Just make sure to swing by on a monday or tuesday because we can certainly busy for us. Just remember your purchase is supporting our bookstore and staff. Also you can order a copy of the book from bookpeople today you will be entered to win free book and sweater so make sure to grab one. Just think of everyone after this introduction, our guests will be joining us on the screen. There will be taking some questions so please make sure to submit them in the q a bubble below. If you look at your zoom screen, the bar below all the way to the use two little bubbles. Please submit in them there ind of the chat so we can find them. With that just a quick note, we will be recording the nights event which will be aired on cspan at a later date so just a heads up. Now on to introducing our guests for the night. Anne Helen Petersen is a Senior Writer for buzzfeed, she received her phd at the university of texas at austin where she focused on the history of celebrity gossip. Her previous book, to
This is the exact moment where Boris Johnson may be about to speak to eu leaders. We understand that most of it is virtual. We are expecting the Prime Minister to give his response on whether he is continuing to negotiate. There was that selfimposed deadline on october 15. We dont know whether he is happy with the progress or whether he thinks even if there is not progress, he still wants to give it a shot. Tom there is your update this morning. Lot, like about the map of the fisheries. Its like a big deal, right . In the north . Francine i remember being a young reporter a million years ago showing up in brussels and actually going to at the time, it was not much to talk about, but our editor said watch out for fisheries, because nobody talks about them. Its always a fishing problem, as we see with brexit in 2020. Tom there we are with your update. Ritika gupta just nodded off. Lets start the show with the bloomberg first word news in new york. Ritika good morning. President trump and
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Whose book just out this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of james baker the third. Of two brilliant books about it too complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930 and holbrook 1941 holbrook a democrat, student of Foreign Policy. Their lives had different trajectories but they both ended up in washington. Picking up on that, this is a man with great ambition and even before he came to washington. He was expected to do great things. He had a very dominating father who imparted on him the legacy of his family. One thing they were not meant to do his politics. They break away from his fathers domination and at age 40 he suffers a great family tragedy. His wife dies of cancer and the tennis court helps pick him up from the George Hw Bush on a whole different odyssey that put them in the center of world events. Host george im going to be going back and forth because the stories of the books are so rich we could go so many Differ