First going tohe jackson bodegas life. When she worked as a newspaper columnist and writer and met and married future president john f. Kennedy. Welcome. Mr. Anthony thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today and very honored to give you a little bit of a background about Florence Harding and the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, a parent should not really have, per se, a favorite child, and i think an author perhaps should not have a favorite book. But i will say that the research of this book and then the unique promotion that i did for the book will always be a very important part of my life. I started writing this book and researching this book at a time when the sun was just setting on the last generation of people who knew the hardings firsthand. Of course, they had been young children, one or two had almost been teenagers. At the end of the process, the 75th anniversary of the death of president harding, of course he
To feel the Nervous Energy of the finalists and the champagne would be flowing. The kirkus prize isnt what you may imagine when you think of literary award ceremonies. There is no formal banquet or assigned seating. It is a Cocktail Party with a glamour and energy all on its own. Last year when Entertainment Weekly wrote about the major literary awards they referred to the kirkus prize as golden globes, fun and unpredictable and tonight we want to share that energy with you at home and give you a glimpse of what it is like to attend the ceremony in person. To that end our editor at large, megan, caught up with some of this years finalists so we could connect with them as as we were all at a party together. You can view the full conversations on kirkus. Com, but here is a sneak peek. A typical year we would all be gathered at the Austin Public Library for the ceremony, a Cocktail Party beforehand, everybody mingling. I wanted to ask whe could we find you as a finalis before the award ce
Numerous articles, thought arthur of nine previous books including the end of the american era from 2002, 2010, how they become friends and no ones worlds, the rising west in the coming global turned. The fellow at the hudson institute. The wall street journal and professor of Foreign Affairs in new york. A fellow at the council and he is also doing numerous books himself including American Foreign policy and how it changed the world from 2001. Next year i hope you will have the chance to host in a live form. The art of a covenant. The United States, israel and the fate and jewish people. The 10th book, isolationism, healing itself from the world is a subject of that discussion tonight. Please welcome me in joining them. Thank you for that introduction. It is really terrific to be here. I hate to think how long ive known him now. Quite a while. I can certainly remember back in the clinton administration, doing a pbs thing together. I think it was bosniaack then. That was like 30 years
Publishers, agents and of course readers clamoring to meet their latest writers. You would be able to feel the Nervous Energy of the finalist and the champagne would be flowing. It is not what you may imagine when you think of literary award ceremonies. There is no formal banquet or assigned seating. It is a Cocktail Party. Last year when they wrote about the award, they referred to it as a globe asked. Tonight, we want to share that energy with you at home and give you a glimpse of what it is like to attend in person. Our editor at large megan caught up with some of this years finalists so we could connect with them as if we were all at a party together. You can view the full conversations on kkus. Com. Here is a sneak peak. A typical year w would all be gathered for the ceremony, a Cocktail Party beforehand. Mixing and mingling. I wanted to ask where could we find you as a finalist before the Award Ceremony . You can usually fin me by the many desserts table. [laughter] where uld we
For we start i just want to say a huge thanks to perri, andrew and the team at norton for making this happen and all of you for showing up. So were not able to host eventsin our store spaces , Community Authors and readers. Were thankful for your support andfor the chance to make the space for conversation and connection. Now just a couple of housekeeping things. In our dual webinar tonight you can see and hear the speakers. They cannot see or hearyou. You can see a count of the top of yourscreen. Theres a couple of functions youll be using throughoutthe event. You can find at the bottom of your resume and down, theres an event labeled chat. Youre welcome to post your thoughts in the chat. Its a great way to show your appreciation for the author and interact with yourfellow attendees. If you have specific questions that cant be answered by the author please come to the q and a module and click on the icon labeled q and they that looks like two speech bubbles. Well be pulling questions