. >> in new orleans? >> in new orleans, i was running a center. so people -- and this is when steve ambrose was getting big and also getting into trouble with plagiarism. there's this team at the eisenhower center. steve would do everything himself and his son would help him some. i think when you're productive, people are wondering how can you be so productive. i don't hear that anymore. i think at a certain age wk people get use today that's what you do. if anything now, i haven't had a book out in a couple of years, i'm getting the opposite. what's going on? what's happened to you? there are advantages and disadvantages of being prolific. the advantages are i'm always -- i never take a break from one book to the next. and to me, the questions i can never answer like how long does it take. like i'm writing right now a book called silent spring lef lugs on john kennedy, rachel carson and the environmental movement. well, that book began when i long ago did my book on theodore roosevelt. i'm learning how the u.s. forest service works. i'm learning

. >> in new orleans. >> in new orleans, i was running the center, and this is when steve ambrose was getting big, and also getting into trouble with plagiarism, steve did, and i was there, too, being very prolific, and so there's a feeling like there's this team at the eisenhower center and the same with steve ambrose, he would do everything himself, and his son hugh ambrose would help him some. but i think people, when you're productive, people are wondering how can you be so productive. i don't hear that anymore. i think at a certain age, people get used to that's what you do. i'm doing a book every couple of years. anything now, i haven't had a book out in a couple of years, i'm getting the opposite, well, what's going on, what's happened to you, you know. there are advantages and disadvantages of being prolific. the advantages are i'm always -- i never take a break from one book to the next. and to me, the questions i can never answer like how long does it take. like i'm writing right now a book called "silent spring revolution" on john kennedy, rachel carson and the '60s environ

and for new orleans question was what the classic new orleans book be. and i answered well, you know the obvious ones but then i said and then the real one i want is the hasn't been written yet. it's the it's the book michael lewis writes about new orleans. did you say that did in public? yeah precious on what is the michael lewis book about new orleans? i've avoided it. i mean i haven't really thought i haven't i thought i came first thought. the only thing i've meaningful i've ever written about this place was a long magazine piece. about katrina. oh, which i about to bring up which was so brilliant and so informed by the fact that you were from new orleans that i wanted more. so did i but i didn't have it and i came down and i thought i gathered string we moved the family down here for six months and gathered string and it's all the string is all in a box and maybe one day. but you know, it's such it was such a peculiar childhood that you don't realize is peculiar until you get out of here, and i think that like this place has informed my writing in s

in new orleans in new orleans. i was running a center and so people and this is when steve ambrose was getting big. and also getting into trouble with plagiarism steve did and i was there too being very prolific and so there's a feeling like this there's this team at the eisenhower son and the same with steve ambrose steve would just do everything himself and his son you ambrose would would help him some but i think just people when you're productive people are wondering how can you be so productive? i don't hear that anymore. i think at a certain age people get to that's what you do. i mean you're i'm doing a book every couple years if anything now, i haven't had a book out a couple years. i'm getting the opposite like what's going on, you know, let's see what's happened to you. you know, what's their advantages and disadvantages of being prolific the advantages are here. i'm always i've never take a break from one book to the next. and to me the questions i can never answer like how long does it take like i'm wri

for the people in new orleans, but my hometown of holly springs would have every april. a celebration. i think they officially called it the tour of homes meaning antebellum homes in the city, but colloquially it was not it the pilgrimage. and you would have people coming from i don't know how far from the south and they would essentially do confederate cosplay through the streets of my town you would see a young boys who were maybe in teenagers in confederate grays and young girls in these big hoop skirts, and they were just put on this big display of how great the confederacy was right with no acknowledgment of the evils. no acknowledgment the war of northern aggression. correct specific, correct? that's that's exactly what they what they would turn it. and so i brought that history to new orleans and so it was always i was always astonished by people who would say in the comments. well, you never even thought about these monuments until mitch said something or these things never crossed your mind say dude, i grew up in the shad. you mentioned the shadows your book. i'

coverage of the new orleans book festival continues now on book tv the y'all know everybody up here. y'all know bakari give him a big round of applause. he's from south carolina. clint smith clinton from new orleans and his grandpa's over there and his mama's and his daddy's there. so he's going to act right? today and job is to jarvis you from mississippi? holly springs, mississippi college brings, mississippi, although he's been to here so many times and he's been here so long. he actually is in new. orleanian. yes, whether he claims it or not. we claim him. so give him a round of applause. i have to say a couple of preliminary things before we start i'm here in my individual capacity. i'm speaking only for myself. and i'm cheryl's husband. so that's just kind of it. so, it's nice, it's nice. that's true. it's nice to it's nice to be with all of you, and i really wanted to thank walter isaacson and cheryl and the entire team and staff all sponsors for putting this fantastic book festival, they've been working on this now as you know, right before covid hit they were like you think

for new orleans the question was what would the classic new orleans book be, and i answered, well, you know, the obvious one, and then the real one i want hasn't been written yet, it's the book michael lewis writes about the new orleans. >> did you say that? >> yes. >> in public? [laughter] >> what is the michael lewis about new orleans? >> i have avoided it. i haven't really thought -- i thought -- ie came down, i first thought the only thing meaningful i've ever written about this place was a law magazine piece about katrina. >> oh, which i'd like to bring up, which was so brilliant and so informed by the fact that you were from new orleans that i wanted more. >> so did i, but i didn't have it, and i came down and i thought -- i gathered strength, moved the family down here for six months. it's all, the string is all in a box. and maybe one day. but, you know, it's such, it was suchch a peculiar childhood that you don't realize is peculiar until you get out of here. info the place has informed my writing in so many ways not least of which, i mean, i think that all the books are, it's

but all of the sudden i'm thrust into a world that is not new orleans it was broadly financial successful america new york. it is very successful people are making a lot of money and they are so unhappy for they are so miserable my most miserable college classmates knew they want to go to wall street and when they set foot on campus something isth wrong are all the people going to study economics have no interest in economics there going to work on wall street and have miserable lifeav successful but miserable lives for it's a right from the start i have a view of that world that is a little different. i think it is screwed up like why is this? why is this success? and there is no question that leads to liars poker bread there's no question that leads to particular a kind of armor that i had, they never persuaded me this was important even though they let me end they may be a successful person for a few years and were going to give me a lot of money. i could never really buy in because it seemed so cockeyed and miserable. >> they screwed up and let in a happyxa person. >> that is exactly.

longer than you're going to whether it be tulane university new orleans you give services and a book is an embodiment of that. it's something that gets put down and exists not just for us poor weekly news magazine former editors where we were told you only have to be right for a week. and so i think a book. it's interesting that everything's been decimated by the digital age. except books books are still selling. there's a need for some permanence as we hand wisdom down at a university you gather wisdom you create wisdom and in a book you put it down now, i would just add that for students. i might be here if you read a book it focuses your brain much more than reading a tweet and i think if you're really going to develop your brain and your ability to think which is the most important thing you can do as a student i think and as a person i think books help to focus the brain and make you go from the beginning to the end and actually get, you know, thought process and actually you get much more out of reading a book than almost any other kind of thing. you can read. that's an importan

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that exists longer than you are going to whether it's it university, new orleans, the book is an embodimentf that. something that gets put down and exists, not just for us poor weekly news magazine former editors were told you only have to be right for a week. and so i think a book, is interesting everything has been decimated except the books. books are still selling. there is a need for some permanence as we hand wisdom down as a university of gatherer wisdom you create wisdom and in the book you put it down. for students if you read a book than reading a tweet. ththink if you're really going o develop your brain and your ability to think which is the most important thing you can do as a student and a person i think it can help focus the brain and go from the beginning to the end and actually get the thought process. >> that's an important point we hyperlink all over. starts at the beginning and takes you by the hand to an argument, to a tale, the bible has the best leads in it with in the beginning, but it is a narrative chronology that helps you shape ideas. that is why it's a special b

i'm the man who accompanied eddie gloud to new orleans? where this is like saddam's baghdad his pictures everywhere. have y'all noticed this? it's just everywhere. so. i'm going to start with a serious question. you wrote a marvelous book about baldwin and what he meant in real time and can mean to us. so give us your origin story with baldwin. when did you first read him? when did he become so vital to you? well, first of all, thank you for the question and you see how he lies. this is john. why right? i got a sedantry. yeah, this car here. eddie is a cigar man. it's the only good thing about going to morehouse apparently, can you imagine this guy, but we're not gonna smoke. so my first encounter with my serious encounter with baldwin, john is actually in graduate school. you would think i would have read him and high school i went to high school on the coast of mississippi. so we can tell that story on another and another day. at morehouse i was kind of avoiding him in some ways. and in college, i mean in graduate school. i was an elliso

[laughter] >> some of her, this is called the new orleans book festival, once you call it the new orleans magazine, newspaper, twitter festival than what is it about bookss the must you to have your name behind and why are you so interested in books. >> hello institutions, things that exist other than you going to university in new orleans, and a book is an embodiment if that it is something that you put down and not just an additive or we would say you only have to be correct for a weekend so i think a book, it is interesting that everything is been decimated by the digital age except for books, they're still selling there is a need for some permanence as we hand the wisdom down at the university we gather the wisdom and created in the book you put the island - >> for the students, if you read a book and focuses your brain much more than reading a tweet and i think that if you're really going to develop your brain and ability to thinking, the most important thing is a student and as a person, i think the books help to focus the brain and make you go from the beginning to the end and actu

cnn's andy scholes is in new orleans with the preview of tonight's big showdowns. oh, my gosh. simply electric there in new orleans. >> reporter: fredricka, it's incredible. you look down bourbon street, all you see fans wearing blue because every single team in the final four, their colors are different shades of blue. this is one of the best final fours we've ever had, three of the four winningest college basketball teams in history of the game in duke, north carolina, and kansas. and villanova has won two national titles in the past six years. of course all the talk in new orleans and really around the country is duke versus north carolina. it's the first time we've ever had this amazing rivalry here in the ncaa tournament and we'll get in the final four, and this is coach k.'s last-ever weekend coaching. will he be able to go out on top here in new orleans? we'll have to wait and see. we'll find out. but i got the chance to catch up with coach k. after practice and asked him how he's feeling here in new orleans, and i of course asked him about facing off against duke's arch

i am in the city of new orleans and a great place. i'm grateful and my gratitude will make me more inclusive, but the other thing you should think is okay. let me question every belief i had the night before because i'm probably getting some things wrong and that's something we've lost as a society too. once you get locked into your beliefs these days you get in your echo chamber of talk radio or cable news and we don't say hey, maybe i was wrong about free trade in the davos consensus. so maybe i was wrong about affirmative action, or maybe i was wrong about the robert e lee statue and we have to sometimes say hey, i got some of these things wrong. well franklin was a deeply curious. person and that stems from that which is every moment of his life like leonardo da vinci would see something and stop and try to find out more about it. i saw the wonderful rainstorm today. he studied how the winds going rain storms and it helped them figure out that storms move up the coast and they certain way. that curiosity about the simplest things

and my wife was important and raised in new orleans. she was ready for a new adventure. we went and spent half a year in california to reagan's diaries. i had to work at the library. so one of our three children was born out there ha and we had a blast out there. it was so nice. working at the reagan library, the weather, we just decided let's make life an adventure. we don't need to stay in new orleans. we have each invested a lot of our life there. >> what did ann do in new orleans? >> she worked for a company called mcdermott for awhile. a long while. then she was in charge of booking trips and things. then had her own clothing store called spring. so when i met her, she was a small business owner of a very popular women's store not too far from tulane. >> three children, their names? >> our oldest is benton grace. >> named after? >> the painter thomas benton. who i just adore. he was from a midwest pop list painter but did these incredible portraits of the united states that i loved as a kid. i stillen joy going to lock for the bentons. the most expensive thing is a

and my wife was born and raised in new orleans and she was ready for a new adventure. we went -- after katrina we went and spent half a year in simi valley, california, to -- i edited reagan's diaries. i had to work at the library. i couldn't xerox them, it was a stipulation. so one of our three children was born out there in thousand oaks, california, right next to simi valley. and we had a blast out there. it was so nice. working at the reagan library, i was in simi valley, the weather. and we just decided, you know, let's make life an adventure. we don't need to stay in new orleans. we have each invested a lot of our life there. >> what did ann do in new orleans? >> she worked for a company called mcdermott for awhile. a long while. then she was in charge of booking trips and things. and then she was -- had her own clothing store, women's clothing store called spring on magazine. so when i met her, she was a small business owner of a very popular women's store not too far from tulane. >> you have three children. their names? >> our oldest is benton grace brinkley >>

new orleans so it's just so cool to be back. with the community again and to be on this panel on most of whom i know some of whom i just met but it's really was this call really was inspiring and it changed what i was going to talk about. pivoting off of donna's framing question who makes it through the glass ceiling and the other really innovative and progressive things and small pete progressive. doing politics that the other ladies have said and this is my one giant. 50 years in politics just my first political act was in 1970. i marched in the first earth day of war first birthday parade or march. in it back in the old environmentalist states that was 50 years ago time. just amazing. so what would inspired me on this call is the things that we were talking about that remain obstacles to women. breaking through the glass ceiling or elevating through the glass ceiling. so much has changed in those 50 years, but the essential guiding principles. remain the same and my big takeaway from 50 years in. business or politics or life

what did ann do in new orleans? she worked for a company called mcdermott for a while and a long while and then she and she was a charge of booking trips and things and then she was had her own clothing store women's clothing store called spring. on magazine, so when i met her she was a small business owner of a very popular women's store and not too far from tulane have three children their names. are oldest is benton grace frankly named after all the painter thomas hart benton, missouri and who i just had a door he was from midwest kind of populist painter, but did these incredible portraits of the united states that i loved as a kid? and i still enjoying any museum going to look for the bentons my most expensive thing i've ever bought in. my life is an old man painted by thomas hart benton, which i keep and i'm going to give us an heirloom to my daughter benton. how did he relate to the senator ben? they were distantly related but many generations apart, but he was very proud of he was a very problem missourian t

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>> walter isaacson, son of new orleans. >> of broadmoor let's say. rhodes scholar, intellectual, recipient of how many the words, we don't have enough time. you have documented through the biographies of some of the most complicated complex and challenging personalities of history and of course your biography of benjamin franklin stands out because franklin was an enigma to so many. .. >> to dissipate the passions and the ideology and the sperson who connected science to statecraft and believed the importance to say let's not jump to conclusions let's the experiment be made whether hlightning or taxation he ties together with the postal system so he did so much but the main thing is the arc of his moral life represents the arc of the nations moral life the quest for self-improvement with the deep flaws later in his life so he could help rectify. vethe most obvious is that he enslaved to people when he owned the print shop in philadelphia and then is appalled that that concept and talks about public education and then he starts to thing the academy in

they have already been 112 carjackings reported in new orleans this year. i can see get really frustrated if your car was broken into 6 times in 2 months and you're into something like that, the kind of deter people? well, you know, we've got a lot of break-ins maybe. that's new orleans. so it's not just here. wow. yeah. a guy say, but i'm pretty good. you know, now i feel better now that we can start talking about some rain. i felt like we went through much of about much of anything but. >> yeah, today it the wind out there again, breezy in spots. cool weather. that's for sure. memory of the last week. we have those record 90's, not even close today. robbery in the low 50's right now in half moon bay and that sea breeze continuing to blow their 54 in san mateo. 58 in livermore, one of the warmer spots, 60 degrees right now in fairfield and 58 degrees in santa rosa. today's 10 degrees below the average for this time of year in san francisco. 53 59 below the average in oakland. 62 in san jose, 60 in little more. 62 in concord and 62 also in santa rosa. so cl

eastern. >>> it will be here in new orleans.this week on the campus at duke as students lined up just in hundreds, maybe even thousands to try to get tickets to try to come here for new orleans. wonder how many of those students ended up missing class in that line. country star eric church is such a huge north carolina fan he's canceled his concert tomorrow night in san antonio so that he can come here to new orleans to go to the game to watch his tar heels. in a letter to fans church admitted, it was a selfish move but he just had to do it. i tell you what, guys, i respect it. he really had no other option than to come out and be honest. hey, look, i wanted to go to the game. i'm sorry. >> i'm sure his fans wish they were going too. thank you, andy. we'll be right back. fine lines in 1-weekek, deep wrinkles in 4. so you c can kiss wrinkles goodbye! neutrogena® psoriatic arthritis, made my joints stiff,... ...swollen, painful. emerge tremfyant®. tremfya® is approved to help reduce joint symptoms in adults with active psoriatic a

so i began in new orleans and i was thinking about my home town i thinking about having grew up growing up in a place. that was once the busiest slave market in the country and realizing that i didn't understand the history of this city in any way that was commensurate with the impact that it had on my city on my state or my country. and so i kind of began looking around and thinking about what my old professor walter johnson a historian at harvard said he said in his book so by soul about the history of the slave trade in new orleans, he's like the whole is memorial to slavery? it's in the roads and slave people paved. it's in the buildings and sleep people constructed. it's in the soil enslaved people are buried in and so i was thinking about well, what are the places or the people here in new orleans who are talking about this or what are the places that aren't talking about that this but maybe should be talking about this and what are the places doing something in between and then i started to kind of got curious about other places throughout the country. so started looking around a

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