I said for 28 years for the Library Congress and retired a couple years ago. He told me that the National Book festival was something he needed help with and had been started in 2001 as an idea that came from laura bush, laura bush asked Jim Billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001 whether not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she started in the texas, the texas book festival he said there is not yet but there will be. He came up with the idea of how to put together National Book festival, the idea was to do it in the mall in a series of tents that were set up for the first year end then it turned out getting sponsorships were more difficult than they thought it would be. So he asked me if i get involved and i told him i would do so and i began to be a sponsor and a cochair of the event, ive done that for ten years or so. It is very important to me that the festival goes well and i enjoyed a great deal is a great gift for the country to have a natio
Friends, along with one million other new acquaintances. So, michael and i go way back, and lets just start out talking about, you are an art history major at princeton. And then you go off to wall street and you do really well, and you could have been rich. I mean, you could have had your own plane at this point. Instead you went into the book business. Tell us why you did that, how that has come about. Host so you know, joe and i were classmates in college, it is actually just an accident he was asked to interview me. They thought we would be good together. Didnt knoll we have no each other. This is an opportunity for joel to express all of the recentments he feels. Thats right. This is actually the undoing project. Joel and michael. The fact that yes. So, the question is, why i kuwait wall street. So i didnt know i wanted what wanted to do with my life when i was in college unlike you. You knew you want ted be a journalist and a writer. And when i got out, i didnt have any plans. I
Announcer earlier today, former Vice President joe biden discusses the article he recently cowrote on russia and look at current relations with the kremlin, russias interference in the middle east and the foreignpolicy approach of the Obama Administration. From the council of Foreign Relations, this is one hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon. I want to welcome one and all to odays council on Foreign Relations meeting. Liek al iron ridge you to read thisurge you to read issue. Havelk about how countries failed or either dealt with the legacies of their own past. This deals with countries like south africa and also the United States, given our complicated legacy. As well as russia, china and others. I would invite people to look at it. The subject of today is another article in the magazine. I should probably introduce myself. My name is richard hoss, i work here at the council on Foreign Relations. [applause] richard we are joined today by the gentleman on my right, joe biden who served
Neil degrasse tyson. 72 hours of nonfiction authors and books. Booktv, television for serious readers. For complete Television Schedule visit booktv. Org. Carla hayden, give us a preview of the book festival. It is going to be one of my favorites because i am a big nonfiction fan and the types of authors we will have from David Mccullough to jd vance whose book is on every reading list you can imagine in every book club. I am thrilled. Host how many offers do you invite . Guest when you think about a one day festival, the National Book festival and you have over 100 authors from childrens authors, illustrators, graphic novelists, all these different authors, 100,000 people come in and celebrate books and reading, you cant have a better time. Im prejudiced because im a librarian but any reader or anybody that wants to get inspired, the book festival is the perfect place. Host the seventh the book festival, your second, your personal your second . Guest is my second. I was sworn in and o
You are watching the tv on cspan2 with live coverage of the 17th annual National Book festival. , talk that was Michael Lewis you are listening to talk about his most recent book. By the way, mr. Lewis will be our guest on our indepth program on the first sunday in november, so you can catch him again their. Joining us before we continue other author presentations joining us onset of the first floor of the Convention Center in washington dc is Thomas Friedman with his most recent book. Thank you for being late, an optimist guide to thriving in the age of acceleration. Mr. Friedman, you did an hour presentation earlier, almost like a ted talk . Guest is that good or bad . Its good, but in case anyone did not see it, in a nutshell how do Market Forces and Mother Nature all come together . Guest the name of the book is that with the world is not changing, its being reshaped by three simultaneous acceleration in what i call the market, Mother Nature and more slot. Market is digital globali