please welcome tracy kidder. [applause] >> thank you. it is nice to be here. i am going to talk a while and readed little and then i'm going to show you some pictures. i am afraid that this story has already been told but i'm going to tell it again. a young medical student named deogratis merely survives the onset of civil war in his native country, this mali's central african nation of burgundy. he survived because he left the door to his room open and the men who would have killed him assumed he had already fled. he made a six month long escape from burundi, and then from the genocide in rwanda and back to burundi and by accident he got transported to new york city. he arrived at jfk with $200 in his pocket, no english, and these the obtained under false pretenses although that has been long since fix, no friends or relations and memories of course so fresh that he sometimes confused past and present. his first trip on a subway, he got lost for most of the day. at night deese lupton central park. then one day sit-in near despair he delivered groceries to a s

tracy kidder is a master of nonfiction knavetives. please welcome with tracy kidder. [applause] >> thank you. it's nice to be here. i'm going to talk a while and read a little, and i'm going to show you some pictures. i prayed that the story has not been told, i'm going to tell it again. a young medical student theirly survived the onset of the native war of burundi. he survives because he left the door to his room open and the men who would have killed him assumed he had already fled. he made a 6-month long on escape and then from the genocide in rwanda and then back to burundi and almost by accident he got transported to new york city. he arrived at jfk with $200, no english, a visa obtained under false pretenses, although that has been fixed. no friends, no relations, and memories of horrors so fresh that he confused past and present. he got lost for most of the day on the subway. he delivered groceries, at night he slept in central park. then one day, he delivered groceries to a small catholic church where he met an exnone who decided

. >> for more information on the work of tracy kidder, visit tracykidder.com. >> joe scarborough, what arer currently reading? >> let's see. i'm actually reading harold evans. which is a remarkable story. harold cracked spy cases. he discovered medium mean. he had a remarkable career with the times of london. it's a great book. and i'm rereading a couple of other books. abslom,abslom. also seven ages of paris, which is a great history of paris. it is about as enjoyable of a history book as i've ever read. >> your book came out early this year, when's the next one? >> boy, i don't know. we got in the top ten for two or three weeks. that was great. but it's kind of tough riding political books in this environment. unless you want to write a polemic. that's not really my style. so i don't know. you know, we add -- actually the best part of writing the book was the book tour. because we would go out and we would actually have these great crowds. it would be republican and democratic and independent. we had a great pride. it was like having town haul meetings all over the country. what we w

tracy kidder from the miami book festival is also included. you can get a full schedule at booktv.org. >> an event now with former congressional staffer and scholars on what goes on behind the scenes before legislation is passed. hosted by the university of virginia, this last about one hour and 40 minutes. >> if everybody in the room can do the same, we will be in pretty good shape. we have come pretty far and we have a little bit farther to go given the dimensions of the problems associated with debt and deficit. our last panel explored the possibility of policy reform. our panel is very well equipped considering that some of them have spent parts of their professional lives in the policy trenches. we have john hilly, g. william holden, policy adviser to bill frist, francis lee, assistant professor of government and politics, and senior counsel of the federal bureau of investigation', -- the session s a moderated. he is especially appropriate -- appropriate for this panel. i would say that's it would make a great holiday gift. >> that was go

tracy kidder from the recent miami book festival is also included. you can get the full schedule at booktv.org. merry christmas. >> now is an accurate and pilot fatigue and aviation safety. there were questions about recent accidents involving fatigue and the required experience of airline pilots. it runs about one hour, 50 minutes. >> welcome today the hon. randy babbitt, the administrator of the federal aviation administration. we have held a number of hearings recently on the issue, particularly of safety and fatigue and related matters. this hearing is a hearing to discuss a wide range of issues with the administrator. mr. babbitt is going to be talking about what he has been involved in at the cafe, a number of actions. troy after he was sworn in as the administrator of the faa, he was -- shortly after he was sworn in as the administrator of the faa, there was a call to action that brought in regional carriers, pilots, and its unions to discuss and improved safety and to reduce risk. the call to action has led the faa to seek voluntary commitmen

tracy kidder from the recent miami book festival is also included. you can get the full schedule at booktv.org. merry christmas. >> now is an accurate and pilot fatigue and aviation safety. there were questions about recent accidents involving fatigue and the required experience of airline pilots. it runs about one hour, 50 minutes. >> welcome today the hon. randy babbitt, the administrator of the federal aviation administration. we have held a number of hearings recently on the issue, particularly of safety and fatigue and related matters. this hearing is a hearing to discuss a wide range of issues with the administrator. mr. babbitt is going to be talking about what he has been involved in at the cafe, a number of actions. troy after he was sworn in as the administrator of the faa, he was -- shortly after he was sworn in as the administrator of the faa, there was a call to action that brought in regional carriers, pilots, and its unions to discuss and improved safety and to reduce risk. the call to action has led the faa to seek voluntary commitmen

tracy kidder from the miami book festival is also included. you can get a full schedule at booktv.org. >> an event now with former congressional staffer and scholars on what goes on behind the scenes before legislation is passed. hosted by the university of virginia, this last about one hour and 40 minutes. >> if everybody in the room can do the same, we will be in pretty good shape. we have come pretty far and we have a little bit farther to go given the dimensions of the problems associated with debt and deficit. our last panel explored the possibility of policy reform. our panel is very well equipped considering that some of them have spent parts of their professional lives in the policy trenches. we have john hilly, g. william holden, policy adviser to bill frist, francis lee, assistant professor of government and politics, and senior counsel of the federal bureau of investigation', -- the session s a moderated. he is especially appropriate -- appropriate for this panel. i would say that's it would make a great holiday gift. >> that was go