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FESTIVAL IN 1995 WHEN OF THE LARGEST LITERARY EVENTS. THE LIVE COVERAGE STARTS IN A FEW MINUTES WITH THE FIRST TITLE PLAN CALLED BACK TO LIFE. ITLED...
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| 00:02:28 |
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I'M CLAY SMITH. I'M THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR OF THE FESTIVAL.
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AND I JUST WANTED TO WELCOME YOU TO THE FESTIVAL. THE BOARD HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR THIS MOMENT FOR A YEAR. SO WE'RE HAPPY YOU'RE HERE. I JUST WANTED TO...
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| 00:04:34 |
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MYSTERIES. THE AUTHORS ARE MOLLY CALDWELL AND REBECCA SALUTE. I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT FOLLOWING THIS SESSION THEY WILL SIGN THEIR BOOKS BETWEEN TENTH,...
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| 00:07:30 |
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REACTION. I'M CONSTANTLY BEING ASKED TO MY FAVORITE SCIENCE WRITERS ARE AND I HAVE A FEW ANSWERS I GIVE. NARRATIVE SCIENCE WRITING IS PRETTY RARE. I...
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| 00:10:15 |
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LITTLE INTEREST IN SCIENCE AT SCHOOL. I WAS NOT DRAWN TO IT BECAUSE IT IS SO IMPERSONAL. MY FIRST REAL INTEREST WAS IN COLLEGE. I WENT TO A LIBERAL ARTS...
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| 00:12:16 |
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LITTLE BIT. WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE GOALS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF MEDICAL RIDING COMPARED TO SCIENCE WRITING OR IN GENERAL? >> RESPONSIBILITY IS GETTING...
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| 00:12:36 |
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EXPERTS WHETHER IT BE MICROBIOLOGY OR EPIDEMIOLOGY READ PARTS OF THE BOOK OR THE OLD LOOK AND MAKE SURE I AM TRANSLATING IT CORRECTLY. I TRY TO TAKE...
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| 00:13:04 |
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TINY MISTAKE AND STATE SOMETHING AS DEFINITIVE INSTEAD OF POSSIBLY DEFINITIVE. THERE ARE A LOT OF SUBTLETIES. FOR ME, I THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT MY RESPONSIBILITY...
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| 00:16:24 |
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DEAL WITH, HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION. YOU LOOK AT THAT AND THINK HOW CAN YOU EXPERIMENT ON HUMANS WITH OR WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT? AS A WRITER MY RESPONSIBILITY...
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| 00:17:06 |
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WERE DOING WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND HERE'S HOW IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM TODAY. WHEN PEOPLE PICK UP A BOOK AND START READING ABOUT SOME RESEARCH THAT WAS...
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| 00:17:38 |
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IS THE EFFECT ON OUR FAMILIES. BOTH OF YOU WRITE ABOUT THOSE AFFECTING YOUR BOOKS AND NOT WONDER IF YOU CAN TALK ABOUT IT? COLLATERAL DAMAGE TO FAMILIES....
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| 00:17:59 |
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THE FORGOTTEN EPIDEMIC. I COULD NOT FIND ONE BOOK ON THE SUBJECT WHEN I BEGAN RESEARCHING IT. MY GRANDMOTHER HAD BEEN A SURVIVOR. SHE WAS LIVING IN...
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| 00:19:23 |
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AFFECT EVERYONE'S LIVE. THAT IS SOMETHING YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT. IT IS PERSONAL FOR THE SCIENTISTS. AND THIS IS HOW IT IS PERSONAL FOR YOU. IT IS INTERESTING,...
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| 00:23:48 |
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TOPICS. NOBODY KNOWS WHY AND RIHANNA CELLS GROW THE WAY THEY DO AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT CAUSED ENCEPHALITIS OF THE DELMACK ENCEPHALITIS TO THIS DAY,...
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| 00:24:19 |
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REMAINS A MYSTERY. ONE OF THE PHYSICIANS I INTERVIEWED IN WRITING THIS WAS A PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGIST. HE HAS SEEN 25 CASES AMONG KIDS. IT IS A HORRIBLE...
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| 00:25:58 |
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FOREVER. THE FAMILY IS STILL ALIVE AND DOING THINGS. AT SOME POINT YOU HAVE TO SAY THE STORY IS OVER AND WE WILL SEE ABOUT A FOLLOW-UP. THERE ARE SO...
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| 00:28:49 |
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A STORY. IT IS REALITY. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF YOUR BOOKS A LITTLE BIT. ONE OF THE THINGS YOU BOTH HAVE TALKED ABOUT THAT YOU COVERED...
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| 00:29:24 |
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TOGETHER. YOU JUMP AROUND IN TIME AND BETWEEN THESE STORIES AND SOME WERE TOWARD THE END THEY ALL COME TOGETHER IN ONE STORY. IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO...
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| 00:32:51 |
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MAKE IT INTERESTING AND READABLE. SO STRUCTURE WILL MAKE OR BREAK A STORY LIKE THAT. WHEN I WAS WRITING MY FIRST BOOK THE AMERICAN PLAY ABOUT YELLOW...
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| 00:34:34 |
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I GOT TO THE POINT THAT IT WAS TIME TO MATCHING THE BEEN RIDING OF, I HAD THIS MOUND OF MATERIAL AND EVENTUALLY HAD TO STOP THE PROCESS AND GO BACK AND...
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| 00:35:21 |
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ASK. YOUR CASE STUDIES ARE SO FASCINATING BUT MAYBE THINGS IS NOT THE ONE THAT MOST PEOPLE GOT BUT JUMPED AT ME, THE STORY OF BRUCE. I WILL READ A...
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| 00:36:39 |
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ARE REALIZING THIS IS SPREADING AROUND THE WORLD RAPIDLY. UP UNTIL THAT POINT THEY DID NOT REALIZE THESE SLEEPING PATIENTS WERE TRAPPED IN THEIR BODIES...
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| 00:38:19 |
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PAINFUL. YOU LIVE IT WHEN YOU ARE RECREATING IT ON THE PAGE. THIS IS TRUE FOR FICTION WRITERS TOO BUT THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED....
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| 00:39:23 |
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AND IMAGINE. WHEN WE BROUGHT UP THE RESPONSIBILITY OF WRITING THAT IS A HUGE RESPONSIBILITY. WRITING ABOUT REAL PEOPLE. YOU WANT TO REPRESENT THEM,...
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| 00:39:48 |
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MANUSCRIPTS TO ANY SCIENTIST STILL ALIVE BEFORE IT WENT TO PRESS. THAT WAS A VERY LONG WEEK. THE SCENE FROM YOUR BOOK I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT TAKES...
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| 00:41:01 |
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OTHER THINGS HAPPENED THAT WERE TRAUMATIZING AND SHE WAS SPIRALING INTO A DANGEROUS PLACE. I WAS TALKING TO HER COUSIN WHO IS A PASTOR AND HE WAS HOLDING...
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| 00:44:09 |
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IN THE 1920s WROTE THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON EVOLUTION, ONE OF THE GREATEST -- SINCE DARWIN. HE CALLED THE BRAIN THE MECHANISM OF SALVATION. TO ME IT...
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| 00:44:41 |
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WHAT IS YOUR WRITING STYLE? >> I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DRAWN TO CREATIVE WRITING. [TALKING OVER EACH
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| 00:44:52 |
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OTHER] >> DEFINITELY ON THE LAPTOP. I FIND INTERNET TO BE A HUGE SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND RESEARCH THAT MAKES MY JOB
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| 00:44:59 |
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EMBODIES YEAR. I HAVE TWO SMALL KIDS. I DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO RESEARCH FOR WEEKS AT A TIME. THAT HAS BEEN A GREAT THING FOR ME. PEOPLE ASK HOW...
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| 00:45:48 |
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YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR STORY. MY WRITING PROCESS HAS A LOT OF WRITERS, I STRUGGLED FOR A LONG TIME WITH FIGURING OUT WENT TO RIGHT. I FIND THE INTERNET...
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| 00:48:23 |
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WOULDN'T MIND COMING. THANK YOU. >> IT MIGHT NOT BE ON. IS THAT ON? IN THE BACK. THERE YOU
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| 00:48:47 |
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GO. WE WILL REPEAT YOUR QUESTION. [INAUDIBLE] >> CAN I STOP YOU? WE ARE GOING TO RUN ALL OF TIME. HIS QUESTION
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| 00:49:45 |
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WAS THE BOOK WAS FRAMED AS IT WAS A MORTAL SIN THAT SCIENTISTS DIDN'T GET CONSENT AND THE FAMILY DIDN'T GET MONEY AND ACTUALLY IT IS NOT. MY -- CONSENT...
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| 00:50:19 |
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PROBLEM GETTING CONSENT, THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING GOES UP A LITTLE BIT AND IT TURNS INTO THE STORY TURNS INTO A QUESTION OF MONETIZING EVERYTHING. ...
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| 00:50:44 |
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CELLS. WHERE IS OUR CUT? THESE CELLS LED TO SO MUCH IMPORTANT MEDICINE, WHY CAN'T WE GO TO THE DOCTOR? THE QUESTION OF WHAT YOU MONETIZE AND WHO SHOULD...
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| 00:52:43 |
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AND THE ANSWER IS YES. IT IS BEING MADE INTO AN
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| 00:52:47 |
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HBO MONEY BEING PRODUCED BY OPRAH. WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THAT RIGHT NOW. >> I AGREE . . ALIVE. IT IS A GREAT WAY TO DO IT BUT I
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| 00:53:03 |
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OFTEN WONDERED HOW YOU DEAL WITH THE ACCURACY OF THE DIALOGUE? YOU WEREN'T THERE, THERE WERE NO REPORTERS RUNNING. HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH IT? >> THOSE...
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| 00:53:22 |
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LINE? I AM A PURIST ABOUT IT. IF IT IS IN QUOTES IT CAME DIRECTLY FROM THEM, USUALLY IN THAT SAME DIALECT. I DON'T EVER PARAPHRASE FOR THEM. I TAKE...
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| 00:53:47 |
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MATERIAL AND ASSUME YOU WERE NOT THERE, YOU HAD TO HAVE MADE SOME OF THE UP. YOU CAN RECONSTRUCT IT ACCURATELY. THIS IS WHY IT TOOK TEN YEARS TO WRITE...
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| 00:55:51 |
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WHAT INSIGHTS OR ADVICE YOU HAVE FOR THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IN SCIENCE AND YOU NEED CHANGES IN HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLEGE TEACHING? >> COUPLE PEOPLE WHO...
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| 00:56:08 |
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LIKE THIS IN THEIR SCIENCE CLASSES BECAUSE ESPECIALLY FOR KIDS, HIGH-SCHOOL OR COLLEGE AGE, THE HUMAN STORIES, THE CONNECTIONS ARE WHAT THEY TAKE AWAY...
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| 00:56:48 |
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REQUIRED TO READ THE BOOK. IN MEDICAL SCHOOLS KIDS ARE REQUIRED TO READ THE BOOK. I SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING AT UNIVERSITIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS. THAT...
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| 00:58:20 |
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STORY OF YELLOW FEVER AND DOCTORS GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE COURSE OF MEDICINE AND WANT TO COME TO THE PLACE WHERE THAT HAPPENED. ONE OF THE MOST REWARDING...
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| 00:58:44 |
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ONE MINUTES A WHAT IS NEXT FOR YOU. >> I SIGNED ON FOR MY THIRD BOOK. IT WILL HAVE AN ELEMENT OF SCIENCE WRITING WITH
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| 00:58:54 |
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SCOTLAND YARD, FORENSIC WORK AND SCOTLAND YARD DETECTIVE TRACKING DOWN A GROUP OF THING THAT TOOK PLACE IN EDWARDIAN LONDON. A LOT OF EARLY DETECTION...
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| 00:59:21 |
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WILL BE WORKING ON THAT AND SO IS THE FAMILY. WE WILL BE PART OF THAT. I HAVE OTHER IDEAS I WILL BEGIN TO WORK ON BUT I AM STILL FOCUSING ON THIS TALKING...
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| 00:59:45 |
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SCIENCE, A WONDERFUL MORNING AND WONDERFUL WAY TO KICK OFF THE TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL. I HOPE YOU WILL JOIN US IN 15 MINUTES IN THE BOOK SIGNING TEND. ...
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| 01:00:21 |
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MYSTERIES. COMING UP IN A FEW MINUTES PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR EUGENEST ROBINSON WITH HIS NEW BOOK DISINTEGRATION THEEUGENE ROB SPLINTERING OF BLACKIN...
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| 01:00:51 |
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HELLO EVERYBODY. I AM THE HOST FOR THE GRACIOUS
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| 01:00:59 |
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HOSPITALITY. I AM HONORED TO BE HERE ALONGSIDE DR. LEVINE.E MY NAME IS THERESA KHALILI. OF COURSE THAT IS NOT MY REAL NAME. I HOPE I AM NOT SCARING...
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| 01:07:02 |
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WATCH ONLINE ON BookTV.ORG, AND FOLLOW US ON TWITTER. >> THIS IS BookTV'S LIVE COVERAGE OF THE 2010 TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL IN AUSTIN. IN A
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| 01:07:15 |
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FEW MINUTES EUGENE ROBINSON WILL DISCUSS HIS NEW BOOK "DISINTEGRATION, THE SPLINTERING OF BLACK AMERICA." >> EVERY WEEKEND, BookTV BRINGS YOU 48 HOURS...
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| 01:07:39 |
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A PROGRAM. >> THE REASON I FELT IT FORTUNATE DO A BOOK IS SAY, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT IS -- AN THE
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| 01:07:47 |
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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, IS BECAUSE I THINK IT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE, NOT TO CREATE TOO MANY ILLUSIONS ABOUT WHAT IS AROUND BECAUSE...
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| 01:14:28 |
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US ON TWITTER. >> YOU'RE WATCHING BookTV Z LIVE COMP OF THE 2010 BOOK FESTIVAL?
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| 01:14:45 |
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USAUSTIN. UGENERAL ROBINSON WILL BE DISCUSSING HIS BOOK, "DISINTEGRATION: THE SPLINTERING OF BLACK AMERICA." [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] S [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS]...
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| 01:15:57 |
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THIS PICTURE PERFECT DAY, I WANT TO SAY, AIN'T IT GREAT TO BE IN AUSTIN, TEXAS. [APPLAUSE] >> I'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO THE TEXAS BOOK FAIR. I'M ALBERTA...
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| 01:16:13 |
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COLUMNIST FOR THE AUSTIN AMERICAN -- THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> I WILL BE YOUR MODERATOR TODAY. YOU MIGHT SAY THAT THIS IS LIKE A FIRST DATE FOR ME BECAUSE...
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| 01:16:25 |
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I HAVE MODERATE FOR THE TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL AND, BOY, DID I LUCK OUT ON MY FIRST DAY. [APPLAUSE] >> I GET TO INTRODUCE A GREAT JOURNALIST, A GREAT WRITER,...
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| 01:16:45 |
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ME IF I'M GUSHING AND GIDDY. BEFORE I GOT TO THE INTRO, I HAVE ALREADY TAKEN CARE OF THE HOUSEKEEPING DUTIES. YOU KNOW WHERE TO GO AFTER THE CONVERSATION...
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| 01:17:22 |
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TO BE NAMED CO-ED DID FOR IN CHIEF OF THE MICHIGAN DAILY. HE BEGAN HIS JOURNALISM CAREER AT THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND JOINED THE WASHINGTON POST...
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| 01:18:13 |
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT, SHOWCASING GRACEFUL WRITING AND GRASP OF THE LARGER HISTORIC PICTURE. ROBINSON LIVES IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, WITH HIS WIFE...
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| 01:18:48 |
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IS, AH, SHUCKS. >> I READ THIS BOOK AND THERE WERE A LOT OF SURPRISES IN THIS BOOK FOR ME. WE DECIDED TO TALK ABOUT THIS LIKE A DISCUSSION
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| 01:18:58 |
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AND LET HIM DO MOST OF THE TALKING, AND ONE OF THE THINGS I WON -- WONDERED ABOUT THE TITLE. PIE DISINTEGRATION. "DON'T ASK, DON'T" TELL US HOW YOU CAME...
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| 01:19:23 |
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HER FULL PROPS ON THAT. I LIKE THE TITLE, AND MY EDITOR AND PUBLISHER LIKED IT, EVERYBODY LIKED IT BECAUSE DOES HAVE THAT AMBIGUITY ABOUT IT. INTEGRATION,...
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| 01:20:14 |
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WHAT REALLY BLEW MY MIND. TOTALLY BLEW ME AWAY. YOU TALK ABOUT -- YOU INTRODUCE THE CONCEPT THAT BLACK AMERICA IS NO LONGER ONE BLACK AMERICA NO LONGER...
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| 01:20:55 |
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GROUPS. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THERE WERE GREED-UPON BLACK LEADERS, AND WHEN THERE WAS A CLEAR BLACK AGENDA, WHEN WE COULD TALK CONFIDENTLY ABOUT THE...
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| 01:36:22 |
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PERHAPS POWER AND HIM BEING IN THAT TRANSSEND DENT GROUP. IT BROUGHT IT TOGETHER FOR HIM AND BROUGHT IT TOGETHER FOR PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, AND HOW...
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| 01:37:03 |
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ONE BEHAVED WELL. EVERYBODY BEHAVED BADLY. AND SO HERE YOU HAVE THE SITUATION WHERE, WHAT WE THINK OF AS THE TRADITIONAL POWER RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN...
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| 01:41:05 |
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FELT CERTAIN WHITES VIEWED WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID NOT AS A STATEMENT JUST COMING ABOUT, WELL, THIS IS STUPID, BUT ALMOST AS A RACIAL IDENTITY -- >>...
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| 01:41:39 |
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HAD TO BE PERCEIVED AS -- I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TRUE THAT WAS AT THE TIME. I'VE SEEN SURVEYS -- I WISH I KNEW CHAPTER AND VERSE ON THIS BUT I SAW A SURVEY...
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| 01:43:42 |
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CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. BUT TALKING
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| 01:43:47 |
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ABOUT THIS WHOLE DISINTEGRATION AND SPLINTERING OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY, YOU ALSO HIT ON THE TOPIC OF THE GREAT MIGRATION, AND I DID NOT REALIZE THAT...
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| 01:44:32 |
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BLACK SIDES OF TOWN. THERE WAS JIM CROW SEGREGATION, WHICH HAD THE FORCE OF LAW. SO, THERE WERE LAWS THAT SEGREGATED PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. IN MY...
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| 01:47:30 |
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LEFT IN THE SESSION. ONE QUICK -- ONE MORE QUICK QUESTION. EUGENE. WHAT ARE THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS SPLINTERING OF BLACK AMERICA? >> YOU KNOW, I THINK...
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| 01:47:48 |
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ALL. WHAT FRUSTRATED ME AT THE OUTSET WAS THAT -- TO THE EXTENT WE TALK ABOUT BLACK AMERICA, WE TALK ABOUT IT, I THOUGHT, AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 50 YEARS...
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| 01:51:05 |
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THANK YOU. >> AND -- WE HAVE ABOUT TEN MINUTES SO PLEASE BE BRIEF. >> DO YOU THINK THE -- DO YOU THINK
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| 01:51:17 |
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THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL MAKE IT EASIER OR MORE
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| 01:51:22 |
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DIFFICULT FOR THE NEXT BLACK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. >> WILL THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA MAKE IT EASIER OR MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE NEXT BLACK
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| 01:51:32 |
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE? WELL, YOU KNOW, ON THE WHOLE I WOULD SAY EASIER. BECAUSE BEFORE BARACK OBAMA WE DIDN'T KNOW THERE WOULD -- THAT WE'D BE TALKING...
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| 01:52:37 |
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WAS THE N-WORD, BUT IF YOU'RE A LITTLE MORE POLITE YOU USED THE WORLD COLORED, AND IF YOUR WERE LIBERAL YOU SAID NEGRO, AND BY THE TIME I WAS TEENAGER,...
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| 01:53:19 |
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I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT GOES, TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH. MAYBE THIS WILL STICK AROUND FOR A WHILE. SOME PEOPLE -- I'VE HEARD AS I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE...
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| 01:53:45 |
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AND WATCH YOU ON TV AND READ YOUR COLUMNS. >> THANK YOU. >> ONE OF THE THING IS NOTICE ABOUT YOU IS
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| 01:53:51 |
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KIND OF YOUR BEMUSED TAKE ON MOST THINGS, BE THEY RACIAL OR
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| 01:53:55 |
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POLITICAL OR WHATEVER, AND I JUST WONDER WHERE THAT COMES FROM? HOW DO YOUR KEEP -- [LAUGHTER] >> IT'S NOT FROM MEDICATION. [LAUGHTER] >> I CAN ANSWER...
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| 01:54:21 |
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I'VE COME CLOSE. COMES FROM MY GRANDMOTHER, WHO WAS FULL OF SAYINGS. SHE DIED AT 98, AND SHE JUST WAS A FOUNTAIN OF SAYINGS, AND SHE USED TO SAY, WELL,...
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| 01:55:10 |
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POISED IN 2010 TO HAVE A STRATEGIC IMPACT AND QUOTES THE CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES. TO MAKE THE POINT THAT THEY CAN DO THIS BECAUSE...
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| 01:55:53 |
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AND CONFIDENTLY ABOUT BLACK VOTERS IN TERMS OF WHO THEY WILL VOTE FOR, ESPECIALLY RIGHT NOW. FOR SOME TIME, BLACK VOTERS HAVE BEEN OVERWHELMINGLY IN...
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| 01:57:58 |
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LET'S MAKE IT BRIEF. >> IN THE COURSE OF CREATING BLACKNESS WERE YOU TOLD THAT WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY COME TO A
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| 01:58:07 |
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CONCRETE GENERAL CONSENSUS WHAT CONSTITUTES BLACKNESS? >> WE HAVEN'T AND THAT'S AN OPEN, SHIFTING DEFINITION, AND USED TO BE IF YOU HAD ONE DROP OF
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| 01:58:22 |
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AFRICAN BLOOD, YOU WERE BLACK, AND THEN I WONDER IF THAT'S STILL THE CASE TO THE EXTENT THAT IT USED TO BE. MOST PEOPLE ARE BIRACIAL. BLACK AND WHITES...
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| 01:59:05 |
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THE TALENTED -- 10% OF THE BLACK POPULATION WERE OUR
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| 01:59:12 |
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ARISTOCRACY OR OUR ELITE AND THAT WAS ALMOST 100 YEARS AGO, 50 YEARS AGO, MALCOM X TALK ABOUT THE FIELD NEGRO AND -- HE USED DIFFERENT WORDS. >> UH-HUH....
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| 01:59:30 |
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ARE FRAGMENTED, POLITICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY, IS A NO-BRAINER, AND TO TRY TO FIND EVIDENCE OF THAT, BILL COSBY GOT IN TROUBLE FOR HIS, I GUESS, CRITIQUE...
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| 02:00:04 |
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WITH BILL COSBY'S CRITIQUE IS IT DIDN'T DO A LOT OF GOOD TO YELL AT PEOPLE, JUST YELLING YOU MUST DO BETTER. FINE. WHERE ARE THE TOOLS? WHERE IS THE...
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| 02:00:25 |
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WHITE AND OLDER THAN THE AVERAGE DEMOGRAPHIC, AND DOES THAT MEAN THAT -- WELL, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN IN REGARDS TO BLACK AMERICANS READING AND YOUNG...
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| 02:00:49 |
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HABITS, THOUGH. AFRICAN-AMERICANS, PARTICULARLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN, ARE AVID READERS AND BOOK-BUYERS, AND THEY ARE A HUGELY SOUGHT-AFTER DEMOGRAPHIC...
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| 02:01:36 |
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BOOK. BUT WE WON'T GET TO THAT TODAY. WITH THAT, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE, THIS WAS A SPEED DATE, SO NEXT TIME WE HAVE TO HAVE HIM BACK,...
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| 02:01:55 |
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| 02:01:58 |
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YOU. [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] ... [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] >> THAT WAS PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING OTHER EUGENE ROBINSON DISCUSSING HIS NEW
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| 02:03:26 |
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BOOK "DISINTEGRATION: THE SPLINTERING OF BLACK AMERICA". BookTV IS BRINGING YOU LIVE COVERAGE OF THE 2010 TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL. UP NEXT, CORNELIUS VANDERBILT,...
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| 02:04:08 |
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I HAVE A BIT OF AN UPHILL BATTLE PERHAPS NOT WITH YOU FOLKS IN THIS ROOM, BUT I WILL TAKE UNPOPULAR POSITIONS. ARGUING RATHER VIGOROUSLY. I HOPE...
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| 02:05:24 |
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BookTV.ORG AND FOLLOWERS ON TWITTER. >> RICHARD RHODES, WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE IN HIS BOOK THE TWILIGHT OF THE BOMB, RECENT DANGERS,
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| 02:05:37 |
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MADE NEW DANGERS AND THE PROSPECT OF A WORLD WITHOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS. IS THERE PROSPECT FOR NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON THE PLANET? >> I THINK SO. THE COST...
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| 02:05:55 |
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THAT WE MOVE TOWARDS ZERO. IT IS A MATTER OF WORKING OUT THE SECURITY RELATIONSHIPS TATARSTAN IN THE WAY. >> WITH REGARD TO WORKING OUT THOSE RELATIONSHIPS...
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| 02:06:10 |
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BE ON THE PATH TO MAKING THEIR OWN NUCLEAR WEAPONS? >> THEY DO PARTLY BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY TO WHERE THEY FEEL THEY CAN DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST MAJOR...
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| 02:06:20 |
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UNITED STATES BUT EACH OF THEM HAS SECURITY NEEDS. IF WE CAN FIND A WAY TO SATISFY THEM, NORTH KOREA WOULD LIKE TO BE AN ALLY OF THE UNITED STATES. ...
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| 02:06:51 |
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DIDN'T HAVE ANY BOMBS OR WE HAVEN'T FOUND ANY BOMBS SO FAR? >> WE WENT INTO THE FIRST GULF WAR ARGUING THAT A BOMB PROGRAM WHICH WE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT...
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| 02:07:03 |
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THE TIME BUT AFTERWARDS WHEN INSPECTORS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC AGENCY WENT IN THEY FOUND A HUGE EFFORT TO ENRICH URANIUM TO MAKE MATERIALS FOR...
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| 02:07:48 |
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THAT. >> WASN'T SO MUCH THE ARSENAL. PLUS ALAMOSA'S DIRECTORS SAID TO ME THEY HAVE SERIAL NUMBERS JUST AS OUR BOMBS
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| 02:07:56 |
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TO AND THEY KNOW WHERE THOSE BOMBS ARE. IT WAS THE MATERIAL USED TO MAKE THE BOMBS THAT WAS SCATTERED ALL OVER RUSSIA BECAUSE THERE WAS NO WAY TO GET...
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| 02:08:40 |
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WAS FOREMOST ON THE MINDS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE ASKING YOU QUESTIONS? >> REALLY WENT THROUGH MY NEW BOOK THE TWILIGHT OF THE BOMB AND TALKED ABOUT THE...
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| 02:08:53 |
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OF THE AMAZING COPS AND ROBBERS STORIES THAT CAME OUT OF THE FIRST GULF WAR. ULTIMATELY WHAT ARE TALKED-ABOUT WAS THE VERY SERIOUS QUESTION, CAN WE...
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| 02:09:49 |
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WEAPONS. ITS AUTHOR, RICHARD ROADS. >> THIS IS LIVE COVERAGE OF THE 2010 FESTIVAL FROM AUSTIN. NEXT A PANEL ENTITLED THE
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| 02:10:15 |
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AGE OF TYPING. THIS FOCUSES ON CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, J. P. MORGAN, ANDREW CARNEGIE, JOHN THE ROCKEFELLER AND JOSEPH PULITZER. THIS SET SHORTLY. WE...
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| 02:10:45 |
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LOOK AT ONE OF OUR PROGRAMS. >> ONE OF THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT OBAMA WAS HIS TEAM WAS TOO MASCULINE FOR
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| 02:10:56 |
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COMFORT. LIKE CLINTON OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN WAS DESIGNED BY MEN BUT IT WAS LARGELY STAFFED BY MEN. WITH THE CRUCIAL EXCEPTION OF ANITA DUNN, HIS STRATEGISTS...
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FOLLOW AS ON A TWITTER. >> LIVE COVERAGE OF THE 2010 TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL WILL CONTINUE WITH A PANEL CALLED THE AGE OF THE
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TITANS. THE DISCUSSION FOCUSING ON CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, J. P. MORGAN, JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER AND JOSEPH PULITZER. >> GOOD AFTERNOON. WELCOME TO THE...
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| 02:17:23 |
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BOOK FESTIVAL. IT IS. GOOD AFTERNOON AND WELCOME TO THE TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL CELEBRATING ITS FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR. COMMISSION IS TO BENEFIT...
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| 02:21:38 |
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AND REDEMPTION IN THE AGE OF YELLOW JOURNALISM WAS AWARDED A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF 2004. FIVE YEARS OF RESEARCH OF A LIFE IN POLITICS, PRINT...
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| 02:22:51 |
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MASTODONS THAT HAVE ALTERED OUR LIVES AND CONTINUES TO ALTER OUR LIVES TODAY. MOST OF YOU I ASSUME ARRIVED HERE IN AN OIL POWERED CAR. WE NEED TO THINK...
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| 02:24:44 |
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AND LECTURING ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY FOR 25 YEARS NOW AND OVER THE COURSE OF THAT TIME I CONCLUDED THERE ARE TWO PRINCIPAL INSTITUTIONS BUT ACCOMPANYING...
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| 02:28:05 |
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SEE BIOGRAPHY AS A MEETING GROUND FOR LITERATURE AND AND SCHOLARSHIP. THE WAY I DESCRIBE WHAT I DO IS I TRY TO TELL GOOD STORIES AND ASKED BIG QUESTIONS....
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| 02:32:30 |
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THE ROLE OF THE CORPORATION IN THAT RELATIONSHIP. STARTING WITH YOU, WHAT IS THE MODERN CORPORATION AND WHO OR WHAT CREATED IT? >> THERE HAD BEEN CORPORATIONS...
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| 02:32:48 |
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A TIME BY STATE LEGISLATURES. GENERAL CORP. IF YOU MEET THESE CRITERIA YOU CAN INCORPORATE A COMPANY DIDN'T COME UNTIL THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. AFTER...
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| 02:34:48 |
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TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FROM STUDYING THEIR ORIGINS IN THE NINETEENTH? >> WHAT WE LEARN ABOUT CORPORATIONS TODAY FROM STUDYING CORPORATIONS BACK
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| 02:34:57 |
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THEN? ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS TO ME IS HOW WHATEVER RULES THE POLITICAL SYSTEM ESTABLISHES, THE PEOPLE INTERESTED IN MAKING MONEY QUITE UNDERSTANDABLY...
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| 02:36:48 |
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IN CONCEPTIONS FROM THE MODERN DAY. CORP. IS A STANDARD FORM OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATION. THAT IS THE WAY WE THINK OF IT BUT IT GOT ITS ORIGINS IN THE NINETEENTH...
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| 02:40:13 |
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MONEY RAILING AGAINST CORPORATE ABUSES, PARTICULARLY TRUSTS AND MONOPOLIES. WHEN THEY FOUND FAVOR NOT MAKING MONEY I DISCOVERED IN THEIR FILES MEMOS WHERE...
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| 02:40:58 |
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WHO ARE MAKING THE RULES. IT TENDS TO ATTRACT BETTER TALENT. >> FERRY TRUE. >> MOVING ON A LITTLE BIT, HOW WOULD YOU CHARACTERIZE THE PRESS BEFORE...
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| 02:41:22 |
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ONE OTHER THING. PULITZER IS NOT ALONE IN THIS. I DESCRIBE HIM AND THE MIDWIFE
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OF THE MODERN MASS MEDIA. HE IS SORT OF LIKE THERE ARE PAINTERS -- THE LEADING ONE IS PICASSO. IN THAT SENSE PULITZER IS THE LEADING CHANGER OF JOURNALISM...
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| 02:44:42 |
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WHAT IS A BIOGRAPHY ESSENTIALLY BEGINS NOT WITH A PORTRAIT IN YOUR BOOK BUT WITH A MASK. WHAT I AM WONDERING IS WHAT DOES CORNELIUS VANDERBILT'S LIFE...
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| 02:45:05 |
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TRANSPORTATION. WAS BECAUSE TRANSPORTATION WAS THE GREAT CHALLENGE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY UNITED STATES. THE UNITED STATES WAS A VAST LANDSCAPE....
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| 02:50:16 |
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HISTORY AND IT IS RAILROADS THAT FORCE THE MODERN NOTIONS OF MANAGEMENT. CORPORATION OR BUSINESSES BEFORE THE RAILROADS CAME ALONG, EVEN LARGE BUSINESSES...
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| 02:53:33 |
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YOU HAVE PEOPLE MAKING UNDER OF AMOUNTS OF MONEY AND RISING LIVING STANDARDS. CAPITALISM WAS DELIVERING THE GOODS IN AN INCREASINGLY CHEAPER MANNER....
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| 02:55:14 |
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A SUDDEN THEY HAD TO COMPETE WITH SHIPPING AND RAILROADS WITH ALL THE GRAIN OF THE WEST. THOSE NEW ENGLANDERS GOT UP AND LEFT. GLOBALIZATION IS SOMETHING...
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| 02:55:46 |
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IN MY BOOK, I REALLY SET OUT TO OF
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| 02:55:49 |
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LLOYD TEACHING YOU A LESSON ABOUT TODAY'S ECONOMY OR VALUES. I AM VERY INTERESTED IN CURRENT EVENTS AND THAT FORMED MY INTEREST BUT I REALLY TRY TO...
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| 02:59:05 |
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QUESTION? >> I AGREE WITH YOU. I NEVER LOVED JOSEPH PULITZER. BUT AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT TO WRITING A BIOGRAPHY
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| 02:59:14 |
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PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU LIVE WITH SOMEBODY, MY WIFE DESCRIBES LIVING WITH ME AS ALWAYS THIS OTHER PERSON. MY NEXT SUBJECT INVOLVED A FEMALE SO IT MAY...
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| 03:00:49 |
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UP TO THE MICROPHONE HERE. >> WHEN I THINK OF ROBBER BARONS I THINK OF NEW YORK CITY. WHY NEW YORK? WHY NOT PHILADELPHIA?
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| 03:01:02 |
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WHY NOT BOSTON? WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN IN NEW YORK CITY? >> WHO ARE YOU ASKING? >> ALL OF YOU. >> I WILL START. NEW YORK CITY WAS ACTUALLY THE SECOND LARGEST...
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| 03:01:19 |
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COUNTRY UNTIL 1800. PHILADELPHIA STARTED AS A LARGEST CITY IN THE COUNTRY. NEW YORK HAD A NUMBER OF ADVANTAGES THAT WERE STRUCTURAL AND SOME OF WHICH...
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| 03:03:34 |
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CITY. AND SO ESPECIALLY ONCE CORPORATION, LARGE CORPORATIONS CAME TO BE DEVELOPED AND AFTER THEIR SHARES WERE BOUGHT AND SOLD THE LOCUSTS, THE EPICENTER...
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| 03:04:18 |
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QUESTION. [INAUDIBLE QUESTION] >> TO YOU SEE A WAY TO RECONCILE THE TWO SO THAT WE COULD BE FULLY REPUBLICAN AND FULLY CAPITAL IS THAT THE SAME TIME?...
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| 03:04:35 |
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THAT DESIRABLE, AND HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN TO MACK. >> I WILL ANSWER THE QUESTION IN TWO PARTS. THIS TREE THAT THE UNITED STATES HAS NEVER BEEN A DIRECT...
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| 03:04:46 |
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THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SHOULD EXERCISE POWER BECAME WELL ESTABLISHED BY THE END OF THE FIRST THIRD OF THE 19th CENTURY. AND IT IS TRUE THAT AT A FEDERAL...
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| 03:07:13 |
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SOCIALISM AND REDISTRIBUTION OF INCOME. I AM CURIOUS FROM A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE IF YOU BELIEVE THAT WE ARE AT A CROSSROADS IS STARKLY THAT IS A...
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| 03:07:46 |
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PUT FORTH THE PRINCIPLE THAT INDIVIDUALS HAVE A RIGHT, RIGHT TO USE AS MUCH OF THEIR INCOME AS THEY REQUIRE FOR THEIR MAINTENANCE AT A MODEST LEVEL...
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| 03:09:38 |
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THE 19th CENTURY, SPECIFICALLY VANDERBILT AND PRODUCER? AND WHY. >> THE ONLY ONE THAT IS COMPARABLE TO PULITZER, NAME RECOGNITION. A LOT OF AMERICANS
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| 03:09:53 |
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KNOW THE NAME MURDOCH. IN THE SAME WAY THAT IF YOU LOOK IN THE 19th CENTURY PEOPLE PERSONALIZE THE MEDIA. THEY WOULD REFER TO PULITZER'S WORLD, FIRST...
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| 03:11:03 |
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POLITICAL AGENDA. >> OF JUST ADD ONE THING. IN THE 19th CENTURY THE ECONOMY WAS MUCH NARROWER. FOR
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| 03:11:11 |
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EXAMPLE, VANDERBILT, WHEN VANDERBILT TOOK OVER THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD PART OF CAPITALIZATION, A LITTLE OVER $10 MILLION. HE EVENTUALLY CREATED...
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| 03:13:04 |
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DIED WITH THEIR LIVES AND FORTUNES PRETTY MUCH INTACT. EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE YOU HAVE ONE WHO GOT CAUGHT IN THE GEARS. I KNOW YOU HAVE ALL LOOKED AT...
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| 03:13:30 |
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MONEY? >> THEY GET CAUGHT IN A POLITICAL MESS THAT THEY HAVE CREATED. >> MANY OF THEM GET CAUGHT IN THE POLITICAL MESS
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| 03:13:38 |
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AT SOMETIME OR OTHER IN THEIR LIVES. I THINK IT HAS AS MUCH TO DO WITH TIMING IS A THING.
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| 03:13:43 |
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WHERE DID THEY HAPPEN TO DIE IN THE BUSINESS CYCLE? IF THEY DIE WHEN THINGS ARE GOING WELL THAT THE AVERAGE. IF THEY DIE WHEN THERE HAS BEEN A PANIC...
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| 03:14:30 |
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TO INVEST IN EACH OTHER'S BUSINESSES. EVENTUALLY THEY BEGAN TO COMPETE AND TURNED AGAINST EACH OTHER. BUT VERY MUCH A SPECULATOR. HE WAS ADDICTED TO...
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| 03:15:48 |
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ACT. IT IS NOT JUST DYING WHEN YOUR FORTUNE IS I. IN MY WORLD IN THE MASS MEDIA IT IS DYING ON THE RIGHT NEWS CYCLE, TOO. >> OKAY. THANK YOU ALL...
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| 03:16:07 |
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JUST A REMINDER. THE AUTHORS WILL BE IN THE BOOK SIGNINGS AND AND ABOUT 15 MINUTES. I DO HOPE TO SEE YOU DOWN AT THE MUSEUM AS WELL. [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS]...
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| 03:18:53 |
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PROGRAMS. >> I WANT TO TALK TO YOU TODAY ABOUT MY NEW BOOK, GOD OF LIBERTY AND GIVE YOU A LITTLE SNAPSHOT OF THE ROLE THAT I
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| 03:19:01 |
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SEE RELIGION PLAYING IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. I WANT TO OPEN WITH A STORY ABOUT A CHAPLAINS' NAMED DAVID AVERY. EVANGELICAL CHAPLAIN IN CONNECTICUT...
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| 03:22:43 |
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TWITTER. [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] >> HERE IS A LOOK AS SOME OF THE UPCOMING BOOK FAIRS AND FESTIVALS OF THE NEXT FEW MONTHS LATER THIS MONTH NEWCOMB...
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| 03:22:58 |
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AND COLLECT THE BOOKS GO ON SALE AT THE GOLDEN GATE BOOK FAIR IN SAN FRANCISCO. NONFICTION, CHECK OUT. THE VEGAS VALLEY BOOK FESTIVAL. IN NEW YORK...
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| 03:23:54 |
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EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE, AND MORE. >> FOR MORE BEST SELLERS GO TO CONSERVATIVE BOOK CLUB DOT
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| 03:25:00 |
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COM. [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] ONE. >> IT THIS...
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| 03:26:23 |
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OF MEXICAN-AMERICANS IN TEXAS. WHEN THE 2010 TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL CONTINUES LIVE FROM AUSTIN. [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] >> HERE ARE SOME BEST-SELLING...
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| 03:26:57 |
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MESSAGE IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA. NEXT AN AMERICAN WRITER WHO GROWS UP IN MEXICO CITY DURING THE DEPRESSION. THEN THE ICARUS' SYNDROME. A GUEST ON...
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| 03:29:44 |
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OUR NEXT PANEL THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLES OF MEXICAN AMERICANS IN TAXES. FEATURING DAVID MONTEJANO, AUTHOR OF AND "QUIXOTE'S SOLDIERS: A LOCAL HISTORY...
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| 03:30:19 |
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TAXES. I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS. NEXT TO ME HIS CYNTHIA OROZCO, CHAIR OF THE HISTORY AND HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT....
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| 03:32:35 |
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TALK ABOUT AN EFFORT, A MOVEMENT THAT IS COLORED, BLACK, AND WHITE. WHAT I THINK I TRY TO DO AS WELL AS MY FELLOW HISTORIANS HERE, COLOR THE CIVIL...
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| 03:34:50 |
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LONG STANDING. EXTENDS FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT AND INCLUDES LABOR RIGHTS AND OTHER MOVEMENTS WITHIN THAT LARGER CAUSE. WHAT I HAVE...
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| 03:37:06 |
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AS ANY COLLECTIVE ACTION AGAINST INEQUALITY AND INJUSTICE. I AM SURE IF WE DOING OUR WORK WE WILL FIND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY WE HAD A CIVIL-RIGHTS...
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| 03:38:19 |
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WOULD LIKE YOU TO ADDRESS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES AND STRUGGLES OF THE GROUP IN YOUR ERA. >> MY BOOK FOCUSES ON THE 1910-1930 YEAR. AT THE BEGINNING OF...
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| 03:38:37 |
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WE DID HAVE A MAJOR CONFERENCE IN 1911 IN WHICH LYNCHING PROVED TO BE THE HOT TOPIC OF THE DAY. MANY AMERICANS AND OTHER FOLKS ARE NOT AWARE OF THE...
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| 03:40:30 |
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AS THE LEADERSHIP IS CONCERNED ARE ECONOMIC DISPARITIES. SECONDARILY, DISCRIMINATORY ACTIVITIES IN PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS LIKE RESTAURANTS AND BARBERSHOPS...
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| 03:42:23 |
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COLLEGE ACTIVISTS ENGAGING IN INTELLECTUAL POLITICS, ORGANIZING -- MANY OF THE RECALL THE THIRD POLITICAL PARTY TO CHALLENGE THE TIME, THE ONE PARTY...
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| 03:43:25 |
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ANY INSIGHTS ABOUT COMPARATIVE CIVIL-RIGHTS MOVEMENTS, AFRICAN-AMERICANS? ANYTHING IN THAT PARTICULAR PERIOD THAT IS PARALLEL TO THAT MOVEMENT OR IN...
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| 03:43:48 |
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EFFORT IS IT WAS BIRACIAL. INCLUDED AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND EUROPEAN AMERICANS. WHAT WE REALLY DO NOT SEE IN THIS TIME PERIOD IS A EUROPEAN AMERICAN LIBERAL...
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| 03:44:55 |
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DISCRIMINATION IN WARTIME INDUSTRIES LIKE OIL AND AMMUNITIONS AND SO FORTH. HE ALSO ESTABLISHED AN AGENCY TO INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS OF DISCRIMINATION...
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| 03:46:20 |
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FOR THE CHICANO MOVEMENT IN CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS BUT WITH FAR WORKERS MARCHING TO SAN ANTONIO IN 1966 THEY ARE SINGING WE SHALL OVERCOME. THE INFLUENCE...
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| 03:47:55 |
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MOVEMENTS. CAN YOU ADDRESS THAT? >> MANY PEOPLE MAY KNOW THAT IN 1929 WHEN LILAC WAS FOUND IN ALL OF THE FOUNDERS AND ALL OF THE
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| 03:48:07 |
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MEMBERS WERE MEN. THE CLASSIC PHOTO SHOWS UP PICTURE OF 150 MEN. ONE OF THE THINGS I DO IN MY BOOK, TWO FANGS IN REGARDS TO GENDER. THE FIRST TO LOOK...
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| 03:50:14 |
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THE ENTRY OF PEOPLE INTO HIGH-WAGE EMPLOYMENT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THEY SPEAK ABOUT THAT CUTEING SYSTEM. PEOPLE ARE IN LINE TO MAKE USE OF...
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| 03:52:28 |
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COMMUNITY CONTROLS TO TAKE CARE OF POLICE BRUTALITY. REGARDLESS OF WHICH HAVE WAS TAKEN THE ISSUE OF GENDER OR RISES. WITHIN THE COLLEGE USE, TO WOMEN...
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| 03:54:55 |
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CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT WE LEARNED ABOUT TEXAS HISTORY. I DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING IN TEXAS HISTORY ABOUT ANY OF THESE TOPICS. WHAT CAN YOU SAY THAT THE...
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| 03:55:30 |
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THE PRESENT STATUS AND CONDITION OF THE MEXICAN DECENT COMMUNITY, MEXICAN DESCENT POPULATION AND WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THAT METHODS OF INSTITUTIONALIZED...
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| 03:56:45 |
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PEOPLE WALK AWAY FROM MY BOOK WITH AT LEAST ONE CONCLUSION, AND THAT IS THAT WE CAN NO LONGER TREAT U.S. HISTORY AND TEXAS HISTORY IN AND OF ITSELF....
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| 03:58:31 |
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MIXED. NOT QUITE WHITE HAIR OR BROWN HAIR OR BLACK. WE ARE MIXED. THAT IS WHAT I TELL STUDENTS. I SAY THERE WAS NO GUARANTEE THAT WE WOULD ALL BE IN...
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| 04:00:08 |
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SO I AM PROUD TO HAVE 11 BIOGRAPHIES IN MY BOOK. COUPLE OF THOSE PEOPLE DO STAND OUT. ONE OF THEM IS J.P. CANAL US WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN OUR HISTORY...
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| 04:04:20 |
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LEAST ATTRACTING ATTENTION WHO TOOK THE WRONG TERM, WHO IN MY IDENTIFYING, WHO IS MY POINTING FINGERS AT? I'M TALKING THE TWO OR THREE INDIVIDUALS...
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| 04:06:54 |
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AS MEXICAN-AMERICANS VIEWED OURSELVES. COULD YOU GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF INSIGHT INTO YOUR THINKING ABOUT THIS QUESTION? >> YES, THE LULAC ORGANIZATION...
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| 04:07:14 |
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HAS LATIN-AMERICAN ARE SEVERAL. NUMBER ONE, THOSE FOLKS DID NOT WANT TO USE THE WORD MEXICAN BECAUSE IT WAS SOMETHING CONSIDERED AN UGLY WORD IN THE...
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| 04:09:35 |
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PEOPLE CALL THEMSELVES DIFFERENT THINGS PRIVATELY AND PUBLICLY IN PART BECAUSE THE MEXICAN POPULATION IS A VERY, VERY DIVERSE POPULATION. PEOPLE JUST...
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| 04:12:11 |
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NICE -- WHITENESS AND THE YOUTH INVOLVED IN THE MOVEMENT CRITICIZE THE ELDERS, THE OLDER GENERATION FOR CONSIDERING THEMSELVES WHITE. THEY THINK ON...
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| 04:13:41 |
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LANGUAGE, ASSIMILATION. WHAT DO YOU FIND IN YOUR STUDY THAT ADDRESSES SOME OF THESE PARTICULAR ISSUES OR OTHERS? >> WELCOME REALLY AGAIN THE 1927 CONVENTION...
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| 04:14:01 |
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ABOUT IMMIGRATION. THERE WAS A RECENT POLL THAT SHOWED THAT THERE WERE INDEED SOME MEXICAN-AMERICANS AND ARIZONA WHO WERE NOT IN FAVOR OF LIBERAL IMMIGRATION...
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| 04:16:05 |
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THINGS. RELATIONS IMPROVED BECAUSE OF THE WARTIME REQUIREMENTS. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THAT MEANS THE U.S. IS OBLIGATED TO DEMONSTRATE SOME SINCERITY...
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| 04:17:52 |
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SOME COMPLEX MATTERS. WAS HE A HERO? WAS HE FOR OR WAS HE ANNE DEXTER? I WILL LET YOU THE READER DECIDE. IN ANY CASE, WHAT I AM REFERRING TO IS AGENCY,...
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| 04:19:15 |
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RESEARCH AND FEEL THAT AFTER YOUR RESEARCH, AND YOU COULD BASICALLY EITHER COME TO THE NEW CONCLUSIONS OR CERTAIN ASSUMPTIONS THAT WERE IN THE GENERAL...
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| 04:19:41 |
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REALLY IN MY EAR LEADERS DID NOT QUITE UNDERSTAND HOW WOMEN FIT INTO THAT PICTURE AND IN FACT I NEVER ASK IN THEIR EARLY YEARS I NEVER ASKED HIM TO...
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| 04:21:26 |
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BEYOND THAT, WHAT DROVE ME TO STUDY WAS THIS TOPIC OF THE HOME FRONT. THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS. ONE IS I WAS CONCERNED THE PEOPLE WERE SAYING THE...
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| 04:23:45 |
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ASSUMPTIONS IN THE TEXTBOOKS THAT YOU FOUND SURPRISING AND CHALLENGED. >> THERE IS I GUESS SEVERAL BUT AT ONE POINT I'VE ALREADY MENTIONED THE TRIBUTE...
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| 04:24:02 |
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REALLY DEAL WITH THAT, BUT THE FACT THAT I WAS ABLE TO TRACE HOW THEY WERE ABLE TO ACTUALLY, AND STOP THE GAME FOR FEAR THAT THE SHAKEN. I THOUGHT...
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| 04:26:05 |
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WE HAVE SEVEN MINUTES SO MAKE YOUR POINT VERY FAST. MAKE NO COMMENTS, JUST ASK QUESTIONS. SPINET YOU SORT OF IGNORED THE SMALL ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM,...
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| 04:26:46 |
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VETERANS LATINO ORGANIZATIONS DEAL THAT EXISTS TODAY. AMINE FOUNDER THE WAS DR. HECTOR GARCIA, DOCTOR HECTOR GARCIA WAS A MEMBER OF LULAC WITH A TIME...
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| 04:27:35 |
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WAR. >> YOU HAD MENTIONED THE LACK OF COLLABORATION WITH THE EUROPEAN AMERICANS DURING THE
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| 04:27:45 |
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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT -- >> TO USE A EUROPEAN AMERICANS? >> YES. SO I WAS WONDERING IF YOU THOUGHT THAT IS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT TO HELP THE HISPANICS...
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| 04:28:06 |
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WITH REGARDS TO THE SO-CALLED MEXICAN COMMUNITY, AND WE DO HOWEVER SEE IN THE 40'S SOME COLLABORATION OF KEEN LAWYERS THAT ARE ASSISTING IN A LEGAL...
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| 04:28:48 |
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A POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE HELPFUL HINDRANCE IN ACHIEVING? >> CERTAINLY I TALK ABOUT THAT AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE, NOT JUST IN THE...
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| 04:29:02 |
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MOVEMENT, BUT IN THE LIFE OF THE COMMUNITY. ONE OF THE INTERESTING POINTS ABOUT THAT I TALKED ABOUT IN TERMS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUDENT ACTIVISM...
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| 04:30:51 |
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THEY WERE AMAZING. I WANTED TO ASK YOU IF THERE WERE IF IN
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| 04:30:55 |
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YOUR WORK TO ANY OF YOU FIND EVIDENCE OF THE COLLISION BETWEEN LATINO ORGANIZATIONS AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS BECAUSE IT SEEMS TO ME THE POLITICAL...
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| 04:31:20 |
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WE HAVE FOLKS IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO ARE RACIST TOWARD AFRICAN-AMERICANS. LIKEWISE IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY I SURE WE ALSO HAVE FOLKS THE WOODSY...
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| 04:31:54 |
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HAVE COME PLANS BECAUSE THE REFINERY FOR THE DISCRIMINATION AND EMPLOYMENT BEFORE THE COMPLAINTS ARE REGISTERED WITH THE C-17, NAACP REPRESENTATIVES,...
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| 04:33:20 |
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HAVE MISSED IT. BUT WHAT ROLE DID THE TAX PLAY IN HISPANICS EXERTING POLITICALLY -- >> ONE OF THE CONCERNS ON LULAC FROM THE VERY BEGINNING WAS POLITICAL...
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| 04:33:36 |
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FOR THE TAX MANY MEN AND WOMEN WORE ARE GIVING FOR THAT, AND AGAIN, THE REPRESENTATION AT THE STATE LEGISLATURE WAS EXTREMELY POOR, NOT IN THE STATE...
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| 04:34:15 |
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THANK YOU. [INAUDIBLE
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| 04:34:28 |
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CONVERSATIONS] [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] >> YOU ARE WATCHING BOOK TV LIVE COVERAGE OF THE 2010 TEXAS...
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| 04:35:54 |
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MORE IN A MOMENT. COMING UP NEXT THE CONVERSATION WITH NPR ALL THINGS CONSIDERED HOST MICHELE NORRIS AND PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ISABEL WILKERSON. WE WILL...
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| 04:38:39 |
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THE? -- DIRECTLY? >> IF WE ACCEPT SOMEONE THAT THERE IS A CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND BETWEEN THE WEST AND
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| 04:38:50 |
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ISLAM IN THE SENSE THAT I WAS BORN INTO THE MUSLIM CIVILIZATION AND LIFTED AND BREVETED AND WAS COMMITTED TO IT AND LEAL AND BELIEVE IN IT AND CAME TO...
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| 04:40:51 |
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AND MY TEACHERS HAVE GIVEN ME A DIFFERENT SET OF EDUCATION FROM WHAT I WOULD LABEL A WESTERN EDUCATION. WESTERN EDUCATION WAS INDIVIDUALISM, IT WAS...
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| 04:41:50 |
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BOOKTV.ORG AND FOLLOW LESS ON TWITTERED. TUNE IS A LOOK AT UPCOMING BOOK FAIRS AND FESTIVALS OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. LATER THIS MONTH >> I, WHO DO...
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| 04:43:12 |
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CHANCE TO WIN, AND EVEN THE WHITE JOHN McCAIN IS A GOOD AMERICAN WOULD MAKE THE BEST CANDIDATE >> I REALLY, YOU KNOW, I HAVE THIS THING ON MY SHOW...
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| 04:43:33 |
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OF C-SPAN ARE GOING TO GET ME WITH THE DUCK OF THE DAY. I DON'T KNOW WHO THE BEST PERSON IS RIGHT NOW BUT HERE'S MY ANSWER, I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT THAT...
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| 04:45:16 |
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AND FOLLOW LOSS ON TWITTER. >>> BEGIN SHORTLY NPR'S ALL THINGS CONSIDERED COHOST MICHELE NORRIS COMMAND PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR ISABEL WILKERSON...
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| 04:45:29 |
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THEIR BOOKS, THE GRACE OF SILENCE, THE MEMOIR AND THE WARMTH OF OTHER SONGS, THE EPIC STORY OF AMERICA'S GREAT MIGRATION. THIS IS BOOKTV LIVE COVERAGE...
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| 04:46:25 |
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AND ISABEL WILKERSON, AND I'M GOING TO DO A BRIEF INTRODUCTION FOR BOTH OF THEM AND THEN I'M GOING TO ASK QUESTIONS, AND I WILL LEAVE TIME AT THE END...
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| 04:49:16 |
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GREAT MIGRATION AS IS MICHELE AND THE MAJORITY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS AS YOU MIGHT EVER MADE IN THE NORTH AND MIDWEST AND THE WEST, AND I GREW UP AROUND...
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| 04:51:13 |
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BECAUSE IT IS AN ACCIDENTAL MEMOIR, IT'S NOT THE BOOK I SET OUT TO RIGHT. I INTENDED TO WRITE A BOOK THAT LOOKED AT HOW AMERICANS TALK AND THINK ABOUT...
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| 04:53:15 |
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ONE OF THE REASONS I SET OUT TO DO THE BOOK BECAUSE MY PARENTS NEVER TALKED ABOUT IT COME AS
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| 04:53:20 |
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WITH MICHELE. THIS GENERATION WAS AND SOME WAYS A MISUNDERSTOOD SEGMENT OF THE GREATER GENERATION. THEY GREW UP UNDER INCREDIBLE -- THEY WERE IN MANY...
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| 04:57:39 |
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LEFT. I HAD A DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE IN THAT THEY DIDN'T LOOK BACK IN TERMS OF TELLING SOME OF THEIR STORIES, BUT THEY REMAINED TETHERED TO BIRMINGHAM....
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| 04:59:10 |
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TO DO THAT WORK. WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW THE WAYS THEY WERE NOT JUST RUNNING TO SOMETHING, THEY WERE VERY MUCH RUNNING FROM SOMETHING. IN MY FATHER'S CASE,...
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| 05:01:25 |
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MINNESOTAN. HER EXPERIENCE AND YOU'RE FATHER'S EXPERIENCE -- HOW DID THEY NEED AND WHAT DID SHE TEACH YOU ABOUT LIFE AND THE NORTH? WHICH HER EXPERIENCE...
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| 05:01:44 |
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STATE, ALEXANDRIA. SHE AND MY FATHER MEANT WHEN HER BROTHER WORKED THE POST OFFICE, AND MY FATHER AND JIMMY BECAME GOOD FRIENDS AND HE WENT HOME TO...
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| 05:04:35 |
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WAS. >> I'VE KNOWN ISABELLA REALLY LONG TIME AND SHE IS ALWAYS DRESSED UP. >> AS IS MICHELLE BECAUSE OF
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| 05:04:42 |
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THE EXPECTATION, WHICH IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THE ASSUMPTIONS MADE ABOUT
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| 05:04:48 |
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THIS GENERATION OF PEOPLE, THE ASSUMPTION WAS THEY HADN'T GONE TO SCHOOL AND DIDN'T VALUE EDUCATION AND DIDN'T WORK HARD AND TO GET YOUR POINT ABOUT...
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| 05:10:01 |
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PHONE. >> HE PROBABLY COULDN'T GET SERVICE THERE ANY
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| 05:10:05 |
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WAY. >> PROBABLY. [LAUGHTER] >>
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| 05:10:09 |
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NOW, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE APPEARANCES, THE REASON I SPENT SO MUCH TIME ON IT IN THE BOOK IS BECAUSE AS I LOOK BACK WITH
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| 05:10:18 |
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WISDOM I STARTED TO UNDERSTAND MY PARENTS A LITTLE BIT MORE. I JUST ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE TYPED A. AND THAT THEY KEPT THE GARDEN BEAUTIFULLY THAT...
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| 05:12:58 |
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TO SAVE I HAVE WORSE, AND I AM EXPRESSING MY WORDS IN A GIGANTIC SHAME THAT HAS A BIG GOLDEN ENCRUSTED CROSS BUT IT IS IN SOME WAY SAYING I HAVE A VALUE....
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| 05:13:24 |
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BIT ABOUT THAT, ABOUT YOUR GRANDMOTHER WHO PLAYED AUNT JEMIMA? >> FIRST OF ALL, IF YOU USE BANK CAKE MIX AND IF YOU USE AND JEMIMA PANCAKE MIX, AND JEMIMA...
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| 05:13:39 |
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GIRLFRIEND. SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE SHOPPED AT MACY'S. SHE HAS A PEARLS. SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE IS ON THE CHURCH COUNCIL. WHAT I DISCOVERED AGAIN IN A PERIOD...
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| 05:17:08 |
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RIGHT NOW, JUST WALK UP TO A BLACK WOMAN AND CALL HER AND JEMIMA. SHE MIGHT LOOK BENIGN BUT I DARE YOU TO DO IT. [LAUGHTER] AND YET WHEN I TALK TO...
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| 05:19:16 |
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I HAVE YOUNG CHILDREN AND MY SON'S FAVORITE FOOD IS PANCAKES. HE PARTICULARLY LIKES AND
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| 05:19:23 |
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JEMIMA'S PANCAKES. HE LIKES THE SYRUP BOTTLE. I WAS ARGUING WITH HIM, CAN WE JUST BY HUNGRY JACK'S? RIGHT NOW WE ARE MAKING PANCAKES FROM SCRATCH BECAUSE...
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| 05:20:20 |
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IDA MAY GLADNEY, ROBERT FOSTER AND GEORGE STARLING. >> I STARTED THE BOOK WITH A GREAT DEAL OF URGENCY BECAUSE THIS MIGRATION BEGAN IN 1915, WORLD WAR
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| 05:20:30 |
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I AND ENDED IN 1971 ESSENTIALLY THE CONDITIONS THAT LED TO THE MIGRATION AND IT IN THE SOUTH AND THERE WAS NO LONGER THE NEED FOR THIS OUTPOURING OF...
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| 05:26:51 |
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ALL CHILDREN OF THE GREAT MIGRATION, RITA FRANKLIN. HER PARENTS CAME
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| 05:26:56 |
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FROM THE SOUTH. SO MANY PEOPLE. CREATED IN A STYROFOAM. IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE WHAT CULTURE WOULD BE LIKE HAD THERE HAVE BEEN NO MOTOWN AND WHEN IT COMES...
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| 05:30:47 |
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CULTURE, THE PEOPLE CARRIED THE CULTURE WITH THEM. THEY TRANSPLANTED THE CELLS WITH THEM WHERE THEY WENT. IN SOME WAYS THEY WENT BACK TO THE SOUTH...
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| 05:31:36 |
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ASK, YOU TALK ABOUT MICHELLE HOW YOUR BOOK EMERGED FROM THE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE. I AM CURIOUS HOW YOU FEEL YOUR BOOK HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE...
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| 05:32:07 |
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ABOUT THE CONVERSATION OF MY FAMILY AND AS THEY TRAVEL THE COUNTRY ON A 30 PLUS CITY BOOK TOUR I FIND MYSELF SWIMMING IN THE HIDDEN CONVERSATION. PEOPLE...
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| 05:34:49 |
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DOESN'T REMEMBER A LOT. DO YOU HAVE ADVICE FOR HOW TO GET THE STORIES OUT ESPECIALLY TO OLDER PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT REMEMBER? >> ISABEL I'M SURE WE'LL...
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| 05:35:07 |
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TO TELL YOU CERTAIN STORIES PARTICULARLY ASKED THEM ABOUT THE AREA. YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO GO IN THE FRONT DOOR BUT DON'T GO-ROUND TO THE SIDE...
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| 05:37:06 |
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MY PARENTS, MY MOTHER IN PARTICULAR NEVER TALKED ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE IN THE SOUTH AND IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THE RESEARCH IN THIS BOOK WHERE I'M INTERVIEWING...
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| 05:40:00 |
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RISING MEAL FOR THE CORNBREAD IN MISSISSIPPI AND SHE HAS CONNECTIONS. IT IS LIKELY NEVER MADE IT LIKE THAT BEFORE IN THE OLD COUNTRY. A FRIEND WHO...
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| 05:40:35 |
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YOUR CHILDREN. MINE FOR A BIG HELP TO ME. I HAVE YOUNG CHILDREN AND MY MOTHER ALSO DID NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT ANY OF THIS BUT I COULDN'T MOVE FORWARD...
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| 05:41:57 |
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THERE ARE ANOTHER MIGRATION THAT IS LARGELY INVISIBLE. A CENTURY AGO IT
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| 05:42:33 |
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WAS ESTIMATED FIVE TO 10,000 BLACK PEOPLE WERE TURNING INTO WHITE ACHIEVE CASE BEING-- MY QUESTION COMES FROM READING AN ACCOUNT BY THE FIRST WHITE PERSON...
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| 05:43:16 |
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MOSTLY. >> I HAVE DISCOVERED ABOUT A DOZEN STORIES JUST IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS AND THEY MAINLY
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| 05:43:26 |
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COMING OVER THROUGH THIS LINK ON MY WEB SITE WHERE PEOPLE ARE E-MAILING STORIES ABOUT FAMILY MEMBERS THAT THEY DISCOVERED HALF PAST OR PEOPLE WHO THEMSELVES...
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| 05:44:36 |
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STORIES-- HAVE YOU HAD ANY EXPERIENCE OF TRYING TO TELL THE STORIES TO YOUNGER PEOPLE, MAYBE NOT NECESSARILY YOUNGER AFRICAN-AMERICANS BUT THE KIDS...
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| 05:45:07 |
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TO MIGRATION, THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE AND THEY "HIP-HOP GENERATION" THAT ARE DESCENDENTS OF THE GREAT MIGRATION. SNOOP DOGGY DOGG, HIS FAMILY MIGRATED FROM...
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| 05:46:13 |
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ANY SENSE OF WHAT THAT MIGRATION
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| 05:46:15 |
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HAS DONE FOR THE SOUTH ITSELF, FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL THERE, HOW MAY BE THE CULTURE REVERBERATED A LITTLE BIT AND CHANGE THINGS OR MADE THINGS BETTER...
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| 05:46:34 |
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THE END OF THE CASTE SYSTEM FOR WHICH THE PEOPLE-- IN OTHER WORDS, IT SHOWED THE FIRST OF ALL THE LOWER CASTES-- THIS CASTE SYSTEM, THE PEOPLE WHO WERE...
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| 05:50:06 |
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COULD LEAD LAST, PEOPLE WHO WERE THE MOST AMBITIOUS LEFT AND WHEN I GO BACK TO THE BIRMINGHAM THAT I USED TO KNOW AS A KID WHICH WAS A VIBRANT BLACK...
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| 05:51:55 |
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I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR COMING AND SHARING THIS HOUR WITH ISABEL AND MICHELLE AND
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| 05:52:05 |
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ME. THANK YOU. THEY WILL BE SIGNING BOOKS IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES IN THE AUTHORS TENT WHICH IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS. THANK YOU. [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS]...
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| 05:53:53 |
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A CONVERSATION WITH NPR'S ALL THINGS CONSIDERED COHOST MICHELLE NORRIS AND PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ISABEL WILKERSON. TODAY'S LEFT PANEL IS COMING UP...
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| 05:54:34 |
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HENRY PETROSKI. WELCOMES HER AND TELL US WHAT IS THE REASONING BEHIND THE SUBTITLEIN HERE? THE WHY SCIENCE ALONE WILL NOT SOLVE OUR GLOBAL PROBLEMS?...
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| 05:55:17 |
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THAT. >> SCIENTISTS GENERALLY WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD GIVEN TO US, THE UNIVERSE, CLASSIC SIGN TO STUDY THE PLANETS AND
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| 05:55:24 |
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STARS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE. ASSEMBLING KNOWLEDGE REALLY, GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THINGS BUT ENGINEERS, ON THE OTHER HAND, WANT TO CHANGE...
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| 05:56:09 |
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FUTURE? >> AS YOU KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT GOT US INTO TROUBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. WE ALWAYS
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| 05:56:18 |
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HAVE INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE, SCIENCE IS ALWAYS ACCUMULATING FOR THEIR KNOWLEDGE SO WE ARE WORKING AS ENGINEERS WITH INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD'S...
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| 05:57:32 |
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AND I TRY TO POINT THAT OUT IN THE BOOK ALSO, THAT THEY MAKE US THINK AND MAKE US RECALIBRATE. THEY MAKE US THINK ABOUT WHETHER MAYBE WE ARE NOT ON...
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| 05:58:02 |
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I'VE ONLY GOT 20 MINUTES IN ORDER
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| 05:58:04 |
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TO ALLOW TIME FORNLY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SO I'M GOING TO FOCUS ON THE DIFFERENCEN BETWEEN SCIENTISTSSW AND
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| 05:58:09 |
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M GOIN ENGINEERS, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING BECAUSE THEYCE THINK THERE IS A GENERAL MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT THAT.ERAL A LOT OF TIMES ENGINEERS ARE JUST...
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| 06:00:47 |
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BOTH. BUT I AM IN ENGINEER IN THAT I AM VERY INTERESTED IN --
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| 06:00:53 |
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BOOKS I SEE AS CREATIONS BUT I AM A SCIENTIST CAUSE I DO HAVE TO GET TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER AND IN MOST OF MY STUDYING, INCLUDES A LOT OF SCIENCE....
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| 06:02:44 |
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AUTHOR OF A SAINT ON DEATH ROW. >> IT'S THE TYPE OF ACTIVITY THAT MIGHT TAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE TOPIC TODAY, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, WHICH MOST OFTEN HIT...
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| 06:04:01 |
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HAPHAZARDLY OR KNOWN IN TIMES NEIGHBORHOODS. MY NAME IS JOHN PATTERSON AND A TEACHING CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY. I BECAME INTERESTED...
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| 06:07:59 |
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CHICAGO OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF HER HEART, AND SHE HAS A VERY GOOD HEART, TAKEN UP IN ITS LAST STAGES DEFENSE OF DOMINIQUE GREEN WHO HAD BEEN ON DEATH...
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| 06:12:05 |
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FIRST LOVE AND I WATCHED A DOCUMENTARY CALLED STEVIE BY STEVE JAMES TO ALSO DIRECTED HOOP DREAMS THAT WON AN OSCAR, AND I'M GETTING A LITTLE OF THAT AWAY...
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| 06:13:39 |
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THE QUESTION HOW I CAME TO WRITE THE BOOK AND LIKE THE OTHER ANSWERS YOU HEARD IS I CAME TO BE A DEATH PENALTY LAWYER BY ACCIDENT IN THE LATE 1980'S....
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| 06:18:28 |
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OF A 1,190 EXECUTIONS IN TEXAS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 449 OF THEM. THAT IS 37% AND MORE THAN FOUR TIMES AS MANY AS ANY OTHER STATE. INDIVIDUALLY I AM GOING...
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| 06:19:15 |
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MAJOR CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS IN THE COUNTRY TO IT IS OPPOSED TO THE DEATH PENALTY. THAT'S QUITE A LOT WHEN YOU COME DOWN TO IT. BUT I WOULD SAY THAT...
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| 06:24:04 |
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ABOUT JUXTAPOSING HISTORIANS AS WELL AS JUXTAPOSE IN YOUR STORIES AN ATTORNEY WITH YOUR STORY AS A FATHER AND YOU JUDGE YOURSELF PRETTY HARSHLY SOMETIMES,...
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| 06:24:37 |
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THINK THERE ARE ANY SCENES IN THE BOOK. MAYBE THERE ARE SOME ON EARTH AND I JUST HAVEN'T MET THEM YET, AND ACTUALLY MAY BE LINCOLN AS RIGHT, OUR SON...
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| 06:31:38 |
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DEATH PENALTY FOR A MOMENT AND THINK OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS WE HAVE SEEN A WHOLE SUCCESSION OF PEOPLE IN OUR NEWSPAPERS, BANKERS, WHO COLLECTIVELY...
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| 06:33:58 |
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DID YOU DO A GREAT JOB OF MENTIONING BOTH STANCES WE OUR METHODS AND EXECUTING PEOPLE SOMETIMES FAIL AND THEN SOME OF THE PEOPLE WE EXECUTE HAVE LOW...
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| 06:35:20 |
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EXECUTED 15,000 PEOPLE. NOT THAT MANY IN THE BOOK ABOUT 900, ABOUT A THOUSAND, AND REALLY I JUST WANTED TO FIND SORT OF A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE WHAT...
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| 06:39:29 |
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TALKING ABOUT, DAVID, THE SORT OF LET DOWN, WHEN YOU LOSE SOMEBODY AND THEY'RE EXECUTED AND YET THERE ARE THESE STRING OF CASES YOU HAVE TO KEEP GOING....
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| 06:40:35 |
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NO, AGAIN, MY FIRST LOVE IS FILM AND IN FACT I HAVE A BOOK IN JANUARY CALLED THE FILM THAT CHANGED MY LIFE. I TALKED TO 30 DIRECTORS ABOUT THE MOVIE THAT...
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| 06:43:16 |
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AS I SAY TOWARD THE END OF THE BOOK, I DON'T WANT TO BE
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| 06:43:20 |
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TOO TRAUMATIC ABOUT THAT OR GO OFF THE END OF THINGS AND GET IN TROUBLE WITH THE GUY AT THE END. I DON'T THINK HE NEEDS ANY HELP FROM ME. >> I WAS IN...
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| 06:43:48 |
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ASKED ME WHETHER I WOULD PLEASE WITNESSED HIS EXECUTION. I DON'T LIKE TO BE ASKED WHETHER I WILL WITNESS AN EXECUTION BECAUSE I CAN'T THINK OF A GOOD...
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| 06:46:36 |
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LANGUAGE OF THE DEBATE ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY IS CONTROLLED BY THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY. YOU ARE TOUGH ON CRIME IF YOU ARE IN FAVOR OF ELIMINATING THE...
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| 06:47:13 |
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ON CASES OF THE CONSULTANT CASES, THE TRIAL HEADED BY SOMEBODY NAMED JOHN ISLAND AND CATHERINE AND LET ME TELL YOU HOW THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL THAN THE...
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| 06:49:02 |
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THOUGHTS ARE ABOUT JUDGE KELLER JUDICIAL REVIEW AND CONCLUSION ABOUT THE LAW CLERK OFFICE CLOSING ON HER TIME WITH AN APPEAL EMINENT. IS THAT AN ETHICAL...
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| 06:49:35 |
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ANSWER A QUESTION THAT IS NOT THE WHEN YOU ASK ABOUT PRETEND LIKE AN ANSWERING THE QUESTION IS WHEN YOU ASKED SO I WILL JUST TELL YOU I'M GOING TO...
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| 06:53:42 |
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MICHAEL RICHARD'S IQ SCORE.C THE JUDGES ON THE COURT OFE CO APPEALS WHO WERE ASKED TO HALT THE EXECUTION OF SOMEBODY WHO'S MENTALLY RETARDED WERE CONFRONTED...
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| 06:54:49 |
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QUESTION'S FOR DAVID DOW, BUT BEFORE I ASK MY QUESTION, I
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| 06:54:56 |
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BOND WANTED TO INVITE ALL OF YOU IN THE AUDIENCE, I WORK FORNCE WITNESS TO INNOCENCE. I JUST WANTED TO INVITE EVERYONE HERE TO JOIN US ON OCTOBER 30...
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| 06:56:26 |
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AND WE TOLD HIMAND CHICKENS, AND HE SAID, DO THEY HAVE TO KILL THE CHICKEN? AND WE TOLD HIM, YES, AND HEAI SAID, THAT'S IT, I'M NOT GOINGNG TO EAT...
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| 06:57:44 |
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IN AEON CHRISTIAN FRAMEWORK.WO SO ITRD WAS AN EXAMPLE, IT WAS A CHANCE FOR THAT PERSON IF HE OR SHE HAD NOT CONFESSED TO SAVE THEIR SOUL. THAT OLD SHAKESPEARIAN...
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| 06:58:42 |
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MANN NAMED ANGELO STRAP. AND AT THE END OF DONNY'S LIFE, HIS FAMILY RECORDED MESSAGES TOLBS THE GOVERNOR AND THE PARDON BOARD ASKING THAT DONNY NOT BE...
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| 07:00:26 |
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ROW REGULARLY WHO IS REPRESENTED BY DAVID DOW, ANDO I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE HIS NAME,I' BUT THAT -- WHAT DAVID SAIDM ABOUT, YOUE KNOW, JUST WHAT HAPPENS...
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| 07:01:13 |
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ANGLES. OUR AUTHORS WILL BE AT THE BOOK-SIGNING TENT IN 15 MINUTES TO TAKE AUTOGRAPHS SO, PLEASE, COME OVER THERE AND JOIN US. THANK YOU.OV [CHEERS...
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| 07:03:51 |
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FESTIVAL. TOMORROW BookTV WILL CONTINUE WITH LIVE COVERAGE STARTING ATA NOON EASTERN. FINISH TODAY'S COVERAGE OF THE 2010 TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL WILL...
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