Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Please give a warm welcome to the stage dave barry. [applause] thank you. Thank you. It is great to be back in the Rancho Mirage even though its a [bleep] hole. [laughter] im just excited that in the new climate its okay to say the black hole. Last week was the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post and w cnn was l [bleep] hole all the time. [laughter] is a bright new era and happy to be just right no, rancho is a wonderful place. I always feel obligated and im not to the point of the book anymore but a little updated to defend my city. I live in miami and i moved there in 1986 from the united states. [laughter] and miami has a bad reputation. I know that. Every year the organization is a poll where they asked people what they think of various major metropolitan areas in every year miami some people like it but it always gets categorized as a potentially dangerous and violent place which hurts those of us who live there and we want
Dave barry and scott turow. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen please give a warm welcome to scott turow and dave barry. [applause] [inaudible conversations] at afternoon and thanks for coming. We cant believe you are still coming to these things. This is scotts fifth panel. Scott will be doing his part fully in mind. But i want to start, im going to tell you some things about scott turow. My friend and bandmate and you all know that he is probably the most accomplished legal thriller writer fall times and im sure there are very few who didnt. You know everything about him now and you probably all have samples. But there are two things you dont know about scott. First of all i performed at his wedding. I hope we can get some point to discuss it. Scott got married last summer in wisconsin and asked me if i would perform the ceremony. I am a notary public in the state of florida. [laughter] and floored it means i can do anything. I can sentence people to death in florida. [la
Good evening, everyone. My name is betsy atkins. On behalf of harvard bookstore, id like to welcome you to cambridge public library. Im extremely pleased to have Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt with us. Please check out more Upcoming Library programming and be sure to join our email list to learn about the event series, and please visit us online at harvard. Com events. Id also like to thank tonights cosponsor, mass humanities supporting programs that use history, literature, philosophy and the other disciplines to enhance and improve civic life for the people of massachusetts. Learn more at masscommunities. Org. Tonights talk will conclude with time for your questions. Please note that this talk is being recorded by cspan, and during q a your questions will be recorded. To ask a question, please come to the mic at the front of this aisle to my left. Following q a, there will be a book signing here on stage. The signing line will form down the aisle to my right, the end of which may
Better at the federal level think you all very much for your time. Thank you secretary nielsen for being here. I hope you all have a chance to learn something. And that is what we want. We want to learn from each other. And strengthen these partnerships and go even stronger. I want to thank my chief of staff. I dont know if shes here. She is primarily responsible for bringing this event together. And thank you to all of you who flew in to speak and be here with that i think we will wrap it up and we will exit out the back. If you exit the great tall go down the spiral staircase. If you continue straight down it will put you out on constitution avenue between ninth and tenth. You can bad out there. And the guards will let you out. Thank you all for your time. Thank you for your [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. Sunday night on afterwards former speech writer for george w. Bush and atlantic columnist. With his book trump accuracy. He is interviewed by the Washington Po
Years and theyre strong and they kind of stick with us, no matter what we do, as you have seen you go outside this museum and you travel around northwest arkansas, theres fortune 500 companies, theyre a Major Research university, theres all kinds of businesses and industry and hightech stuff going on out there but those images, those stereotypes, will theyll stick with us and theyre kind of theyre part of our story. We begin our tour of the local Literary Community with a visit to the university of Arkansas Library. To learn more about the life and accomplishmented of jay William Fulbright. James William Fulbright was a longtime senator serving arkansas from 1944 until 1974. 30 years. Before that he was a representativea u. S. Representative from the north arkansas area. He was president of the university of arkansas, the Youngest University president in the United States at the time. From 1939 to 1941 and worked for the department of justice, rhodes karl, a distinguish el alum of the