Author dave berry, lets begin where you begin in yourst book is to state ever. What is wrong with the state of florida . We do have a reputation for stupid ear to people, and there are many people doing stupid ear things here. But my argument is it is not our fault. The example i gave, and i know i apologize personally but there was a famous example couple ofcp years ago where a woman was driving south on the overseas highway in the key west and according to the Highway Patrol report was in a hurry to get to key west because she wanted to see her boyfriend and shave her bikini region in preparation so a lot of people would pull off to the side of the road just for that. But again she was in a hurry soh she outsourced the steering of the car to the person who was the passenger whapassenger who s her exhusband. Very florida detail. [laughter] so they are going south, shes operating the accelerator, he ih operating the car and she is shaving. What can go wrong. The car in front of them, o
We have wine and beer and music on the weekends. How many book events do you do on a regular basis . On a yearly basis, about 600 a year. Often kid events, adult events, other kinds of things but we are very active. When did you open . About 35 years ago. Why . Well, you know, the story is basically i was an english major in college. I didnt want to give up the dream of being part of the literary culture and one quick way to do that was to get into the book business. I loved bookstores when i was a kid. I saw myself at the bookstore more than the library in college. I went to law school. Why coral gables . I am originally from miami beach so when i moved back from where i was going to school, coral gables was a community i didnt know very well but i explored it. It was right before an independent book shop at the time ripe for an surrounded by miami . What you think of miami is really about 26 different little cities. Miami beach, miami, miami south. So coral gables is just one of thos
Everybody. Hello, everyone. Im mitchell caplan. Im [inaudible] welcome. [applause] on behalf of all of us with the Miami Book Fair, we want to welcome you to the 29th book fair, believe it or not. [cheers and applause] this is a remarkable undertaking. It takes the work of literally hundreds and hundreds of volunteers. We have a remarkable board of directors who work extremely hard at doing this year round. None of this at all could happen without the good, good support of everyone here at miamidade college, and lets give them a huge round of applause. [applause] and were particularly appreciative of the sponsors. Without the sponsors and the funding from foundations and governmental agencies, we would not be able to bring you all this wonderful literary extravaganza. And, of course, our friends. Many of you are friends to have Miami Book Fair. And a way that you can support this book fair and make sure that it goes on for another 29 years as well. [applause] if you, if you look at dow
Pipeline to support all programs serving kids in need, all classrooms serving kids in need. And reading is fundamental is a good example. We have over 1900 reading is fundamental programs supported by first book as well as over 40,000 others. So headstarts, school classrooms, after school programs, mentoring, kids 018 are supported by first book. Host well, Jane Robinson mentioned reading is fundamental, and were joined by carol as coe who is the president and ceo of rif, or reading is fundamental. Give us the background, if you would, ms. Rasco, on reading is fundamental. Guest well, 46 years ago marchgy mcnamara who was in the cabinet, she went to a meeting that Jacqueline Kennedy called of all cabinet spouses. And mrs. Kennedy is said to have told each spouse we are each going to do something to make washington a better place for the people who live and work here every day. And mrs. Mcnamara had a great reputation as a reading tutor. She tutored the wealthier children in town, and s
[applause] Doris Kearns Goodwin and scott heard its wonderful to have you here and welcome to miami. This is our premier annual cultural events so its great to have you here. You both have written books about president s who are part of the progressive era. Really, it was really started by eva roosevelt. Of course he was affectionately known as teddy so Doris Kearns Goodwin how did he start the progressive era and what propelled him to act . And what were his successes that are still with us today . I may indeed call him teddy even though he didnt like to be called teddy that but i think he has lost that data with history so Teddy Roosevelt came into power at a time when really the aspects of the Industrial Age had not been dealt with since the civil war. There was no real Workers Compensation. Women and children were exploited in the factories. Huge monopolies were heating up, the gap to train the rich and the poor had grown wider sounded familiar to situations of today. Additional re