i served on the ballpark mission bay transportation coordinating committee before duvall park was built. i am hoping you will be here a lot in the future, but you never know. i opposed this conditional use application. we are desperately trying to put together a coordinated traffic and parking plan for the ball park. we are working very closely with mta. we have extremely good transit. the 30 and 45 stop almost across the street from this lot. the 10 a half a block away. of course, we have caltrans, the m, and the t. evenings and weekends in this neighborhood, if there is no ball game going on, there is tons of street parking. if there is a ball game going on, that is who is going to park there. ballpark fans are willing to pay 10 times what anybody else will pay to park in the neighborhood. the manager of the china basin building told me he was getting $100 a car during the world series for ballpark parking, which is pretty outstanding. if you do approve this conditional use, and again, i think it is a mistake, because we have already got a lot of congestion in this neighborhood before

he rarely played blindfold chess but he did, on a trip from the duval street from key west to cuba when he played as a young man he play blindfolded chess. not remembering the games. but to bobby in a sense he was always playing blindfold chess because he was going over games in his mind. >> what made him and i american? >> there was a story that appeared bleak originally series of stories in life magazine about bobby and the writer who is now dead wrote the stories with a contract from bobby that he would not write a book about them. a year-and-a-half or two years after the match was over he cannot with a book so bobby sued him in court for $100 million and bobby always had problems lawyers and decided to handle the case himself so the brief was scribbled on a yellow paper and that kind of a and eventually -- he said there was no justice in the american jurisprudence system and therefore at that point he said i won't pay taxes anymore. i don't believe in america. it is corrupt government. >> i want to thank you for delivering to us the second book. the first when he rode anything you a

others include billy collins and governor duvall patrick. you can find more information in the events flier. after the talk this afternoon, there's time for questions after which there's a book signing at the table, and you can get signed copies up at the registers. when you know you buy a book from the harvard bookstore, you're supporting a local institution who cares about books, and this author series would not be possible without that support. we are pleased to have c-span's here recording for book tv. if you have a question, wait for the microphone to come to you before asking your question. now is a good time to make sure you silenced your cell phones. this afternoon, i'm pleased to introduce maya jasanoff. she's an aword winning historian and bringing a new story in the untold work, the 60,000 men and women who remained loyal to the british empyre. the loyalists decided to leave their homes and become refugees elsewhere and all over the world. the boston globe calls this a masterful account and others note losers seldom get to write t

, the oldest, the james caan character, michael, and tom hagen the adopted son, the dickie val -- duvall character argued very similarly to the arguments you get in america the the neepo conservative argument is pop's been shot, let's shoot everyone. it's the knee 0 conargueue. tom hague ep says we got to talk to everyone. let's negotiate, use institutions. the five families is their u.n. they sound like democrats. michael is the only one who acts like a realist and says it depends on the situation, whether we use force, whether we don't, whether we engage or don't. all i care about is the family surviving. that's what he cares about. that's the al pacino lament and that's where i am. i don't care how we get there. brian: you have a book called "to begin the world over again" about lawrence avenue rabia. at the top you have a quote from lawrence will kerrson, around you a -- you talk about colin powell being a realist. people watching this would say he had a chance and he didn't stop the idea of going into iraq. how much of a real ivet -- realist was he there? >> i think he was a shakesp

sonny, the oldest, the james caan character, michael, and tom hagen the adopted son, the robert duvall character argued very similarly to the arguments you get in america. the neoconservative argument is sonny. pop's been shot, let's shoot everyone. we need clarity and decisiveness and strength. it's the neocon argument. tom hagen says we got to talk to everyone. let's negotiate, use institutions. the five families is their u.n. let's do that. they sound like democrats. michael is the only one who acts like a realist and says it depends on the situation, whether we use force, whether we don't, whether we engage or we don't, whether we engage or don't. it is that situational reality. all i care about is the family surviving. that's what he cares about. that's the al pacino lament and that's where i am. i don't care how we get there. i care that we use these things creatively to favor the benefits of the united states. brian: you have a book called "to begin the world over again" about lawrence of arabia. at the top you have a quote from lawrence wilkerson, around you talk about colin po

interestingly, to me this latest poll which was taken two or three weeks ago by peter hart and linda duvall, a bipartisan team, suggested that even among tea party members, self-identified tea party members the result was split down the middle on whether there thub federal funding for public broadcasting. so if we are going to be a government by the consent of the governed the governed like public broadcasting and want to see it continue. host: we are getting a number of conservative viewers who are voicing their opinion about the conservative points of view on public radio and television. here is an example. guest: well, i can't tell you who exactly a tea party voice is, but i will say that in kentuc kentucky, which has a long running public affairs program called "kentucky comment," the most prominent tea party member who got his start really on public television in kentucky was senator rand paul when he was running a tax reform group and they gave him all kinds of air time to make his point. senator paul does not want want to continue federal funding for public broadcasting, but he was a

we heard from another governor today in that hearing, there were three, governor duvall patrick of massachusetts was one and governor haley barbour of mississippi and mr. speaker was the other. governor bashor was saying a couple -- governor barbour instituted a program in the state of mississippi that would make sure people on the medicaid program were eligible, they deserve to be there. they weren't eating somebody else's lunch, as the expression would go, they weren't illegal immigrants, their income wasn't too high to make them eligible for this safety net program. and of course, mr. speaker, as we all know, thank goodness, income from year to year can get better. we're still waiting for that to happen. i think obamacare and some of this other policies that we're seeing over the last four years is preventing that from happening. but -- so governor barbour would make people come and face to face verify that they were still eligible from year to year. as i understand it, this rule, this maintenance of effort would prohibit -- he's already done it in mississippi, but any other state as an examp