And thank you for taking an hour to talk to us about this. And coming to mount vernon and doing our closure. We were excited to bring you back for a conversation about this book so that we can reach out to people in their homes. As everyone stays safe and hunkered down. Thank you so much. Im so grateful. No one watching, thank you for spending time with us. I hope you have learned something. I hope you continue to stay engaged with what mount vernon is putting out to you predict i would care about what we do. I know that now, through the end of the year in the indenture, will continue to bring you things. Sunday will be able to again meet between now and then, continues for mount vernon. And please continue to donate if you havent already. And join us on monday for broadcast. And if you havent already, go by this book. Thank you so much colin. Book tv on cspan2, stopped nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Coming up this weekend, sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, and afterwards. Aut
Nod conversation [inaudible conversations] good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for all the ambient noise. And welcome to Kansas City Public Library. Im the director of the Kansas City Public Library and its a pleasure to have you here tonight. To prove to you once again the Kansas City Public Library represents all political views and tonight its always it is as always a pressure for me to introduce my longtime friend jack cashill. Jack and i i have known each other almost since he was in short pants, in newark, new jersey, where he was born a little bit after he graduated from Siena College and got his ph. D at purdue in american studies. I think the only dissertation that defended the notion of american capitalism and american fiction, which is hard to do because is no american capitalism in american fiction. Jack and i Something Like 35 years ago, founded something the zenith boosters club, Political Discussion Club in which jack then ran for a number of years when i escap
Was from an 18th century english poet. It was an ode, and the last two lines were, a rage for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than not be named at all. and i realized that from a small girl, she had realized she wanted to be famous. So i thought that rage for fame is just a perfect title because her whole life after that was to that end. Cspan when was this picture taken . Guest that picture was taken about 1942, just after shed been elected to congress by the famous canadian photographer koschjoseph kosch. Cspan how old was she here . Guest she was only about 39. Cspan and how long did she serve in congress . Guest she served in congress for two termsfour years altogether. Cspan when did you first meet her . Guest i first met her in the fall of 1980 at her house in washington, but it was really a strange meeting because i had already conceived the idea of doing a biography of her. When ijust out of the blue, this invitation came from a hostess in washington, and i
Next encore booknotes. Jill krementz was a guest on booknotes in 1997 to talk about her book the writers desk a collection of authors and photos photos. Cspan jill krementz, photographer, you have a book out called the writers desk. Whats it all about . Guest its a collection of my photographs over it period of 30 years of writers and i photographed over 1500 rider so of course its not all the writers. My favorite pictures of a lot of the writers at their desks but they are all writers that there had desks or near their desks or behind their desks. Somewhere theres a desk in the picture. Literally or figuratively. Cspan why did you pick this for the covert . Guest i suppose because its one of my favorite photographs. I think its pretty recognizable now so people would know it was my book and because i think that it is a picture about a writer. Its a picture about a writers place and i think you feel looking at that picture that of course this is where she would write. Its like her writ