The last archives shes also won numerous awards for her books including International Bestseller eaves truths, the history of the united states. Her next book is how the cybernetics preparation and better the future will be published in september 2020. Speaking to her today about the volatile times and how the coronavirus pandemic will go down in history as my colleague john haskell director of the john w flutie center of the library of congress. Its a great pleasure to welcome you to National Book festival presents. Hello jill, its good to have you with us despite the circumstances. Thanks, its nice to be here, or better to be there but its nice to be with you. Some pieces he written recently help us sort through this new and confusing time including the fascinating piece in the new yorker on what you call contagion tables. What are the earlier works in this genre a i would like to say what a pleasure it is to speak at the National Book festival and on behalf of the library of congres
It could be the leftist marksist point of view that we allow to typeover in this bolshevik of conduct thats going on, or we can resort and restore the law and order and the freedoms that we have long held dear. And make sure those freedoms apply to every citizen in our society. I have great and tremendous hope in this people. I know our president has that same hope. And i believe were going to get there. Were going to restore this and we will be at peace and will be prosperous again. With that, i yield back to my good friend from texas. Mr. Gohmert i appreciate so much my friend from arizona and i was asked earlier today by someone, you know, who Everybody Needs friends. Who are your friends in congress . Im looking at two of my best friends right here. Because maybe sad but thats the case. And im grateful for the friendship. But you know, we have press conference, the Freedom Caucus did, i appreciate your my ership, ill address remarks to the chair. I appreciate so much the leadership
Thank you, madam speaker. I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Thank you, madam speaker. I yield to my friend from maryland, the majority leader. Mr. Hoyer i thank my friend from georgia for yielding. On monday the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For morning hour debate, i repeat that because its unusual. On monday, 9 00 a. M. For morning hour debate and 10 00 a. M. For legislative business, votes expected to occur as early as 2 30 p. M. On tuesday and wednesday the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For morning hour debate and 10 00 a. M. For legislative business. On thursday, the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For legislative business. The house will consider h. R. 1425, Patient Protection and Affordable Care enhancement act. This bill will sig canly increase the a. C. A. s affordability, subsidies, lower Prescription Drug prices, expand coverage and crack down on junk plans. While strengthening protections for people with preexi
To the streets of old city philadelphia and imagine what life was like under british rule. One of the big agendas of the event is to present the fall of 1777 in a complicated way to show that for many of the people that remained in the city that winter this was an occupation and maybe a liberation from many of their perspectives and they wrote about in the period being liberated from the ash trar congress which is maybe something we can all aspire to some day. So we do this with living history programming in part because people come to museums to learn in all different ways to encounter the real things of history to have a Human Experience to connect with it and one way we bring it to life is with living history programming with the new Theatrical Program where richard storms into the room with guns blazing and the spoilers at the end of his life, but he maybe doesnt know that yet. We also do the larger living history events and its a pleasure to introduce these set of speakers because
Some of you exposed your own British Occupation, or perhaps liberation in the perspective of many. Its our third year in a row doing sort of what we call flagship living history event. We place about 70 costumed interpreters out on to the streets of old city philadelphia and imagine what life was like under british rule. One of the big agendas of the event is to present the fall of 1777 in a complicated way to show that for many of the people that remained in the city that winter this was an occupation and maybe a liberation from many of their perspectives and they wrote about in the period being liberated from the tire ran cat you certain asians of a tyrannical congress, which is maybe something we can all aspire to some day. So we do this with living history programming in part because people come to museums to learn in all different ways to encounter the real things of history to have a Human Experience to connect with it and one way we bring it to life is with living history progra