Next encore booknotes. Jill krementz was a guest on booknotes in 1997 to talk about her book the writers desk a collection of authors and photos photos. Cspan jill krementz, photographer, you have a book out called the writers desk. Whats it all about . Guest its a collection of my photographs over it period of 30 years of writers and i photographed over 1500 rider so of course its not all the writers. My favorite pictures of a lot of the writers at their desks but they are all writers that there had desks or near their desks or behind their desks. Somewhere theres a desk in the picture. Literally or figuratively. Cspan why did you pick this for the covert . Guest i suppose because its one of my favorite photographs. I think its pretty recognizable now so people would know it was my book and because i think that it is a picture about a writer. Its a picture about a writers place and i think you feel looking at that picture that of course this is where she would write. Its like her writ
Movie critic and later oped journalist of the wall street journal. He has served as contributing editor for the atlantic and newsweek. A bestselling author, brooks books include bobos in paradise, on Paradise Drive and is third look the social animal that hidden sources of love character and achievement became a New York Times bestseller number one bestseller and of course the work that he is discussing tonight is already number one on the amazon hardcover bestsellers list. In addition to all of this though. [applause] david teaches at Yale University and is a member of the American Academy of arts and sciences. Responding to david tonight is mike sub vibe nationally syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in the Washington Post and author of heroic conservatism as well is coauthor with pete wainer of city of man. In addition he served as a Senior Adviser of a Bipartisan Organization dedicated to the fight to end extreme poverty and preventable diseases as well as a pastor to fel
polls closed at 9:00 p.m. eastern tonight in the wisconsin state senate recall elections, being watched as a potential national bell weather. we ve got very preliminary results in so far, but here s what we got. wisconsin state senate district 2, republican incumbent, robert kohls, his challenger, nancy nusbaum. this is considered to be the safest republican seat of them all. in district 8, the republican incumbent is roberta darling, democratic challenger is sandy pasch. right now, polls closed at 9:00 p.m. eastern. nothing but 2% in, roberta darling at 62% of her vote, her democratic challenger, sandy pasch at 28% of the vote. sheila harsdorf, sheila moore.
fritz, republicans had a virtual lock on all of washington heading into election night 2006. they controlled every single lever of power they could control in d.c. by the end of election night 2006, that was no longer the case. by midnight in washington, it was a new day for the democrats, a national wave swept republicans from power in the house for the first time since the republican revolution in 1994. but the democratic wave didn t end there. well after midnight, the senate began to fall as democrats turned red states blue. 2006 was a clean sweep for democrats. they won a total of 30 seats to take control of the house. they won six seats in the senate and governorships across the country. it was a democratic route, bit of a landslide. it was a shock to republicans across the country. a night like that is euphoric, but people know that a night like that is sort of bittersweet because yeah, you just won a whole bunch of seats, but you won a whole bunch of seats there s