There are two different one. First term in the second term. We see more africanamerican president. He knows who he is and hes not ashamed. First term he had to be strategic. There was a fight in the white house. He was the president who gave the payout after waiting for that money. He was the president who did that but at the same time it wasnt necessarily im going to do it. It took tactics. Are you surprised that barack obama didnt make a stronger case in his first . Know because looking back he had to be who he was. You can watch this and other us online at tv. Org. Ofat the chief of staff of the air force assembles a list of books he recommends for servicemen and women. Heres the 2015 list. We rarely see politicians on the left as contributing to this in fact we usually see them as the champions, right . At the time the congress was charging. Fullstop had for steam ahead with this law and order approach, then the senator joe biden basically not only cheered them on that helped them
Good afternoon everybody. For good evening. My name is Katie Willard and im part of the events staff at politics and prose. What a crowd. Before we begin let me go over a few quickthings. First, please silence your dicell phones and other devices. We are audio and video recording this evening and e you do not want to be the one whose phone goes off on cspan. Secondly during our question and answer portion in the interest of being able to hear everyone please ask your questions at this microphone. That way theres no understanding for our recording and lastly please for your chairs and place them against here, our staff would greatly appreciate that. Im pleased to introduce lynne olson to politics and prose. She is the author of those angry days, trouble some young men and citizens of london as well as several other books and has previously worked as a journalist for the associated press. In her new book madame fourcadeb daring young woman war the who franceb against hitler olson network
Rachel is the Deputy Managing Editor of political. She said that she be be overseeing coverage of major story like the killing of osama bin laden. Before that you may know her as the managing editor of journalist review. Next to rachel we have our next guest. She has gone over to the mainstream and she is eligible for the panel. So did jim agreed to step in and we really appreciate him being here. He is a White House Reporter for the Huffington Post. Also part of leadership on capitol hill. She has spent 40 years with the legislative and executive branches. Probably a walk in the park for her because she started out with the texas state legislator legislature. Again, we thank you for that. Next to her he is the bureau chief head in washington, he started as a reporters reporter. About how he likes we like to describe. He is a thirdgeneration newsman. Down at the under the table is alex mueller, who gives us a different perspective. He gives us a graphic perspective and he has backgroun
He includes beautiful facts about his life including growing up in the northwest. He worked in senator Eugene Mccarthys office right on the hill and it mustve been the catalyst is a love of investigative reporting. She began her lifelong career as a prolific writer of bestselling books in the uproar that came with them come including subjects like Jackie Kennedy onassis, the royals, elizabeth taylor, opera, and of course, my favorite an unauthorized biography called his weight, of Frank Sinatra. Her most recent book is focused on Iconic Images of the kennedys. Books mean a lot more to me when it is well researched. Never failing to raise a few eyebrows in doing such a wonderful job of reminding us that these characters are very human. Please welcome kitty kelley. [applause] i dont know that my writing is prolific, but thank you so much. [laughter] prolific as a turtle, it takes me four years usually on each book. But this book was a labor of love. Because stanley was were my very best
Saying, yes its pretty bad. When you talk to caucuses on both sides and you get a glimpse of the inside players. Now from the 15th annual harlem book fair a discussion of science and health. This is an hour and 15 minutes. So our first panel is titled mythologies of race, good science and health. Before i introduce our moderator i also want to acknowledge rich who worked with me tirelessly in pulling these panelists together , discussing and coming up with the ideas of what are the conversations that we are going to present, what are the conversations that impact us as a community and we should discuss and see if we can find a way in or a way out. So again thank you so much, rich. Our moderator for a first panel is earths are sheldon krimsky. He is the author of genetic justice, dna databank in criminal investigations and civil liberties. He is a professor of humanities and social sciences. He is that tops university so you had me there. Tops. Oh that stuffs. You know how these academi