National book festival Live Saturday september 26 on booktv. And welcome to another summer evening with booktv is binge watch series. Tonight were focusing on books written by former first ladies. The first first lady to venture into publishing was nellie tapp who recalled her time in the white house in her 1914 memoir, recollections in four years. Since then another for slaves have published memoirs. We will focus tonight on five women with serve in a position in the last few years. First up, Rosalynn Carter, she served as first lady from 19771981 and shes the author of five books. In 1984 for bestselling memoir, first lady from planes, was released. Her subsequent books have focused on caregiving and Mental Health care. A subject chess champion throughout her life. From 2010, here is Rosalynn Carter talking about her book within our reach. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Im really pleased to be a tonight and really pleased to see so many people in interested in my book. Iv
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About her life and time in the white house. And now the person you all came to see. [ cheering ] Michelle Levan robinson obama. [ cheers and applause ] she is a lawyer, she is an author and she is the wife of the 44th president of the United States barack obama. [ applause ] throughout her initiatives as first lady, she has become a role model for women and for girls and an advocate for healthy families, Service Members and their families, Higher Education and international adolescent girls education. Her muchanticipated memoir, becoming, will be published in the u. S. And canada on november 13, 2018 by crown, a division of Penguin Randomhouse and it will be released simultaneously in 24 languages. Considered one of the most popular first ladies [ cheers and applause ] mrs. Obama invites readers into her world chronicling the experiences that have shaped her from her childhood on the south side of chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her
Thing a thousand times every day all day, over and over again. So i got to put the little metal thing in a hole and then pass the cardboard over to the guy that would slam it down. So my job was to take the metal thing and put it in the hole. The cardboard over to the guy that would slam it down. For the first day even. I thought, you know, im going to i was aiming at finishing it. I thought there would be an end to it. Thousands of them, and i would prove to the bindery people that i was so fast that i could complete it and i would be done and i just realized it is never over. They just kept coming, the little pieces of cardboard and the little thing, and that went on for weeks and weeks doing the same thing and i thought, my god, im ready for college. Can i do this. But it taught me Great Respect for the men and women who do that work every day. That thankless work that makes it possible for us to have books and folders, and i learned work ethic at the bindery. The dozens of people i
And now the person you all came to see. [cheers and applause] Michelle Lavonne robinson obama. She is a lawyer. She is an author. And she is the wife of the 44th president of the United States. Barack obama. Throughout her initiatives as first lady she has become a role model for women and for girls. And an advocate for healthy families, Service Members and their families, higher education, and international adolescent girls education. Her much anticipated memoir becoming will be published in the u. S. And canada on november 13th, 2018, by crown. A division of Penguin Random house. It will be released simultaneously in 24 languages. Considered one of the most popular first ladies [cheers and applause] mrs. Obama invites readers into her world chronicling experiences that have shaped her from her childhood on the south side of chicago, to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the worlds most famous address. Warm, wise, and becoming