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>> activist in the movement against mountaintop mining, tells stories of their fight on what they call the destruction of the land for the sake of the coal industry. carmichael's book store in kentucky hosted this event. it's about 40 minutes. >> i have to wear my sunglasses, i'm sorry, i'm not trying to be cool, i just can't see. i want to read 10 minutes from my new book, along with jason howard, my co-author, who will read of after me and we spent about two and a half years working on this book and it was the most emotionally devastating book i ever worked on. we traveled all over...

are attractive and what is attractive about those ideas? why do they answer to people servile aspirations and without understanding that you cannot understand or persuade people to the way of thinking politically that you find a greater good for the a greater number which would be the democratic tradition and/or the idea a strong central government could deliver the most prosperity to the most people with liberty and individual autonomy. . . i don't know i think david frost would have better manned that one. >> rick perlstein, author of "nixonland". >> activist in the movement agains...

and let them do the whole history so it was an excerpt size in capturing people's voices one of the things was being lost in mountaintop removal is the storytelling and the people's voices that is what is being ground down into the ground so we wanted to make a book that preserve those voices and would let the people tell their own stories. this section i will read from and by already being active and standing up from the people now her late and is under threats and is at risk. it is called little acts of great news. she moves up the steep mountains much like she must have as a littl...