And scholarship commemorates, quote, the ideals and concerns of Woodrow Wilson. As both a distinguished scholar and national leader, president wilson felt strongly that the scholar and the policy maker were, quote, engaged in a common enterprise. Today, the center takes seriously his views on the need to bridge the gap between the world of ideas and the world of policy. Bringing them into creative contact, enriching the work of both and enabling each to learn from the other. This series, wilson then and now, is our effort to make wilson and his period more central to that creative contact between ideas and practice in national and global affairs. In a critical and inclusive way, we seek to highlight work on wilson and his time that offers explicit or implicit lessons for contemporary or enduring problems in public where international life. For this, episode we wanted to look beyond Academic Work in a narrow sense of articles and monographs. And look at the work of public scholars wrest
To the keynote address of the tenth annual reading festival. When he dead rated the library in 1941 he declared the purpose to be bring together people to learned from the past so they can gain in judgment in creating the future. We think there is no better way of fulfilling his purpose than the roosevelt reading festival. Its showcasing how complete his vision for the library as a research constitution is being filled by a vary of it authors that produce books of all kinds. The work of the authors who have gathered here today theres much that can be learned and great inspiration drawn from the roosevelt era. Through the generosity of cspan, we are able to share our tenth annual roosevelt reading festival with a grand audience across the country. None of this would be possible without the creative and dynamic staff of the library and volunteers. I thank you for their help. [applause] we have just finished a major building renovation updating the roosevelt library. The first president i
11 annual roosevelt reading festival. When fdr created the library and gave home to the American People his home was people would visit and learn from the past so they would be able to create a Better Future for themselves. That mission of discovery and learning is something we take serious here. By welcoming visitors from all over we try hard to make that vision. It is our way to show how roosevelts vision for the library as a Research Institution is being fulfilled boy a variety of authors who write books of all kinds. The work is evidence that there can be much learned and great inspiration drawn from the roosevelt area. I thank them all for being with us today. And through cspan we are able to share the roosevelt reading festival with a grand audience across the country. None of this would be possible without the dynamic staff of the Roosevelt Library and our volunteers that i thank for their help. The Museum Opened new exciting exhibits. A 6 Million Investment in the future. Our b
Um, i think all the different stages matter. From my knowledge of children, you make one impact before they are six or ten or whatever and then when they are adolescent they seem to forget everything. And later on, you are surprised as they seem to remember some. But i think they did the best they could as parents. I think they were strong parents. Some of them turned out and some didnt. So much had to do with luck and the era. [ applause ] thank you so much for coming. Wednesday night, booktv features books about exploring america. First is astoria and then all america and then citizen explorer the namesake of colorados pikes peapeak on the next washington journal, a conversation on prison reform. General mills announced they were reversing plans to make consumers to forfeit their right to suing the company. Later as part of the spotlight on magazine series, brian miller talks about his article on trends in the gambling industry. And an update on the Supreme Court and take your calls.
Trusting that everyone will realize, particularly because of the letters she wrote home to her sisters, that they were enbroiled in this and they were. When abigail wrote a letter it was known it was actually written for the whole neighborhood. And mary would get the pleasure of having everyone important in the neighborhood come over and she would read allowed abigails letter. And then there were chapters when mary is trying find a minister for the first church of quincy and she is the most important person. And even john adams think she is the most important person in quincy. And one day, abigail catches him opening a letter that mary has written to him. And she is furious. She said how can you open a letter and he said it isnt just any letter it is from mary and there is no one that knows more than mary that i am interested in. And then there is a lot on elizabeth. She is the sister who endures the most. She is the prettiest and i say the most beautiful. There is a wonderful picture