Learn about the siblings she never met and heal the wounds of her past. We are joined by esther and her son awardwinning novelist Jonathan Safran foer, author of everything is illuminated, extremely loud and very close and as well as the nonfiction books feeding animals and we are the weather. Jonathans debut novel was inspired by his journey to trochenbrod in the ukraine to find a family that hidafather and while his search turned up nothing the success of the novel awakened worldwide interest in trochenbrod that led to new careers for esther. Armed with a handdrawn map esther made the trip to ukraine and found more than she ever hoped she would. We are honored to have both esther and jonathan with us tonight for their first public dialogue about thebook. So before we begin a few quick things to note. Tonights conversation will follow with an audience q and a and you can submit your questions into the chat box and we will do our best to get to as many as we can but we have hundreds of
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Keep your video feed disabled. If you enable it, and able it a second time, we will have to remove it. Appreciate your cooperation. I want to briefly go over our format. We will have a reading by miles harvey to start us off. After miles harvey reads from the king of confidence which was published this past tuesday and donovan hohn reads from the inner post which was published last month in june we will hear an extended conversation between the two for 30 or 45 minutes and a few slides here and there and add some supplemental images. Once we are done questions for miles or donovan send them my way and i will field and screen those. Now i will quickly read some bios and we will get the reading underway. Miles harvey is author of the International Bestseller the land of lost maps. His book stranger in a savage latin was named book of the year. Currently teaches at the university. Interlocutor miles harvey is author of moby duck, the true story of basketball players, New York Times notabl
Right to vote. We look back at how the Suffrage Movement evolved, but we start with Kamala Harris. How important is gender in your 2020 vote . You can join the conversation. Atne lines are open 202 7488001 for republicans. Four our8002 democrats. Ur text line is 202 7488003 twittercan find us at and facebook. Passing of thehe president s younger brother. Trump was 71 years old. He tried to stop the publication of a tell all book by nice, mary. They had different personalities. Donald trump once described his younger brother as quieter and more easygoing. The only guy whom i ever called, honey. The president said, it is with a heavy heart i share my wonderful brother, robert, peacefully passed away tonight. He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again. His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, i love you. Rest in peace. Let us turn to the front page of about howngton post senator harris evolved to woo the black activists
Show lost history. And he is also the host of decoded. We although why you are here, with out further do lets welcome mr. Brad meltzer. [cheering] [applause] stomach or having fun now just you all know, cspan is here but you know what that means questioning that means all of us book nerds are being watched by her fellow book nerds. That that were altogether one place. [applause] we have as many viewers as espn right now. [laughter] that joke does not work in sports places. I love coming to virginia, obviously the washington d. C. Area was our home in a beautiful place for us where we had our children here, we had our lives here. We started writing here. Its especially important today, todays the day my dad died. And we mark today. And i know it seems like something sad part by loved my father specially loved biggins barnes noble because my father used to go into our local barnes noble, and he would always go yes im here for brad meltzers to but he is my favorite author. And they would