[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. My name is kendra and im a member of the archive staff here and on behalf of the Library Museum i would like to welcome you to the 2016 reading festival. Franklin d. Roosevelt planned for it to become premier Research Institution for the entire roosevelt era. The Research Room is consistently one of the busiest of all president ial libraries and this years group of authors reflects variety on here. You look the reading festival and want to support the programs that we do here, i encourage you to become a member and please consider joining us our 75th anniversary programming later this month. You can learn more about membership and events at wwfdr library. Org. Let me quick i will go over the format for the festivals session, a session begins with 30minute author talk followed by tenminute question and answer period. Then the authors will move to the tables in the lobby next to the new deal store where you can purchase the books and ha
Signing table. Thank you again for everyone attending here live. The signing table is directly outside the auditorium. Again we would like to thank mr. Peters on the habs of the lit fest and the lit fest appreciates your feedback which you can provide at pictures wrote lit best. Org. Thank you. [applause]. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] heres a look at books that are being published this week. Journalist Judith Schwartz look at ways to improve water availability and by the certification and water in plain sight. In the new trail appears, New York Post columnist naomi riley puts forth the policies she says will help american indians, from increased access to education to Legal Protections and entry into the free market. University at buffalo Political Science Professor James campbell looks at the causes of americas Political Division in, polarize. In the grid Gretchen Bakke reports on americas aging Energy Infrastructure and how to modernize it. Neuroscientist dean bu
I really could, like, walk into a Grocery Store and probably i really could like walk into a Grocery Store and probably finde five in a single like outing to walmart, so is very rich with students who had lived that experience and from various perspectives. At i reall the thing i realize when i i started interviewing was that there are so made different perspective there can ever thought about what life might look like for a kid who was five when the schools closed, so when i met those students i thought i should passed a wider net. It was amazing to meet someone that was not able to start their education until they were 10 years old and was pushed throug school in seven years and frustrated many teachers. That was a totally different experience from these kids who quit to school at 13 or 14 through no fault of their own, but because of school closures, so i did my best to cast a wide net and figure out what some of the main themes of the stories were and i have to say that narrowing d
A detearatiriorating climate. In certain aspects recently we see people wanting to leave. This is an issue for china. Can it become an independent nation if the talent is leaving . In new york, we are seeing more and more chinese sending their kids overseas. They are frustrated just like jack. Not that you have to be a genius in math but they want to study liberal arts. It is like a boiling pot that the government is hammering down the lid. The internet can be a release and social media allows people to vent and also maybe thread in serb sir circuses and gives them things to buy. It is a canary in the coal mine. Any comments . Yes, you do. Sorry. Hi, i should say we were in high school together. Yes, it is me. My french me. Basically alibaba is a marketplace. You are saying they are selling like crappy plastic bins originally and the chinese are trying to build this consumer based model. Do you see the emergence of like major brands emerging in china . There is already higher which mak
According to the preface, he didnt take notes and then he lost the first two he got burned up and still wrote it. If you read the book it has enormous detail about the sand a dunes and what happened on the day of the movement. I dont know how he could possibly remember all of it. Its some of the most elegant writing ive ever read, so i read at night to go to sleep and i read a little bit of the seven pillars of wisdom and after zonkars of wisdom and after you have enough airplane time to read . I dont read much on the plane. I go back and forth to tennessee. Nd thats about an hour. So i usually read a newspaper or catch up on work or sleep. I read when im by myself and at night before bed or sometimes early in the morning. Or in the summer i go fishing for a couple of weeks and ive take some books to read. Mrs. Alexander is also a reader. Big time. She loves to read. We went to a discussion recently and she was talking about her list of the best which she had done for parade magazine a