Contributions to and influence over her famed family dynasty. This program is about an hour. Host Barbara Perry its good to be here with you talking about the kennedys. But that is having grown up catholic i think the kennedys have the particular resonance for us but i wanted to start right off in ask you, youre a Supreme Court president ial scholar. How did you get interested in rose . Guest ive been interested in the Kennedy Family since i was a little tyke read when i was four years old my mother to me and my brothers to downtown louisville. She piled the center 56 chevrolet and drove us downtown to the courthouse. She was completely drawn to this new candidate on the scene in the president ial race senator john f. Kennedy. Host do you think because he was catholic a little bit . Guest i have to think i that was a major part of it in addition to which he was about her age so she was the new generation to which the torch was being passed that i point out what she loved history and po
David nasaw recounts the life of joseph p. Kennedy patriarch of the political family that included president john f. Kennedy and senators robert f. Kennedy and edward kennedy. The author examines Joseph Kennedys career in business and politics, which included ventures in wall street, hollywood and the founding chairman of the securities and Exchange Commission. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you, all. Delighted to be here. As i tell my history students at the City University of new york in the ph. D. Program thank you. [laughter] as i tell my history students until they want to choke me the past is a foreign country. We can visit, try to learn the customs and the white smith the fragrances, recoil at the foul odors but we are foreigners in a strange land. This is true as much in the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. Writing about the recent past is not easy as it is this time around. First there are people you have to talk to. And while
Theres something wrong inside the American Economic and political system, and thats what this book is about. Host Hedrick Smith is the author. Thank you for being on booktv. From the Fourth Annual boston book festival, a Panel Featuring author edward glaeser. Its about an hour, 15. Good afternoon and thank you very much for coming to this auditorium today. Let me introduce myself, im bob oakes from morning edition on wbur, bostons npr news station. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Im sure some of you are saying, wow, thats bob oakes . [laughter] i thought he was taller [laughter] i thought he was thinner, i thought he had more hair. [laughter] and, you know, the funny thing is that all those things were true last week. [laughter] let me thank all of you for coming here this afternoon and thank the boston book festival for having us. Dont they do a nice job . Isnt this a terrific eventsome. Yes. [applause] lets also thank the Plymouth Rock foundation for sponsoring this particular sessi
Impact on the way we live our lives. Just Walking Around the white house grounds, i cant totally reminded about all the people who have lived there before and particularly all of the women. First lady and fluid and image, a new series on cspan, produced in collaboration with the White House Historical association starting president s day, february 8 team. The president john f. Kennedy and senators robert f. Kennedy and edward kennedy. The author examines Joseph Kennedys careers in business and politics, which included ventures on wall street, hollywood and the founding chairman of the securities and Exchange Commission. This is a little under an hour. Thank you all. As i tell my history students [inaudible] as i tell my histories of it until i went to choke me, the past is a foreign country. We can visit there, try to learn the customs, translate the language, feel the air, the fragrance, but where foreigners in a strange way. This is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonia
World between publishers consolidating the department of justice suing five publishers and apple on ebook pricing and many developments which well cover later on in the program. Amazon expanding its publishing operations. The google settlement also moving forward in different directions. Those alone accounted for substantial portion of Book Publishing news. On the nonfiction front i would have to say it was a very strong year. In particular were seeing a lot of best of 2012 lists dominated by the likes of catherine booz, behind the beautiful forevers. Winner of the National Book award. Robert caro latest volume in his ongoing biography of Lyndon Johnson. Andrew solomon, far from the tree. It was only recently published. A 900 page compendium looking at different child rearing examples of special needs children. Those three books alone loan are meaty substantial and but those are tip of iceberg. Host bob, same question. Guest sticking a little bit with what sara said it was a big year f