America, our secret history. You will tell us the secrets. Her distinguished bibliography includes the 2015 biography of economies a life which was chosen by the economists as one of the best books of that year. It is now considered the definitive biography of that kind of elastic poet. Other biographical works include american looms berry, the leading figures of the transcendental list movements and my name is bill wilson. His life and the creation of alcoholics anonymous. Home before dark, the groundbreaking biography of her father, writer John Cheever Cheever and treetops the memo. She is also the writer of novels and publications. This cheever is influential and shaping and sustaining our literary culture as a member of corporation and of the Authors Guild council. She is a faculty member at the Bennington College am fa program and school and you new york city. In her fascinating and compelling new book, this cheever traces the pervasive influence of alcohol at key moments over cen
About her book drinking in america our secret history. This was held at politics and pros bookstore in washington, d. C. We are so honored tonight to welcome susan cheever, best selling and highly esteemed memoirist, biographer and novelist as she launches her newest book drinking in america our secret history. You will tell us the secrets. Her distinguished bibliography includes the 2015 biography of e. E. Cummings, which was chosen by the economist as one of the best books of that year. It is now considered the definitive biography of that iconic poet. Other biographical works include american bloomsbury and my name is bill, bill wilson, his life and the creation of alcoholics amon mounonymouanonye before dark and treetops, a memoir. Shes the author of five novels and a frequent contributor of essays and articles to leading publications. She is influential as a member of the corporation of yado and of the Authors Guild counsel and is a faculty member at the b benni Bennington College
Butterfield, director of the fred w Swift National library. It is my pleasure to welcome you back here. And the Ford Motor Company each month sponsors a free book talk like this one. An opportunity for the community to come and learn from the greatest historians in the field. Thank you for being here tonight. We are thrilled to have to begin the program, im you. We will hear a brief hesitation from susan swain, copresident and chief executive officer of cspan. She will be joined by brian lam, the founder and executive chairman of cspan and moderating an esteemed group of historians discussing the american presidency. The american presidency is, as you know, a fascinating subject of inquiry in every possible way. [laughter] in the constitution, there is not much said about it. As you might imagine. Article one is quite long. Article two is quite shorter. As you can imagine, the executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of america. Full stop. That is the first s
Always free and open to the public. You come here and you buy your look and you buy your stock and greeting cards and we really appreciate it. Our guests will be speaking tonight. The event will be recorded icy spam, sell an extra special reminder to silence your cell phones. After our guest is done speaking about the book there will be an opportunity to ask questions and people have mics available so that your questions can be picked up as well. If you would like to stick around afterwards and get a book signed we can accommodate that. We just ask that you first purchased the book downstairs. They are available right when you walk into the store. Tonight we are very excited to welcome back to the store hw brands. He is a professor here at uc and he holds the senior chair in history. He is the news york times bestselling author of 30 books. If you can keep history that interesting to write 30 books that tells you something about how fantastic his work is pretty to does books were final
Our new home. Were so honored and thankful that you guys are here, but were not here for us. All of you probably know Brian Kilmeade from his job hosting fox and friends, yeah. [applause] it is the most popular morning cable news show on the planet for 213 months and two weeks and four days, is that right, brian . Yes. Okay. You might also know brian from his nationally syndicated radio show which the Brian Kilmeade show which is on almost 150 radio stations across the country and talkers magazine called him one of the 10 most important talk radio hosts in america. And between, get this, everybody, between tv and radio, brian is on the airwaves six hours a day five days a week and, yet, hes found the time to write a string of New York Times best selling books. George washington, secret six. Thomas jefferson and the triplee pirates, Andrew Jackson and the miracle of new orleans. All told his books have reached 2. 5 million readers around the world. Which is fairly impressive. [applause]