Salons jacob weisberg, and we take a look at the life of florence kennedy. And finally, david reef questions if ending extreme poverty and hunger around the world is possible. Those are some of the highlights for this weekend. For a complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, this weekend 72 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. And now were kicking off the weekend with Brian Kilmeade and dan yeager. Their book, Thomas Jefferson and the tripoli pirates. [inaudible conversations] here we go. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] like were coming to court. You afraid of the audience, brian . I wanted to have a dramatic entrance. Oh, all right. [laughter] actually, he doesnt want to be seen on the same stage with me. Hes already found out im a little too smart alecky. Which he is, by the way. Five minutes, see what you learn . Good afternoon, welcome to the heritage foundation. We, of course, welcome those who join us on our heritage. Org web s
It has been 41 years. Since you and bernstein came out with all the president s men that chronicle the watergate scandal. And then your new book the last of the president s men it brings us back to that period. Looking at the Nixon White House with the chief of staff especially after he acknowledged today you think youre doesnt reporting on watergate . This isnt watergate but nixon and writing so many books on him. I thought i was done. It is a better one than you and i. The next time youre in washington with get together some have a few interesting stories that the Washington Post gives me on limited time. To say i will stop by the you have any documents . They said yes i have a few and there are 20 boxes. I thought there was a box but not 20. 70s that were original and we did not know about. So i went for more interviews. And then go out tla jolla for a fun weekend. To sit in this dark apartment. With the Nixon White House sitting in 50 months to keep this file on onionskin paper and
That was after words, booktvs Signature Program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed. Watch past after words programs online at booktv. Org. Host university of wisconsin professor jennifer ratnerrosenhagen, who was Frederick Nietzsche . Guest he was a 19th century german philosopher who wrote many, many, many, many books on philosophy and all sorts of different forms. And all of them some after riskic, some essayistic, some longer formally teaks, and all of them critiques, and all of them had something to do with the challenge of universal truth. So he took as his enemy the notion of universal truth, and pretty much all of his work has something to do with his effort to tear it down, excavate it, look at the history of that idea and to show that anything that we take to be universals like, oh, god [laughter] are human creations. But theyre not rooted in nature or necessity, theyre not mirrors of reality. Host he wrote at one time god is dead guest and he wrot
Few. Booktv has covered many of these. You can watch the programs on our website, booktv. Org. Good evening. On Jennifer Raab [applause] mpeg extraordinaire privilege of being the president of the phenomenal hunter college. I tonight along with my colleague, the director of rosenhaus i am pleased to welcome you to this discussion about the publishing sensation of the year, or maybe even a decade, notorious rbg. Shout out to our hunter alums were here. Raised her hand to make sure your all danger of alumni dues. Notorious rbg is a book like no other. In the senate reviewed the New York Times said it is a scrapbook a columnist inside of a baby. Notorious rbg went on so just last week and when the times bestseller list come out next week and to award reached number seven. [applause] another measure of the books popularity is that we originally planned to hold this event at roseville house but the response was so great we need to move it here for a much larger place. Were delighted about t
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