And now Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Fraser discusses the life and novels of Laura Ingalls wilder. She explained the differences between actual events in the authors life, the little house on the prairie book series, and the television adaptation. The Jefferson County, Missouri Library hosted this event. Good evening, everybody. We are really thrilled to see you here tonight. This is the third and final program in this series. We kept miss fraser very busy for the last two days and weve had wonderful crowds turned out each time. We sold out of the books. It has been really very satisfying. To have cspan here taping this to show on television is just the icing on the cake. Its such a wonderful feeling to know that something so positive representing Jefferson County will be on national television. My job tonight. [applause] is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the book editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She grew up
Cake. Its a wonderful feeling to know that something so positive representing Jefferson County will be on national television. My job tonight [ applause ] is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She graduated from st. Louis and graduated from columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her work as a grad student to go to work as a copy editor in the mid 1980s and later, after three years in the newsroom of the hartford in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. As a book editor, she assigns and edits book reviews choosing from some 300 or so new books each week. Shes written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors from sam and rushdie to e. L. Doctorel. So tonight she adds to that and she will be having a conversation with caroline fraser. Carolin
Representing Jefferson County will be on television. [ applause ] my job tonight is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the book editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She grew up in st. Louis and graduated from the university of missouri columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her grad student work to go to work as a copy editor for the st. Louis globe democrat in the mid1980s. After three years in the newsroom in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. She assigns and edits book reviews choosing from 300 or so new books each week. Shes written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors. Tonight she adds to that and she will be having a conversation with Caroline Fraser. Caroline fraser is the editor of the library of america edition of Laura Ingalls wilder, the little house books and t
Officers and soldiers they covered. Among the speakers were former abc news nightline anchor ted koppel and yasutsune hirashiki, author of on the frontlines of the Television War a legendary war cameraman in vietnam. This event at the National Archives in washington is about 90 minutes. Now it is time to introduce our moderator terribly irving terry irving. He went into a career in television news, spending for decades covering wartime and political disasters throughout the United States. E has one and number of awards ladies and gentlemen, please welcome terrier thing in our distinguished panelists. Terry irving and our distinguished panelists. [applause] terry good evening. I should explain that none of these people are terry irving, but i am. [laughter] younow, we have here see, this is what you come prepared with everything you have ever written. We have barry who reported on virtually every Major International event, wars, policies of seven u. S. President s. Barry covered the fal
Good evening. Im the coowner of politics and prose. On behalf of the entire staff, welcome and thank you for coming. Its quite a treat to have speed with us to talk about his new book. This is the first time steve has had an opportunity to do standup talking about the book. Steve of course is a legend in journalism. To proceed the big picture and his skill at presenting the narrative of something he spent 20 years at the Washington Post including a stint as a financial reporter as the correspondent ahead of the sunday magazine after six years he was the managing editor of vapor. After leaving the post a decade ago, he served as the president of the new America Foundation that took over as the dean of Columbia University journalism school. He also continues to work as a journalist on the staff of the new yorker magazine and along the way hes written revealing books about some important subjects of the involvement in afghanistan and the bin laden family and exxon mobil. He is one of two