In debt. They started off incredibly well. They published grants memoirs, enormous success, and huckleberry finn. And twain expected to pay himself fat royalties. He wound up receiving no royalties. This is their final list of titles, and i dont know if you can see from there, but any publisher thats going to go out with stories from the rabbis [laughter] is probably going to be in a little trouble. [laughter] so headlines, and it was deeply humiliating, headlines in the newspaper said mark twain fails. I mean, it was brutal. Failure of mark twain, failure of humanist. And hes humorist. And hes this literary superstar, deeply embarrassed, and he gets two main advisers. One of the wealthiest men in america, the righthand man to john k. Rockefeller, standard oil. His nickname was hell hound, and this robberbaron wants to play hardball with the creditors. He wants to offer ten cents on the dollar. Twains other adviser is his wife, libby. She has absolutely no business experience. She writ
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with brought to you as a service by your cable of satellite provider. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. Welcome to books at noon. Im jessica stand, the director of Public Programs programs pros at the library, and im happy today, thrilled, to introduce dr. Louis sullivan who is i have to read because his long list of things a policy leader, Minority Health advocate, author, physician, educator, serves as the secretary of the u. S. Department of health and Human Services under george bush, and was founding dean of the Moore House School of medicine and today dr. Sullivan will be discussing his recent memoir, breaking ground. My life in medicine. So welcome. Glad to have you. The. This is a bit different because often i do fiction books, occasionally memoirs, but your story theres a lot to talk about here and i wanted to just begin its a hard thing
Maryland, and we created the most beautiful garden. And i was out there every single day in the spring and summer. And just to give you a sense of how beautiful it was, our daughter was married in that garden on june 16th in 1992. It turned out to be the hottest june day [laughter] in 75 years, and theres one photograph that was so wonderful of all the mens jackets on the fence. [laughter] so it was just great. But, yes, i love gardening. But living now in a condo, my gardening is restricted to my balcony. So just a few potted plants. Thank you. We have time for just one more question, diane. So hi. Hi. He had a feeling, i dont know how he had that feeling, but he was right. So i want to preface this by saying that you are looking fabulous for 79. [laughter] [applause] thank you, thank you. Shes looking fabulous for any age. [applause] thank you. [laughter] but my personal experience with aging, i never really knew anyone coincidentally, i lived with a woman over the summer that was al
Own. Dr. Louis sullivan is the founding dean and former health and Secretary Health and Human Service secretary. S hello, everyone, welcome to books at noon. I am jessica strand. The executive director of Public Events at the library and i will thrilled to introduce dr. Louis sullivan and i will have to read the long list of things. He is a policy leader, Minority Health advocate, author, served as the secretary of the u. S. Department of health and Human Services under george bush and the dean of the more house school of medicine and today dr. Sullivan will be discussing breaking ground so welcome we are happy to have you. Thank you. This is a bit different because i often do Fiction Books and occasionally memoirs but there is a lot to talk about here. It is a hard thing to say to somebody hi, can you sum up your life in two sentences. But in some brief way, i wanted you to tell the audience what this book covers. And i will dive in and build on specifics. Thank you very much. It is a
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