Cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Hello. My name is nneoma amadiobi, and on behalf of our staff and the store owners, Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine i like to argue all to politics and prose. Just want to let you know when we add, which it is eventually get any noisemaking devices, or cell phones, just take a moment and turned them off. To be clear, at the end of the event we ask you to fold up your chairs and bring them against something. We do have an event might after this, you could please leave your chairs with our we would appreciate that. So with that out of the way we can get to our talk today. Winchester and arthur became president in september 1881 after the assassination of james garfield, most americans expected at best a lackluster leader. Scott greenberger book is one of our least beloved president from idealist to politician and back. As he states in the book, it is, hes a good man, he discovered h
Good evening. And on this important day, this goes beyond a very special program. As you can see, the topic is important, it will run longer than usual but in every way it is the same as our other panels, there will be an opportunity for questions. If you can make it to a microphone that would be great because it is filled on cspan, and live streamed on our Facebook Page and it is helpful if people can hear the question is the question is asked. Lastly there will not be a signing afterward but we have copies of all our guestss books, they are very prolific, we dont have all of all of their books, but some of all of their books and help yourselves to those as well. We appreciate you being part of this discussion. We can think of no better way to honor the legacy of Martin Luther king junior especially on his National Holiday named for him then having this distinguished group of panelists to educate and lead us in a conversation about race in america. Before we get going lets explain for
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening. Im bradley graham, coowner politics prose along with my wife, and lissa muscatine, whos standing back there on behalf of the entire staff here thank you her image for coming. I had a terrific panel for you this evening on a new book by peter ginna, right here, titled what editors do the art, craft and business of editing. Politics and post although politics politics prose owes many others this year its not nearly as common for us to host the experts behind those authors are the editors, publishers and agents he was at efforts are essential to the books. Peter himself with more than three decades has had a range of editing positions. His work with the small independent Publishing Firm and a scholarly run as well as with the large commercial houses. Most of his time in thin trade publishing. Most recently publisher and editorial director of bloomsbury press, an imprint he founded. For his new book coming peter gathered ess
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