brian curtis is a "new york times" best-selling author of several books and has contributed to sports illustrated. curtis has served as a national reporter for cbs college sports and was nominated for two local emmys for his work as the reporter for fox sports network. please give him a warm welcome. [applause] >> thank you, nancy. good morning. how are we? i love savannah. you have great restaurants. you, every day is beautiful weather like this. [laughing] can i i just see a show of han. how many of you live in the landings? good lord tickets only part about about how phenomenal it is there but i'm truly honored to beer be in savannah to talk about one of the most impactful books for me that i've done out of my --,o tell you a quick story about rings. i don't wear a class ring. went to the university of virginia irks some men wear jewelry, some don't. i was researching this book and heard about rings. rings that are given to participants who play in the rose bowl. in particular, the 1942 rose bowl that i wrote about, players and young men from duke and oregon state were all given a

[applause] >> please join me in thank brian curtis. as you exit the venue, you will see our wonderful volunteers with yellow buckets to accept your donations to the savannah book festival. it is because of your generosity that we are able to keep the festival saturday free. please help us to continue. thankk you. thank you for coming. [inaudible conversations] >> if your mom read it, what was her reaction to this line -- and, again, that is fiction book, but -- we were made for tv family, and when he called action, we hit our marks and delivered our lines like pros. the scripts were all the same, we had the formulas down. >> actually, that doesn't have to do much with my family, but it does deal with pop culture and sort of talking about the cosby show. when the cosby show came out, a lot of middle class black people embraced it as like, oh, we're finally on tv. a brownstone in brooklyn heights, two parents who were professionals and in many ways the first time we saw ourselves in that particular way on tv. pop culture is very importan

parker, my name is brian curtis, i'm writing this book. i'd love to talk to you about your dad and world war ii and the rose bowl. and most of them would get emotional immediately and said brian, we would love to tell you the story but we don't know it. i had never talked about war, and dad never talked about the rose bowl. what we knew he played but we don't know much. as excited as i would get to track down these family members it was equally disappointed understand they could not be helpful to me. so i would get on a plane and go to oregon in the small towns of jefferson and albany and hood river and salem in the outskirts of portland, and try to collect as much information that it could from long-lost cousins or from local libraries or the archives at oregon state and similar doing the same thing at duke university where i found personal letters that were written home form the war front that probably have not been touched since you're donated to the archives. so part of this project was piecing together a military files, academic trans

is a live coverage of the savannah book festival now continues pick you will hear from author brian curtis. he will be talked about his book that looks at the only rose bowl to ever take place outside of pasadena, california. this is live coverage on booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, book lovers. my name is nancy and

next up is author brian curtis on the only rose bowl to ever take place somewhere other than pasadena, california. our live coverage of the savannah book festival continues shortly. [inaudible conversations] >> booktv takes hundreds of other programs throughout the country all year long. here's a look at some of the events will be covering this week. covering this week. monday at politics and prose bookstore in washington dc, to hear lanny davis, former special counsel for president clinton share his thoughts on the outcome of the 2016 election. on tuesday we head to roosevelt house in new york city where former white house official and cabinet secretary will examine our democracy and share his views on how to bring back trustworthy systems of government. later that night at new york university, the presentation of the ten america literary award given annually since 1963 which recognize books in a range of categories from biography or science writing to essays and poetry. on wednesday at the green light extorting brooklyn investigative journalist vegas on white nationalism in america.

[applause] >> pleased in a given thinking brian curtis. as you exit, you will see our wonderful volunteers with yellow buckets to accept your donations to the savannah book festival. it is because of your generosity that were able to keep the festival saturday, , free. please help us to w continue. thank you. thank you for coming. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and that was author brian curtis on the 1942 rose bowl. in humans would be back with more live coverage of the savannah book festival. up next author scott shapiro talking about the 1928 leaseback outlawed war around the world. our live coverage will continue shortly. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> what i trace in here is, is what happened to this country in the 1960s. opportunity was not the same person in 1968 that he was in 1961 and no one in the country was. they are worthry segreg

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> that was for brian curtis on the 1942 rose bowl. in a few minutes we will be back with more live coverage of the savannah book festival. up next, arthur scott schapiro talking about the peace pact that outlawed war around the world. our live coverage will continue shortly. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> what i trace in here is what happened to this country in the 1960s. bobby kennedy was not the same person in 1968 that he was in 1961 and no one in the country was. there were segregationists in 1961 who were not segregationists in 1968. when you look at what happened to people's opinions and their view of the world, bobby kennedy changed an average amount for someone with their eyes open at that time. there were people who went through more dramatic changes, bigger pendulum swings in their lives. and we get into how the 60s changed every one. jean mccarthy and everyone else except for one senator voted for the gulf of tonkin resolution, that was the resolution

brian curtis on the 1942 rose bowl that was made in north carolina instead of california. dan stillman talks about the