Good evening, everyone. Im just so so glad here tonight. Im going to say a few words about the strand before i welcome tonights guest. For a moment of history, the strand was founded 93 years ago by my grandfather, benjamin bass [applause] he founded the store in an area that was known as book row along Fourth Avenue just around the corner from here. It was the storm of the depression, and he defied the odds by surviving while all the other 48 bookstores in book row shutteredded. The store was then passed on to my late father, fred bass, who grew the store to a scale and popularity he never thought was possible. Now im the owner, and some critics said as a woman its hard, going to be hard to run the store, and id get wiped out by, in this digital age. Right, ha. [laughter] so i want to thank you and the book Loving Community in this audience for helping us not only survive are, but thrive through the agings. [applause] so its impossible to realize tonights book, watergate girl, without
Booktv was scheduled to be live in tucson and los angeles and cover festivals in new orleans and san antonio as well. All canceled. We know the effect its having on book fairs and large gatherings but is it having an effect also on bookstores and smaller businesses. Mitchell kaplan runs a chain of bookstores in based in coral gables florida called books and books mr. Kaplan has coronavirus affected your business . Yes, unfortunately it has. We been holding on as long as we could it looks like it looks like tomorrow will be closing down all six doors we have in the miami area and trying to move our sales online. And encourage people to buy at our website this is happening i believe across the country with independent bookstores everywhere. Like normally happens independent bookstores are very representative of whats happening with Small Business. There are many many thousands upon thousands of Small Business people who are suffering the same way we are. Are you doing this because the st
A little bit on the history thing there. A time for truth, if you can keep it by arab taxes, david and goliath by malcolm gladwell. And, i read the power behind the life by Richard Simmons and andy andrews. I think there is a another one or nine of them i will think of them in a minute. How do you select the book to read. Vaes i am big on biographies. And history. I tell people that smart people learn from their mistakes but brilliant people learn from other peoples mistakes and thats why you should read history. And biographies. Because you have the opportunity to learn not only what right, and not necessarily about to date in names and facts but experience. In my opinion, its just an important or more important to learn that what went wrong. You learn from other peoples mistakes. What you write . Wherever i can. I like on vacation, im not much of a beach guy so i take a bag full of books and i go through them pretty quick and i read them on the plane, just anytime i can get or find a
Good afternoon everyone and welcome back if your with us earlier or you just joining us welcome to the Annapolis Book festival into the key school read my name is john beat i am a Foreign Service officer for International Development but much more importantly, am a proud father of three including a son who is a junior here at key school. I am very delighted to be able to join this conversation with our next author. Kenneth starr. Lets graciously come back to the festival this year to talke about his latest book. A memoir of his time leaving the 1990s investigations into whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky matter during the tenure president bill clinton. When youve been in the White House Center of theil public ey, as can certainly t has, judge starr probably needs no introduction but ill just give you a quick snapshot of his distinguished career and law and public service. Heis hamza graduate of George Washington university coming brown university, duke law school, he was the us solicit
First of all i have to read various reports so there is ongoing work as the chairman of the subcommittee with a 90 billion of taxpayer money that keeps me busy however all the other things i want to read im working my way through the habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire 400 years of war with a great book called on me at the gate that details every one of the battles centers around the siege of vienna. To understand turkey understand the history of the empire and western europe right now a book called the death of caesar we are not into that political intrigue but what is happening during the period of time what were the politics that you come across the book the library of congress and we look at the book a couple weeks ago is called the pioneers with the indiana area but could be useful to understand the history and the politics of that part of america. Also on the Armed Services Committee Talk about is the military ready for the task that they have . It turns out in many cases they are n