Good was it all . And churchill looked at him unbelieving. World war ii had destroyed n churchills mind, hitler and mussolini and the dictators. It had saved democracy, it had saved western civilization, so cur chill thought. And kennedy blazed hatred at him. Booktv is the only National Television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books every weekend, and this fall were marking 15 years of booktv on cspan2. Here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. At 3 45 p. M. Eastern, juanita patience moss talks about the forgotten black soldiers and white regiment during the civil war. Tomorrow at noon well be live with representative john lewis for three hours. The congressman will be taking your calls, emails, tweets and facebook posts. Then at 5 p. M. Eastern, booktv brings you some books on iran. Visit booktv. Org for a complete television schedule. Pulitzer prizewinning biographer a. Scott berg presents his book, wilson. This 45minute presentation aired during the Nationa
Welcome to the event. I am Jonathan Yardley the book critic of the Washington Post. The Washington Post has been a charter sponsor of the National Book festival since the inception 13 years ago. They play an active role in many of the planning and promotion. I am instructed to remind you this presentation is being taped. And you should stay off the camera rises in the back of the pavilion. At the National Book event, the final day of the oneday festival was a presentation by scott berg about this book about charles wilson. He is back now. He was promoting his book of maxwell perkins. We have had a great friendship every since. He is the author of many books and now this biography of Woodrow Wilson. He has placed great emphasis on a man whose personal life was interesting and important. Scott . [ applause ] thank you very much for being here this afternoon. Thank you jonathan. That was a very welcoming welcome coming from someone i considering being one of the greatest writer critics in
Hemorrhoids, a number of things doing 75,000 miles on horse back, and into this moment of trying to get to the plains of venezuela, a tremendous force, huge Expeditionary Force under the spaniards fighting to keep grip on the colony, in comes the american agents and one of whom was famously a reporter who came down and sort of freelanceing information back to the president and his cabinet and he was not treated well. You can just imagine. They had a scribbling pad in the middle of the revolution, and he was not treated well. The reports sent back to washington were absolutely scathing, a man with that polian ambitions, and you couldnt say anything worse to an american than to a man with those ambitions. Were talking about 1815 and forward. Slavery was one of the gordon wood described it well, and it was our gmp, it was slavery was huge, and the worst thing that washington could imagine, talking about washington as it was very, the the reputation began to get worse and worse in the Unit
Aspects enthusiastic role inn aspects of the promotion. Estivas planning and promotion. Im instructed to remind you this presentation is being taped and you should stay off of the risers located in the back of the pavilion. At the National Book festival in 2001, the final event of what was then a oneday festival was a presentation by scott curt in the Madison Building about his extraordinary biography of charles lindbergh. Scott is back with us today and it is both a pleasure and honor to introduce him for the second time at this festival. Ive known scott for 35 years. He came to miami where i was then living in 1978, promoting his wonderful biography of maxwell perkins. I adjust the year before published one of max perkins authors and so scott and i struck up a friendship that is persistent, although i must say a great physical distance ever since. You know scott is the author of maxwell perkins, is the author of lindbergh, as the author of a wonderful memoir of katharine hepburn. And
To fabien cousteau, in an undersea lab for a month. Im antonio mora, and whim to consider this. Here is more what is ahead. Iraqs Prime Minister asked the parliament to declare a state of emergency. Fighters from the Islamic State of iraq and levant overran the second largest city. The Obama Administration is deeply concerned. How was a lightly armed group able to take over a city of nearly 2 Million People . Syria is worried some members of congress from briefed on the swap clearing Bowe Bergdahl. Im concerned with an administration telling 80 or 90 people, but not a member of congress. The idea that they couldnt leak things is not true. A partnership with google. To develop a collection of autism genomes. Its massive, over 3 billion chemical bases of information. Google has a capability to be a leader in medical and scientific research. We beanyone with an upset. House majority leader eric cantor lost his primary election to an unknown backed by the tea party. Eric cantor, the second