Your books are praised by oprah, president obama and you win the poets with the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . Before we take the pain away, this book is taken off and away unexpected and startling and wonderful and i thank my lucky stars and they sleep a little better and that her mood generally and try to enjoy despite my best efforts. What is up doing a better mood. I been writing for 20 something years doing fiction for 20 something years temperature write a book and people to get and no one typically cares and it disappears so i had the pride and think it i did a good job from the book and the bonus of other people reading it as well. Host your first book was about elevator repairs, people, how do you sell a book like that. Guest exactly. With that book i wrote a description and i said to my agent you dig in the concept of elevators inspectors or you dont. Youre either along for the ride in the description or not indefinitely when i was writing it was my s
What is so interesting is where central bankers will be. Mark carney, the governor of the bank of england, it is just out across the bloomberg that he has finally landed. I thought he would be running the toronto maple leafs, but he will join the venerable brookfield of toronto. This is one of the Sterling Companies of canada, 100,000 strong. Esg. E will go all lisa hes going to be leading the environmental and social governance Investment Strategy at brookfield, which is eventually expected to rival the size of its real a structure businesses. The question is, what does this mean . Tom this has clearly been one of the leading efforts of the former governor of the bank of england. Our Francine Lacqua numerous times in interviews on esg as he led the bank of england, i would say more than any other central bank. Maybe i would get a hat tip to the bundesbank as well, but clearly leading on esg. I heard him speak on this at davos as well. This is to me a very natural outcome to see him jo
Week and every weekend on cspan three. There are more than 400 National Parks across america, covering over 85 million acres of land, with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited the state sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, we will feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland, situated along the cayuga river, we will learn how the canal system here plays a major role in our nations westward expansion in the 18 thirties and forties. The ohio and eerie canal is part of a two canal system that was put in place in the early years of america. Built between 1825 and 1832. Its basically a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river. It was part of a larger idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated right along the atlantic seaboard. Our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we n
Peter urban and im a park ranger at for the National Park service here at ellis island. This island for Many Americans is a place where their american story began. 12 to 13 million americans came to this island and to this building in order to be given the ok to go out and start their lives in the late 1800s and early 1900s. A lot of people dont know about ellis island before that time, so let me talk to you briefly about ellis island itself. Today, we are 27 acres in size. But in the origin form this island was in, it was three acres. A small island in the middle of the the barely came above. Its first serve as a fort in 1812 and then as a storage depot. Somewhere around 1890, it was decided by the federal government that this would be the place that they would institute the first buildings specifically constructed for the processing of immigrants. And so they did construct that building between 1890 and 1892. The building you see here is not the first Processing Center, it is actuall
Please welcome professional Football Player jason c horn and angie harmon. [applause] good evening. Tonight, we are proud to recognize two men who embody the american spirit of bravery and sacrifice. Feat earned the highest honor. It is just a game. Nothing compares to the valor of these men. These are americas heroes. They know the price of liberty and they support president george w. Bush. [applause] the first sailor to earn the medal of honor was John Williams of the uss pawnee during the civil war. The flagstaff fell. The winded captain held the splintered remains in his hand, keeping the flag aloft and rallying his men. The medal of honor represents the highest aspirations of our country. Sacrifice, honor drawn from character and a country where the flag is lifted high and Freedom Still reigns. Tonight, we honor the bravest of the brave. May, 31st, 1951 on a korea wherecity in , armory Corporal Rudy hernandez and his platoon took defensive positions after gunfire and heavy artille