Up next p of the series with the librarian of congress and an author and historian. Brinkley good evening, and welcome to live at the library, and a preview of the new library of congress cspan series, books that shaped america. My name is peter, and i am with cspans book tv. About 150 years ago, when i was young, my parents were a little worried that my brother and i about what my brother and i were reading about. They consulted marian, the principal at our grade school, glenwood elementary, in fort wayne indiana, and she had two pieces of advice for us. Let them read anything they want. The back of a cereal box. The words on a television commercial. Go to the library regularly and check out books. The second piece of advice was for bedtime. Let them stay up a halfhour later as long as that halfhour was devoted to reading. Well, for some reason, that advice stuck. From reading cereal boxes the book tv to interview authors, and our new series, books that shaped america. We will begin t
Up next p of the series with the librarian of congress and an author and historian. Brinkley good evening, and welcome to live at the library, and a preview of the new library of congress cspan series, books that shaped america. My name is peter, and i am with cspans book tv. About 150 years ago, when i was young, my parents were a little worried that my brother and i about what my brother and i were reading about. They consulted marian, the principal at our grade school, glenwood elementary, in fort wayne indiana, and she had two pieces of advice for us. Let them read anything they want. The back of a cereal box. The words on a television commercial. Go to the library regularly and check out books. The second piece of advice was for bedtime. Let them stay up a halfhour later as long as that halfhour was devoted to reading. Well, for some reason, that advice stuck. From reading cereal boxes the book tv to interview authors, and our new series, books that shaped america. We will begin t
Up next p of the series with the librarian of congress and an author and historian. Brinkley good evening, and welcome to live at the library, and a preview of the new library of congress cspan series, books that shaped america. My name is peter, and i am with cspans book tv. About 150 years ago, when i was young, my parents were a little worried that my brother and i about what my brother and i were reading about. They consulted marian, the principal at our grade school, glenwood elementary, in fort wayne indiana, and she had two pieces of advice for us. Let them read anything they want. The back of a cereal box. The words on a television commercial. Go to the library regularly and check out books. The second piece of advice was for bedtime. Let them stay up a halfhour later as long as that halfhour was devoted to reading. Well, for some reason, that advice stuck. From reading cereal boxes the book tv to interview authors, and our new series, books that shaped america. We will begin t
Up next p of the series with the librarian of congress and an author and historian. Brinkley good evening, and welcome to live at the library, and a preview of the new library of congress cspan series, books that shaped america. My name is peter, and i am with cspans book tv. About 150 years ago, when i was young, my parents were a little worried that my brother and i about what my brother and i were reading about. They consulted marian, the principal at our grade school, glenwood elementary, in fort wayne indiana, and she had two pieces of advice for us. Let them read anything they want. The back of a cereal box. The words on a television commercial. Go to the library regularly and check out books. The second piece of advice was for bedtime. Let them stay up a halfhour later as long as that halfhour was devoted to reading. Well, for some reason, that advice stuck. From reading cereal boxes the book tv to interview authors, and our new series, books that shaped america. We will begin t
Everybody has his own special dream about what the world is going to be like in the future. We know it is steadily strengthening. Shrinking. One of these days we are going to wake up and find that the people we are reading and dreaming about our right in our own backyard. Are right in our own backyard. It has happened. I do not like the looks of this . It is going to be wonderful. We cannot get along. They are too different. We have to get along. The future of civilization depends on brotherhood. Wiat a wait a minute what about this business of brotherhood. We are all different. Iiiwinemike. Most of the people of the the same in between colors of their ancestors and still do. Three groups on the very edges of the worlds population develop distinct differences in color. These exceptional groups gave rise to our ideas of three separate races of mankind. There are other differences in people beside the skin color. Hair, eyes, nose shapes and sizes. We find the same differences within each