We actually went to a little Catholic School for 2. 5 years. And his father got another job working for union oil. Was africa after that . It was very controversial. There are people that were very upset. Obama won in a landslide. But everywhere in the world, there is some controversy about any politician. So there are some questions about it. But not everyone understands. What was his lifelike in jakarta . Guest he is perfectly immersed. Imagine a sixyearold child being immersed in the culture. Sort of a lower middle class action. The exotic smells of jakarta. His father riding a motorbike to his job. His mother was there as well. That was his wife, life, he adapted. He had to adapt. But he did the best he could. Host why did he leave jakarta in 1971 . Guest his mother couldnt afford to send them there. Those 3. 5 years, he is in indonesia, immersed in the language. The mother is waking up at 4 00 a. M. To teach him with english schoolbooks to supplement his learning. It is very diffi
Vegas to be the libertarian conference holds of the discussion and debate on a wide variety of political topics. On saturday, july 12, book tv will be live from the harlem but fair held at the Schomburg Center for research at black culture in new york city. On august 30th we are live at the library of Congress National book festival at the Washington Convention center. And from september 2628, the annual baltimore book festival takes place at the citys inner harbor. Let us know about book fares and festivals in your area and we will add them to our list. Email us. Youre watching book tv on cspan2. Here is our prime time lineup for tonight. John fund and Hans Von Spakovsky are next on book tv. They argue that eric holder and the lawyers is surrounds himself with have transported the Justice Department. They also talk about attorney general holders involvement with the recent scandals surrounding the atf and the surveillance of journalist james rose and. This is about an hour. I want to
On a recent trip to new york city, booktv visited the New York Public Library where we spoke with the librarys president and ceo, anthony marx, but the history of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Lets start with some numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . New York Public Library combines the largest circulating Branch Library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the boroughs we serve, as well as for Important Research libraries. This one being the crown jewel at the center of the system but also the Schomburg Center and harlem, the library for performing arts, the lincoln said, science industry and Business Library. Have about 2100 employees. We have a budget of about 280 million a year operating about half comes from the city of new york. Largely to pay for the circulating Library System in all the neighborhoods. The other half comes from a return on a billion dollar endowment of the pr
He was definitely an engaging teacher and as you mentioned his experiments influence a lot of people including including you. [inaudible] this is a bit of a followon and im still trying to formulate what is probably a very elementary question but you talk about all the research you did and obviously he mixes in real historical characters with his primary fictional characte characters. Was he primarily using fiction to illuminate history and historical forces or using history to illuminate human nature . Yes and yes. [laughter] i mean thats a huge question. One of the criticisms that this book has received is that tolstoy intentionally distort historical facts for his own purposes so for instance he creates in the character could to save us a far more salt of the earth kind of character than he actually was. He was apparently much more widely, much more questionable in terms of his morals so historians have accused the full story of using history and distorting it for his own ends. I do
This month. Three or four books that i think particularly good. I wish i could take credit. And the Brilliant Communications director came up with this. No one is going to be interested in what i am reading. Surprisingly has become quite a bit. They like it. Interestingly, the kind of like to know what your thinking about. It is kind of refreshing. It actually reads a little class action. Thank you. It was fun. What are you reading this summer . Tell us what is on your Summer Reading list. Postage your Facebook Page or send us a name of. Her. You can watch panels and multicultural Book Publishing, the black Arts Movement, and more first, founder Max Rodriguez kicks off the festival the talk of the state of africanamerican literature. There is always that conversation of home for us. And we have an answer from. The theme of this years book fair is global. As we all are. And the book fair from this point forward will reflect that. We started with an event yesterday that Columbia Universi