I am lucky enough to call Rebecca Frankel a close friend. Seven years ago i was approaching two years that my first job here in d. C. And it was a job i did not like chemical my mom crying doom at during my lunch hour twice a week feel the way it is entitled millenials can be. And at the point i felt it could not get any worse the ii other people on staff and my boss wanted to grow the team and ask if anyone would be a good fit and one of the people she called was Rebecca Frankel one of the biggest stroke of luck she recommended me and at the time i was just a kid sister of one of her friends and here i am. There is no way to ever pay her back to usher in one of the most interesting phases of my life so when she broached the subject the fight could host any event for the event war dogs i remember thinking you got me my job here. We can have the early show or the elderly to show. Just name it. [laughter] i can say that love their compassion and respect that she shows her friends is the
These Tall Buildings outside the reading room. All you could see with sky. So its really a place where the city has grown up around the library. Host weiser called the reading room . Guest the rose family made this reading room in honor of their children when it was renovated in 1998 and during the renovation, every square inch of the surpluses in this room are touched by a. So its really restored to its original splendor. Host do you know about the paintings . Guest deserve murals that we have to actually recreate. They were in such a bad state of disrepair before the renovation. These were created in a studio on canvas and installed here. They are not paying michelangelo style. Host how much of the librarys collection of artifacts are available for people to see . Guest all of them are collections or more than 51 million items and we have all kinds of things from books to manuscript and archival role materials to photographs, prints, and menus, maps, all kinds of materials. Host one
Distraught in the way that only an entitled millennial can be about drowning in administrative work. When i felt like it could not get any worse and there were only two other people on staff she called her contacts and asked if they knew anyone who would be a good fit. One of the people she called was becky. At the time, i was just a kid kid sister of one of her friends. There is no way to ever pay her back for ushering in one of the most interesting and fulfilling phases of my life when she delicately broached the subject because her intelligence is only rivaled by her humility, i remember thinking, you got me my job here. Do you want to events . I can say that the loan, care, compassion, and respect is the same approach she took in researching and writing war dogs. Reviews have been phenomenal truly wonderful, inspirational, and moving. Writing since 2010. This book has been a labor of love for her in which she has immersed herself fully. It took her around the country and by phone a
But it is not about that. Host max schuster did not publish the autobiography. Guest no he did not. I remember telling him what a great historical document took this book to those elections in what that said was it is a masterpiece but i do not want my name on the same book as albert. It is wrong but we will not publish a new book is not easy for a publisher to say that i am not saying random house i dont want to publish a separate probe. Host indiana please go ahead with your question or comment. Caller yes mr. Korda i have a question about the wars. With your work as a writer and they have presented but it appears 9 11 was the inside job. Guest i will not comment on that. It does not look like that. I think it was an act of terror. Host arlington virginia. Lhe groundwork for the modern, hightech world we live in by investing a tremendous amount in science and technology. The creation of the first satellite and the Defense Advanced Research products agency, darpa, and other endeavors
French revolutions. This is about one hour. Okay. Im tim marshall the provost for the new school and im delighted to welcome everyone here for this wonderful event to launch laura auricchios new book which is right here. [applause] the Marquis Lafayette reconsidered which came out this month published by knox publishers. This is a research over the course of seven years at a major part of it the tilted personal life from the inside of the passion french hero become of the American Revolution of several freshmen over several to watch the kids. Theres an intimate depiction summit towering figures of the historical period while also eliminating and explore the new role of the press and publication the politics of the time. The personal letters of marquis de lafayette which can be found in in the collection of elaborate of congress and at Cornell University provides many of the books anecdotes. And now a few words about laura. She is a specialist in 18th century french history and art and