Im the senior director of education here is my pleasure to welcome you to tonights author talk with Francine Klagsbrun on her new book, lioness. A program we are culprits sent to you with the jewish week. We are honored to host this talk in particular because francine has been a longtime Jewish Museum board member. For 30 years, in fact. We appreciate her ongoing dedication to our institution and programming. Please visit our website to sign up for our enews to learn about concerts and workshops. After the talk we invite you to stay for a reception when francine will find books in the corner. Now please join me in welcoming gary rosenblatt, editor and publisher of the jewish week who will introduce our speaker. [applause]. Thank you very much and good evening, everyone. Before i forget i want to ask all of you to turn off your cell phones and that goes for you too, golda. So, as editor and publisher of the jewish week and im proud that jewish week is scope present in this program along
Distinguishing characteristics famously that authors would take fantastic works known to new york publishers and publish them and they would become bestsellers, one of which, my favorite of that was leo damores senatorial privilege about senator kennedy and the truth about leo damore. He was kicked off ticked off. Could you say you are driving. So years later all on the record , no new york publisher would publish this, regnery publishes it. More recently there was a patriotic vote, flags of our fathers which is not flags of our mothers. 27 near publishers turned it down. 44 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list. So the way things are going in the trump era, i dont know if any of you are still reading the freedom times, but every day somehow on the Facebook Page they aint russia was behind [inaudible] if you visited america in 2016 come he would notice outside of the major cities you couldnt drive a mile without seeing a sixfoot 12 trump signed. In any event, they really have to
So hes out sourcing the seeing part of the driving to his wife. Its an arrow, not that way. One area in my life where i can see the generation difference most clearly, when you do a book signing and the end of the book signing, often theres a line of people who get their books signed but they want their pictures taken with you. Everybodys got a picture with the author and this can happen sometimes dozens and dozens of times in a typical book signings over the course of the year ill have this same process repeated thousands of times and theres, heres how young people do it. They hold up the phone and they take a picture. Heres how old people do it. They hold up the phone, its sounds for about 30 seconds. They Say Something like wait, i think its on google. Then they stab at the screen for a while with a forefinger. Then they hold up the phone and say okay, smile. Then they smile again and say wait, i think its making a video. Then a stab at the screen some more and hold up the phone aga
Think when. [inaudible] most of us are not, we dont want to concentrate on our mortality because its depressing but one of the things that christopher writes in his book mortality, is that we are, he found that at the and is living dying we because you are constantly aware that you have an expiration date. For dying people they know that every single day is a gift and normally, ideally it would be great if we all lived like that. You can watch these programs on full booktv. Org. For the complete list of the finalists and all six quarter categories had to book critics. Org. In her latest book, dm stillman describes the relationship between the flow bill and sitting bull. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] good afternoon. Welcome to the historic Trinity United Methodist church. We are fortunate to be here. My name is roger smith. I am honored to serve as a volunteer for the 11th annual savannah book festival im so gladoo you all are participating in the festival. It is pre
Details, but i put it in the book because i felt it had to be understood. Many people reported the abuse being snatched out of the arms of mothers into this inferno wind. O tokyos canal, so people who got out of the asphalt and out of the shelters wind with their families into the canals to escape from the fire. But the canals were broiling in tens of thousands in the canal. The winds were all but flipping them over. Thousands of feet still above, the crews had to put on their oxygen masks to escape the stench of burning flesh. So, as lemay, who was in charge of that, curtis lemay tells it in his book, it was the greatest manmade killing in the history of the world. Book tvs live coverage of the savanna book festival now continues. Youom will hear from author bryn curtis. Hes talking about his vote that looks at the only rose bowl to ever take place outside of pasadena, california. This is live coverage on booktv. Good morning, book lovers. My name is nancy lieb and im delighted to wel