We hope this will be a conversation you will join in too, essential libraries for reason because libraries have played a special role in many cultures for many years and i have had the privilege of working in challenged communities where libraries were lifelines for so many people. And with the library of congress we are extending our role in terms of being the largest libraries. How can we reach out in the book festival is part of that. The two books excuse me if i say this title many times. The badass librarians of timbuktu and the worlds most precious manuscript and im surprised the library of congress has a connection to the city of timbuktu in maui. In 2000 for the library of congress entered a cooperative agreement with a major library in timbuktu to make Available Online important manuscripts. We also put the manuscripts on tour. The first exposure of the badass librarians of timbuktu in the united states. Everyone here had an opportunity to see what was out there before it was
Trace the arc of our nations history. From 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. Wow, i will use the word hate. Back is a little daunting. Trace the art. Im to do the historian thing and speak generally. I guess it would save your looking an american in politics, from the beginning straight through, we could even go past the civil war, youre talking about paradoxes and conflict and prop. The period that i tend to focus on is the early part of the arc, and its the improvisational nature of the the really fascinates more than anything else. The nation was founded in a world of monarchy. The United States was a republic. What the means was was not clear at the moment and people knew the they were trying to do something the wasnt act. Were not going to be creating monetary and the president isnt going to be a king but beyond the there was open ground. Theres a lot of improv in those early decades about with the nation is and how it functions, the tone of the government, how th
Their homeland what does the future hold for them. And could we be one step closer to finding i think an outer space the 1st time scientists have detected water on an earth like planet orbiting a distant star we ask what this discovery might need. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program China has formally some in the german ambassador to beijing after a meeting between the German Foreign minister heikal mosse and the hong kong protest leader joshua walking in berlin earlier this week during his visit long called on the German Government to publicly condemn Police Violence and abuse of power during the ongoing demonstrations in hong kong now in an unusually direct verbal attack on an important trade partner beijing is warning of negative consequences for relations between china and germany. It was just she was thursday in berlin he came to the german capital with a message for im going to mexico and other World Leaders is a must for the chancellor Pay Attention to hong kongs protests and
In conflict a and improv. Hee time i tend to focus on is the early part of that arc and thats the improvisational nature of that that really fascinates me more than anything else. The United States was a republic. People knew that they were trying to do something that wasnt that. Beyond that there was a lot of open ground. There is a lot of improv in those early decades about what the nation isns the nations. How is this new nation going to get any degree of respect and equally they are concerned. On every level. There is a broad kind of ideological level in which that is true. I who is going to on the land and house that land. What kind of a rights will some people have. A lot of the questions that we are happily with now they go back to the beginning of the republic and beyond. Living in a moment that thehe moment that im looking at now. And they go all the way back. We werent a monarchy. And americans have a very strong sense or elite right. They thought they were creating a more de
Im very happy to introduce todays offer doctor hector garcia, a clinical psychologist with post dramatic stress disorder hes also an assistant professor at the department of psychiatry at uta Health Science center. This is his second book and you know, i dont know if your parents told you when you were growing up that at the thanksgiving dinner table whatever you do, dont talk about sex, politics or partisanship. So, what has Doctor Garcia gone, hes written a book about sex, politics and partisanship. And so, with that introduction, please tell us how you have gone to these topics that we were told not to talk about. The first book was about religion. [laughter] so, Political Behavior can be irrational. It can be volatile but most of all it can be utterly perplexi perplexing. No matter what side of the aisle you fall on we have had the experience of watching the political circus on the news and just shaking our head in disbelief mostly at how the other side can think what it thinks and