Live with arthur eveneds and call ins, both schedules available at booktv. Org. Welcome to the Washington Dc Convention center, the 17th annual National Book festival. Booktv on cspan2 will be live with others all day. He will hear from condoleezza rice, pulitzer prizewinning columnist tom friedman, bestselling authors jd vance and Michael Lewis the master not leland melton and many others. For complete schedule visit booktv. Org, follow us on social media for updates and behindthescenes videos. On facebook, facebook. Com booktv, booktv is our twitter handle and on instagram we are at booktv. This years festival kicks off with library of Congress Carla Hayden making opening remarks followed by pulitzer prizewinning author and historian David Mccullough. You are watching booktv on cspan2 live from the 17th annual National Book festival. [applause]. He will be followed they struck a chord in the National Conversation about poverty in america. Thomas freedom barely needs an introduction h
Columnist tom friedman, best selling authors j. D. Vance and Michael Lewis, astronaut Leland Melvin and many others. Now, for a complete schedule visit booktv. Org, and you can follow us on social media for updates and behindthescenes videos. Were on facebook,visit facebook. Com booktv, booktv is our twitter handle and on instagram, were at book underscore tv. This years festival kicks off with librarian of congress carla haden making opening remarks, and shell be followed immediately by author and historian david mccullough. Youre watching booktv on cspan2 live from the 17th annual National Book festival. [applause] wow, i was so worried [cheers and applause] i was so worried. It was raining [laughter] and i thought, book lovers are going to want to stay in bed concern. [laughter] and read. [laughter] well, here you are. Thank you and good morning. [applause] and welcome to the 2017 National Book festival. Im carla hayden, and im so honored to be able to say im the 14th librarian of c
I was so worried. [applause] i was so worried. It was raining, and i thought booklovers are going to want to stay in bed and read. But here you are. Thank you and good morning. [applause] and welcome to the 2017 National Book festival. I am carla hayden and im the 14th library and of congress. As you can see, as you can see, i am pretty excited to open this event, our 17th consecutive celebration of books and reading and it is wonderful to see a bold house in our largest presentation space. Not only do we have a full house here at the Convention Center but we also have millions of people joining us live on facebook. Thanks to everyone for joining us. We have a fantastic lineup of authors this year and what better way to kick off the festival then with one of our nations most beloved historians, mister David Mccullough. [applause] David Mccullough is here for his sixth National Book festival appearance, we hope you will continue to make this a habit. He will be followed by diana, the au
[applause] his raining and i thought booklovers are going to want to stay in the henry. But, here you are. Thank you, and good morning welcome to the 2017 National Book festival. I am carla and i am honored to sam the 14th librarian of congress. As you can see, pretty excited to open this event. Our 17th consecutive celebration of books and reading. It is wonderful to see a full house in our largest presentation space. Not only will we have a full house at the convention center, but we also have millions of people joining us live on facebook. So thank you wherever you are for joining us. [applause] we have a fantastic linus of mainstage authors this year. What better way to kick off the festival than with one of our nations most beloved historians, mr. David mccullough. [applause] mr. Mccullers here for his sixth National Book festival appearance and we hope youll continue to make this a habit. He will be followed by diana. [applause] she is the author of the wildly successful outlande
Brian david mccullough, your from 1989,peeches when did you get the idea to do this. Last summer. The summer of 2016. I was not discouraged, but distressed by the tone of the Political Campaign and the animosity and nastiness of some of it. I thought, ive got to do something to help bring some balance back and remind people of who we are and how we got to be where we are, and what we stand for. I thought, ive been speaking up and down the land for 40 years or more. Maybe some of those speeches, if we dusted them off and put them together, not as an anthology, but speeches where id addressed ideas or subjects that pertain to reminding us about who we are and what our values have been down the years. And my daughter, who has been arranging all my speaking dates all these years, wanted very much to help with it. She had whatever records we had. Many of those speeches, there was no record of what i said. But we had enough that there were manuscripts of it. I never wanted to give a commence