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
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
On booktv on cspan 2. Good afternoon. I am so glad to see all of you here on this Beautiful Day to join a National Book festival. Mine is in a Community Affairs at wells fargo for the midatlantic region. And so want to be here representing wells fargo is both an avid reader myself. I really dont remember a time in my life when i wasnt an avid reader. I just loved reading. I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina and had the benefit of the library account be an adjacent to backyard. But at the library of congress obviously, but its a wonderful asset to the community. Around the corner to parents to pick out books and am feeling very, very grown up when i got to go by myself to check out books myself. Ive attended here today come you must all know books can take you to foreign lands and give you a different perspective about your neighborhood. They can introduce you to people that came generations before and connect people in real time. My favorite incident happened to me when i
Introduce you to people who came generations before and connect it in realtime. My favorite instance when i was nine years old. The first day of fifth grade sitting at my desk reading before classes began. A news today came into the classroom holding her mothers hand when she saw me reading she said look, she reads the same kind of books that i do. She quickly became my best friend and matron of honor at my wedding in hess shared many books since the fifth grade at wells fargo we would all children to have the same love we try to inspire that through reading first in interactive every allowed program to support Early Childhood literacy. Wells fargo team members have donated more than 1 million books prek through second grade and we read aloud bin donate to the classroom libraries. Although were not teaching them to read we read out loud to share our enthusiasm we feel that modeling that is teaching children to love reading. In addition we gave away 1500 bucks to children last year at t
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