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We have several author panels and call ins for you today. Topics range from fdr to education, women in washington, Guantanamo Bay and many in college sports. For the full schedule of events go to our website, booktv. Org and follow us on twitter to get schedule updates as well at booktv is our twitter handle. We are going to kick off todays live coverage with a conversation about Franklin Delano roosevelt and the environment, this is historian Douglas Brinkley. Booktv live from tucson. Good morning. Welcome to the tucson festival of books, the worlds greatest book festival. [applause] my name ...

To booktv on. Org for the full schedule. The up next, a panel on Public Education, this is booktv live coverage. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the eighth annual dues on festival of books. I am david garcia, your moderator for this panel today. Thank you for joining us. Our discussion today of politics, education and inequality will last an hour and i promise you are going to get an opportunity to ask your questions of the authors at the end and also immediately following the session, natalia will sign her book about jonathan will not be signing immediately, i want everyone to know. He will be si...

Step out of your time and culture and your age and your race and your gender and imagine what life is like in some other era in some other culture. Theres a whole theory of criticism around that. Is that kind of rationale ever been used to select literature . Thats not racist, its just an active imagination. Has that argument ever been used to select literature and if not, why not . Has the argument ever been put forward to select books based on the imaginative distance from the here and now, speaking of fantasy literature is maybe the biggest embodiment of that. I think that question is relat...

Several years now. There are power struggles going on on many levels. Ukrainians have been waiting to go to the polls for four years, but only now are parliamentary elections taking place. The eu is watching with some suspicion, especially after the controversial jailing ofhe former prime minister. Her political archenemy still leads the country as president. And an increasing number of ukrainians are asking themselves who they can trust that all. One thing is clear it is not the political elite. It is quite an animated evening. An amateur ensembles stages a comedy about marriage, but it is le...

Victor blackual and christy paul. Good morning, so good to have you with us here. We want to start this morning with shocking news from that family that was freed. Joshuaboil and his wife caitlan and three children are all back in canada. You learn more about their terror. What did you learn . To be clear, sir, i spoke to him before his son actually made the statement. And in speaking to patrick boyle, he made it clear his son they were treated much worse in his book than the proof of life videos. And im quoting here, they said the children were forced to watch their mother being defiled. I ca...