Columnist tom friedman, best selling authors j. D. Vance and Michael Lewis, astronaut Leland Melvin and many others. Now, for a complete schedule visit booktv. Org, and you can follow us on social media for updates and behindthescenes videos. Were on facebook,visit facebook. Com booktv, booktv is our twitter handle and on instagram, were at book underscore tv. This years festival kicks off with librarian of congress carla haden making opening remarks, and shell be followed immediately by author and historian david mccullough. Youre watching booktv on cspan2 live from the 17th annual National Book festival. [applause] wow, i was so worried [cheers and applause] i was so worried. It was raining [laughter] and i thought, book lovers are going to want to stay in bed concern. [laughter] and read. [laughter] well, here you are. Thank you and good morning. [applause] and welcome to the 2017 National Book festival. Im carla hayden, and im so honored to be able to say im the 14th librarian of c
I was so worried. [applause] i was so worried. It was raining, and i thought booklovers are going to want to stay in bed and read. But here you are. Thank you and good morning. [applause] and welcome to the 2017 National Book festival. I am carla hayden and im the 14th library and of congress. As you can see, as you can see, i am pretty excited to open this event, our 17th consecutive celebration of books and reading and it is wonderful to see a bold house in our largest presentation space. Not only do we have a full house here at the Convention Center but we also have millions of people joining us live on facebook. Thanks to everyone for joining us. We have a fantastic lineup of authors this year and what better way to kick off the festival then with one of our nations most beloved historians, mister David Mccullough. [applause] David Mccullough is here for his sixth National Book festival appearance, we hope you will continue to make this a habit. He will be followed by diana, the au
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It was raining and i thought, booklovers are going to want to stay in bed and read. But, here you are. Thank you, good morning. [applause] welcome to the 2017 National Book festival. Carla hayden, im honored to say that im the 14th library of congress. As you can see, im pretty excited to open this event. Our 17th consecutive celebration of books and reading. Its wonderful to see if house and our largest presentations space. Not only will have a full house here at the convention center, but we have millions of people joining us live on facebook. So, thank you wherever you are for joining us. [applause] we have a fantastic lineup of mainstage off authors to share. What better way to kick off the festival then with one of our nations most beloved historians. Mr. David mccullough. [applause] mr. Mccullers here for his six National Book festival appearance and we hope youll continue to make this a habit. He will be followed by diana [applause] shes the author of the outlander series and sh