source of connection that drew and i was reading about that on a course in social capital with robert putnam and the idea was that these programs get people to read and this wonderful, what they do is build social connections between people and give people with nothing, common. >> what book was chosen to be read? rocessre was a long and involveg and also in the book chosen was american gods by neil kanan. >> why did you choose that? >> i didn't. it was the crown. why did the crowd use it? that's a good question, there were a lot of classics of their essentially i watch this on wire.com, and a contributing editor, and the books that are nominated and then collected the most votes we had a lot of science fiction and try to have a five in 1984, brave new world, fahrenheit 451 was a big one but there's a lot of the fans that reed acquired but then when we added the board picked the six popular ones and then added four titles to serve and introduce diversity into a list of finalists. people still -- a broad group of people decide that they wanted kneels book and i think anything in the one re

a course on the fellow this year at harvard and i've taken a class in social capital with robert putnam who wrote bowling alone. and the idea was that these programs, you know, while they get people to read and not wonderful, what they do is build social capital, connections between people, they give people with nothing in common something in common. >> what book was chosen to be bad? >> guest: there was a long and involved nominating process ultimately the buck chosen with american gods by neil men. >> host: and why did you choose that one? >> guest: i didn't. why did the crowd choose their? that's a good question. there were a lot of classics of their. essentially, you know, i watched this on the wire.com prevent a contributing editor and the books that were nominated and collected the most votes and not versed phase, we have a lot of science fiction. we had five in 1984, brave new world, fahrenheit 451 was probably the runner-up, but people there is a lot of neil yemen fans that read wired. but even then when we add it, you know, the board picked the six popular ones and then added f

and i was reading about that in the course, i'm a fellow at harvard is taking a course with robert putnam. and the idea was that these programs, want to get people to read and that's wonderful, what did is they build social capital. they build connections between people to give people with nothing in common something in common. >> what book was chosen to be read? >> there was a long and involved nominating and then voting process. ultimately, the book chosen was american gods. >> why did you choose that was? >> i didn't. i mean, it was the crowd. why did the crowd choose it? that's a good question that there were a lot of classics at the. essentially i launched this on wired.com. i am a contributing editor. and the books that were nominated and then collected the most votes in that first phase we had a lot of science-fiction, with slaughterhouse five, brave new world, people, there's a lot of neil gaiman fans but even when we added the board picked the six popular ones and then added four times to sort of introduced some diversity into a list of finalists. people still, you know, a broad

and i was taking a course in social capital with robert putnam, who, of course, wrote bowling alone. and so the idea was that these programs -- you know, while they get people to read and that's wonderful -- what they do is they build social capital. they build connections between people. they give people nothing in common something in common. >> host: so what book was chosen to be read? >> guest: well, there was a long and involved nominating and then voting process. ultimately the book chosen was american gods by neil gaiman. . >> host: why did you choose it? >> guest: it's the crowd. why did the crowd choose it. there's a lot of classics up there. i launched this on wired.com. i'm a contributing editor at "wired." the books that were nominated and then collected the most votes -- in that first phase we had a lot of science fiction. we had some -- 1984, brave new world, fahrenheit 451 was probably the runner-up. but -- there's a lot of neil gaiman fans that read "wired." but even when we added, you know, the board picked the six popular ones and then added four titles to sort of in

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and, it katie putnam organized today's meeting is back there and chris wilson. they have something called more than neighbors which is a factor in u.s.-mexico relations that should be a tuesday or wednesday of next week. we are sorry will be flooding your e-mail boxes but the bottom line-- and a book which is out there, which we just got copies of called mexico's junk-- democratic challenges on amazon we are told. it is a number of colleagues. a number of very distinguished mexican and u.s. scholars have contributed to it. without further ado let me introduce our panel said we are going to do this is a conversation here. tinny dresser is a columnist. she's written her last book actually which i will forget the title onto nice. it was a history, a somewhat ironic-- satirical history of mexican politics, one of the most creative things that i have seen in any country and i said to denise once, think you took this from the cartooning heritage. jon stewart in a way. it is the mexican tradition of cartooning but irony and the sarcasm. she yesterday won the national j

and katie putnam, organize today's meeting was back there in chris wilson and me have something called for the neighbors which is the effect book on mexico in u.s.-mexico relations that should be out next week. mercer will be flooding your e-mail boxes, but nonetheless a lot of things that may be useful for those of you who follow mexico and u.s.-mexico relations and a book which is out there that we just got copies of called mexico's democratic challenges is on amazon were told here at and it is a number of colleagues. josÉ wattenberg wrote the prologue and a number of very distinguished mexican and u.s. scholars have contributed to this. without further ado, limits reduce our panelists and will to assassinate discussion here. denise dresser has written her last book actually which i'm going to forget the title i, denise, as i said with a history of sunlight -- >> satirical. >> one of the most creative things that i've seen in any country in a fit to nice once i think he took this from the mexican cartooning heritage, they're sort of cartoons and no jon stewart. it's really an annotat