Titled American History, renegades and is sponsored by the Mississippi Library association. Tracy car with with the Library Commission was in the room for the very first organizational meeting of the festival and couldnt do this without the Mississippi Librarycommission or libraries from all over the state. Thank you very much for your support. And we are in the room today, courtesy of foreman watkins, author and our gratitude to them. Our panelists are tom and then, eric j dolan and peter coupland. Purchased copies of their books from vendors outside and you can find the times our authors will be signing in your program. It will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes and open the floor to questions. Please come to the podium in the center of the room toask your questions. Now help me welcome our moderator for this panel katie blunts, director of the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Thank you chris. All right, im going to tell you about these guys and then we will
We have great lineup of events over the next couple of months which include National Book Award Finalist out of lightman, goes a prizewinning Samantha Powers and your times bestselling novelist alice hoffman. For more details information on these and are many other Upcoming Events please visit our Events Calendar at harvard. Com harvard. Com events. We are pleased to cspans booktv here with us today. When asking questions please know you will be recorded and please wait a month for the microphone to come over to you before asking your question. After two nights clinic will have a book signing here at this table. The line will form towards my left and be careful of the camera. We have copies for sale at the registers in the next room. Id like to take a moment to say thanks for buying books are at harvard bookstore. Your purchases this authors series. Tonight is the first that you can get a copy of this book, so congratulations. And finally [applause] just a quick reminder to silence you
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