To you today by your television provider. History and biography is sponsored by wells fargo. Im Judy Woodruff and im thrilled to be joining these three amazing authors to today. You see them on the screen, they are george packer, whose latest book our man, Richard Holbrook and the American Century and susan lasser and peter baker just this fall, the man who ran washington. The life and times of james a baker the third. Two brilliant books about too complicated and fascinating man. They were born at a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930, holbrook in manhattan in 1941. Acre republican trained as warrior. Holbrook a democrat Foreign Service officer,student of foreignpolicy. Their lives have very different trajectories but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter picking up on it, this is a man with ambition and it was even before he came to washington. It was he was part of a family of an aristocracy, his family basically builds moderninstant. They
Foundation. Their support for online cultural events has been absolutely unwavering and they are, oh my gosh, im so excited to see john nichols. Their support for these events has been absolutely unwavering and they have been so dedicated bringing author events to all of you whether you are watching in your home in madison or across the country or across the globe. Seen an incredible uptick in her audience of people from all over and it is just absolutely wonderful to see the response. Thank you to everyone here tonight and everyone who comes and to all the sponsors who made sure these events keep going. Without further ado i would like to bring john and mary to the screen and step away myself. Larry tye. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us. Larry, thanks for coming all the way to massachusetts to be here with us. [laughter] larry is on cape cod as we speak. You have about 100 people or close to 100 people with us and some more may join us as we go along and as was explained upfro
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Industry, americas Cable Television company, as a public and brought to you today i your television provider. Good evening. My name is leslie kavasch and im here to introduce our guest, clyde ford. Client is former assistant engineer with ibm. He graduated from university of Western State here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic, and he is a trained psychotherapist. He the awardwinning author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. Clive is recipient of the rate award, in African American literature as well as numerous other awards for his books. Hes been a guest on the oprah show, npr, and radio and tv programs across the nation. Clyde is here tonight to speak about his latest book think black which was just released shortlisted for the 2019 book prize in social justice. Wed you please join me in welcoming to the planetarium at the Oregon Museum of science and industry clyde ford. [applause] thank you leslie and thank you all for being here. I cant tell you how special it is to bee