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Welcome to this session of the texas book festival with h. W. Brandis. My name is steve hair again. I will be doing a q a with bill. 15 minutes after the session phil will be signing books in the book signing campus between the tenth and eleventh down the street. Please patronized the book signing tent in the bookstore, and pleas by the the book which wont be a problem. This is the book, the man who saved the union, Ulysses Grant and war and peace. If you by this book, proceeds will go to support texas libraries and literacy. It is a great book to read and to find a word because. H. W. Brands ...

[applause] well, one of the things thats fun for me about being here tonight, as gary mentioned, i am from san louis. Its always good to do these things in san louis. I have some wonderful people who shape my life in the front row. My second grade teacher. Please help me to welcome that. [applause] and i know that if this book can have the kind of affect on just one persons life that pat and my other teachers had on me, this will be a very successful book. Thank you very much for being matter tonight. I will begin the book reading cry from the very beginning where i asked jack people to imagin...

Michael gordon appeared on cspans washington journal about the end game since the occupation in iraq in 2003. Its about 40 minutes, and its next here on booktv. Host been over a year since the last troops left iraq, and look back on the more than 8 years of conflict there, joined by New York Times National Security correspondent, Michael Gordon, author of the end game inside struggle of iraq from george w. Bush tobackback. Start with the title of the book. What was the end game of last year . Guest part of what i wanted to do with the coauthor is capture what happened since the surge. There wa...

Incompetence release them early without any kind of records. There was a big for of a better word freak out in the american media. These guys are deftly coming here and coming to the United States. Theyre going to wreak havoc and as a result Border Patrol and these people were eventually apprehended or they faded away and Nothing Happened but the point is because American Immigration enforcement because our immigration laws are so focused on keeping people out for economic reasons or for any other types of reasons a small amount of what they are pulled to do focus on legitimate threats. Instea...

I would hope that the Lgbt Community would recognize me to continuing that progress is the key to the progress weve made so far which is engagement and political engagement. And what also recognize that both the Supreme Court and elsewhere around the country we have systematically than limiting what was a limited democracy to begin with and making true selfgovernment harder and harder and would recognize if our political progress and progress on race and gender and a series of other things are intimately tied up in making this really into a self functioning democracy again i recognize that com...