Good evening, everyone. Thank you all for coming. My grandfather certainly admired great leadership, and boy, do we have a tremendous leader here for you tonight. Two term former Ohio Governor john kasich is a politician, New York Times bestselling author, former Fox Television host, and ultimately an american citizen who believes that unity is the answer to our most common problems. He has had a a storied career n both the public and private sectors. He served as a member of congress from central ohio for 18 years. He was elected to the u. S. House at just 30 years old. After having become the youngest state senator in ohio history. He went on to become the chairman of the House Budget Committee and balance the federal budget four times a feat not accomplished since. After leaving congress in 2000, kasich work as as a managing director on the Investment Banking division for Lehman Brothers where he helped Companies Security resources they needed to succeed and create jobs. Kasich is t
Filled with 18yearold freshman girls who never been away from home before. There were a lot of things that went wrong early on. My uncle abel had always told me, you always start at the top . I decided i was going to express my concern and get some things fixed so i called the president s office. And said i would like to have a meeting with the president. The lady blew me off. I called her the next day and the next day and i finally told her, let me explain to you, maam, im going to have a meeting with the president if i have to wait outside the Administration Building for him to come im going to have a meeting. She said come in tomorrow and lets get this over with. I put on my best blue jean and necktie. He was a wonderful guy. I remember going into his office and he had beautiful lighting and beautiful carpeting and a beautiful big desk and beautiful furniture and leather, green leather upholstered chairs and i was pretty impressed with that. I said i been in school about three weeks
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 he is an internationally recognized writer on the Foreign Affairs and the environment. In Michael Lewis is famous for his books about finance such as liars poker but he is equally famous for his books about topics as diverse as adoption and baseball. The screen adaptations of the blindside in moneyball among others had been enormously popular. In condoleezzas rice was the secretary of state for the united states. And she is now on the faculty of Stanford University traveling from california to be here with us today. And finally mr. David baldacci. In fact, for a record setting eight time at the National Book festivals thrillers and books for young people have been read by millions. Im very pleased to be able to turn this over t
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
It was raining and i thought, booklovers are going to want to stay in bed and read. But, here you are. Thank you, good morning. [applause] welcome to the 2017 National Book festival. Carla hayden, im honored to say that im the 14th library of congress. As you can see, im pretty excited to open this event. Our 17th consecutive celebration of books and reading. Its wonderful to see if house and our largest presentations space. Not only will have a full house here at the convention center, but we have millions of people joining us live on facebook. So, thank you wherever you are for joining us. [applause] we have a fantastic lineup of mainstage off authors to share. What better way to kick off the festival then with one of our nations most beloved historians. Mr. David mccullough. [applause] mr. Mccullers here for his six National Book festival appearance and we hope youll continue to make this a habit. He will be followed by diana [applause] shes the author of the outlander series and sh