. Shell get, you know. Now, obviously, i could do this privately and i have, but id like to say a public thank you to terry for her support, which has not only been tangible in support of the series but also personal in her encouragement and advice over the course of many years, including many good topic suggestions and if you are here, you know she was responsible for the beach boys, but others we have enjoyed over the years. Thanks to her suggestion. So, terry, would you please stand up . [ applause ] now, tonights speaker claire l. Evans has achieved notable success both as a musician and as a writer. In the former career, she is the lead singer and cofounder of the conception al pop group yacht and has in fact recently turned from a tour in europe with that group. But it is her second career as an expert in the area of technology that brings her to us tonight. In that regard, she is the former futures editor of mother board and a contributor to vic
I think pj orourke, political satirist. He is the author of the new book how the hell did this happen, the election 2016. We think the audience on the radio, television and internet. Copies of the book are for sale and pleased to sign them following make his way to the signing table as quickly as possible. In california, the place where you are in the know is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] we will look at nasa and space exploration. The ladies of the Harvard Observatory took measure of the stars. Natalia holt discusses her book rise of the rocket girls, the women who propelled us from missiles to the moon to mars was margot lees hidden figures, the American Dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. That is followed by how to make a spaceship, and an astronomy professor discusses his book our future in space. Starting at 8 00 pm eastern on cspan2. Los Angeles Times putting on its festival of books for more than 20 years. And and th
I think pj orourke, political satirist. He is the author of the new book how the hell did this happen, the election 2016. We think the audience on the radio, television and internet. Copies of the book are for sale and pleased to sign them following make his way to the signing table as quickly as possible. In california, the place where you are in the know is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] we will look at nasa and space exploration. The ladies of the Harvard Observatory took measure of the stars. Natalia holt discusses her book rise of the rocket girls, the women who propelled us from missiles to the moon to mars was margot lees hidden figures, the American Dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. That is followed by how to make a spaceship, and an astronomy professor discusses his book our future in space. Starting at 8 00 pm eastern on cspan2. Los Angeles Times putting on its festival of books for more than 20 years. And and th
Ebook and 5 off lit fest merchandise. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2s booktv. T if theres time at the end for a q a session with the author, we ask you to use the microphone locateed to your right. Before we begin todays program, we ask that you silence your cell phones and turn off yourdi cameras flashes. Please welcome associate professor at the university of chicago and todays interviewer, jean daley. [applause] hi, thank you. I am here with david daley, no relationing, who is the no relation, who is the editorinchief of salon and has published this new book. Theres been some controversy on how to say the title, but i think im just going to say rat fd. So thats quite a story. You tell us a bit about how you came to write the story. Absolutely, thank you. What really interested me was my own confusion over what happened in 2012. You have a president who was reelected with 332 electoral votes by 206, wins the popular vote by some 3. 5 million, the democrats take 25 of
In debt. They started off incredibly well. They published grants memoirs, enormous success, and huckleberry finn. And twain expected to pay himself fat royalties. He wound up receiving no royalties. This is their final list of titles, and i dont know if you can see from there, but any publisher thats going to go out with stories from the rabbis [laughter] is probably going to be in a little trouble. [laughter] so headlines, and it was deeply humiliating, headlines in the newspaper said mark twain fails. I mean, it was brutal. Failure of mark twain, failure of humanist. And hes humorist. And hes this literary superstar, deeply embarrassed, and he gets two main advisers. One of the wealthiest men in america, the righthand man to john k. Rockefeller, standard oil. His nickname was hell hound, and this robberbaron wants to play hardball with the creditors. He wants to offer ten cents on the dollar. Twains other adviser is his wife, libby. She has absolutely no business experience. She writ