Has 2016 comes to a close, many publications and media organizations are offering their picks for best books of the year. Heres some of the titles that National Public radio has selected. Louisa thomas recalls the life of americas first foreignborn first lady, Kathryn Adams in louisa. Glass universe, the women who acted as Human Computers at Harvard College observatory in the mid 19th century and their impact on astronomical discoveries. That enslaved men of native americans in his National Book award nominated the other slavery. Nprs notable book of 2016 continues with rebecca traced her, writer at large for new York Magazine that details the contributions of unmarried women throughout American History in all the single ladies. Inborn crime, daily show host trevor know it remembers his childhood and apartheid era south africa. Well, i was born at a time in south africa and apartheid and my parents werent allowed to be in any shape or form in contact with one another. I grew up during
Me straight with the state of our political system. And when you look at polls about threequarters of americans are unhappy with the direction their country is going in with government, and i as a constitutional conservative, count myself as one of those, and i believe that comes from the fact that our founders set up this system where the individual has the starring role and government plays a supporting role, but its sort of flipped on its head, and that led me to the title of the book government this problem because i believe our government has gotten way too big and i believe both political parties, career politics on politicians on beat size of the aisle, facilitate that and youre seeing that play out right no in the republican primary in the fact that so much of the conservative base is rallying around someone with no political experience, completely outside of the republican establishment. Host is that a good thing . Guest i think its a very good thing. Think the Republican Part
Use the hashtag artist places. Fire up your smart phones if you get a chance. I am mark muro, senior fellow at the metropolitan policy program and my privilege to kick off todays auspicious event. I say our event today is auspicious for several reasons. It is always auspicious to welcome and help launch a book into the world, given it is a red letter day for fred bacher whose excellent book the smartest places on earth is just out and if i do say so, rush to pick up a copy, we have some out beyond the back, on the way out please do that. Also two experienced economic observers focusing not on the standard inside the beltway with spin cycles, and at brookings, the most fundamental elements of national wellbeing, r d and stem worker advanced industries from aerospace, Regional Technology clusters, Regional Technology ecosystems, critical, that is part of their focus, and collaborations they accelerate. The fact that cities and regions themselves can become incubators of growth. They trav
Very strict process to make sure they are assigned to people who have no connection to was under not trying to pass back or softpedal a review, the worst part of my job is waiting for those reviews to come back and they are not always confident. It is agonizing in the book review section. My colleagues put up with it. I can honestly say they have all been supportive under the worst circumstances. Host with book reviews do you read . Guest the la book review. I have heard good things. The la book review is great, it is not a startup anymore. Im impressed by their reviews and i read all the great reviews in the library journal, to figure out what to assigned three month out. As far as book review sections, the guardian is a great section. Host ron charles is the editor of Washington Post book world. This is booktv on cspan. Thanks so much. [inaudible conversations] hi. We are welcome to book court. We are excited to welcome Louisa Thomas in conversation with louisa hall about her new boo
The United States of america. It is my considered conviction shared through our government that is inactionible for detective inaccessible for peace. It will always be measured. Its nation is peace. History bookshelf features popular writers and airs every weekend at this time. Next Louisa Thomas recounts the life of her great grand foreNorman Thomas. Theythe Thomas Brothers had conflicting views of the war raging from soldiers in the war to pacifist norman. The author discusses her familys history with jonathan meacham. This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the start of world war i. Thank you to the museum, which has in a relatively short time has become such an important part in the city. You hear about it in the south and they are instrughted that not everything is tenement so they can look and see what it used to be like. Congratulations to louisa who has written, i think, a wonderful book. A deeply researched and engagely written account of her own family, which is not always