highly respected again. amy: with republicans chanting four more years, president trump gives his state of the union address i had up today senate vote to acquit him in the historic impeachment trial. before the speech, he refused to shake house speaker nancy pelosi s hand. afterwards house speaker nancy , pelosi ripped up trump s prepared remarks. she later described the speech as a manifesto of untruths. but first, the latest from iowa as the state democratic party releases impartial results from others caucus pete buttigieg is leading in a tally state delegates while senator bernie sanders is leading in the popular vote. i am very proud to tell you that last night in iowa we received more votes on the first and second round than any other candidate. amy: and we will look at the controversy around the new book american dirt as a movement as a movement led by latinax demands more representation in the publishing industry. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to d
My name is bill miller, and i codirect the fall for the book festival. Whoo thank you very much. [laughter] i am so glad you all are here. First of all, let me a couple of housekeeping things. Cspan is here taping this evening, so that will be broadcast later. We will, that will include the question and answer session, so when we get to that portion, please come down to the microphone here on my left, and that will be lit so that if you ask the scintillating, brilliant question, youll be on cspan. The, we will, were going to do a little presentation, explanation, a couple of things here. Well try to move them along fairly quickly. But then well bring out sandra, and we know thats why youre here, and then we will have book sales and signing in the lobby afterward. Ive been involved with fall for the book since it was a Study Committee in 1998, and it was formed by the city of fairfax, Fairfax County library and a group of us here at mason. From those beginnings, fall for the book has al
Of work per se, you will get a different argument there. That is something that i have argued with my friend and colleague about. So we promise to end directly and were right on time. Thanks to people that participated. I didnt get to all the questions but i got to most. One of the advantages of this book, unlike a lot of books written in washington this is thin and you can read it. I commend it to all of you. Thank you for coming. Thank you, david. [applause] [inaudible conversations]. I think well go ahead and get started. Thank you, everybody, for coming. A quick show of hands if this is your first time to book culture on columbus . Welcome to the family. 20 years ago this space was the endicott book seller. It was lost to the Upper West Side along with many other wonderful bookstores over the years. Almost a two years ago we took the plunge to open our third location. Were so happy a place to host jewels farber and this wonderful panel and talk about James Baldwin, James Baldwin. P
Quote, the execution of the laws is more important than the making them. If you think of leadership as three tasks like getting the answer right, the policy right, communicating that, and then implementing it, the argument i make this book that president s spend so much time on communication that it leaves little time to think about how they are going to implement the policies they want to implement and that involves understanding something that the, in the Business Schools we call organizational capacity. In other words, in the federal government, is the piece of the federal government that youre giving this job to, is it capable, is it up to the job that youre asking, you, the president are asking it to do. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Here is a look at some of the staff picks from powells bookstore in portland, oregon. The undoing project, Michael Lewis analyzes the findings of two israeli psychologists whose work shows humans are predisposed to irrat
Has been a Community Effort to now we have more than twowo dozen sponsors and more than two dozen additional people and agencies and organizations that are partners and of course, you if you left, not knowing youre coming to a Literary Festival youre not alone often our festival goers dont come to the festival themselves but to see or hear or meet a favorite writer. That is okay with us. O have we are glad to have you. In fact, we depend on youu and and which is given prominence. In that same way that happened. Chair of Uh Development committee for fall for the book with all of the great authors to keep up programs coming by raising the funds needed. Fall for the book is a five 01 c3 that we rely on donations to keep this going it is thought 18 years we have been doing this of a one day festival now going through a whole week and we know this incredible resources to our community looke if you looked at the pamphlet you saw it was one weeks worth of defense going on all over the communi