. >> best-selling author john grisham discussed his work with the innocence project and in helping those wrongfully convicted. here's a portion of the program. >> once i realize there are so many innocent people in prison , it has become 15 years later, 17 years later, something i am still fascinated by as a storyteller smaller versions find it deeply troubling that could be prevented if they have will to do so, there are thousands of them. we have had over 2000 and last 25 years. that is the tip of the iceberg. >> you can watch the rest of this conversation watch all of john grisham's tv appearances by searching for him on our website booktv.org. >> weekends on cspan2 are intellectual feats. every saturday american history tv documents america's story and on sunday book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding for cspan2 comes from these television companies and more. including media calm. >> the world changes in an instant media, is ready, internet tracking sword and we never slowed down. schools and businesses went virtual and we powered a new reality. because

. >> best selling author john grisham discusses work with the innocence project and those wrongfully convicted. here's the portion of the program for. >> once i realized they are so many innocent people in prison , it has become 15 years later, 17 years later, something i am still fascinated by as a storyteller. a rate of conviction is a fantastic story because of the suffering, the injustice, the waste. i have written some of those, smaller versions. i found it deeply troubling because almost all of them could have been prevented. and we could prevent most of them today if we had the will to just do so. there are thousands of them. we've had two thousands in the last year's parade that the tip of the iceberg. >> you can watch the rest of this conversation and find all of john grisham's book tv appearances by searching for him on our website booktv.org. >> next on book tvs after words program new yorker staff writer patrick writes on the family's wealth that was built on pharmaceuticals which included valium and oxycontin for his injury by author and journalist beth macy. >> congratu

. >> john grisham discussed his work with the innocence project and in helping those wrongfully convicted's a portion of the program. >> once i realized that there were so many innocent people in prison, it's become 15 years later, 17 years later, something i still am fascinated by. as a storyteller because every wrongful conviction is a fantastic story because of the suffering, the injustices, the waste. i've written some of those in smaller versions. and as a lawyer, i was deeply troubled because almost all of them could be, could have been prevented and we could prevent most of them today if we had the will to do so. but there are thousands of them. we had over 2,000 and the last 25 years. and that's the tip of the iceberg. >> you can watch the rest of this conversation and find all of john grisham's book tv appearances by searching for him on the website, booktv.org. >>> welcome to the 18th and alice book festival. special thanks for hosting the festival and anonymous donors for helping underwrite to this. a couple of reminders. first of

. >> you can watch the rest of this conversation and find all of john grisham's book tv appearances by searching for him on the website, booktv.org. >>> welcome to the 18th and alice book festival. special thanks for hosting the festival and anonymous donors for helping underwrite to this. a couple of reminders. first of all, there should be i think a green "asked the question" button at the bottom of the screen. as we proceed with our excellent authors, please feel free to write your question in there and as we get near the end of the session, we will do our best to answer the question. number two, by their books. i had the pleasure of reading these books and i thinker that m a better person for it. so please join me in. we are here to talk about the opioid crisis. this could well be the tail of the opioid crisis because they tell stories of opioids to be aware of. to set the stage i want to share the facts. overdose deaths are the number one killer of young americans. the number one killer of our young people. number two, the drug crisis was banned before the pandemic that covid has

. >> you can watch the rest of this conversation and find all of john grisham's book tv appearances by searching for him on our website booktv.org. >> next on book tvs after words program new yorker staff writer patrick writes on the family's wealth that was built on pharmaceuticals which included valium and oxycontin for his injury by author and journalist beth macy. >> congratulations on the stunning success of empire of pain. you have really hit it out of the park. the reviews have been fantastic and no wonder. in my view, only as someone who is written a book about the opioid crisis but someone who has spent a lot of time with families impacted by it, you have rivet while written a derivative narrative, you have not only dug into the documents, you have interviewed the doorman, the yoga teacher, the secretary, the lawncare folks, some of whom themselves were addicted to oxycontin. an immigrant story andy a family saga a page turner about who wields a power in america. a reviewer in new york magazine, sarah jones i thought really nailed it when she said in her beautiful review of yo

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and her unexpected death would get caught up in a chain of events right outside of a john grisham over. the trail, murder, and billions of dollars in fraud. melissa lewis. at the start of every thing awful would follow. >> it ended up being the beginning of the end. missy as her family called her, had come so far. penthouse lawyer was unlikely for a wrestling high school dropout. her mother lisa low point. >> she was a kid who didn't really finish high school, she got the ged ticket. >> that's correct, she did plan to be a high school drop thought she was hurry to get life. started >> and focused enough finally to finish college. then in her late twenties golfer a lot agree. she breezed passed the lander law students to become the prestigious editor of the long view. and she caught the eye of one of her professors. scott rusty. who took her on as an intern. office manager depreciate the, met her owners first day of work. >> what did melissa bring to the? party >> she was smart, capable. she was everything you would want in a associate attorney. >> she was also one of the nicest people

he compared it to john grisham prime novel.nit, they're comparing it to all that that are shared on front porch is everywhere in the south. few could rival these story playing out in hampton, south carolina. we will bring our viewers any breaking details as i came in. >> i compared it to and episode of outer banks. intrigue, developing now, and man in pennsylvania facing charges for having weapons of mass destruction. the arrest coming days before september 11th and only a coupl of hours from shanksville. we're passengers overtook the passengers. mike emanuel, is here with more. >> law enforcement sources tell us this guy had enough material in a home lab to potentially make it explosive devices more devastating than the boston bombing. he is 44 years old, we're told he was known two federal and local law enforcement in this was a joint investigation between police and middletown, pennsylvania in the whole investigation team. they say the public was at extreme risk, please say they'v required numerous explosive substances in co

grisham being one. you know, you talk about john bolton, mick mulvaney, general mattis, all these folks who knew what donaldving and yet chose not to share that with the american people before the election. but having said that, fiona hill's essay is really important and the points she makes, i think, is not just that donald trump had this weird man crush on vladimir putin, but he also shared his world view. they actually shared this illiberal contempt for democratic norms and she describes the way that america and russia have kind of coalesced, how there's been a convergence of our political styles and the way in which trump has helped import the kind of chaotic politics that putin thrived on. and so, you're right, simply removing donald ump from the white house hasn't changed that, because what's happened is, putin's style of politics has infected the american body politic and we're left to deal with that and you know, fiona hill basically describes our polarization, by the way, as a serious national security issue. i mean, she makes that point very, very explicitly, that that is now the national security