It was raining and i thought, booklovers are going to want to stay in bed and read. But, here you are. Thank you, good morning. [applause] welcome to the 2017 National Book festival. Carla hayden, im honored to say that im the 14th library of congress. As you can see, im pretty excited to open this event. Our 17th consecutive celebration of books and reading. Its wonderful to see if house and our largest presentations space. Not only will have a full house here at the convention center, but we have millions of people joining us live on facebook. So, thank you wherever you are for joining us. [applause] we have a fantastic lineup of mainstage off authors to share. What better way to kick off the festival then with one of our nations most beloved historians. Mr. David mccullough. [applause] mr. Mccullers here for his six National Book festival appearance and we hope youll continue to make this a habit. He will be followed by diana [applause] shes the author of the outlander series and sh
On the staff and we will be happy to give you one of these buttons and that will get you into the Museum Galleries for free today. And finally come a quick thanks to our friends from cspan who are filming the session today. They are great supporters of all the programs we do. Just a little talk about how the session will go. The author will speak for roughly 30 minutes. She likes to do things very interactively. She will speak to you about the process of doing this book and how it came about and then is open to questions from the audience. She would love to take as many questions as possible and we will have you come up to a microphone so cspan can cut catch youron question. When the question and answers are overcome i will take her to the bookstore will she will be happy to sign all of the copies of this book you will want to buy. You knowd me to let the forgotten man graphic edition is now three weeks at the top of the amazon list and New York Times list for graphic books. She is cha
Graphic addition is now three weeks of the top of the amazon list in the New York Times list for graphic books. Amity shlaes is chair of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation based at the birthplace of president coolidge in vermont. The forgotten man graphic addition. The only graphic edition of her best seller. She also came and spoke at our reading festival. She is also the author of coolidge would debuted at number three on the New York Times bestseller list. She writes a column for forbes, teaches at Nyu Stern School of business and has served for over the years as a columnist of the Financial Times and for its and believe she is also a fellow with their Sister Library that george w. Bush president ial center down in dallas. Everyone, please welcome amity shlaes. [applause] i am going to push this back. Can you hear me . Okay. If you cannot hear me or there is something wrong with the audio, stop me. I am so happy to be here today. I will ask mr. Clarke to give me that put tow. A
The next is if you have not had an opportunity to see a new permanent exhibit we installed last year about this time come find one of us and the Library Staff and will be happy to give you one of the buttons which will be you into the Museum Galleries for free today. Finally, just a quick thanks to our friends and colleagues from cspan of our family this session today, great supporters of the programs that we do and it is nice to have them back with us today. Just a little talk about how this session will go ms. Amity shlaes is going to speak for roughly 30 minutes. She likes to do things very interactively. She will talk about the process and how it came about through and how it came to fruition. A very open to questions from the audience because she would love to take as many questions as possible. We will have you come up to mike so that cspan can catch your question on tape as well as your face because you will be so enthusiastic about her talk. And then once ms. Amity shlaes is do
Our coverage from the 2014 roosevelt reading festival continues with amitiy shlase on the Great Depression. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is bob clark and im the deputy directyear her tee franklin d. Roosevelt president ial lie area and museum, and its my honor to welcome you to the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. Before i introduce our distinguished speaker, let in go over a couple of housekeeping things. Would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so we dont have any interruptions of our presentation today. The next is if you havent had an opportunity yet to see our new permanent exhibit we signaled last year, come find one of us on the Library Staff and well be happy to give you an fdr button and that will get you into the Museum Galleries for free today. And then finally, just a kick quick thanks to our friends frid colleagues from cspan who are recording this session. Just a little talk about how the session will go. The author is going to