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the wife of the late great christopher hitchens. we were talking about his prodigious outlook.ven in the last few days, pumping out the stuff. what was your favorite piece, if you have one? like choosing a favorite child. >> yeah, i mean if it was like choosing a favorite child, then i would have been the most profligate woman on the planet. i was looking at the waterboarding piece and the james bond and spying matter. >> what would he have thought about the petraeus thing? >> he would have loved it. sex and money without any of the ideology. it's bizarre. spying, as if everything was reduced to the housewives of tampa. >> how do you think he would have liked to have been remembered? >> as somebody who said, which he said in the front of the -- the beginning of his memoir. live all you can. it's a mistake not to. >> the four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, picnics, and then he named a certain sexual practice. and it has been my template ever since. he was entirely correct for the ones i have knowledge of. a fabulous book. "mortality," really powerful,
the wife of the late great christopher hitchens. we were talking about his prodigious outlook.ven in the last few days, pumping out the stuff. what was your favorite piece, if you have one? like choosing a favorite child. >> yeah, i mean if it was like choosing a favorite child, then i would have been the most profligate woman on the planet. i was looking at the waterboarding piece and the james bond and spying matter. >> what would he have thought about the petraeus thing? >>...
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. >>> coming up next, remembering the one and only christopher hitchens. based on this chart ? don't rush into it, i'm not looking for the fastest answer. obviously verizon. okay, i have a different chart. going that way, does that make a difference ? look at verizon. it's so much more than the other ones. so what if we just changed the format altogether ? isn't that the exact same thing ? it's pretty clear. still sticking with verizon. verizon. more 4g lte coverage than all other networks combined. social security are just numbers thinkin a budget.d... well, we worked hard for those benefits. we earned them. and if washington tries to cram decisions about the future... of these programs into a last minute budget deal... we'll all pay the price. aarp is fighting to protect seniors with responsible... solutions that strengthen medicare and... social security for generations to come. we can do better than a last minute deal... that would hurt all of us. in that time there've been some good days. and some difficult ones. but, through it all, we've persevered, supporting some of th
. >>> coming up next, remembering the one and only christopher hitchens. based on this chart ? don't rush into it, i'm not looking for the fastest answer. obviously verizon. okay, i have a different chart. going that way, does that make a difference ? look at verizon. it's so much more than the other ones. so what if we just changed the format altogether ? isn't that the exact same thing ? it's pretty clear. still sticking with verizon. verizon. more 4g lte coverage than all other...
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his arrival and my being here as an ambassador would have meant a lot to him. >> of course christopher hitchens you can type that in to the c-span archives are booktv archives and hundreds of pro--- programs will come in. we have done an in-depth with christopher programs. cary goldstein is the publisher of 12. >> thank you thank you so much. >> backed to the red carpet here at the national book awards, 63rd annual. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> joining us here at the national book awards is well-known reviewer and critic for "usa today." i'm going to get you over here. you are in a better light. i don't need to worry about that. how important are the national book awards? >> well, in the book world, it's very important but not quite as important as the pulitzers. they are second to the pulitzers the most prestigious award, and obviously they are trying to make them more sort of cultural phenomenon along the lines of the book awards, the fiction awards of britain. >> have you read any of the finalists and do you comment on the finalists? >> well, i did -- i've always be
his arrival and my being here as an ambassador would have meant a lot to him. >> of course christopher hitchens you can type that in to the c-span archives are booktv archives and hundreds of pro--- programs will come in. we have done an in-depth with christopher programs. cary goldstein is the publisher of 12. >> thank you thank you so much. >> backed to the red carpet here at the national book awards, 63rd annual. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >>...
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this one is on christopher hitchens from the late christopher hitchens who died nearly a year ago.it is a postmortem. it is called mortality. his widow, carol blue, will be on the panel, along with his good friends, martyn amos and robert wilde. that is the panel coming up in about a half-hour or so. we will bring you live coverage of that, as well. after that, carol blue will be joining us to take twitter, e-mail, and facebook comments. just the social media. we want to show you those comments right now. if you want to send in any any comments or questions you may have for carol blue, can do it at booktv@c-span.org and you can do it via twitter as well. booktv -- at booktv is our twitter handle. and facebook.com/c-span. -- actually,/booktv. sorry about that. we will have a chance to get to them when we are joined by carol blue. now joining us on our center in miami is a familiar face you watch the history channel. a familiar name if you like thrillers and novels, and that is brad meltzer. sir, it's not often that we talked to authors about lisa simpson and dolly parton and the thr
this one is on christopher hitchens from the late christopher hitchens who died nearly a year ago.it is a postmortem. it is called mortality. his widow, carol blue, will be on the panel, along with his good friends, martyn amos and robert wilde. that is the panel coming up in about a half-hour or so. we will bring you live coverage of that, as well. after that, carol blue will be joining us to take twitter, e-mail, and facebook comments. just the social media. we want to show you those comments...
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that was carol blue, christopher hitchens would do. unscripted as you can see right there. well, we are here at chapman auditorium. there's one more event in your today, and that's bill o'reilly talking about his book, our plan was to come in and bringing to you live. however, mr. o'reilly has prohibited booktv from being in the room with him. so we will not be bringing you that live today. now, we want to let you know that we will be live again tomorrow, and here very quickly as a book at tomorrow's schedule. james patterson, beginning at noon, the novelist, the thrill rider. he's going to be here. is one of the top selling authors in all of the united states. he will be here beginning at noon but he will be talking specifically about a reading program that he has started. so we'll bring you james patterson live. following james patterson, a panel with three authors. >> just to let you know, later on in the day, neil barofsky will be doing a call in with us from our booktv said and david menace will be doing a facebook chat with us. and by way, that is both our facebook pa
that was carol blue, christopher hitchens would do. unscripted as you can see right there. well, we are here at chapman auditorium. there's one more event in your today, and that's bill o'reilly talking about his book, our plan was to come in and bringing to you live. however, mr. o'reilly has prohibited booktv from being in the room with him. so we will not be bringing you that live today. now, we want to let you know that we will be live again tomorrow, and here very quickly as a book at...
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friedel book and trying get ahold of it if you haven't read the trial of henry kissinger by christopher hitchens which is a rebuttal to the authorized biography. >> hi. i was wondering for each of you if you could, if you could pick out a common threat throughout his body of work, he very much -- my impression is that he very much tried to be genuine and to be accurate about the human condition and what do you think would be the common threat? >> we were asked this by charlie rhodes and i thought he was basically a street fighting -- and i think he was sort of lefty passion that led him to endorse iraq and the idea of liberating and he had a special passion and feeling for the kurds who had been true beneficiaries of the invasion. i have always thought he had sort of an impulsiveness in his thinking that made him that sometimes in his life susceptible to ideology and i always think that your ideology should be no theology. until 1989 the collapse of the soviet union i thought that hitch was very constrained in his writing because he said to me, what is true you do get tired of racing -- to trots
friedel book and trying get ahold of it if you haven't read the trial of henry kissinger by christopher hitchens which is a rebuttal to the authorized biography. >> hi. i was wondering for each of you if you could, if you could pick out a common threat throughout his body of work, he very much -- my impression is that he very much tried to be genuine and to be accurate about the human condition and what do you think would be the common threat? >> we were asked this by charlie rhodes...
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. >> rose: yet at the same time the late christopher hitchens and harold pinter had dramatically different takes on the iraq war. >> yes. >> rose: that's politics. >> that's politics and that's humankind. >> exactly. two learned men, two smart men, two men of letters came to this -- >> both passionate and persuasive and -- >> rose: with different points of view. the poems you talk about elude to death a lot. >> yes. they allude to death. they hay lewd to love. they allude to living life richly and fully. it's -- the celebration. it's called a celebration because it really is a very -- there's a great deal which is is positive and life-affirming about his body of work. it's not all mortar rib bund and mournful. >> rose: how would you define how it's life affirming? because it's -- >> i would define the work as life affirming through its -- the complex -- the complexity with which it'm embraces so many aspects of what it is to be alive. >> rose: this is what the "new york times" has written about your performance. "this modest, affecting show embodies the notion of the actor as a transparent
. >> rose: yet at the same time the late christopher hitchens and harold pinter had dramatically different takes on the iraq war. >> yes. >> rose: that's politics. >> that's politics and that's humankind. >> exactly. two learned men, two smart men, two men of letters came to this -- >> both passionate and persuasive and -- >> rose: with different points of view. the poems you talk about elude to death a lot. >> yes. they allude to death. they hay...
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[laughter] >> can you tell your favorite story about your very good friend, the late christopher hitchens? >> oh, it's kind of very, it's actually very strange for me still to come to washington and and have him not here. because every time i was coming i would stay with them. it's a big hole in the world. we used to play all these games. i invented the clean ones and martin invented the dirty ones. >> you are the sanitized version. >> the clean one was, well, different games. we have bob dylan quotation marathons. i would try and recite them all and he would try to siphon -- resides within. he had the most amazing memories we always one. we invented this game about titles of things it didn't quite make it. so, you know, farewell to weapons. [laughter] in mr. zhivago. today's in the life of -- [inaudible]. you know, for whom the bell rings. [laughter] there were lots of these -- toby did. also known as moby prick. [laughter] oh, blueberry thin. [laughter] anyway, then martin and he invented hysterical sex. hysterical sex game is where you replace the word love in a ton of things with the
[laughter] >> can you tell your favorite story about your very good friend, the late christopher hitchens? >> oh, it's kind of very, it's actually very strange for me still to come to washington and and have him not here. because every time i was coming i would stay with them. it's a big hole in the world. we used to play all these games. i invented the clean ones and martin invented the dirty ones. >> you are the sanitized version. >> the clean one was, well, different...
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here is famed interventionist, the now late christopher hitchens, saying in 2008 that he thinks the worldusan rice should have been -- has a long track record arguing for political and humanitarian interventionism, the sort many of us have advocated in darfour. she doesn't carry any baggage. >> hitch went for obama in 2008 because of the promise of more war in pakistan. and in that sense it doesn't surprise me. i have a memory of susan rice in the '90s standing in southern sudan saying there is slavery here, doing so many such a way that guarantied preliminary efforts to reach out to the government of khartoum. >> i think mccain has gotten a pass. he's a trigger happy hawk. susan rice represents this liberal interventionist wing, which i think is very problematic and has being militarized in ways we saw in libya. i hope that in any confirmation hearing, whether it's susan rice or john kerry, there will be questions raised about a new internationalism. one that is not a neoliberal or liberal interventionism that isn't about bombs, bases, intervention. but about rebuilding america's relatio
here is famed interventionist, the now late christopher hitchens, saying in 2008 that he thinks the worldusan rice should have been -- has a long track record arguing for political and humanitarian interventionism, the sort many of us have advocated in darfour. she doesn't carry any baggage. >> hitch went for obama in 2008 because of the promise of more war in pakistan. and in that sense it doesn't surprise me. i have a memory of susan rice in the '90s standing in southern sudan saying...
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many featured authors including jake tapper and christopher hitchens book, mortality. live coverage starts on saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on sunday at noon on c-span2's booktv. join us online
many featured authors including jake tapper and christopher hitchens book, mortality. live coverage starts on saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on sunday at noon on c-span2's booktv. join us online
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fair international, featured authors include bill o'reilly, reyna grande, joan walsh, and christopher hitchenslive coverage begins saturday at 10:00 eastern and sunday at noon on "book tv." >> "washington journal" continues. host: ron paul men from texas, welcome and thank you for being here. you are facing retirement. this is the last few weeks of your term facing the people of texas. the fiscal cliff is a big issue on the agenda in the winning weeks of congress. what do you want to see? caller: there is lots that i want to happen. i have been here for 30 years and nothing has happened. i only have two weeks left. i do not think much will happen. the real solutions are not even discussed. what they do a denture january, they will get some type of an agreement that they will solve their problems later. it will appease a few people. i do not think a major calamity is going to happen in january. it will do something very temporary. it is sort of like when we hear the news about the problems and greece. how many solutions have they had. the have probably had 15 solutions. every time they come up
fair international, featured authors include bill o'reilly, reyna grande, joan walsh, and christopher hitchenslive coverage begins saturday at 10:00 eastern and sunday at noon on "book tv." >> "washington journal" continues. host: ron paul men from texas, welcome and thank you for being here. you are facing retirement. this is the last few weeks of your term facing the people of texas. the fiscal cliff is a big issue on the agenda in the winning weeks of congress. what...
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featured offers include bill o'reilly, and a look at christopher hitchens.ith a panel that includes his widow. coverage starts saturday. and join us on 94 exclusive offer chats on facebook. facebook.com/booktv. host: washington journal is live this morning from the capitol complex on capitol hill. we are joined by kevin brady, a republican of texas who serves on the ways and means committee. is vice chairman of the joint economic committee. as congress faces this so-called fiscal cliff everyone is talking about, what do you think are the right conditions to deal? speaker john boehner says under the right conditions might be able to bargain. what are those? guest: i am cautiously optimistic that we will find some solution in a time. i think it would be irresponsible, a big it would be responsible for the president or either party to voluntarily drive off of the cliff. i think the key is that we want a smart balance to get the economy going, generate more revenue, as well as smart spending cuts. we really think those are conditions that actually get the econom
featured offers include bill o'reilly, and a look at christopher hitchens.ith a panel that includes his widow. coverage starts saturday. and join us on 94 exclusive offer chats on facebook. facebook.com/booktv. host: washington journal is live this morning from the capitol complex on capitol hill. we are joined by kevin brady, a republican of texas who serves on the ways and means committee. is vice chairman of the joint economic committee. as congress faces this so-called fiscal cliff everyone...
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. >> featured authors include bill oreilly, reyna grande, joane walsh, and christopher hitchens. join us on line with the exclusive author chats on facebook with hanna rosin and david maraniss on ook tv. now, a forum on women and the 2012 election. this is a little less than one hour and a half. >> i realize we are standing room only, which is great. my name is stephanie schriock. [applause] i am the president of emily's list. thank you on behalf of emily's list for joining us this morning. we're so excited to be here. we won. [applause] we won across the board. it was an historic night. we're glad to bring folks together today to share in that celebration. we want to talk about what we learned through this election as we move forward. this election was really about women. it was about women voters and it was about women candidates and women leaders. that is an incredible place for all of us. we will have a few special guests here today and then we will sit down with an incredible group of women leaders to talk about research and other things we saw regarding women voters. just t
. >> featured authors include bill oreilly, reyna grande, joane walsh, and christopher hitchens. join us on line with the exclusive author chats on facebook with hanna rosin and david maraniss on ook tv. now, a forum on women and the 2012 election. this is a little less than one hour and a half. >> i realize we are standing room only, which is great. my name is stephanie schriock. [applause] i am the president of emily's list. thank you on behalf of emily's list for joining us this...
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featured authors include bill o'reilly and others, including a look at the posthumous christopher hitchens book and a discussion with his widow. find more at fiebook.com/booktv. >> c-span invites students to send a message to the president for a chance to win the grand prize of $5,000. c-span's student cam video competition is open to students grades six through 12 and the deadline is january 18, 2013. for complete details and rules, go online to studentcam.org. >> on capitol hill today, republican senators john mccain, lindsay graham and kelly ayon called for creating a temporary select committee to investigate the attack in libia. they also said they would move to block the nomination of ms. rice as secretary of state. here's part of what they had to say. >> senator, do you think there was a national security threat in -- and thousands of -- in thousands of pages of information ended up on a florida socialite in secret emails involving the head of the c.i.a. and a top general in afghanistan and the fact that the federal bureau of investigation agent who was complaining to you stepped out
featured authors include bill o'reilly and others, including a look at the posthumous christopher hitchens book and a discussion with his widow. find more at fiebook.com/booktv. >> c-span invites students to send a message to the president for a chance to win the grand prize of $5,000. c-span's student cam video competition is open to students grades six through 12 and the deadline is january 18, 2013. for complete details and rules, go online to studentcam.org. >> on capitol hill...
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featured authors include reyna grande, joahn walsh, and christopher hitchens. live coverage saturday 10:00 eastern and sunday afternoon. >> david patraeus testified before a closed hearing on the investigation concerning the consulate attack. following the hearing committee members spoke to reporters. >> so far seven hours of hearings, we have spent the last two hours with former director patraeus. he laid out his view, which was very much appreciated. he answered a large number of questions. we still have two additional hearings. hopefully the preparations of the findings and a public hearing. >> big two this was a terrorist attack within 24 hours? >> i will not comment now. we will most likely comment on those things in our final report. i think we have a ways to go yet. i think they are trying to be very careful and cautious. >> [indiscernible] >> since you asked that question -- the roles of our committee are you cannot use something that you learned in a classified session. i can give you my assessment based on questions, my investigation, that what susan
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authors include bill o'reilly, john walsh, jake tapper and christopher fiction's's must book with a panel that includes his widow -- book.topher hitchens' and join us on line for exclusive offers chaps -- author chats on facebook. >> outgoing budget senate committee chairman kent conrad said a budget plan would likely total five the with trillion. this said raising the medicare eligibility age and changing the payment formula for social to draw benefits could be part of the final deal. senator conrad's remarks on "the wall street journal" ceo council meeting are about 25 minutes. >> mimi -- maybe the only constructive conversation has been a group of senators called the gang of six. we invited all of them but due to very -- various conflicts, we got one, so we what ask him to carry the whole burden of the six today -- senator kent conrad and who will be interviewed. senator conrad has been budget committee chairman and is retiring at the end of the year. great to have you here. >> good to be here. >> why don't we go back to the questions that will pick up on the first question david asked -- just the context and give a sense of the moo
authors include bill o'reilly, john walsh, jake tapper and christopher fiction's's must book with a panel that includes his widow -- book.topher hitchens' and join us on line for exclusive offers chaps -- author chats on facebook. >> outgoing budget senate committee chairman kent conrad said a budget plan would likely total five the with trillion. this said raising the medicare eligibility age and changing the payment formula for social to draw benefits could be part of the final deal....
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we will conclude our coverage with a panel on christopher hitchens and his postmortem book, mortality. that panel will include his widow, carol blue, his publisher cary goldstein and two friends martin amis and robert while. after that carol blue will be joining us here at miami-dade college to take your tweets and facebook questions so there is another exclusive on line chance for you to talk with the widow of christopher hitchens. this is the 29th annual miami book fair. about 100,000 people. this is a weeklong event and we kicked off last week with tom wolfe live from chapman hall but we are down here this weekend and will be live all weekend with 100,000 people attending this event every year. as well as about 350 authors are down here. it was founded by mitch kaplan, founder of books & books, a big bookstore down here in south florida. the c-span buses also here and we are handing out bookbags with our partners, comcast here in the miami area so if you happen to be in the area come on down. we are at miami-dade college on the northside of downtown miami. for the miami book fair.
we will conclude our coverage with a panel on christopher hitchens and his postmortem book, mortality. that panel will include his widow, carol blue, his publisher cary goldstein and two friends martin amis and robert while. after that carol blue will be joining us here at miami-dade college to take your tweets and facebook questions so there is another exclusive on line chance for you to talk with the widow of christopher hitchens. this is the 29th annual miami book fair. about 100,000 people....