Macmillan and jon meacham. I hope that you are having as much fun as accessible as i am. [applause] [cheering] the best thing to do is to take the teacher, not the course. To take these incredible authors and whatever they are talking about. The only problem with this festival is there is somebody in every room. I think you heard from them all at one point or another. Douglas brinkley has also done so many other interesting thin things. John f. Kennedy and the great space race. He is the cnn historian and has a little basement studio envy of jon meacham, whos got that at msnbc. [laughter] of course the great historian and transformative books that is so important and hes written so many wonderful biographies, former editor of newsweek many of us know him from his basement from morning joe. The assignment is to talk about their favorite historical figure. I think i want to make that a free and fun thing. And then maybe we will then get into some other elements of thinking about writing.
So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. And that will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. I also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. So if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. And finally, i just, you know, im really thrilled that were able to do
So welcome everyone to trim and weight Barry Estabrook. I am helen labun jordan an address book with how key thing to go over before we get started. Throughout the year come to bear upon branson speakers and host special events that we are kicking off a new series of events now. Over by the refreshments as the cup book event series and we will be having events throughout the summer kicking out for dinner at sol cafe june 11th tickets include a copy of honey and company and a tasting menu prepared for the cook book. July 20th will have a cookbook potluck featuring the csa code book at august 25th we have a Book Launch Party with discovering flavor. I totally recommend you all read it. You can go to our website. You can follow us on twitter and bike us on facebook and you can sign up for ponderings. Our twice a month newsletter. I will be passing around a signup sheet. If you want are announcements of events and book recommendations i will pass this around. I think tonight will last unti
She doesnt report as much as she used to because now shes doing a lot more freelance writing since shes written this bestselling book about a battle by one man leading an effort to fight against chinese imports into the United States that decimated the Furniture Industry in virginia and north carolina. It is a very wellwritten book. Shes a great storyteller, and while it sounds like a heavy subject, its not. I would definitely recommend it for summertime reading even on the beach. She tells this story in a very human way so people understand the impact of it, but shes also very fair in terms of dealing with the different perspectives and viewpoints about imports and their positive and negative effects on u. S. Economy and american consumers. So i think its a great, great book, and i encourage people to read it. Ive always realize a trilogy of books about american president s, and if some of our viewers are history lovers like i am, i commend these three books which cover most of our pr
[applause] interested in American History . Watch American History television on cspan3 at the weekend. 40 hours of people and events that helped document the american story. Visit cspan. Org history for more information. Booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. Im going to try to get through a few. One is the future of the brain. Doing a lot of work in neuroscience space in congress. We have a map of the brain. A group of essays that if they all point to the direction of the future. As a euro sign tracers. Im also interested in both steve and peters book and then im going to think just for fun read a curious mind. Its a group of interviews collective group of what i would call impact players. Wewere going to have a little chance to lay back and take in some information and have some fun. Booktv wants to know what you are reading this summer. Tweet us your answer booktv or post it on your Facebook Page facebook. Com booktv. Welc