Be change that is some of the staff picks from Harvard Bookstore at cambridge, massachusetts. Many of these authors have appeared on booktv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. For more than two decades, c. Nicole mason has written about emotional issues from violence against women to reproductive justice to economic security. She is also the former executive director of the women of color policy network at New York University Robert Wagner graduate school. There she held the distinction of being one of the youngest scholar practitioners to lead a major Us Research Center or think tank. In addition to being an author her commentary and writing have been featured in the los angeles times, politico, the progressive, essence magazine, cnn, msnbc, nbc and other outlets. She will be joined by a predominant magazine for African American women in the editorial leader she oversees the content and division of core magazine as well as. Com. Her influence extends beyond various brand
Time. Its disheartening to wall street investors. I wonder at what point investors look back and say remember 2016. Remember that year when amazon was profitable for a whole 7 quarters. Im wondering how long you think aws and the prime revenue will be able to cover Everything Else theyre spending on. Well, jeff besos is a very restless entrepreneur. He is willing to have failures and he is willing to have successes as he is having right now in the content area. Hes going to double down in video content. Its the area everybody is growing into. Its hugely competitive and very extensive and hell continue to use prime and other things to attract consumers and dominate the retail landscape which he does right now. Amazon is still spending a lot. Its interesting to me, in q3 theyre going to open up 18 Fulfillment Centers getting ready for the holiday quarter. Thats three tiles more than they opened last year but at the same time theyre projecting this operating profit and they also talked ab
We were sort of a no mans land. We cannot find him this was late 2001. And moved away we were still in this war and how are we doing in that war. Thats another question. It seems no end. Basically in the book most of them are written for the london review of books and not well known here. The argument is that that the president of the United States followed the cheney bush policy. The story is that the white house story is we have wonderful careers and once he left tora bora he was the energetic runner. I guess worldwide that was the implication. With the use of tort jerk it begins with the torture. We got the evidence we wanted. And then we did not tell the pakistanis. They could invade the radar. The initial story he have an ak47 when they confronted him. They have to shoot him. On a compound there. We have a chopper that blew up and since the blackhawks to squads the navy seal even though they havent been there for years they still move in groups of six. It was a nice touch because
Every weekend booktv offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2, and watch any of our past programs online at booktv. Org. Michael farquhar, former writer and editor at the washington post, provides his thoughts on the most disastrous or outrageous events in history that happened on each day of the year. Thats next on booktv. Were pleased to have with us historian and author michael farquhar. His new book, bad days in the history a gleefully grim chronicle of misfortune, mayhem and misery for every day of the year. Its a carefully curated calendar of human kinds most entertaining catastrophes. With his signature tongueincheek humor, farquhar leads readers on a 365day tour of historys worst happenings gleaned from recent and distant eras, events well known and secure, locations near and is far and near and far and people famous, infamous and forgotten. Farquhar explains in his introduction there are literally billions of miserable e
Chief. Susan swain in 2008 barack obama was elected as our 44th president and he and First Lady Michelle Obama went into the history books as the first African American first couple. Now one year into a second obama , term, the first lady continues her focus on childhood obesity, support for military families and access to education. Good evening and welcome. Well tonight is the final installment in our yearlong series first ladies influence and image, and we finish appropriately with the current Michelle Obama. First lady, for the next 90 minutes, well learn more about her biography and how shes approached the job in her six years in the office so far. Let me introduce you to our two guests wholl be here with us throughout that time and theyre both journalists who have covered the first lady. Liza mundy is a biographer of Michelle Obama; her 2008 book was called, michelle. And Krissah Thompson is a Washington Post journalist who covers the first lady as her beat, thanks for coming bot