Depth. The next three hours shall see many of the authors who appeared on the program. We were also joined by an author, cornell west and the heads of Simon Schuster and rectory publishing. There is something there is still something that brings tears to my eyes. I hope it wont do it now. On the seventh of december, or the eighth of december 1941, i went to what you would call a problem, an event, you know. I was the equivalent of a freshman at the university. I came home atoc 2 00 oclock at night, the light was on. Excuse me. [inaudible] americas and the war. Yes. And why did that touch you so much . To act because we knew it was going to lose it. Would that mean for you and hungry . I did not cry then. How old were you . Eighteen . I was 18 yes. With that interview with the late author john lucas, indepth was born 20 years ago. 2000 leading nonfiction fiction authors of our time have appeared on indepth. Freeman, colton walker, bob woodward, george well, just to name a few. So over t
Chat. And again when we are planning this tour i cant wait to get into the conversation. And again this is not anything that we ever wouldve amended when we were all having or towards the end of last year but we are adaptable. We will take in that we know any of you are watching right now probably could not have physically gotten here tonight. But you can join us virtually. Again, i will reiterate. You should treat this is if you are in the bookstore. It when youre in the bookstore for reading, then you buy books. So please do that. And it would be great if they were debbies books. But really, buy a lot of books. You know by just one opening the bookstore coming by a lot of books. But i imagine debbie, needs no introduction. But i will just briefly say. I think was what is great if you look at her body of work, you see two very strong claims. Amongst the social justice and the theme of defining america and who gets to define america. She is dennis and looks like freedom summer and esse
Christmas million optional museum, here in washington d. C. Its just over an hour. So its absolutely a thrill to see so many people here for this kind of a program, my name is johnny gray, and i have the wonderful privilege of being the director of your National Museum of American History. Particularly on nights like tonight, and which we really can look at American History in unique and unusual ways. We are really honored to be joined by tonight panel Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg applause Supreme Court Justice Sonia sotomayor, applause catherine fit, applause and Supreme Court Society Publications director claire kushner, applause it is now my privilege to introduce the 13th secretary of the smithsonian institution, doctor david horton. Hes on Board Certified cardiologist a jazz musician, and doctor scorching with most recently the president of cornell university, and previously served as president of the university of iowa. Doctor gordon has interest in learning as wide
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Random house will be providing discount codes for guests to purchased all that are on tonight and throw to introduce the current speaker of the evening. Americas most trusted lifestyle expert and entrepreneur and awardwinning Television Show host and founder of the first multichannel company on the media. Also the author of more than 90 book signed cooking and we are so thrilled she is joining us tonight. Welcome. Thank you teresa. A couple of first for me to stay home is very unusual for me. Just having the time to think as deeply as i have been thinking is unusual because im always busy. I thought tonight instead of talking about food and home and lifestyle of my field of work, i thought i would talk about something i wrote a long time ago called standards of perfection with those examination of two things and the adding of a third to see which is the best the childrens room library and with every single book on the shelf and steered me to those volumes that would set my standards. T