My name is jim firewood on the executive Vice President of the Richard Nixon foundation. Welcome to the nixon levers 2020 rate authors series hosted by hewitt. Like to start by thanking of all for participating in todays program, especially those of submitted questions for our guests to answer bird everyone watching tonight is providing a tremendous amount of support for the Nixon Library as we closed as an institution for six month months. I encourage you to sign up for nixon membership and to visit that go to Nixon Library right after this program ends. Today, our ghastly son son of the president of the united states, a member of the first family, donald trump junior but hes executive Vice President of the Trump Organization looking too expand the retail wealth and real estate portfolio. Hes ever seen a number of projects starting in family 2001 he is now leading global acquisitions today mr. Trump is joined by hugh hewitt. Host of the hugh hewitt show nbc contributor annie Washingto
Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and the executive director of aspen digital of the Aspen Institute program really glad you could be with us today. The York Times Bestseller list can often seem to be a near untimely or of the national psyche. As such this year seems to reflect a nation going through and awaking of matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction prayed that is the good news. Sadly, the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest has back publishing paid and exposed a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing staff or literary agents. And even fewer who operate as decisionmaking levels. And for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure coming sub optimal. This year, of National Reckoning on racism, we can take a look at the boo
Bestselling author James Patterson is our guest on book tv. Author of about 150 books or so. The most recent is a nonfiction. Yes. Welcome to my house. How many nonfiction have you written . I dont count so probably four or five. The first one was jeffrey epstein, filthy rich which is now, they just dropped the video today. It is for parts, i think the 25th of the month or Something Like that. Then it was Aaron Hernandez did that and then this one, john lennon coming out later which is interesting. This connected to a house john owned, a bridge between these two houses. Who used to live in your house . Nobody famous but it is a disgustingly big house. [laughter] they were here for a while and she held onto it for a while. Another in his florida fami family, why did you choose to write about kennedy . It seemed to me this was the Great American family story a royal family and what i wanted to do was write about the whole family. There were plenty of stories about jfk and robert, etc. Bu
Buxton in the right corner. We are discussing race and journalism, and a blueprint for political actions for the next generation of people of color and live stream reporting of life on the margins. Visit townhalls Media Library for what is pretty recent. Thank you for the support of our concerts by the realnetworks foundation, ko w and northwest, most of you know townhall is a member of a support organization and i want to thank all members. People hit hard by the pandemic, the event is free but we hope you will consider making a donation by clicking a button at the bottom or use the url on the other platforms. A final point on the economy. If we were all gathered together many of you would visit the book signing table and link on this wide stream page to purchase or preorder that copy of Erica Barnetts book directly with traders pick partners at la but companies, local otter, local bookshop, big launch book of the book night. Some of the things we love the about the city preepidemic m
Whats being done to modernize the library of congress. We heard testimony from dr. Carla hayden, the librarian of congress. This is a little more than an hour. [inaudible] who also chairs the appropriated committee for library and i think thats particularly helpful that you could be here as well. Also a member of this committee so shes here as a of the committee but also on these topics, particularly fallible in her role as appropriate. We have been having with the library, with the smithsonian, with the architect of the capitol these kinds of oversight hearings to fulfill that responsibility and be sure were giving the agencies to help they need. Were glad to be here of course with the librarian, dr. Carla hayden, with mr. Barton, the chief Information Officer and your temple, the register of copyrights. Thank all of you for being here today. I think we want to talk primarily police i want to talk primarily about monetization. We had a chance with dr. Hayden at the last meeting to tal