Thanks for joining us, welcome to another wonderful session at the southern festival of books on behalf of humanitys tennessee be want to thank some of the festival sponsors including the Metro National arts commission, ingram content group, tennessee arcs commission Vanderbilt University and burnett books. If youre watching today on facebook live, or on youtube and you have questions for the authors during the session, you will need to switch over either to the festivals app which you can download in the app store on whatever device youre using, or you go to their website which is hum tn. Org sf be southern festival of books. And then there is a chapter where you can ask questions for the authors at the end of todays session. We want to mention that parnassus is our beloved bookseller for the southern festival of books. And your purchases of the books being debuted this weekend at the festival help keep this festival free. Youll be able to find a link straight to their online store in
Hello. My name is kai bird. And executive director of the leon leavy center for biography at City University of new york, and we are sponsored by the Leavy Foundation when we do events like this to promote the arts and crafts a biography among other things. We had been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years, and were here on a session with of the 20th anniversary i chose of the National Book festival and the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholars big is currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the author of eight books. Professor is now on the faculty of holy Honors College for today will be discussing his latest book, lincoln on the verge, story about a 13 day train journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington, d. C. , to be inaugurated as president. These are two
Needs to increase its population by 1 billion in order to compete in the global marketplace. Find more information on your Program Guide or apple tv. Org. Good morning everyone, good afternoon, wherever you are in this great nation and welcome, who could have imagined what a timely conversation this would be. Im jan crawford, chief Legal Correspondent for cbs news covering the Supreme Court and upcoming confirmation battle and im delighted to be moderating what is going to be, and incredibly timely conversation about our terrific book written by kato as elia schapiro supreme disorder honored to get a sneak peek of it i thought, this is just really an indispensable guide i have to keep on my desk for the next upcoming confirmation battle, professor Randy Barnett of Georgetown Law School Supreme Court expert scooped me on those words, thats how he described it an indispensable guide and Carrie Severino has also written a guide herself with judicial confirmation a book about the recent fi
Globe. Tonight we celebrate this is all i got, which immerses its readers in the life of a young homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter right here in new york city. Laurent is an awardwinning journalist, essayist and author. This is her third book and she has written about inequality and its many forms from publication including the New York Times, new york, the new republic, the nation, and salons. And has worked as a producer at npr. Tonight lord will be in conversation with New York Times non fiction critic the Senior Editor at harpers magazine. Our event tonight will run for about one hour, beginning with the conversation between jen and lauren alibi q a for all of our viewers. Please never to post your questions on ip k twitter feed. With no further do i passed the mic to jen to get us started. Thank you again and enjoy. Thanks much jessica. Hi lauren, congratulations on your book i was wondering if maybe to start off you could give us a few sentences
Is this live . Can everyone hear me . Welcome. My name is kyle byrd im the executive director of the leon leavy center for biography. Over the past 12 years the leavy center has awarded 44 major fellowships to working biographers. Each of these fellowships is not worth 72,000 so its not chump change. To date some 20 biographies have been published including ruth franklins biography of Shirley Jackson which won the Prestigious National book critics circle award biography. I also want to spread the news about our brandnew holy unique Masters Program in biography and memoir is just started this autumn with at least 17 students enrolled which is phenomenal. Brenda is actually both former director of the leon leavy center and teaches the core courses in new Masters Program. Our next program is next wednesday, september 25 at 6 30 p. M. With david netzel giving the annual leon leavy lecture on biography. Tonight im very delighted to have Benjamin Moser in conversation with brenda one apple.