Its where well be signing books. We were lucky enough, to have the journalist and author and cohost of the podcast. And he will be doing a brief q a with our author before eric will do a reading and then well open it up for questions. So about our author he was the director and researcher at the National Intelligence of science and path algae for the u. S. Intelligence community. Before joining nfa he is executive Vice President of disney imaginary. A phd neuroscientist. In an inventor with over seven patents and pending patents. His book includes brain, safari and tonights book is all substation. If everyone could give a round of apostle commack. Hi. Again thank you for coming. Thank you for showing up, we want to think diane for organizing this event along with kim peart who is here in spirit if not a person into the bookstore in los angeles. Ericas had an unbelievable literally and metaphorically career and for we get into this true story of spy craft which is an amazing book which
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
My name is rebecca and im on the events team and tonight we are really excited to have [applause] [inaudible conversation] this is not his first thing he has given us to write. Casey has been writing for new yorkers and New York Times, for others for many years now. Many of you probably noticed because you are here but in all of her work she has been superhuman ability to make everybody else fascinating. Its a clear and this could not be more true for this book. In this one, casey marks to intertwining mysteries. One is a story of reverend Billy Maxwell in his trials and the other unfinished work of character. Stories with contagious dedication to seeing them through and doing them as must dash justice is possible. This is a book that you can actually not put down. I mean, that very seriously. I think im about 20 pages from the end right now. [laughter] casey, we are so excited to have you tonight thank you so much for coming. Patrick is a staff staffer with new yorker. [applause] auth
Authors his thoughts on american conversant his him. Afterwards, is a weekly Interview Program with relative guesthouse interviewing top notch authors about their latest work. So, george will. Im going to call you george if thats okay. Soon i think you. Im gonna get there in my life. Of all things, the universitys very large in your book, princeton. Three princetons. Can you explain what youre getting out there . All of american thoughts as an argument between madison, the class of i think 1771 and thomas what is wilson, tommy aziz was known at princeton. In 1879. Madison being the giver of our madisonian institutional architecture and would world loosening the foremost a couple forthrightly rejected this and to their credit that they did it kill one another. Would real wilson was the First American president to criticize the american founding. He said the whole architecture was a separation of powers was fine was from their 4 million of us. Eighty percent but now that we are a great c
There. Yesterday wasnt bad. The next several days were really bad. I have upset Matt Odonnell because i said i dont like cookie dough ice cream but today would be a good day for it. Theres other flavors i like better. The cloud cover gone. We got High Pressure in control today. Thats keeping us under the sun and its also knocking those winds down again so its another tranquil day out there. 47 degrees in philadelphia, of course we he clear it out a little bit so the temperature has dropped a bit overnight. Down into the 30s in allentown and millville, 39 in lancaster. Do yourself a favor as you step outside, just look up. The big diopter its putting on a good show for you under the stars. Winds are life. As you head to the bus stop it is going to be a little on the cool side. 48 by 8 00 a. M. But like yesterday the winds are very tranquil and unlike yesterday, we are going to climb out of the 60s, get a little bit better than that later. By noon 67 degrees. By 3 oclock, mostly sunny sk