Good evening everyone i am president and ceo we are happy you are here tonight we have a very special event and we officially kicked off the foundation for entrepreneurship earlier this year to be possible by the dedication of the generosity of the foundation to provide the next generation of entrepreneurs of mentorship and guidance through a variety of fields and programming geared towards programming a deeper understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship. This Initiative Includes the entrepreneur in Residence Program that provides workshop and a public Speaker Series recognizes entrepreneurs like nancy are students and team members are given the tools to succeed is really at the core of our mission and this helps us to connect these entrepreneurs with professionals to help inspire those on their journey some of our team members are here this morning and fortunately sheridan cannot be here with us tonight we are thrilled to include him as part of the Initiative Initiative and is be
Good afternoon. Im Barbara Alvarado some im a bilingual educator, interpreter, organizer and work with the Madison Public Library and Community Engagement with the design and implementation of spanish bilingual story times. Aim honored to introduce a conversation between david maraniss, great writer and historian, who works with the Washington Post and maria acran newscast. Both david and marie are colleagues at the Washington Post. Very humbled to introduce marie aanna, author, editor, journalist, literary critic and member of the Scholars Council at the library of congress. Marie is peruvian american and a work embodies who she is as an historian, novelist, essayist, and a human being in this modern world. Her books include american chica, cellophane, the writing life, bolivar, american liberator, and silver, sword and stolen three crucibles. Silver, sword and stone is an a history of latin america for over a thousand years, going back, but brings all this history into our present da
Representative mike conaway. Dressing the federal deficit, the u. S. Mexico canada trade the agreement and the impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Representative conaway serves as Ranking Member of the Agriculture Committee. He announced in july that in jue seeking reelection. This runs about 45 minutes. Im going to make a few comments like iiformly do. And then it would be up to you to ask questions what it is you want to talk about. Your meeting at that point in time. We found out about the cspan coverage this morning. Apparently you kbup about new a earlier in a week. Fantastic. Im tickled to death they could find santa ana on the map. So its taped. Tha idea, i thithe idea is theye tape back unedited, unfiltered which is the way i like to to happen. Whoever is responsible for that for let us having access to the facility again. Its terrific. Ill talk about some things in d. C. And then get going. The only thing congress has to do year in and year out is fund the government. And
She will be joined in conversation by author and journalist david marinus. For a complete schedule of our live coverage from wisconsin visit booktv. Org. In the meantime, heres part of a program that airs tomorrow afternoon with economist Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell talking about their travels to socialist countries. Its no surprise to anybody now that socialism is back and popular. A lot of the focus has been on young people and millennials were attracted to it but of course the president ial debate to see among mainstream democrats now the New York Times had a year long and 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution a yearlong column called red century. I think exactly one, and that year was dedicated to the economic aof the system. If a handful mention of atrocities instead you got articles like why women had better sex under socialism. Which even if true, i dont know how we witness against 100 million dead bodies. But this is the atmosphere that was taking hold as we were do