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You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] in the new book, James Baldwin escape from america, we have plenty of copies up front, so we do encourage you to pick up a copy or two or three so we can stay in this neighborhood as a community space. [laughter] okay. Im going to do this very elegantly. So, first, let me introduce our panelists. Carol weinstein is the mother of taan yell Baldwin Daniel baldwin, also on the panel, and was a partner of david whom she met in 1964. Later, jimmy would refer to her as his sister out of law, and when jimmy bought the house in st. Paul [inaudible conversations] thank you, david and carol first visited jimmy there together in 1977 from amsterdam where they were living at the time. They drove there to celebrate his buying the house. Carol also visited in 1974 and then again several summers from 1975 into the 80s with daniel. She and daniel also made nostalgic visits several years later after jimmy died, and d
Of work per se, you will get a different argument there. That is something that i have argued with my friend and colleague about. So we promise to end directly and were right on time. Thanks to people that participated. I didnt get to all the questions but i got to most. One of the advantages of this book, unlike a lot of books written in washington this is thin and you can read it. I commend it to all of you. Thank you for coming. Thank you, david. [applause] [inaudible conversations]. I think well go ahead and get started. Thank you, everybody, for coming. A quick show of hands if this is your first time to book culture on columbus . Welcome to the family. 20 years ago this space was the endicott book seller. It was lost to the Upper West Side along with many other wonderful bookstores over the years. Almost a two years ago we took the plunge to open our third location. Were so happy a place to host jewels farber and this wonderful panel and talk about James Baldwin, James Baldwin. P
Eastern or central time zones call to a 2748800 oh. Weekende traveling this , 2027488002. You can check a social media and also on facebook. Lets start by taking a look at those numbers from aaa. Just to get an idea of how busy this travel weekend will be. 43 million americans are expected to travel this Independence Day weekend. Thats according to aaa. Highest on record, 5 million more than over the memorial day weekend that just passed. 20ican drivers have saved billion on gasoline taxes they taxes or one of the Drivers Behind this boost in the expected number of travelers on the road this share. At the same time, there is trouble on the roads according to a report by the American Society of Civil Engineers. A gave americas overall infrastructure system a d grade , but for road specifically the roads earned billion almost 30,000 30,000 jobs and reduces the federal deficit 200 million, and we get the benefit of improved infrastructure. Thats why every major Interest Group supported ra
Bibleminded place. Partly because we read the crucible in high school. Which we can talk about human half the people i have spoken to in the last few weeks descend from the families affected in 1692 were when they were in high school. Partly because it has such resonance. Brian when you were here four years ago for cleopatra, you were talking about this book. I want to look at a minute. Stacy something reassuring about a biography, an obvious structure most of the time. An obvious orthodox structure. A beginning, middle, and end. And delicious pleasure of killing off your subject. It is a particularly gratifying kind of work. Brian what year . Stacy a good question, 1994. The next book about vera nabokov, the wife of the writer. Best known for lolita, and that was the portrait of a marriage the third book about. Ben franklin and his years in france. Very difficult to research but a thorough pleasure. And changing tasks, cleopatra. One of the blessings of biography is it you do not have