Afternoon everyone. I have the honor of serving as the conference and id like to welcome both of you to the 2000 16 National Book festival to the biography state which is sponsored by wells fargo. We at the library of congress are thrilled to be presenting National Book festival for the 16th time. This terrific event would not be possible without the friends that we have to recording us. Like wells fargo and theyre very appreciative of that. Here, but for readers like all of you who support the authors, are interested in them and come out, so we are extremely excited. Thank you so much for being here today. [applause]. This years festival is inspired by journeys. The idea that a book is a voyage unto itself, taking us to places that we might not be able to see in person, but we can visit by reading about it. It to gives us the opportunity to better understand our world and in particular why we are here today celebrating histories and biography so reading to us is an ideal form of trave
Tonight we thank heather and thompson for an unforgettable conversation. Thank you and we welcome you to join us for a conversation. [applause] [inaudible conversation] heres a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the company country. The louisiana book festival is being held in baton rouge at the state capital. Coming up in november we are live from austin for the texas book festival with authors such as former attorney general alberto gonzales, law professor tim wu and orange is the new black actress diane guerrero. Later we will be live from the Miami Book Fair on november 19 and 20th. Our coverage includes author discussion and call them featuring bernie sanders, fox news host and colton whitehead. For more information about the book fairs and festivals, and to watch previews festival coverage, click on the book fair tab on our website, booktv. Org. Professor richard gamble, wended the phrase city on a hill originate . It originated in the new testament,
Will create a push of warmer air and highs will get into the low 60s. We can expect partly sunny conditions. The low moves over us on saturday and may give us a few showers but it also keeps us mild with highs again in the 60s. We should dry up for sunday and stay above average. Monday and tuesday look to be very warm for this time of year with highs in the mid to upper 60s. Today mostly cloudy and cool. High 50 wind nw 510 mph anchor adlibs traffic pedestrian str kenosha county. All lanes are blocked traffic is being rerouted southbound exiting at 142 and getting shot and killed Sylville Smith. Will be in court today on unrelated charges Dominique Haeggan Brown is accused of Sexual Assault, prostitution and taking intimate photos without consent. Deandra corinthios has the latest from the Milwaukee County courthouse. Heaggan brown is in custody. And he is suspended from the Milwaukee Police department. His preliminary hearing is at 8 this morning. And while the charges he faces today
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Cspan where history unfolds daily. In 1979 cspan was greater as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. [inaudible conversations] hello, everybody. Wow. What a treat we have. I am so honored to introduce our next author. Shes an elegant and an exciting writer your shes the kind of person that other writers just adore. Stacy schiff. Envoy, dishing out to pick a good topic. Unbelievable. Even jon stewart was interested in cleopatra. She somehow brought to life cleopatra in a way that nobody else had. And by the way, a lot of peoplef new cleopatra for a long time. Of course, she has won so many prizes its fairly ridiculous. When she was a child she won the Pulitzer Prize for writing about the wife of vladimir noble cough. She was a runnerup for the pulitzer even earlier, in 1995. When she comes up in you see a young she is, its super a for the rest of us. Ron who knows how to write a book himself said this ab