who has just written a fabulous tension city my view from the middle seat. it is all about the presidential debates. we watch the presidential debates, some of us covered the presidential debates. but you are the only person i know who has moderated 11 debates alone. you are the man in the middle seat at the center at that stage. you have written fiction about these debates, but have never really told us what it is like to be in the middle of it. why did you decide to write a nonfiction book about debates? jim: i thought it was time to do it. i felt that 2008, i did one of the obama-mccain debates, i knew this was going to be my last presidential debate. so i decided to collect my i had some things i wanted to say that would be hard to say if i was still about to do another debate or whatever, so not that i had anything, any scores to settle, but i thought it was time to share it. i believe so strongly in the importance of these debates. i wanted to share my feelings about
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applause bob schieffer, welcome. Thank you very much. So good to be with you again. Well, you and i have been friends for a long time. Long time. Its nice to see an old friend. Watching what youve done down here and the role that the Texas Tribune is playing in journalism right now. Youre the template right now youre the template right now for what needs to be done. Well, i appreciate you saying that very much. This book is a terrific tale of tales, right . Its a collection of tales of people who are attempting to solve this problem that youve identified, correctly. The world is changing, the Media Business is changing, the Consumption Habits of the public have changed. What did you find in the course of your investigations, your conversations . Well, whats happened here, walt mossberg, the Technology Writer who now is kind of the king of the internet, with the reports on technology and whats happening. He once said that when youre in the middle of something, you sometimes dont realize
Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the Jewish Museum. My name is nelly benedek and on the senior director of education. Its my pleasure to welcome you to two nights author talk with francine clarksburg under new book lioness golda meir and the nation of israel, a program where pro presented with the jewish week there were honored to host this talk because vaccine has been a long time Jewish Museum board member. For 30 years in fact, right . We appreciate her ongoing dedication to our institution and its programming. Please visit our website to signup for our news to learn about other lectures, concerts and workshops taking place this fall season. After the talk we invite you to stay for a reception where francine will be signing books in the corner. Now please join me in welcoming gary rosenblatt, editor and publisher of the jewish week who will introduce our speaker. [applause] will. Thank you very much. Good evening everyone. Before i forget i want to ask all of you to turn off your
With the help of our spectrum Cable Partners well explore the citys history and literary community, beginning with author pat oneill on the history of irish immigrants and how they helped build kansas city in what it is today. One of my Favorite Places in the whole cold is browns market run by john and john mcclain and cary brown. And they start the business in the late 1880s. Irish style. The oldest continual Retail Operation in west of the mississippi, maybe in the whole world. But browns is kind of our community center. One of those great Little Corner Neighborhood Grocery stores where people are extended credit in the neighborhood, people came here for generations, and its now kind of the same thing. People come here just to gossip and compare notes notes and head kids. So, its a much like a small town Crossroads Store in ireland. The title of the book, from the bottom up, its in the sense that in kansas city, were along the rivers, and the Missouri River in the kansas river and it