By filling out a survey, this information assist the staff as they plan future programs so thank you in advance for doing this. Following the lecture there will be a book signing outside the door of this room. A Service Provided by the campus bookstore. In addition to the books, todays event is cosponsored by the National Affairs committee of the democrats, also the book would not be possible without such sponsors. The book featured today is the product of 2 two distinguished career journalists. James mccartney, now deceased, and his wife, molly mccartney. For nearly four decades as a reporter for the Chicago Daily news, james covered the principal institutions of the federal government with special emphasis on war and conflict which he covered in more than 30 countries. Molly worked as a reporter for 30 years including 14 years at the Washington Post. After her husbands death in 2011 molly continued the research and writing of the book he was working on in his retirement. Americas war
The National Book Award Finalist released this past week and four of the nonfiction authors appeared or will appear here on booktv. Next heather alabama thompson sits down with National Book awardwinning author tana if to discuss her book blood in the water. About the attica prison uprisings. Good evening im director of roosevelt house and on behalf of the president jennifer rab in the room tonight im delighted to welcome all of you here to the home of franklin d. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt one ever them as you know since were going to be talking about gubernatorial administrative work, of course, new york state governor bhefer became president and his wife was conscience of the empire state is just as she later became the conscience of the country and the world who was never afraid to confront challenging and uncomfortable issues like the one were going to discuss this evening. Even if it meant confronting her own husband. Privately, of course, because this was the 130s. I think
The National Press clubs annual book fair and authors night in washington d. C. And later this month well be live from the Miami Book Fair on november 19th and 20th. Our coverage includes author discussions and callin programs featuring senator Bernie Sanders, fox news host dana perino and National Book Award Finalist coulson whitehead. For more information about the book fairs and festivals booktv will be covering and to watch previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab on our web site, booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] well, thank you, everyone, for coming. Were so well, on behalf of rick mcarthur, harpers magazine and book culture, were so pleased to be here to celebrate born on third base a 1 er makes the case for tackling inequality, bringing wealth home and committing to the common good. That author is Chuck Collins and, again, were so happy to have him here for our talk. Harpers magazine has a vested interest in keeping important written word in circulationing, and
To watch previews the festival coverage click the book fairs that on our website, bookt booktv. Org. [inaudible] there we go. Ill start over. Welcome. Thanks for coming today. O my name is Susan Barribeau and then work for the madison u libraries as a specialas a collections librarian come and englishlanguage Managers Library in. Welcome to the wisconsin bookies festival. I would like to introduce today our offer, andrea mays who will be talking about her book as this fantastic cover, the millionaire and the bard. Tell you a little bit about andrea mays. Like henry folger been possessed by a lifelong obsession with shakespeare and his times. Andrea spent much of her manhattan girl could hold up and new public labor listening to vinyl of the recordings of performances by the royalo vinyl shakespeare company. A graduate of dispatches that only a protege of frank mccourta but also of his own mentor, the legendary new York Public School teacher. And are has degrees in economics, from State
Thank you calling and without further ado i thought id pose a question first to the judge alternating between the joint and biographer. Mister posner, when you were the age of some of these people as an undergraduate at yale, but biography tells us you are a fabulous yates scholar, interested in literature. What made you decide to go to law school . Law school is always the default graduate choice for any college graduate. And my father was a lawyer and he gave some thought to going to graduate school in english but decided it was not for me so i dont think i consideredanything else. Harvard law school seemed to have a permanent impression on you isuppose, seemed to change and launch your trajectory in many ways. Can you tell us about the Academic Experience there . Well, it was mixed. But they did something clever. They did attrition in their first year of law school so that was very good. I got a good start. And second and third years were not as interesting. Like the professors, i r