Coast coastal. Then bahamas week continues. Were ready to make a splash. Welcome, everyone, to e. T. In the bahamas week. Were here all week. Its another day in paradise here at the beautiful bahamar resort. So much fun on the way. But we begin with a major scare for Angelina Jolie and it happened on the set of her new movie. A forced evacuation. An unexploded bomb left over from world war ii discovered. An explosives expert called to the scene. Angelina and her costar Richard Madden safe. This is what one report claims happened on the set of eternals. The marvel movie is shooting here in the canary islands. Heres what et learned about the incident. An unidentified object was found on set where second unit filming was taking place. It was inspected and deemed safe. No cast members were present at the time. Angelina with her blonde wig has been shooting the film since august. Playing a super hero puffs you up a little bit. Makes you feel more empowered. It does. You get the outfit on an
Oklahoma, an awardwinning journalist and the author of multiple books, this being the most recent. For two decades in the school of journalism, more recently in the school of international and public affairs. Before we begin, let me thank the Madison Public Library, Madison Public Library foundation. All the sponsors who contributed to making this a successful event and the director of the book festival who organized this celebration of books and authors over the four day weekend. On behalf of the Madison Institute i want to thank the w foundation, charitable arm of the Capital Times and many individual donors of Madison Institute who help our efforts to support and illuminate issues of public policy. Ann nelson will cast light on how the council for International Policy which was created in 1981 is worked for four decades to channel money and people to influence the outcome of our elections and public policy. The book is been praised by a number of individuals including nancy mclean w
Are here in the room and all of you watching at home at cspan book tv, we are delight today start the third day of this years fourth day celebration, today we will do 32 events, i hope you are all staying all day. [laughter] we couldnt be more delighted, thank you for making more time in the morning and check out schedule and come back for more things tomorrow, we will star today, how we win, shes in conversation with hannah and i will send you over to them. [applause] okay, what have i dont . Anyone who knows me, technology is not my friend. [laughter] hi, welcome to madison. Thank you. Let me just tell you a little bit about sarah, her bio is on the website, its in your information and its on the book that you all will be buying many copies of. [laughter] but sarah is a very incrediblable woman, she was getting ready to leave after president bush the second and getting ready to go until Hillary Clinton brought her in the office and said, talk to me about what youre doing and she said
A compilation of french writers youre not a meat youre a producer and editor of this thing and its supposed to talk its supposed to show the french way on eternal matters and i correct exactly what are they so matters you know its a crazy idea is that russian writer famous. Of to ask me to choose my favorite books of contemporary writers and put my name on the cover instead of theirs but no i will i will ask that my name is smaller than the name of the author its just that we present my favorite novels of the last 10 years. So no voters about yet today about the the the world how its changing so quickly and so we really. Were working on the list were working on the translations we didnt choose everything but its very cloudy and i think its a beautiful idea because we need ideas to. Put closer our 2 cultures france and russia were very close in the 19th century and now less crazy nations like you that much to crazy. Anything anyway in a good way we like to criticize everything relate to
Joining us on booktv is Alan Crawford, here is his book how not to get rich the financial misadventures of mark twain. Mr. Crawford, what you want people to learn if they pick up your book and read it . I wrote it in part as a spoof of books about successful people. And how if you just do what they did then you too can be a Great Success in life because having read a lot of these books i find them all woefully useless. There is even one you mightve heard of called the art of the deal, terrible book. Keke barnum wrote a book called the art of money getting and he made a Great Fortune at this point but was like mark twain went broke. He wrote the art of money while he was broke and the sales of that book enabled him to rebuild his fortunes and go on to be pt barnum chapter 2. 0. Its fascinating that mark twain was so good at so many things. Bestselling author of this time. He made more money on the lecture circuit that he did even as an author, he thought he could do anything. So from ch