Im lauren finch, acting director of the museum. On behalf of all of my Library Foundation colleagues i thank you for coming this evening. And id like to extend a warm welcome to those who are joining us online as well. I would also like to acknowledge the deer support of our underwriters for the Kennedy Library for moms, bank of america, the Lowell Institute and our media sponsors, boxing glove, xfinity and wbr. Richard aldous agreed to sign books, our bookstore has copies of his books available for purchase. This year marks the centennial of the john f. Kennedys birth. As we honor his life and legacy during this centennial year, we cannot be more pleased to explore the life and the birth of our dear schlesinger junior in more detail tonight. I am delighted to introduce theparticipants in tonights program. We are pleased to welcome richard aldous, author of the new biography schlesinger, imperial historian. He is a professor of history at bard college and the author of 11 books includi
Former Trump Campaign managers Corey Lewandowski and david bossie discuss the 2016 president ial election, and reza aslan explores how believers conceptualize the belief in god. Thats all this weekend on cspan2s booktv, television for serious readers. For a complete schedule, visit our web site, booktv. Org. And now we kick off the weekend with psychologist john bargh. He provides psychological explanations for the actions of people throughout history including a look at president ial elections, immigration and more. [inaudible conversations] one, two. Okay, great. Thank you so much, everyone, for coming. As youve probably noticed, the two major addendums to this event are the pizza in the back and booktv as part of cspan is with us tonight. Thank you for being here as well. We will have a q a after the event. Just so you know, we have a audience mic. Im going to be passing it around. If everyone could just hold their questions until they receive the mic, because we want to be able to
[applause]. [applause]. [applause]. [applause]. [applause] as you were downstairs getting ready to start the ceremony, captain yellin was asking me, do i stand for the army or do i stand for the air force . Because he was in the Army Air Forces. And i said, sir, youre 93 years old, you can stand for anybody you want to. [applause] captain jerry yellin is an Army Air Forces veteran who served in world war ii between 1941 and 1945. He enlisted on his 18th birthday just two months after the bombing of pearl harbor. After graduating from Luke Army Airfield as a Fighter Pilot in august of 1943, at the ripe old age of 19. He spent the remainder of the war flying p40s, p51 combat missions in the pacific with the 78th fighter squadron. He participated in the first landbased fighter mission in japan in 1945 and has the unique distinction of having flown the final combat mission of world war ii on 14 august of 1945, the day combat ended. On that mission, his wing man phillip slomberg was the las
Good evening, everyone, this is such a wonderful moment in the day, the final event is the only one going on right now and its the only one i get to sit down and actually watch. It is also really great delight for me to be here celebrating the 15th anniversary, the wisconsin book festival, my fifth book festival, a mini an anniversary and im delighted that we are finishing with such a call. If everyone would turn off cell phones so we are not interrupted tonight, when you have a question, i know you will ask good questions, please ask them from audience microphone in the middle of the floor, we are on cspan today and this will be rebroadcasted next week, saturday, we want to caption the questions as well as the talk. Ththis book is not called one dy this will matter though it is incredibly welldesigned cover. I saw this book and i immediately said this is something that we need to have ong screen. We need to be talking about younger peoples stories and we be talking about different voi
Featured author 11 t11. [applause] we were taking a selfie. [laughter] hello. Thanks for joining us today this book is amazing. You are like kanye to me. There is a basketball game tonight. But i was so struck by so many thing because it was very emotional and raw and how generous you are as a person not afraid to say the thing that we are all thinking. So what was hard about writing this for you . It was a difficult book to write i was thinking let my next project would be and i thought the book i want to write least is about fatness than i realize that is what i should write the most in my dad said do something nobody else is doing to achieve success. So from that perspective so you see a woman standing in her formerly fat pants to say i did it and i cannot write that book yet but i want to. So i will tell the story of my body today without apology. This is my fat body. For as much as perspective that we here i still think there is that singular narrative and thank you can shift the