harvard university's class of 1963 that graduated 18 african-americans including our next author, kent garrett. stay tuned for more from georgia in just a moment. >>> while we wait for the next author event to begin, we want to show you a portion of this weekend's "after words" program. pacific research institute's sally pipes offers her thoughts on health care reform. >> host: now, you're from canada. you've mentioned that a number of times. being a canadian native, you've seen it firsthand. you've seen government-run health care. >> guest: i grew up under it. the federal government fully took over the canadian health care system in 1984. no private coverage is allowed for anything considered medically necessary. most things are medically necessary in health care. a couple of things that aren't, cosmetic surgery if i want to make myself look younger, better, lasik surgery for your eyes. the prices have gone down, not gone up because the government isn't involved. in canada in '84 the government took over. i worked at the frazier institute where we started a project called waiting your turn: a

please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeannie else worth. [applause] finish jeanne ellsworth. [applause] >> well, thank you for enlightening us, and i'll let you know the book is called "the last negroes at harvard." 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, and that's what we were called then, and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. we were from all different parts of the country -- north, south, east and west -- and we came from different economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. and we, heretofore they'd been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time. and most guys would just go and do their four years and then get out of town. finish leave cambridge. but for us it was different in the sense that we had numbers, the 18, and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. and we were able to become actually a force for change at harvard, and harvard or -- we changed harvard and harvard changed us. and that's essentially what the book is about. it's about our fo

please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeannie else worth. [applause] finish jeanne ellsworth. [applause] >> well, thank you for enlightening us, and i'll let you know the book is called "the last negroes at harvard." 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, and that's what we were called then, and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. we were from all different parts of the country -- north, south, east and west -- and we came from different economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. and we, heretofore they'd been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time. and most guys would just go and do their four years and then get out of town. finish leave cambridge. but for us it was different in the sense that we had numbers, the 18, and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. and we were able to become actually a force for change at harvard, and harvard or -- we changed harvard and harvard changed us. and that's essentially what the book is about. it's about our fo

at 12:45, kent garrett and gene elsworth recounts the journey of black men admitted into harvard. and he hed larson on the partnership between benjamin franklin and george washington. identity and race and here experiences growing up in puerto rico. at 4:30 p.m., michelle sullivan on leadership and philanthropy. the savannah book festival live starting saturday at 9 a.m. eastern. and be sure to watch our live coverage of the tucson festival of books next month on book tv on c-span2. >> sunday, at 9 p.m. eastern on after words, sally pipes makes the argument against medicare for all in her latest book "false premise, false promise", just in december there were over 4 million brits on a waiting list to get treatment and the cancer treatment is not supposed to be delayed from seeing a general practitioner to general treatment more than 62 days. they haven't met the u.k. that standard for over five years and more important, under the world health organization study, brits are the bottom of the rung in most industrialized countries. >> watch after words sunday night on book tv on c-spa

kent garrett and jeanne ellsworth are with us today courtesy of tom and margaret morse. mr.ted from harvard in 1963. he has had a 30-year emmy and peabody award-winning career in television news and documentaries. jeanne ellsworth has a ph.d. in social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from elementary school to prisons, to

his1:30, robert bilotta on 20 year legal battle against dupont. 12, kent garrett -- at 2:00, edward marsonthe partnership between george washington and benjamin franklin. author ds. sullivan onhelle leadership and philanthropy. watch our live coverage of the tucson festival of books, next month on c-span tv, on c-span2. >> sunday night on q&a, a look at american presidents. with journalist and historian, craig fairman. thatu saw it in that quote kennedy's father was the one pulling the strings behind the scenes. that's not true. jack kennedy won the pulitzer prize. he brought up the pulitzer prize. he said i would rather win a pulitzer prize than to be president. because he had this strong desire for literary fame, even though he did not want to do literary work, he got himself the prize. in new york city, in washington, d.c., people have been gossiping, did people really write that book? i wonder how much money they are getting out of the royalty text -- checks. the pulitzer changed the equation. it made it a moral and ethical question. leaders are like this too. when i was at the preside

harvard university's class of 1963 that graduated 18 african-americans including our next author, kent garrett. stay tuned for more from georgia in just a moment. >>> while we wait for the next author event to begin, we want to show you a portion of this weekend's "after words" program. pacific research institute's sally pipes offers her thoughts on health care reform. >> host: now, you're from canada. you've mentioned that a number of times. being a canadian native, you've seen it firsthand. you've seen government-run health care. >> guest: i grew up under it. the federal governmen