Good evening everyone. Thanks for coming out to with us tonight. We are thrilled to have dan ackerman with us to launch the tetris affect, the game that hypnotize the world. Dan is a native new yorker and moved into the neighborhood a few years ago and we are very glad to have him there. He is section editor at nina and runs the gadget testing lab over there. He has been a talking head on just about every news program imaginable and appears regularly as it inhouse Technology Expert on cbs this morning. This is his first book before i invite him up im going to read a quote. Tetris affect is a thrilling, globetrotting history book charting the creation of the greatest game ever played. Without further ado, please welcome dan ackerman. [applause] thanks for coming everybody. My name is dan ackerman and this is not only my first book but my first book reading. It took me 20 years to come up with a story i thought was really worth telling in this more expanded format. We will read a little
Also, former former state Department Official Mary Thompson joan discusses leaked diplomatic cables on book tv afterward program at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. At ten, they recall the life of a former state Department Employee turned soviet spy. We wrap up our sunday primetime lineup at 11 with the account of the final months of president Franklin Roosevelts life. Thatll happen starting next on cspan to book tv. First up, here is joseph stiglitz. Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to barnes noble upper west side. Tonight i have the distinct pleasure of introducing author joseph stiglitz. Mr. Stiglitz is a nobel prizewinning economist and the bestselling author of a number of titles including the great divide, the price of inequality, and globalization and its. [inaudible] he has written for vanity fair, political, the atlantic and harper. He brings us today his new book, the euro, how, how a common currency threatens the future of europe. Can the euro be saved . After laying the mis
Program might be used to or result in some way a crowding out of a significant portion of the economy shortterm private credit liability. And then it goes on to consider this is where i got into trouble. Such a Development Might conflict with the fifth Monetary Policy octave i got confused i will tell you i was on an amtrak south of washington behind a Freight Train when i read that section. That had something to do with it. But ting that section and one or two others could have been simplified a little bit and then clarified. I probably said enough by now to signal my high regard for this book, i can do it. I can do it. [laughter] but in closing let me salute that the very strength of the book for me actually highlights if the fed and the fdsc needs strong and essentially discretionary Emergency Powers to prevent or confront o runs how do we reck are sile such powers with legitimacy requirements of a democratic society. This is a Critical Condition in today political environment with
Please, do not approach the panelists while in the building. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is ivan bates, and i will serve as the moderator for todays panel, black in america. One of the things thats very interesting here at the key school, we have the opportunity to look and listen to the schools leader. Once we sit down we understand his book, basically, is a definition of the racist ideas in america, and this book was ai book that he spent a great deal of time researching. Its a book that chronicles the entire story of the antiblack racist ideas and their power over the course of American History. Dr. Kendi has done this through a number of ways throughout his book in which he uses the life of five major americans. These were intellectuals throughout the time period of history. The first one is a puritan minister. He sits down and talks about that and how he looked at some of his ideas. The next individual in the book is an individual, thomas jefferson, talks about him as well
Our two authors will be out front. [applause] so their books will be on sale itch can say personally theyre both engaging reads and have been getting great reviews. So come out, ask some more questions, and buy some books. Thanks. [inaudible conversations] we want to hear from you. Post your feedback to our facebook wall. Facebook. Com booktv. What do you do at simon and schuster. The vp executive director of publicity and senior editor. Host what does that mean. Guest i run out Publicity Group and i try to acquire books. Host well, we wanted to talk to you on booktv about some of the books coming out this season, but tell us one book you have been working on as an editor. Guest well, ive just turned in a final edit on jerries next book, woman looking at men looking at women, and she is very interesting. Most people know her as a novelist. The last prize, but the she leads a double life and happens to be one over the most presuspected thinkers and writers in neuroethics and neural row