Fourth evening with authors event. Its so nice to have you all here. Im jared anderson, im a member of the board of trustees with Thurber House. Ive been instructed to dutifully tell you to please silence your cell phones at this point. But feel free to brag about us on social media, quietly. [laughter] at Thurber House, wed like to say a special thank you to the museum of art for hosting us tonight. Wed like to thank wosu public media and the book loft for their continued support. Tonights raffle winner will receive a copy of writer, sailor, soldier, spy and two tickets to the evening of authors event of their choice. For more information, you can visit the Thurber House web site or many of our social media venues. After the reading, please stay. Please stay and join us you are for punch, for cookies out in the lobby under the stairs. And nicklaus will be sign nicholas will be signing. Just enter to the left of the stage here, and you can exit to the right. If you have trouble with th
Heart. I am deeply humbled by your confidence and on behalf of my family here and gone, i accept your nomination to run and serve as Vice President of the United States of america. [cheers and applause] in my book, i make the argument that the rise of the american vicepresidency began in what ive described as the rise of the modern vicepresidency. Everything else i can consider the premodern vicepresident s si. And i trade this modern vicepresidency to Warren Hardings decision to invite Calvin Coolidge to be a member of the cabinet and sit with the cabinet. No president has done that about. Not that there were the Vice President s in meetings but to be a formal member of the cabinet. Invited coolidge to that. So i described that as as being a very Pivotal Moment of furthering the attachment as an executive institution. Origins are if was an afterthought at the federal convention. Alexander hamilton proposed having a Vice President. He was basing it on lieutenant governors because there
Down the bucket list and being at ail an honor and pleasure. I came across this topic and it kind of took over my life after could they say the book finds you, not the other way around and i pulled a book called spies, the history of soviet intelligence in the us offtheshelf and i thought what the hell, maybe theres something in here, maybe theres not, but its worth checking and these days its really easy to check and do research and i went to the index and there is an entry for hemingway and that leads not just to some passing mention, but to a fairly robust subchapter, maybe eight or 10 pages that talks about hemingway as a soviet spy. Ernest 10 more a is fascinating to a lot of people and everyone has his own Ernest Hemingway and one thing about Ernest Hemingway that makes him fascinating is there always seems to be one more layer, one more story to tell and this season alone there are at least four new books about hemingway and those books barely overlap except in the name hemingwa
Booktv says it to portland, oregon, for detoxified and legacy of Ernest Hemingway. During our time in portland, oregon, we visited powells city of books to author and historian Nicholas Reynolds talk about his book writer, sailor, soldier, spy. Kind of like mega, probably like the role of bookstores, maybe powells and the strength in new york. This is kind of my bucket list to come to powells, speak at powells, the mention come i havent had a review yet in the new time for a book. Ive been mentioned there. I spent one week on the new times bestseller list, so im looking t for my bucket list and tonight eating at powells is just an enormous honor and pleasure for me. One of the things i like to say is no matter how long all the people, all of us are in the from live, we are unlikely collectively to have as many terrific adventures as arneson we did during his life. Thats one of the things that makes them so fascinating, how he crammed so much into one life i dont know. The name of my bo
Booktv says it to portland, oregon, for detoxified and legacy of Ernest Hemingway. During our time in portland, oregon, we visited powells city of books to author and historian Nicholas Reynolds talk about his book writer, sailor, soldier, spy. Kind of like mega, probably like the role of bookstores, maybe powells and the strength in new york. This is kind of my bucket list to come to powells, speak at powells, the mention come i havent had a review yet in the new time for a book. Ive been mentioned there. I spent one week on the new times bestseller list, so im looking t for my bucket list and tonight eating at powells is just an enormous honor and pleasure for me. One of the things i like to say is no matter how long all the people, all of us are in the from live, we are unlikely collectively to have as many terrific adventures as arneson we did during his life. Thats one of the things that makes them so fascinating, how he crammed so much into one life i dont know. The name of my bo