once again, substituting for gwen ifill, michele norris of npr. michele: good evening. i hope your thanksgiving holiday was bountiful. now that the president has finished his holiday celebrations, he faces a difficult road ahead. as the white house regroups after two overseas trips that produced mixed results, and as the administration reconsiders how to press ahead after mr. obama's self described "shellacking" in the mid-term elections. complicating matters, the u.s. must decide how to respond to north korea's military aggression this week. the president himself has acknowledged that the weeks ahead present a test of leadership. and, peter, forget about the republican takeover of the house. it looks like the president has significant challenges in the lame duck session ahead. >> you think your plate is full, he has a lot on his plate and not a lot to be thankful. he has had a couple weeks since the election. look at what is on agenda since then. asian trade, tax cuts, nato summit, the new start traity, afghanistan transition, iran talks maybe, middle east maybe, unemp

as is michele norris. and the majority of african-americans that you might ever meet in the north, northwest, and west. i grew up around people who had migrated from georgia, carolinas, virginia to washington, d.c., grew up with the music, the language, the folk ways, the food, and no one -- no one ever talked about it as being the great migration. no one said i am someone who came up in the great migration. yet, it was everywhere. and i later as a journalist in interviewing people all over the country became more aware of how huge it was. because whenever you went, whether you are in los angeles or in chicago or detroit, there were always references to the south. everywhere that you went. it all became together for me. i wondered why was there in grapes of wrath for the huge migration that had gone on for most of the 20th century. that's what i set out to do. not being a novelist, i wrote it as nonfiction. so it took 15 years of interviewing, 1200 people, it took 15 years. if this book were human being, i

i want to talk about how washington changes after tuesday but michele norris, let's talk about the dramaorida, the three-way race. former president clinton tried to urge meek, who is far behind, get out of the race, seemingly to help governor crist. this is all blown up because he says he's not going to do it. crist says i don't know who i'm going to caucus with. it will depend. now clinton is trying to make up with meek. >> there's a worry that it won't just have an impact in florida, but it will have an impact around the country. the democrats have put a lot of effort into trying to bring out young voters tuesday and try to drive up the vote among african-americans. you talked about the impact of the internet, this is a story that's quickly become a national story beyond florida because of the blogosphere. bloggers were all over this. even if meek didn't step out, the impression is that someone tried to muscle him out of the race, which doesn't sit well with a lot of african-american voters. >> you see an impact, charlie? >> i don't think so. i don't think florida is on the radar scree

memoir, michele norris of npr. thank you for being on. >> every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of history, biography, and pub electric -- public affairs. here's a portion of one of the programs. >> hello, everybody. i thank the host for the gracious hospitality. i'm honored to be here alongside the doctor and many others. my name is reza kahlili. of course, that's not my real name. i hope i'm not scaring anyone with my appearance here the face and the voice. i was a student here in the '70s. then after they iranian revolution, i went back hoping that i can help my country. my best friend was in the revolution, and i joined the revolution in the guards. i thought that my expertise would help the establishment with infrastructure. but shortly after, i witnessed horrific events, i witnessed torture, rape, and youth in prison, just because they didn't agree to the clerical establishment. i witnessed execution, i witnessed disrespect to human dignity, and i could no longer take it. i decided to travel back to the u.

we have michele norris and isabel wilkerson, and i'm going to do a brief introduction for both of them and then i'm going to ask questions, and i will leave time at the end so that people can ask questions, so probably about 3:50 we will stop and you can ask questions. in the introduction to the grace of silence, michele norris writes should begin the process in 2009 because she became convinced an unprecedented hidden and robust conversation about race is taking place across the country in the wake of barack obama's historic residential campaign and his >> from this project he show apl net painful family secrets from her father shooting by thefshooe birmingham police left been twos weeks after discharge from service in world war two to a grandmother peddling pancake grdmothe makes as an itinerant and jemima. traveled from her childhood home to her father's childhood home in the deep south to explore the things left unsaid by her famile when she was growing up. the chosen as a journalist ofsea the year in 2009 by the nationat association of black joheurnalis and is a co-winner of a dup

in the introduction to the grace of silence a memoir, michelle norris writes should begin the project in 2009 because she became convinced an unprecedented robust conversation about race was taking place across the country in the week of barack obama's historic presidential campaign to office. from this project, secrets from her father's shooting by the birmingham police less than two weeks after his discharge from service in world war ii to her grandmother's pancake mix as an itinerant michele. she traveled to explore things left unsaid by her family when she was growing up. she was chosen as a journalist of the year in 2009 by the national association of black journalists and is the co-owner of a dupont, the award for the project in the 2008 vote. she's the host of national public radio's all things considered and has appeared on meet the press, charlie rose and the chris matthews show. and has written for among other publications, "the washington post," "the chicago tribune" and "the los angeles times." the warmth of other sons is to the surprise when author isabel wilkerson's firs

. >> i'm here with michele norris, the author of the grace ofe w suspect tell us, how did you come up with the title for this book? >> it's interesting you talk about the top because i wrestled with this. the title came to me when i was on a walk with the kids. i settled on this because this is a i book about the things tho my parents didn't talk to me about. painful expenses that they hadha that they chose not to shareo with me and my sisters because they didn't want to clutter they path forward. y experienced, it would have been easy to pass on pain and frustration, but they decided not to gunk up the engine of mobile. >> how did you write this book? >> i wrote about this book about the hidden conversations in the wake of america and the elections of barak obama. i was planning to write a book about other people. when i listened to the hidden conversation in my family, i discovered secrets that was kept from my generations and among those was my father was shot years ago after returning from his service. people were trying to assert their rights, and he never talked about that. he n

"parallel >> here with michele norris, the author of "the grace of silence." tell us, how did you come up h with the titleer for this book, and what is it about? >> it's interesting you askedice about the title because i wrestled with it, so the title actually came to me when i was on a walk with the kids, and i w settled on this because this is a book about the things that my parents didn't talk to me aboutk painful experiences that they had that they chose not to share with me and my sisters because they didn't want to clutter the path forward. and based on some of the things they experienced, it would have been easy for them to pass on their pick and their -- pain and their frustration, and they decided not to. they didn't want to gunk up the engine of upward mobility.ngi >> you're talking about, in particular, the smooting of your father. tell us about that, and how did that set the path to your writing this book? >> i originally set out to writi a book about the hidden abo conversation of race in america and the wake of the election of president barack ob

up next from the 2010 texas book festival in austin, the discussion with michele norris, and isabelle wilkerson. then at 9, afterwards with james zogby. >> alex kershaw's latest book "the envoy." who was the envoy? >> greatest hero. some people say he saved $100,000 lives at the end of the second world war. she became one the two honorary americans, winston churchill, and raul willenberg, to recognize the fact that he saved over 100,000 live, which today some people say is a million. one guy who went up against the greatest evil and the result is that are million people alive who wouldn't be. >> how did he do that? >> he was clever. bribed, controlled, he did whatever he could as a swedish diplomat in hungary to try to stop ikeman from killing the jews in europe. there was only one country with jews arrive, hungary. ikeman went into hungary on a mission to kill the last jews in europe. womennenberg was -- willenberg was there. he saved them. it's a story about how one person can make a difference. >> how did he life end? >> we don't know. it's a good questions. the russians won't say

twilight of the bombs: recent ch >> from the texas book festival in austin at discussion with michele norris, author of "the grace of silence: a memoir." and isabel wilkerson. the epic story of america's great migration. >> project, painful family secrets from her father's shooting by the birmingham police less than two weeks after his discharge from service in world war ii to her grandmother's peddling pancake mix as an itinerant aunt. and to explore things unsaid by her family when she was going up. michele was chosen as journalist of 2009 as the association of black journalists and is cowinner columbia award for the york project in the race 2008 vote. she's the host of national public radio's all things considered and has appeared on "meet the press," charlie rose and the chris matthew show and has written for among other publications "the washington post," the "chicago tribune" and the "los angeles times." the warmth of other sons, the epic story of america's great migration is pulitzer prize winner is isabel wilkerson's book. it talks about the migration of african-american the from the

a discussion with michele norris and author of the warmth of other suns, the epic story of america's great migration. >> thank you for coming to the discussion today. i'm going to do a brief introduction for both of them and ask a question. i will leave time at the end for people to ask questions too, so probably about 3:30 we'll stop, and you can ask questions. a to explore the things left unsaid by her family when she was growing up. michelle was chosen as your list of the year and she does not by national association of black journalists as a co-owner of a dupont columbia award for the york project, raised in the two 2008 though. she is the host of national public radio's, all things considered and has appeared on "meet the press," charlie rose and the chris mathews show. as written for other commercials come the "chicago tribune" "the los angeles times." the ones about her son, the epic story of great migration is pulitzer prize-winning author, isabel wilkerson 31st of. the migration of african-americans to the north and west of 1950s 1972 the stories of three people and their fa

>> i'm here with michele norris. >> i wrestled with the title and it came to me when i was on a walk with the kids. i settled on this. this is a book about the things my parents didn't talk to me about, painful experiences they had that they chose not to share with my and my sisters. based on some of the things they experienced, it would have been easy to pass on pain and frustration, but they decided not to gunk up the engine of mobile. >> how did you write this book? >> i wrote about this book about the hidden conversations in the wake of america and the elections of barak obama. i was planning to write a book about other people. when i listened to the hidden conversation in my family, i discovered secrets that was kept from my generations and among those was my father was shot years ago after returning from his service. people were trying to assert their rights, and he never talked about that. he never told the kids or my mother. once i discovered this, i needed to know more about my own family history and so i wound up pivoting and writing a different book. i set out on one path