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Author timothy eagan. This is live coverage of the tucson book festival. Good morning, welcome, im going to be moderating this conversation this morning with timothy eagan. I want to expand thanks to cspan tv and book tv for sponsoring and will last approximately one hour, including questions and answers till the end of the panel immediately following the session tim will be autographing books at the bookstore, thats 153 by the university bookstores. Because youre enjoying the festival and im sure you all are, please consider joining the festival of the tucson festival of books. So become a fr...

Please consider joining the friends of the tucsonoi festival of books. Your taxdeductibleyour taxdeductible contribution allows us to offer festival programming free of charge to the public and support critical literacy programs in the community. Out of respect for the author, please turn off your cell phones. This morning it is our pleasure to have with us timothy egan, pulitzer prizewinning New York Times columnist and author of seven books including the National Book awardwinning worst hard time. The National Bestseller the big burn. Tims current boat just released last week is entitled the...

For a transformed nation. The significance of what took place in mr. Mcleans parlor settled the issue of who would be the victors of the american civil war. But many questions remained unanswered. Soldiers echoed their thoughts in letters and diary entries. While letters of Union Soldiers reflected jubilation, their words also reflected concerns. Turn it down now. In the the front lines of appomattox chapel, j. L. Mulligan of the 140th pennsylvania wrote a few days later, though the army of Northern Virginia is ours, still grave questions remain to be settled for which god alone can give the t...

The montgomery bus boycott. Well reflect on the boycott and see what role lawyers played in that protest and the civil rights movement, as we hear from fred gray, attorney for rosa parks, and demonstrators. Then at 6 00, William Davis on the littleknown aspects of the lives and leadership of Union Generals grant and lee. Sunday afternoon at 4 00 on real america, a Progress Report on nasas projects including the manned Space Program and the mariner 4 flyby of mars. Writer and awardwinning documentary maker rick burns about how the public learns about history through film and television. America...

Remind your children in this by centennial year, when we are the first generation of the americans who have experienced attacks on the continental united states, we are the first generation of americans to have felt what it was like to have our government buildings attacked. Remind your children freedom is not free. And that our countrys greatness is found in one another. Thats what the starspangled banner is about. Thats what this commemoration year is about. To tell that story, and to lift every voice, and to sing. A threeday fourth of july weekend starts friday on American History tv, inclu...