Booktv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Good evening everyone. Tonight we are here with peter finn the National Security editor at the Washington Post and previously coauthor of the book the zhivago affair which was finalist for the National Book six circle award for nonfiction. Hes twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his International Reporting and hes won the Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award and the German Marshall Fund Peter R White prize for his foreign reporting. In other words, his nonfiction credentials are very wellestablished. Tonight he is here to present his latest book of nonfiction i guess to the right the story of american heiress gertrude with deborahs dramatic captivity and escape from nazi germany. Please help me welcome peter finn. [applause] thank you everyone for coming out and thank you to a books for inviting me. Im delighted to be here. As she mentioned, my book is about gertrude lesandro and the First American woman in unifor
Presidency, and expressed in written word. The other culture in this room is pat oliphant. [applause] please greet pat oliphant. Even more so by the work of pat, which you will see displayed on this screen. Is notture he represents sort of broad gauge and long but highly specific. The course ofer more than 60 years as a cartoonist producing more than 10,000 individual cartoons five days a week for the denver post for several years, for the washington star for several ears, and then pot out fan he became the first 20thcentury cartoonist to work independently. It was syndicated through newspapers across the country out of his studio. Comment onic, daily events as they were occurring. Far from being balanced, they were opinionated. Virtue. Part of their obviously, not so much in words, but especially in pictures. Not just confined to cartoons, but also to paintings and sculpture. ,efore i introduce our panel let me speak some words of thanks on behalf of those who were instrumental in hel
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President buell thank you. Clerk i have angela then ken and victoria and then rory. Thank you, commissioners. I didnt hear if we established a quorum on the commission. I wondered if you have. President buell we have a quorum. Okay, so this can go forward. Im angela, im here following ms. Thompson. Im inspired by the things she gets involved in and mr. Johnsons efforts and life long commitment to elevating who we are as africanamericans here in San Francisco. It is a sitting thing that i, who like him, go to the fillmore to see black people. To have a section of the Harvey Milk Library designate that again, the warmth in the life of black people, the culture, the social, being visible finally in a city that has seen a depletion from 2010 at 6 to 5. 6 right now, its a fitting thing. Thank you for considering this. I believe it will go forward. Thank you. President buell thank you. Clerk ken and victoria . Hello. My name is victoria whiteball. And im here because my father, don white and
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