dr. connie mariano and gloria fedlt. the coverage of the fest vam of books will continue in a half hour with a discussion on astronomy, coauthors of observatories of the southwest. for a schedule of event coverage from this year's festival of books, visit booktv.org. more from tucson after this break. >> i had this enormous following and you're a kind of cult figure, and i was trying to figure out is there any recent historical figure that you think you are analyst to? people throw off the restraints of modesty. >> just to be clear though that 10,000 people come together because they are drawn to the same vision of each other and want to think about and reflect on the incredible progress made over the last 20 years against what is a true crisis in the country, education and inequity, and what we need to do to solve the problem. >> you will be treated as a kind of rock star. [laughter] >> you know what, the sad reality is, i mean, maybe we would all wish, but, you know, there's critics and my friends, and it will be fun,

dr. connie mariano and gloria feldt to the festival, and we will begin with dr. mar yang owe's presentation -- mariano's presentation. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, becky, and thank you all for being here today. this is a challenge because i like to be unlimited physically, and i'm sort of limited right now physically as my colleague will agree, but we're going to handle it the best we can. in about 12 minutes i want to share you the journey which i outline in my book and encourage you to look at. one of the joys of being first or is you, obviously, get all the attention of being the first in a particular field, but the sadness is, number one, that you had to be the first in that particular field. but the other is the hope that people will follow you so you won't be the last. let me share with you a story. we're all here because we like stories, books are about stories, and we're going to talk about leadership. and in a lot of ways my life, my story, my journey is one about finding that i am a leader and becoming a leader. i live in arizona, i live in scott

dr. connie mariano and gloria feldt to the festival, and we will begin with dr. mar yang owe's presentation -- mariano's presentation. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, becky, and thank you all for being here today. this is a challenge because i like to be unlimited physically, and i'm sort of limited right now physically as my colleague will agree, but we're going to handle it the best we can. in about 12 minutes i want to share you the journey which i outline in my book and encourage you to look at. one of the joys of being first or is you, obviously, get all the attention of being the first in a particular field, but the sadness is, number one, that you had to be the first in that particular field. but the other is the hope that people will follow you so you won't be the last. let me share with you a story. we're all here because we like stories, books are about stories, and we're going to talk about leadership. and in a lot of ways my life, my story, my journey is one about finding that i am a leader and becoming a leader. i live in arizona, i live in scott

dr. connie mariano and gloria fedlt. the coverage of the fest vam of books will continue in a half hour with a discussion on astronomy, coauthors of observatories of the southwest. for a schedule of event coverage from this year's festival of books, visit after this break. >> i had this enormous following and you're a kind of cult figure, and i was trying to figure out is there any recent historical figure that you think you are analyst to? people throw off the restraints of modesty. >> just to be clear though that 10,000 people come together because they are drawn to the same vision of each other and want to think about and reflect on the incredible progress made over the last 20 years against what is a true crisis in the country, education and inequity, and what we need to do to solve the problem. >> you will be treated as a kind of rock star. [laughter] >> you know what, the sad reality is, i mean, maybe we would all wish, but, you know, there's critics and my friends, and it will be fun, but, you know, it's not all a