A Word on Words; 3731; Inman Majors

fb liz from national television studio way celebrating offers literature and ideas for more than three decades this is word on words with johnson welcome once again to word on words my guest today is in the majors is a teacher fiction james madison university says previous books a one and all of the great bilko swimming in it and the sky is a day to talk about a new novel lillian a story a couple of money little manners

great interest to tennessee and john welcomed the world wars eyes is of great interest in tennessee and because i guess i know then you can go anywhere and talk about your new book without somebody saying oh those two brothers those guys who brought the world for at the knoxville of those two brothers they got it that phenomenon and got beat by lamar alexander and as montgomery lamar alexander and for your site to do always characterizations of your character that's not surprising this story actually inspired by wil that ad's been heavy engineering a biography or a history of an era i wonder wrote with the ambition i want to write a book about why parish

generation was the generation that group and small towns and farms in the midseason national visibility to need help one foot rule passed an anti war and the urban suburban future an easier lighter says religion that ride that the what the real life events or a way for me to explore some things that are two inch tube like an advantage to me in writing the buyer might be so they use as a starting point but as i'm riding on a regular pictured the real people you know that there's huge it goes through a wood paneled city which looks at one a quite well you'd pick him pretty pretty and latino and france this is not a witch and says which is that it section by robert penn warren notable that was not a value along except that it was

and the and i when i know i think about this book i think about it more i noticed a low reviewers felt the same way about so let's begin at the beginning where a poker game and there was a fellow named mike deaver who plays a major role in this book and i can't place in an idaho we found him but we can talk about that regal thirty years might see in this poker game with that when some guards at a country club after golf game than done and the two competitors the two toughest competitors are these two brothers and local aldous and his brother jj roman colds and his brother tj at the center on the blanket roll is to be a character based on on one with a butcher on handgun and

jt is today at age vision of a man and so i you know but here they are and they are very very tough competitors and then again when you're huge you describe the game because it's your book n n n and your story is that a couple things there that my friend to read the book mr wiltse read your brother who's very ambitious and a very competitive pretty ambitious i'm pretty competitive so vividly the book out of iraq understanding they say you're doing they didn't start college at this point but when i read about brothers an ambition in that generation and so level that i have had exchanges like that over a poker game and you know we're very low to the law that there are great competitive along it's funny how it happened i had a car if i hate hitler

from the afternoon the global issues that maybe you've gotten exactly as like i know nothing about any of these people accept what a bind us would have known if there were the table's not consent to assassinate pressuring them that is syndicated i read the newspaper had no incisive of this ugly little say you've got the fuel for vets like the sage on the end and i don't i wouldn't in the rumor knowing where he was in the really important thing about fiction i think is that it seems real life therein and nato assumes that there are friends of your family lucy two brothers were you friends your family sued two of the problems but i mentioned that opening say not just because it helps us to say japan introduces us to an interesting way to mike dj play a big role in the lives of these two brothers but also if i fast forward to the end of the book there is a football game and suddenly they're r c h and start there

are two and the unknown ah and again and they almost on the ball moves along at the halftime for an aunt and that tension between two caring brothers is fascinating talk to me that the combatants have dancing where they all i mean they'll literally tie in front of each other wow there's the messenger to use the older brother and roll is the younger brother they will at his offices rolling as the one has become the face of ill the city's was in the background in the richard preston geeks call it what role in this room that the older brother love's brother and i reserved but this is a bit tired of the city and the current of him being tired of you know the same like he's the second bananas or less pleasant kitchen there's a need and now softly you were depressed and that

his brother was good steward to deal drugs universe evolved in the world's fair and brother take offense to it and has a sharp words and they'd go at it really hard and they've made real asset hey we're on the same side on father's day they walk out not exactly right they made it up but they can cause so close to war ray incident in which at in a week with insults the university president for directly and that's right end and and that is a you know just don't expose needed more academic than using a laugh which i think is a business is fast it but mike sager of course is who it is in some ways the character carries the plot where your mind is mighty come

from he starts out as if he's gonna be a political consultant advisor and and they are running against them roland is running for governor at the time of this story against a man in montgomery and montgomery i had lost his previous race advised by none other than lighting and now he's there to talk to them about their campaign but two years a larger interest right but they had to use an unusual character of artillery units about my dad in the mud to start as a lobbyist but there's a long history here so for years the international arena many skipped school about kind of the legislature no politics no lots of big moment as friend to read the book say you know you get way we talk down paths of the debate that that the political stuff realistic to me as a character i think it weighs people to this kind of a lone

wolf and he's attracted to the cold waters because they're ambitious and they're fearless and that will lead to restore the first into poker game yes they're gambling its reserves the right balance at the idea that her ambitions gaz regan take risk and electronic gear at all or fall flat on their face trying at that please attract deer tick is sort of numbed the world into sharp got me of that risk averse and you put us inside each roller skate and women to win and i'm going to sing it but what they would say i'm still on that game and i'm getting too good pair laid out her seventies show and you say you know wrong almost feel guilty because he knows he's got a nose giving his older brother let's try and lo and behold jake these days in which into legal reasons that a pen and takes the pot older brother when and the world cup and you get understand that

so it really has in mind he wants to run the fund raising any operation of the world i think it also has the city's called and although it's not called partial truths of its richness of a novel but it ethical was look good to have a civic interest as well they're that they're coming as reg are always liked to be in lhasa we wish there is really exciting than a poll of a world's fair goers paris new york chicago the unit photo that they could do they get it and that broke even or made little money to me for six months not for to say had better cultural the new cd we had the baryshnikov came through their maria was gas at the lawn or simply the culture not for for six was it was unbelievable it was there was cool cool thing an exciting time to be an astronaut i was always out nasar has seen the thing to turn in turn out well for them in my other ambition in downtown know how it went down

but in the book these guys are not their ambitious promises that same wacky global was a calypso vibe in the small they want him to be a walk in which dallas national water we don't know what we're saying the words so the farmers and one hour well tonight simpson's recollection to find a smuggler we have ambitions with that were smart witty or cable and we're going to find ourselves a think tank is attractive that it's also that there's a lot for the city there's a civic interest in their slow server is an end and as you say and in the book as was going in and realign world's fairs and to promote national unity interest here sharon is there i come down i mean these two brothers have helped broaden the united states collected now millions of thousands of foreign steel support and recover sector it's over now a

person on a need any doesn't come through the football game does not surprise me i am now and if you create a town like normal winter university like that university it is reminiscent of knoxville are underworld fire and where are you president of involvement in the expo in world for is is really needed and so here we are a governor's race going on at the same time a race to create a world's fair on these two go zone it was eighteen banks our savings and loan them a lot of financial interests and there's some we would be the go on the story and on more layers about there wives korean jt

voice of the fabric or is she not you know and when did she come from what we're monitoring that is and somebody said to the early adapter i mean i met a lot of women like korean who long you know we're smart cable attracted people by virtue of being women in the seventies there've been future opportunities about virtue of not been raised a well to do families they have limited opportunities to discuss and they tried this innate sense of self and you know they're not dr conrad crane is that so he sees this is susan this is not someone who's traveled widely but she sees gaza percent of selfless into director donna rode her kids are going to announce in advance that she didn't just want to renew as the jet uses

when he called them my joke on about the port authority an interior decorator this year you play out that same word she and the decorative there and she comes away from that same with self confidence simply because she had a sense of the sanctions that the houses are not everyone in this country to hit at area is newer decorator so in a desperate recommended that she take down his paying her mom did in the vermont sold antiques been clashes and bridges you know too homely and synthesize knowledge out she shares about issues from this modern super sophisticated political cost to the states as a building our oil which is still tied to the past year old says it was beautiful women should look like a typical regard which is no doubt that the right call you are on our crew actually tougher issues a song to song figure and and her relationship with

it is interesting now you also knew of mistresses in and oh yeah that's right but i find it in a week we find out pretty early on the jetty brief exchange where waiters very early on right and the gardening and if we are losing what you know what's on his mind at the beginning in the middle and cause he's deceased of inbound but you but you get a sense of both of these guys are caught up in the caught up in upscale those are a lot of their body of different than the book i read nothing that little bar for years and that that was in a way the status of behaving the way they think about monogamy and you know the list is not just a politician

i read biographies of narrowed mostly american martyrs a red stuff on lyndon johnson in the canon even fdr in la just seemed like alice let's deal is not something that i'm a really big birthday we know subway just that and i think the book is not really an is not trying to glamorize it utterly can seem to take a cost on on your voice because it takes on the women the wife you know i should say and having just said that and i'm not talking about you best for the number of brooklyn was at it i just think that there is an awful lot of news about philandering politicians in washington recently so this is not just never notice on what the book is trying to get a show that the jazz but at about at that or re examine their lives and has to re examine to begin to have to be ambitious politico and he can get where there mistakenly where will the legal superstar put too much of that an overreach and to make bad decisions in business too much that they forget the cost that

came on extramarital affair what has all but respect it was dr spector was in that was the why did they were they really haven't that compound exam this about in the book i think we realize that i realize that this is this is not the way to go but they've been let loose their their ambitions and their sense of destiny incentive and ultimately get the better of interesting scenes first wall at the city council meeting you created character names and koski lungs and tasking who is a member and a new saddle of mexico are you rub off the people people that it's crude and he gets roland on la ms toti and bought when

he goes to the city council me and raises came on the billion ripped off and he doesn't let up and down and c is pretty good at outmaneuvering the opposition here you know the opposition as to question so yes americorps is there another state is embarrassed about it but that so that saint had reality on in jamaica's it would be like a legislative hearing it what it was those things are fun ryan is right the aging gas get you know regard vocal barclays used get past the idea that many deals get done without some kind of compromise of you know i just do that sad to say that that rocky rose three part series on lyndon johnson is the best football to ever read about explains how business is connected

to city government and they get to stay here and get addicted and added all up and does some weight agreements and deals have to get made that they then he says not just because we had those people but sometimes you know home to get a big deal does portraits of the kit kat their homes or their their moment so high you oh one morning korean besides after an episode and which it is outrage or she only our own house and jt barrett that one chapter on one page with those just a list of those that's exactly right that she did three things it through other prescriptions for all y'all and fifty and then they combine and i haven't mentioned says she says

plays an interesting on all that they do is it's not just the dues do assuming that the real world to government oh you know i had and then i want to have some element of the farm still there and i think i will visit as the artistic freedom of four grandparents were raised on farms the force of raised in the metropolis of lynchburg tennessee and so my phantom appear to have been hard moment when chiseled small town that has a limited the march and a whole bunch of folks like that did and so she's got on a date said when that said i'm not like the way the whole way better at the book doesn't always better new ways better than i wanted somebody who just uses honest and she'd see doesn't need more she's an ambitious is happy with life she has it is like being on the farm and not been heard i just want a character who was satisfied with the old would do much of physicians you know i said at outset that today mike theo represented to montgomery and then raise four years earlier than last

now exports over the races last month only is the governor says and now montgomery is those investigation goal of everybody and the vote grows their banks of mexico and mike teach thousands of omaha's wild hair you list the alphabet of agents is send prosecutorial government offices that were harassing it funny though to see is a former client the government only has it was up in certain counties around there somewhere where that same came from and then i decided that that doesn't want other states for granted that they'd have to be granted a decision while where the work is he going to be at the time we will put pressure on to testify against his client and it sounds just fine

take is known for really send so much demand is because it but wonder why smart and number two it is national and is going to be in the air so you know thats yet to make that decision was true to his former so that does seem like the way to do it and that the rap about that bass drum lesson i called her love of a brotherly love our friends when the book an upright to twenty phone calls filling out how to get that down in there without fighting over that that solution on a blank of truth at cal lose control but the technique moved on to become a cool cucumber until then until he's absolutely an area loses on willow right polling over his answer ron only as well and around the politics i felt like in the bitter about that that like busting refund write a new pretty cold no what about the with before to a college football game

on jumping around but a but you write those saints and you take it from one place to another where those remarks come from three really funny on the money obama long before the game about loneliness the list already in unison fremont was also seen the screenplay as a citizen as a dramatic play as soon as a poem serves alluded to back a little bit for his question i know has run an ambitious brothers and he would do the things that had been done for what would write a great book i didn't know that i wanted to and to do their dramatic and i would take a risk and rest a lot of the light from the news that is not traditional for prolific i wanted to risk scorned in order to really try not to know the part and that issue is upside down and on about it it's one great store like right on a lot of things that a story

like well look around the force of that that that that the risk three miles mr jt there's a lot of people in global who resent the brothers that they don't know they're placed there to consider new money and there's an old guard that was at the atlantic does have to see the table and are some folks that are you know just they don't like that they might successfully borders thought but they're so the three mile long queue the first to people kind of coming on putting down and at the same time potentially jealousy involved in the third was a guy from jade lee's hometown come up the term by corporate and was actually does know turn that my grandfather used to the boys from alone go home by all boys don't mix of the bible truth thoughts so i think that's right and that's one of the monologues well you know i

mean you've proven that you can write don't end only compare the robert penn warren which is the highest compliment you could possibly have is time is long bar here we have a i have an hour and we've only got a minute no question it will cover next posting they are football comedy the start of last week that they would do something about the summer suspense session from the dakotas go on the road in the small town to make the posters so but like for a comedic potential won only his name jonathan and wonder how much was caught readers face emerges john is that they go into watching and dancing and offer word on words there's a

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