Im David Rubenstein coming from the library of congress, the Jefferson Building and its part of our National Book festival and have a pleasure of interviewing richard hoss who is the president of a foreign relation and ive written a new eczema book called the world a brief introduction by richard hoss, thank you very much for coming today. Great to be with you. For those of you that dont know your background, i want to talk a little bit about the bo book, you are native of new york and went to college in ohio and became a Rhodes Scholar, what did you do to become a Rhodes Scholar and for those of you who are not aware there is only 32 people picked every year in the Rhodes Scholar and youre one of the top 32 students, what did you do to be one of the top 32 students when you graduated. My children would claim it was an administrative error i did nothing to confuse the scholarship, i could also answer i was one of 32 people who peaked young and peaked at the right time, my own guess i h
I a a professor at Boston College and i thrilled to be re at the National Book festival this year although of course im n in washington im here on the coast of maine sitting in front of all the books i used to write the books i write in the space where i produce things. I am thrilled to be here talking about how the south won the civil war, democracy and the continuing fight for the soul of america, i did n come up with but somebody listen tohat i was trying to worry about and sa this is only possible title you can have, theeason she said that was because the book has really started as an attempt tonderstand the Republican Party is so clearly tied to the image of the american confederacy, how did Confederate States of america which lost in the civil war become such a powerful symbol for todays Major Political parties, it is a funny questn if you think about it. The more i got into figuring out y that was the case, why republicans were interested in waiving confederate flags and protect
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I am doctor mario livio, an astrophysicist and author of seven Popular Science books. The most recent of which is called galileo and the science deniers. I live in baltimore and and i currently and in baltimore at my home. As you can see i imagine i am in front of shells with books. Actual at something that looks like that in every room in the house. So it almost doesnt matter where i am. So the book as a saint is called galileo and the science deniers as i say this is a fresh biography of galileo but at the same time with an eye on science denial today which unfortunately we have quite a bit of. So the idea is to study from these fascinating person who lived during the 17th century, but to see what lessons we can learn from that or, you know, to what extent he in some sense already font some battles that we have to fight again today. When people here that i wrote a book about galileo, natural question is how come i decided to write a book about alla mail, given that the already quite