Good evening everyone. Thank you all so much for coming out tonight. What an outstanding crowd. Im not surprised. You have picked a very good event to come to. I am with some muscatine one of the coowners of politics and prose and politics and prose and our staff and my coowner and husband brad graham and i welcome all of you to this evenings event. I think less of you know the drill but just in case you are new to our events, professor wills will speak for a bit and is happy to take questions. We have a microphone appear and we really would like it if he could make it to the mic if you have questions. We videotaped these offense and we also have cspan here tonight so its really helpful if the various audiences can hear what you have is a question. We will and in about an hour. If you dont have a copy of the book and would like one we have plenty upfront. Professor wills will be happy to sign at the end. He asks given the magnitude of this crowd if you could limit your requests for sig
[inaudible conversations] [applause] good evening everyone. Thank you all so much for coming out tonight. What an outstanding crowd. Im not surprised. You have picked a very good event to come to. I am with some muscatine one of the coowners of politics and prose and politics and prose and our staff and my coowner and husband brad graham and i welcome all of you to this evenings event. I think less of you know the drill but just in case you are new to our events, professor wills will speak for a bit and is happy to take questions. We have a microphone appear and we really would like it if he could make it to the mic if you have questions. We videotaped these offense and we also have cspan here tonight so its really helpful if the various audiences can hear what you have is a question. We will and in about an hour. If you dont have a copy of the book and would like one we have plenty upfront. Professor wills will be happy to sign at the end. He asks given the magnitude of this crowd if
[inaudible conversations] [applause] good evening everyone. Thank you all so much for coming out tonight. What an outstanding crowd. Im not surprised. You have picked a very good event to come to. I am with some muscatine one of the coowners of politics and prose and politics and prose and our staff and my coowner and husband brad graham and i welcome all of you to this evenings event. I think less of you know the drill but just in case you are new to our events, professor wills will speak for a bit and is happy to take questions. We have a microphone appear and we really would like it if he could make it to the mic if you have questions. We videotaped these offense and we also have cspan here tonight so its really helpful if the various audiences can hear what you have is a question. We will and in about an hour. If you dont have a copy of the book and would like one we have plenty upfront. Professor wills will be happy to sign at the end. He asks given the magnitude of this crowd if
New york times columnist david brooks dissects the idea of character. Former treasury secretary Henry Paulson takes a look at the evolution of chinas capitalist system and much more. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend on cspan2. We kick off booktv this weekend with a program from politics prose bookstore in washington d. C. With garry wills who questions whether pope francis is capable of producing significant change within the Catholic Church. [inaudible conversations] [applause] good evening everyone. Thank you all so much for coming out tonight what an outstanding crowd, im not surprised. Youve all picked a very good event to come to. Im Lissa Muscatine and our staff and my coowner and husband brad graham welcome all of you to this evenings event. Just in case youre new to our events professor wills will speak for a bit and then is happy to take questions. We have a microphone up here and we really would like it if you could make it to the mic if you can
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