Supplies left. What am i going to do with 400 ventilators when i need 30,000 . And strict new guidelines are announced. Everybody who was in new york should be selfquarantining for the next 14 days. As more states plead with the federal government, saying they are running out of time. New cruise ship crisis. Dozens of passengers and crew reporting flulike symptoms, stranded on board. Meals delivered directed to their rooms and waiter to the covid19 tests to be brought on board as the ship makes its way to florida. Olympic heartbreak. The summer games now officially postponed. Americas top athletes responding this morning. This moment is unprecedented, and its bigger than any sport. 12time olympic medalist swimmer ryan lochte joins us live. Also this morning, tornadoes hit the south. Devastating damage in mississippi, and a new storm on the move bringing heavy snow to the west. More possible twisters to the heartland. Were tracking the latest. And feeding america. What you need to know
Mississippi or their hometown in many instances. They were going overseas to fight for a cause. They were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. I had one letter from an individual who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. He went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. We always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war . What my question is, what if we had not entered that war . The world would be a vastly different place. As for its relevance today i would not have know this if id not been researching this book, again i was not aware of the consequences. All of this trouble in the middle east that we are having right now, so so many of those countries involved, involved after world war i. Promises were made after world war i and we do not look up to them. Conflict is still resulting today because of that. So if it is
[inaudible conversations] youre watching booktv on cspan2. Joining us now from chicago and the publishers convention is ron charles who is the editor of Washington Posts book world. Mr. Charles, what do you do for a living . Guest i assign most of the daily reviews in the Washington Post, and every wednesday i write my own review. Host of books . Guest of books, yes. Host how many books a week, seven books a week . Guest we review 20 books a week, and we get about 150 of them. Host about 20 books a week are reviewed in the post. Guest right. Host why isnt there a standalone book section . Guest there is online, but we decided about four years ago to spread the reviews out through the paper to try and see if we could find more readers. It seemed like a disaster at the time to me, but i have had to admit that we do, in fact, have more readers for book reviews now. We just put them in places that people read more. Book world, the old book world, the supplement, was much beloved but tended
In the Book Pages this week, find out about the incredible publishing career of Judith Jones, the subject of Sara B. Franklin's biography, "The Editor."
In the Book Pages this week, find out about the incredible publishing career of Judith Jones, the subject of Sara B. Franklin's biography, "The Editor."