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Welcome everyone to unbound, the bay area book festival virtual conversations. I want to start by acknowledging the partnership between this festival and kqed. Joining me is tiffany shlain, emmy nominated filmmaker and author of 24 6, the power of unplugging one day a week. Thank you for joining me today. Im so happy to be here. Is an interesting time to think about unplugging given this moment during the coronavirus pandemic as we are taping this interview. Many of us are finding ourselves even more tethered to screens because we are able to do things like meet people in person, go out to our workplaces or schools. Or hang out in a bar or cultural venue. First we will hear more about the book from tiffany and then we will have a discussion. Sending it over to you tiffany, take it away. Its so good to be here. Im from the bay area. I love the bay area and im glad we are still able to make it happen this way. Adapting doing literary adapting to this very extraordinary circumstance we ar
Michael good evening and welcome. My name is michael bishop. The result of a collaboration between our society and the George Washington university, the library is the First Research facility in the Nations Capital devoted to the study of winston churchill. Here students have access to a vast range of primary and secondary materials and interactive touchscreen exhibits and soon displays of original manuscripts and artifacts. And let me take this opportunity to encourage you to join the National Churchill society by visiting our website, www. Winstonchurchill. Org. Him him a few programming notes. I hope youll return to the National Churchill Library Center on march 1 when eliot cohen will discuss his new book, him and him the big stick, the limits of soft power and the necessity of military power. And on april 26, former british secretary david away, now lord owen, who will speak about his book, cabinets finest hour, the hidden agenda of may, 1940. Churchill is claimed as the biggest l
Michael good evening and welcome. My name is michael bishop. The result of a collaboration between our society and the George Washington university, the library is the First Research facility in the Nations Capital devoted to the study of Winston Church ill. Here students have access to a vast range of primary and secondary materials and interactive touchscreen exhibits and soon displays of original manuscripts and artifacts. And let me take this opportunity to encourage you to join the National Churchill society by www. Ing our website, winstonchurchill. Org. A few programming programming notes. I hope youll return to the National Churchill Library Center on march 1 when eliot book,will discuss his new the big stick, the limits of soft power and the necessity of military power. And on april 26, former british secretary david away, now lord his, who will speak about book, cabinets finest hour, the hidden agenda of the 20th of may, 1940. Thechill is claimed as biggest leader of the 20th