Into the earliest years of children being in a School Setting where we can try to reach them the best. Carol rasco is president and ceo of reading is fundamental. Ms. Rasco what is sure web site very quickly . R guy s. Org. Jane robinson as chief Financial Officer of first book and web site. First book. Org. We thank you both for it being on booktv and talking about your reading commitment. Thank you. This is booktv live coverage from the 29th annual Miami Book Fair. A full weekend of author panels, collins and other events ahead. Here is our lineup for today. In just a minute day humor columnist will be talking about his most recent book, lunatic and he will be joined by seth reiss in will tracy of the onion, the onion book of known knowledge is their latest volume. After that, naomi wolf will be talking about her latest book. Its called vagina a new biography. After that we want change d. C. To lila weaver and argentinian immigrant in his shoes written a book about her experiences, g
One of the more careful mayors colorful mayors you will find in the country. He was part huey long, part tony soprano. The good and the bad. He reflected providence as one of americas oldest cities. To me really embodies the american political story. Welcome to providence on booktv. With help of art Cox Communications partners, we will export a rich literary culture of this capital city as we travel to these local authors and to learn about the history of this town and the state of rhode island. We begin our program with a visit to providence literally landmark. To climb up those steps and make your way in and then to arrive at the top of the steps and then look in and see the mezzanine filled with books and its inspiring. I love when we have visitors that come in for the first time. They walk in the front door. And usually if its someone whos new to the public, the first thing i hear is a giant side, and then the next word out of their mouth is oh, my goodness, this is what a vibratio
Apprenticed and learned the printing trade. So this is one of three books that survived and the only copy, i believe, that exists of john hammetts relation. As we move forward, we go into some of the more cultural aspects of Rhode Islands history in the 18th century, and something that i find utterly delightful. One of the other sights we have is the john brown house museum. And we know that john browns daughter was married in 1788, and we have diary accounts of the country dances that she did. What we have here in our printed collection that shows the deep connections between the artifacts and the museums and the printed collection is the first printing, the only surviving copy we know of, earliest collection of country dances and cotillions. This is produced by the dance master of providence, john grith, and it is griffith. And it is a wonderful account of the dances that were being done, the newest and most fashionable; the pleasure of love, the pleasure of providence, the new russi
Mr. Rothkopf, a lot of people think that government and big business go hand in hand. They do go hand in hand but governments Playing Field for power and so business introduces itself there to guide it in the directions it wants to go. But of course a lot of people in big business or in the Financial Community would prefer it if they went on in their way unimpeded by government, and toso thats another front in this particular power struggle. Host one of the points you make in power inc. There are multinational corporations who make more money, control more money, than most of the governments on earth. Yeah, Big Companies like walmart, you know, have more employees than some of the smaller countries in the world. But a company like exxon has revenues that are bigger than the gdp of all but probably 30 or 40 countries on earth and, therefore, it has resources that allow it to set up offices in more countries than most countries have embassies. Put more money towards influencing outcomes
Substantive, it doesnt have a lot of nutritional content to it and we are going to be right back in again and again. Markets will lose confidence. We will gradually lose our global credibility as an economic leader. We might see our Credit Rating damaged more over time. And it is the slow defense of the United States that is the real risk. The fiscal cliff is something that can be fixed fairly easily. Host finally, i would like to go back, David Rothkopf come to your comments about government. National government being neanderthal it. There was a throwaway line of sight while we are still organized as nation states economically. Again, where we going in the future. I think we will see the future. Because we live in geographic proximity to one another, we also have city governments, state governments in the United States, we have a federal government in the United States and its only natural that another layer of government that deals with issues of loss. But over the course of the next