Free library. Org. To them freelibrary. Org. I am a librarian here and i am excited to introduce john palfrey who is the leading scholar on issues of emerging media and authority for internet freedom, transparency and accountability. He is the head of school at phill phill Phill Phillips academy and the board of directors at the Digital Library. His latest book, bibliotech argues for the necessity of finding and using the reservoir of online systems and the adaptive roles of libraries teaching this skill. It is said he challenges us to keep the library relevant as an information resource, archive, Community Gathering and a cornerstone of democracy for informed citizenry. Please join me in welcoming me john palfrey to the free library of philadelphia. Jennifer, thank you so much for your kind introduction and thank you andy and all of these who welcomed me to the free library of philadelphia. I could not be happier to be here to talk about this book. The amazing history philadelphia has
Enforcement association and the United Black Police officers soes jags filed the complaint in october. Department of justice spokesmen released a statement saying the department of justice in receipt of correspondence about this matter. That correspondence has been referred to the Civil Rights Division for a response. We have no further comment. Bob roth, president of the Prince Georges County chapter of the naacp has been speaking with many of the officers who filed the complaint. Its just fair treatment. A white officer gets punished one way and a black officer another way. Promotions, how they interact with each other. Reporter today Prince Georges County police chief announced he and the police union are creating a panel to review the departments internal policies. It will be cochaired by the Police Departments Inspector General and review promotion policies, best officers are disciplined. Roth says its a step in the right direction. Its got to be an ongoing process. You didnt get
Would create a diplomatic relations and that was the original purpose in the book. No one believed including my publisher thank you dan simon, i started to doubt it myself. When it happened i had to rearrange the book and i was fortunate to update it. Its arts with a detailed account of how it happened on december 17th, the beginning of normalization. The rest of the book is about the preceding 55 years or 60 years and i interviewed for many hours a former leader of the cuban revolution and government his daughter in havana said it should be called two old guys talking so i made that the initial chapter. Host tell us about ricardo. Guest you have to write this book because nobody knows him. If that is true, you are talking about a man who after many decades the Cuban Foreign minister, cute and United Nations representative in new york at the cuban head of Natural Assembly which is speaker of the house of representatives. He has been a public human figure, he knows more secrets, has bee
He dies under robert elys command and this is a devastating a devastating impact. He feels this loss very sharply. I am just curious how do they compare with characters today in washington . [laughter]. So i think he would find that interesting and i will take a pass on the question because it is just too hard because the civil war is just the meet period we can all agree that the country never has to undergo that again thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host and thanks for watching booktv, 48 hours of Nonfiction Authors and books every weekend on cspan2. And today we are live on the campus of the university of Southern California home of the Los Angeles Times festival of books. Today there are several author panels ahead on the plushing industry biographies Publishing Industry, biographies of World Leaders and science, and well also sit down with tom hayden, travels smiley and hugh hewitt among others while they take your calls. You can get sched
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