Vice president of Public Programs at the new york public library. Its a privilege for the library to host tonights program celebrating Mike Wallaces new book, greater gotham. The longawaited sequel to his book gotham. Greater gotham picks up the story at the turn of the last century, a period when new york experienced unparalleled growth, expansion and consolidation when much of the infrastructure was developed and when many of our institutions were founded including this one at the new york public library. Incidentally the room in which we are seated was carved out of what was once the reservoir and there is a great illustration of that in the book. Its a special honor for us to host this program not only because of the importance of the book and its subject matter but also because mike wallace who is a fellow in the Coleman Center for scholars and writers and a resident in the allen room researched a good deal of the book right here in the librarys archives. The librarys holdings on
Exhilarating to watch them have dialogue back and forth and though it was 45 years ago, it spoke very much to the present tense. Brian and to your partner in crime . Morgan robert called me and said he had come across a bootleg tape of some of these debate between William Buckley and corbett all. Gore the doll. Gore vidal. I was very interested in him as a character. Buckley was someone we all knew from being such a tv presence, when i saw the debates i saw something that was really speaking to today as much as it was to 1968. We got excited and decided to make a film about it. Brian when did they start . And what was the point of your documentary . Robert they had their first confrontation in print in 1960 or 62. Bill on the right, gore on the left. Three columns, i think it was Associated Press that they did. It really became more personal when gore went on it the David Celestine david suskine show and dismissed bill buckley as kind of a categorize it like the right had been categori
As always, you can watch the senate live on cspan two. Monday on the communicators commissioner Michael Orielly on key issues before the fcc like net neutrality, regulating the internet, and the public response. When there is an open commission meeting, that information should be made available publicly. That would give an opportunity for everyone to know what we are thinking. Right now we have people who raise concerns regarding this, but they do not know exactly what is being put forth. They are doing rifle shot at scattered structures, you know . That is problematic for my point of view. I would like for them to not have to spend time on things that do not need attention. Monday night on the communicators on cspantwo. Coming up next, q a, filmmakers Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon talk about their new documentary. Then British Foreign secretary hammond. This week on q a, filmmakers Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon talk about their new documentary, best of enemies, which tells the b
And what was the point of your documentary . Robert they had their first confrontation in print in 1960 or 1962. Bill on the right, gore on the left. Three columns, i think it was Associated Press that they did. A stunt. But, it really became more personal when gore went on the David Suskind show and dismissed bill buckley as kind of a characters. He sort of made the rirght a the right a respectable place to be. Gore dismissed it and demanded equal time. Brian you knew gore vidal, did you know bill buckley at all . Morgan i did not. He was the revelation to me, i was familiar with gore, but i buckley the man, and buckley the tv personality. Buckley told one of his editors, upon moving to new york, dont hang out with the conservatives, hang out with the liberals. The conservatives are boring. Buckleys apartment in new york with his wife patricia was full of liberal writers and some of her gay friends and people in the art world. Not what i wouldve thought of. He really had kind of a goi
Instagram booktv is our handle. Were kicking off today with an author discussion on Eleanor Roosevelt with emily wilson and National Book Award Finalist Patricia Bell scott. This is booktv on cspan2. Its live coverage of the southern festival of books. [inaudible conversations]. Since this session is being taped live, if you please use the microphone if we have time for questions at the end of the session, the microphone is over there, we will need the to end the session at 12 50. After that we will head to the book and author signing area where you will have an opportunity to meet the authors and have them sign your books. We cannot linger in this room. Thank you for your assistance. Professor of women studies at the university of georgia. She is a former contributor to miss magazine and cofounder to have National Women studys association. Her most recent book, the fire brand and the first lady, portrait of friendship, Paulie Murray, ellen nor roosevelt and struggle for social justice