Hello, my name is kai bird, from cuny, City University of new york. And were from the foundation to do events like this to promote the arts and crafts of biographies. And weve been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some yea years. Were here on a session off the 20th anniversary of the National Book festival and the theme this year is american ingenuity. Were going to be talking tonight with two notable public intellectuals. Harold holzer is one of the leading lincoln scholars. Currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer, the author of eight books. Professor widmer is on the faculty of mccauleys honors college. Today well discuss his latest book, lincoln on the verge. A story about the 13day train journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington d. C. To be inaugurated as president. These are two very different books. Im going to hold up each of them. This is literally a mini biography, well, not so mini, its a subst
He doesnt know what year it is. The choice in 220. For all new homes, offices and buildings by 230. Has difficulty keeping his train of thought. Broadwalk. And if you think i am announcing my hes on an Obstacle Course that makes it look like hes not up for the job. Why are the Trump Supporters attacking donald trump . Its updated. Every time the attacks come you find more clips of donald trump just wandering around. I mean, you know, the Jonathan Swan interview by the way, i was off yesterday and missed the Jonathan Swan interview the part where he was with the charts and the graphs . Putting the papers in his face and the charts and the graphs. First of all, lets talk about Jonathan Swan for a second. You know when Chris Wallace comes at you, he has none chunks in one hand and clubs with spikes in another. And Jonathan Swan is more subtle, would you like a brownie, and you dont know what youve eat enuntil you wake up the next morning in the bottom of the elevator shaft. Hes sweet and
Night to iranians via an omani back channel are completely false. Iran needs to meet our diplomacy with diplomacy. Now, the president recalled the moments leading up to his decision to hit pause on that airstrike yesterday, confirming planes and ships were at the ready but then just ten minutes out from launching that operation, he called it off. We had something ready to go the subject to my approval. I said i want to know something before you go. How many people will be killed. In this case, iranians. Reporter he explained that, ultimately, it was the potential for loss of life that changed his mind. They shot down an unmanned drone, plane, whatever you want to call it, and here we are sitting with 150 dead people, and i didnt like it. I didnt think it was, i didnt think it was proportionate. Reporter now, National Security sources say the scenario the president describes there is highly unusual. They say the potential casualties from both sides iranians and american is something tha
do they sell nearly as well as some of the novels we have been it depends. from what i understand, creativity, largely i think it helps when barnes & noble made it and certainly coming up maybe not so much this summer but certainly this fall, it will be interesting to see how nonfiction does selection related so i think if nonfiction looks do very well they will have some political or some geo-history related elements that somehow ties into the election. for example i would be i would not be surprised if david maraniss barack obama book that should drop any day now does phenomenally well because of all the things to come with vanity fair and all the other magazines. people are very curious and it s a very big book. that s the first book that comes to my mind that i know they re a number of other political books that should be dropping very soon. we have been talking lucero weinman who is in his director of publishers marketplace. interested in following public news?