Youre reading this summer. You can postit on our facebook page. Up next military historian alan axelrod, aphrodite project anvil intended to stop germanys missile attacks on london. Good evening im tony clark from the carter lie it talks about other autoors, you know, harper lee is releasing the book the second book that harper lee wrote while i wish we had harper lee here, we do have the author, she moved in next door and she where i say about harper lee and getting to know her. The book is called the mockingbird next door thats june 18th. Mark your calendar, july 15th president carter will be signing, just signing a full life here. Later in the year, diana nyad who swam from florida or from cuba to florida. We have a wonderful list of authors. I happen to be one of those who who grew up in oklahoma during the 50s and 60s and got caught up in the Kennedy Campaign and all as a kid coming home from high school, i remember then president kennedy the motorcade going by, he had been to rob
This change the way we are as readers in the United States and the way we are educated. For many people if they could read shakespeare in the bottom of a ship and if you could succeed at college you can succeed at life. So i will take questions if anybody would like to ask [applause] are these books available later on in the bay or ride sales . The answer is yes. What happened is the idea that they were supposed to stay over seas but most people brought to a book or to hold with them because the ride would take two weeks with no military maneuvers that would be boring of the war was over and they kept them as mementos. Some people love to the books so much inward desperate to make sure they had access after the war that they would take a group and mailed them home so they would be waiting for them when they got home. Sometimes on ebay and other web sites i personally look at them at flea markets but my experience those that are a little less popular could be as cheap as the dollar like
So if the Victory Book Campaign collected ted million in 1942 a very small portion would be paperback and that was on the publishers they did not want to do print paperbacks that accosted river between 2. 50 and 3. 50 so they to make of better profit with the card books of day did not want to print a hard book even the bookstore could make more of a profit off of hard cover but they realized this is a special circumstance we need to do our part for the men who are fighting. So they decided they poured pretty special book just for the troops just for those overseas so they would sell the books really to read army and navy and they could distribute them around the world. Sova had to look like a book that never existed before so they got rid of the hardcover and also reduced the size of books and the larger size paperback was four and a half by six and half. They could not print them this tiny as most are eight by 10 inches the publishers had to figure out how to print them and turn to a
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Good afternoon everyone thank you so much for being here at the National Constitution center. My name is jenny parker and im the Vice President of communication. Before we begin, i would like you to take a few moments to share some basic housekeeping. We will begin, we will take audience questions at the conclusion of our program today. Please jot down your . The note card provided to you and they will be gathered from one of our staff members. If you are on twitter, and encourage you to follow us at at Constitution Center and you can also and submit questions, comments comments and them with americas town hall. We will have a book sale and book signing opportunity after words. Please join us in the lobby to get your signed copy of the book. I would like to thank any members here for joining us today. The center is a private nonprofit and our work relies heavily on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional education and de