Its my honor to introduce three people to you this evening. First is Roger Rosenblatt whose work has been published in 14 languages. Roger is the author of five New York Times notable books of the year and three times bestseller. The story the story i am mad about the writing life came out in april and a cool moon a life love and responsibility will be in october. Rogers written seven off broadway plays notably the one person free speech in america that he performed at the American Theater which was the times 10 best plays of 1991. Last spring he performed them play piano in his play living in the basement is nothing which would go to the Stoller Center for the arts at stony brook and the theater in new york next year. He also wrote the screenplay for a bestselling novel rapid rising which is currently in production. Roger is distinguished repressor at english and writing at stony brook. He formerly held the copeland appointment to creative writing at harvard where he got his ph. D. Am
The meeting will come to order. First of all i think when the first actions of the committee is we are going to take over the roles and Means Committee to make this a rules committee but first let me say that i appreciate, wanted to say this from the beginning i appreciate the flexibility of our Ranking Member mr. Cole. Im incredibly proud of how we have worked together here in this congress. We have examined a lot of things in the committee and no matter how politically alike we are doing things in the constructive when and i look forward to working with you mr. Cole in a bipartisan effort that was announced today and we will examine how congress can better adapt to the emergencies of the coronavirus pandemic pandemic. I know we both care deeply about this institution in one way or another congress is going to have to adapt to whatever the future may bring. The cdc said this fall could be worse than what we are going to right now. And we need to be prepared and that may mean working r
Book tv recently visited capitol hill and asked husband jim bank about his reading list. This summer i have a very ambitious reading list. Currently im finishing a wellknown book by Stephen Ambrose on the day, a couple of weeks ago i went to the 75th anniversary of dday and im about finished with the book but going there and seeing firsthand what happened there 75 years ago our heroes, the greatest generation, the world war ii veterans who stormed the beaches of normandy and to read the book firsthand and learn more about it, its overwhelming to imagine what they went through. Im also reading seapower. Which just went in paperback. I am a Navy Reserve Officer and have been a champion of bigger, Stronger Navy force posture in this to modulus and dangerous world that we live in today and i just picked up past carters new book, former secretary of defense, two of the best military history books that ive read in recent years have been both secretary panetta secretary aces books. And now i
Been several years since jonathan was here. He was here for th it is really wonderful for us to have jonathan back at the carter library. You know, it has been several years since jonathan was here. He was here for a book about jackie robinson. And that has probably been seven or a neck years since then. And what is really neat is that jonathan had decided to kick offs book tour for his new book. His book just came out yesterday. And do that here at the jimmy carter president ial library, which is really, i think, great. This is his sixth book. He has written, as i said, about jackie robinson, lou gehrig, muhamed ali, al capone, as well as the foursome who really did the push to get the approval of the Birth Control pill. But the thing that you see in jonathans writing is an immense amount of research that goes into it. And i think he comes by that naturally. His dad was an accountant. So a stickler for details. And his mom is a community activist. So if you think about that and think
This was part of the symposium held at the university of virginia in charlottesville. Good morning. In celebration of the bison telling bicentennial, we welcome you to the symposium. Universities, slavery, and the public built landscape, presented by the university of Virginia Commission on slavery and the university, in partnership with the slave dwelling projects Fourth Annual projects. On Vice President and chief officer for diversity and equity, the professor and i cochair the presents cochair the commission on slavery. The slave dwelling project led mr. Joe mug gill and board of directors the slave dwelling project brings attention to sites, people, history, and ways in which the slave contributed to building and sustaining this country. I say 70 to 80 because the temperature dropped about 39 last night. Im not totally sure. They said they had experienced. Humility and a better appreciation for those who live their daily lives is one intent of such an experience. There were very t