The first time, welcome to those who have been with us since friday. This journey began. Welcome to the philip roth. Unbowed and our weekend long celebration. The life and legacy of novelist and newark native philip roth on the occasion of would have what have been his 90th birthday today in fact would have been philip roths 90th birthday so happy birthday, roth. My name is carey and im a coproducer of the along with jon schreiber, president and ceo of njpac. Rosemary steinbaum, a trustee of the newark public library. Chelsea keyes njpac, director of strategic initiatives. James shapiro, professor of english at columbia university. And bernard schwartz, director of Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd street y. Over the course of these past three days, weve been telling a story. On friday, that story was about newark or, as they apparently say here. Newark, one syllable not to a majority minority city whose, cultural, political and economic and triumphs have in many reflected the Greate
So i certainly hope they would be but i have no confidence as i sit here right now that they will. Senator nelson when, mr. Secretary, when you look at a map like this, a map of syria that i assume you handed out, somebody did thats a mess. And maybe it is the only solution is the solution of a political exit for assad so that we can go after these extremist elements. By the way, i had to leave the committee to do an interview on cnn, and the whole focus that they wanted to jump on was your statement earlier in the hearing that we had only trained up 60. But i pointed out to them what you said was the vetting is very difficult and in fact we are vetting some several thousands additional and the vet is a lot more tore tuesdayous because you certainly dont want to have a guy trained up and then you ends up aiming his gun back at us. In iraq, do you think that this new Prime Minister has the capability of getting out of his shiite mold and does he have the capability of bringing all the s
Not viable Supreme Court candidates. I think that is a terrible loss. Right. Ralph, john, thank you very much. Great conversation i think we all know that u. S. Constitution there are three branches of government. They just did a survey that less than 30 of americans can name off three branches of the government. The executive branch, which is the president. Which is the legislative branch of congress, the Judicial Branch which is a Supreme Court. They are supposed to be three equal branches yet none of them feel the others live up to their potential. On that note i want to thank you guys. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you all for watching weekends on cspan two are an intellectual feast. Every saturday, American History tv documents america story. And on sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan two comes from these Television Companies and more. Including wow. The world has changed, today a fast, reliable Internet Connection is s
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Moment here. This program is coming to you from Abraham Lincoln bookshop in chicago. We are a retail book shop, an independent book shop, 83 years old now, independent, Antiquarian Book shop. We specialize in american history. Specifically, that means books about the life and presidency of Abraham Lincoln, the u. S. Civil war and the u. S. Presidency. We carry both old and new books, Antiquarian Books that we sell on the secondhand market and new books, like this one you can get from Abraham Lincoln bookshop. We also have many other historical artifacts that you can get from us, art autographs, photographs, prints, statuary, see a couple of busts here. Theres Teddy Roosevelt, theres Abraham Lincoln by george thistle. Come and see if on the website, a lincoln book shop. Com. We will be able to see this interview and other past interviews on our youtube page. Does that sound like im blowing the horn enough for Abraham Lincoln bookshop . Its a great place, i have to say, to visitors who h