So, mr. Patterson, your most recent the house of kennedy is a nonfiction. Ive done a little nonfiction. Welcome to my house. We are sheltering in florida which is a good place to shelter. How many nonfiction february. I dont count. I probably written for five, the first one was jeffrey epstein, filthy rich. Which is now they actually dropped the video today its a four parter, i think it is the 25th of the month, Something Like that im not sure. That was the first one and that was aaron hernandez, i did that and then this one and i have a john lennon coming out later in the year which is really interesting. This house is connected to a house that john and yoko owned, a bridge between the two houses. Who used to live in your house questioning. G, nobody famous. But its a disgustingly big house. As is lennons as well. They were here for a while and then she held onto a while after he was killed. Another famous family, why did you choose to write about the kennedys . It just seemed to me t
Netflix. Then there was aaron hernandos did not and then i have the john lennon coming out later in the year which is really interesting. Actually, this is connected to the house john owned, the bridge between the two houses. Host who used to live in your house . Guest nobody famous, but its a disgustingly big house. They were here for a while and she held onto it a while after he was killed. Host and other famous florida family, the kennedys. Why did you choose to write about the kennedys . Guest it seemed to me that this was the Great American family story. They are our royal family such as it is. This is the crowd in my opinion. I wanted to write about the whole story. When theres plenty of stories about jfk and robert etc. , but in the same way that with the crown, they told the story of that whole era through Queen Elizabeth. I thought it was great to talk this through the Kennedy Family. These characters are a lot more interesting than Queen Elizabeth was. She is a great lady but
Identified the cartels. [inaudible conversations] autho. Dionne, annette gordonreed, Juan Williams anymore. But first up christian green talks about her book, something must be done about Prince Edward county. Booktv on cspan2 live from the gaithersburg book festival. [inaudible conversations]. If you are tweeting today, use the hashtag gbf, and we need your feedback. Surveys are available at the tent and on our web site. Complete a survey for a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. Im pleased to introduce author kristen green. Shell be signing books immediately after the presentation, and copies of her books are on sale in the politics prose tent, a great partner for us this year. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event, it does help the book festival if you buy books. The more books we sell at our event, the more publishers are willing to send their authors here to the book festival. Purchasing books from politics prose does benefit the local economy. It suppo
Audience across the country. The only official duties i have far to open the literary season of the congress in the fall by giving a reading in the closing lecture in maine to end the literary season and to choose the two poets were the one in some years who is to receive from the award and introduce them. Do you get a salary . There is a stipend that comes with it but it isnt funded by the american public. There is an endowment that does that. What is the scholarship that you referred to . The scholarship recognizes an american poet who is doing extraordinary work. How do you become the u. S. Poet laureate . Are you a poet . You have to be a poet first so if youre thinking about doing it first start writing some poems. The poet laureate is choose by dr. James billington the library of congress. And hes given that duty by congress. Congress enacted law that made or i suppose maybe its not a law, but the position of the laureate ship in 1986. It used to be the consultant in poetry for m
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