Impact of the americans with disabilities act. Barnum swaying on his experiences as us speech writer for former South Carolina governor mark stanford. An account of the lives of people on the gulf coast in the american revolution. And British Consul turned spy, charleston, South Carolina in the lead up to the civil war. For complete Television Schedule visit booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television joy serious readers. Here is a look at the books president obama is reading this summer. The list includes three nonfiction titles which looks at race in america. And elizabeth colberts pivot to prizewinning report on the relationship between humans and precipitous loss of in the sixth extinction and biography of George Washington which won the deal a surprise for biography in 2011. President obama is reading three novels this summer. The lowlands, all that is, about a man who has recently returned home from world war ii and the Pulitzer Prize winner for fict
Neil degrasse tyson. 72 hours of nonfiction authors and books. Booktv, television for serious readers. For complete Television Schedule visit booktv. Org. Carla hayden, give us a preview of the book festival. It is going to be one of my favorites because i am a big nonfiction fan and the types of authors we will have from David Mccullough to jd vance whose book is on every reading list you can imagine in every book club. I am thrilled. Host how many offers do you invite . Guest when you think about a one day festival, the National Book festival and you have over 100 authors from childrens authors, illustrators, graphic novelists, all these different authors, 100,000 people come in and celebrate books and reading, you cant have a better time. Im prejudiced because im a librarian but any reader or anybody that wants to get inspired, the book festival is the perfect place. Host the seventh the book festival, your second, your personal your second . Guest is my second. I was sworn in and o
Can i get everybodys attention please . All right. Welcome to the met club. Thank you for coming out on this rainy evening. Know theres a lot of traffic and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were absolute im not doing the introduction yet but dehighlighted to have dick morris here tonight. Thank you. Welcome to the met club. Were also glad to have our friends from cspan here. Thats pretty cool. So wave to the guys at cspan there. Just a couple of quick announcements. Our next event here at the club will be our first thursday say hello. The next event is first thursday, october 5th, and that will be our Farewell Party to our county chairwoman, adele, who she and her husband moved to washington, dc. Her husband, david, who is a very noted economist, is part of the the undersecretary of the treasury for International Monetary affairs. So hi has been confirmed as an undersecretary of the treasury. He is going to be here that night, too so its a great opportunity to celebrate the
Of you who know him, Gar Alperovitz can, our speaker for this evening. First, let me pay tribute to andy and busboys and poets for this [applause] andy is a friend, an activist and remarkable entrepreneur. Hes built these vibrant centers of good food and good drink anded good discussion, and we get to enjoy it here tonight. Gar alperovitz, if you dont know him, is a national treasure. He is a pathbreaking historian, a political economist, a strategist, an author and an organizer. Hes worked in both houses of congress. Hes created centers of political economy. Hes written pathbreaking books in the history and in economics. He is an extraordinary resource. Most recently, mideast the can founder of the most recently, hes the can founder of the democracy collaborative and the cochair of the next system project which is seeking real world paths to creating a world that could be more just, more democratic and sustainable. Tonight hes going to talk about his new book, the principles of a plur
With that ill turn it over to secretary acosta. Thank you and good afternoon it is a pleasure to be here to update President Trump on the optimistic outlook ons the American Work force today we specifically discussed our process to implement executive work on apprenticeship and it is jobs, more jobs and even more jobs and department of labor implementing vision to ensure that americans have the skills that they need to fill good safe, jobs. There are 6. 2 million job openings here nationwide. This is the highest number on record. Yet 7 million americans are looking for jobs. Americans want to work american companyiesment to hire. We needs to close skill gap between those skills that are demanded by the work force and those skills that are offered by the american people. This is why the president signed this executive order to extend apprenticeship to all sector of our economy. Because of the command driven education man enthusiastically received, by private industry, education institut