I am president of aei. I would like to start this morning by reading from the opening paragraph the spike of it drying compass. Extend the other leg of the compass so it reaches out 60 miles and draw a circle within it they grew to manhood and made their home. From this small expanse of land on the north american corner. They created of the the constitution and built the republic. What a great way to start a book. I spent most of last night reading it and its a wonderful chronicle of four major leaders. At the founding of this country. It is a story that evokes. The spirit of hope and perseverance. That runs straight through the american experience. We appreciate her scholarship and her intellectual contributions. It is the latest in the series of several works that examines our countrys history with consideration and with rigor. I became a New York Times bestseller. And shed new light on the life of one of our underappreciated founders. I want to thank dr. Cheney interviewer her husba
Really thrilled with engagement level we had with all of you. You will be doing a lot of focus stuff and some pretty compelling conversations into the fall. I would say we were probably not be doing any close events until 2021 which is a bit of a bummer but we want to be real about that and the statements but with what were doing. Well keep bring you guys really interesting conversation with authors. So if everything from a wonderful event coming up in october, a conversation you wont want to miss. We just book of that. Everything from that to a conversation with matthew mcconaughey. If thats not a wideranging list of events, its going to be quite a false or stay tuned. You can follow all of our fence on magic city books. Com. I wont go through the full list here. Tonight im so thrilled to have a conversation with mychal denzel smith in a book that seems like it was written for the moment we are living in, although books are written quite a bit before their published and printed and Ev
Week wherever books are sold and watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv on cspan2. History and biography is sponsored bywells fargo. [music] welcome everyone, everywhere here with Madeleine Albright, 64th secretary of state and here to talk about her new book Madeleine Albright hell and other destinationsand i just finished reading it and i look forward to having a conversation with Madeleine Albright about it. Welcome to our broadcast today. Great to be with you david, i enjoyed talking with you anytime. I am at the Jefferson Building in the library of congress, madeleine is at her home in the washington area. We had a longstanding relationship because madeleine and i were young staffers in the white house under president carter and i followed her career ever since then with great admiration so madeleine, this is her seventh book since you left as secretary of state so did you ever imagine when you finished as secretary of state first woman to ever serve as secret
The time of corona a short list of new praiseworthy novels a distinguished author and a digital book fair how is the literary world coping with the pandemic 21 gets the views of some writers and an organizer. But 1st the biggest awards of all that are built for as in literature for 2020 is awarded to the american poets louise glick for her. Voice. Few people were expecting her to win the 2020 nobel prize in literature the poet louise glick the committee praised the austere beauty of her writing her reaction. Enjoy the joy of the truth. Has received numerous awards in the u. S. And she was. Countrys poet laureate. She was born in 1903 in new york city on her fathers side shes descended from hungary and jews who emigrated to the us glick suffered from anorexia and dropped out of college she spent years receiving psychiatric treatment she has always processed her own Life Experiences and her poetry her unique writing making them universally relatable her works often deal with grief and th
Michael. Hi there. I am thrilled to join these three amazing authors today. You see them on the screen. Latest book our man, richard and the end of the American Century and susan lasser and peter baker who spoke just out this fall, the man who ran washington, the times of james and baker the third period two brilliant books about to complicate and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart, baker in houston in 1930, holbrook in manhattan in 1941. Baker, republican trained as a lawyer. Holder of Foreign Service officer, democrat. Student of Foreign Policy, there lives to very good trajectories but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Picking up on that, this is a man with great ambition and even before he came to washington. Part of the family of aristocracy, he would expect to do great things. Very dominating father who departed on him the legacy of the family, youre meant to do big things. The one thing they were not meant to do was politics. Its