and here's what's coming up tonight the big picture award winning author walter mosley joins me for our first half hour for this week's conversations with great minds discuss the latest book which starts the discussion about how to get out of america's growing poverty rate and destructive way of life. for the reason democratic victory in new york's twenty six congressional district could the republicans just varies fully now before things get any uglier and the nation's largest states are not represented on capitol hill so what's the answer to this problem state division of talent i'll break it down on topics for the fourth shopping brock's internet stealing take. it's friday which means it's time for conversations with great minds joining me tonight is an award winning american novelist who's written thirty four critically acclaimed books perhaps his best known work is it best selling series of historical mystery novels he treated as active named easy rawlins as want to know henry a war a grammy and an american a lifetime achievement award his most recent work is untitled twelve steps

you are on with walter mosley. go ahead. >> caller: hello, yes, i am old, i am a nam vet and i just wanted to mention or comment on the contrast between the serious issues we have going right now today that are mortal and bad and people are daunting but the basic issue that we are hotly debating when we have somebody debating an issue is pretty much exactly what i encountered in 1967 when i got out of vietnam i had been wounded and i went right in to the college scene on the west coast, and i mean it was hot on the west coast and -- >> host: and what is the issue were debating back then that you're still debating now? >> caller: the basic -- the foundation of what really is c'mon, like the speaker just commented on, capitalism is for all the things good coming essentially separated workers from the surplus value that they have created often with physical damage of their health and that's what we were talking about 40 years ago, 50 years ago. the same thing. and we have to stay on that. >> host: thank you. thanks fo

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then walter mosley will be here. he will be in ag call-in program to talk about his new book about american democracy called 12 steps toward political revelation. our next panel session is inside paper hall called the living constitution. includes john dean, harvey weinstein, and allen, a founding dean of the university of california irvine school of law moderated by jim newton who is editor at large of the l.a. times. right now it is time for a panel session about los angeles called los angeles this in memory, moderated by a columnist for the l.a. times. the panelists include william deverell, leo braudy, lawrence culver, and d.j. waldie. live coverage by book tv from the los angeles times festival of books begins shortly. thank you for being with us. [inaudible conversations] >> welcome to los angeles. thank you all for being here. sometimes i think -- and here is the paradox. there seems only to be a mess and not much memory about los angeles. that is paradoxical because this is a place that may have worked harder

then walter mosley will be here.g call-in program to talk about his new book about american democracy called 12 steps toward political revelation. our next panel session is inside paper hall called the living constitution. includes john dean, harvey weinstein, and allen, a founding dean of the university of california irvine school of law moderated by jim newton who is editor at large of the l.a. times. right now it is time for a panel session about los angeles called los angel t