There a few days in the World History we are very fortunate to be able to honor today with a Wonderful Program and new book that just came out. Look at that. Thats great. Your support makes these programs possible. Last year cliff lobby who is our Program Manager we put on 58 programs here at the library which was very impressive because of your support we can have these programs for free. We feel so strongly that fdr loved this area. We are honoring his wishes. Our speaker today lew paper is a journalist and he taught at harvard and was involved in george georgetown. As written a number of very numerous books. He wrote a book called promise in performance about john f. Kennedy and interestingly he then wrote a novel about john f. Kennedy. About his assassination. Both the nonfiction in the fiction book. I bet they are good combination. His rise to power parallels the time of relevant vince with radio to television. Another book on louis brandeis. He has a deep grounding and 27th histo
For those that have the catastrophe that follow. Hello there. Guess who i am. [laughter] if i have to give you an introduction about Tara Westover you need to get out of the hole you have been living in for a while. [laughter] her book has just celebrated 100 consecutive week on the New York Times bestseller list. It is number one. [applause] Michelle Malcolm milken is down there. Im assuming that a lot of people are familiar with the narrative and thats why you are still here at the last lecture on the second day but we thought we would go through some of her story because its so gripping and it starts in idaho and actually it is such a beautiful setting and a lot of beautiful memories that you still have. Yes. It was a Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on but i still have fond memories to be on the mountain and playing on the mountain. It is incredible we had this entire farm a lot of wonderful things that could happen i guess i was the original free range kid. [laughter] there was a
Reporter and from cnbc and msnbc. We appreciate it. [inaudible] [applause]. With a congressional hearing. So i will not curse tonight. I will try not to. We should probably start off. Thank you for coming especially those of you who are standing. But yes thank you for coming this is nice. And the section dear to my heart about venture capitalist on twitter and this was is relevant and then venture capitalism. [laughter] thank you for your service. Do you hate yourself asked the therapist in berkeley . [laughter] that comes on strong for the intake session but then following venture capitalist on the microblogging platform the venture capitalists discussing the universal basic income and i cannot look away very concerned about the potential of the urban poor as the oceans temperatures took the added habitability that specifically the question if they are china would own it. And then to have the renaissance to do the work for the rest of us so we can focus on our arch. And then the ratio
Lee. [applause] hello there, guess who i am. This is Tara Westover and i have to give you an introduction about Tara Westover, you need to get out of the hole that you have been living in. Because her book is just celebrated the 100 week, consecutive week on the New York Times bestseller list. Number one. [applause] [cheering] ahead of michelle malcolm, down there. That is very cool. Thank you. Im assuming a lot of people are familiar with the narrative and thats where your still here on the last lecture of the second day. I thought we would still go through some of her story because its so gripping and the starts in idaho and to me it is such a beautiful setting, there must be a lot of beautiful memories that you still have. It was a reallyy beautiful mountains that i grew up on and i still have fond memories of being on the mount and playing on the mountain. Some people like to plane playground, we had an entire farm in a huge space and a lot of wonderful things that can happen on a
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