Good was it all . And churchill looked at him unbelieving. World war ii had destroyed n churchills mind, hitler and mussolini and the dictators. It had saved democracy, it had saved western civilization, so cur chill thought. And kennedy blazed hatred at him. Booktv is the only National Television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books every weekend, and this fall were marking 15 years of booktv on cspan2. Here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. At 3 45 p. M. Eastern, juanita patience moss talks about the forgotten black soldiers and white regiment during the civil war. Tomorrow at noon well be live with representative john lewis for three hours. The congressman will be taking your calls, emails, tweets and facebook posts. Then at 5 p. M. Eastern, booktv brings you some books on iran. Visit booktv. Org for a complete television schedule. Pulitzer prizewinning biographer a. Scott berg presents his book, wilson. This 45minute presentation aired during the Nationa
Aspects enthusiastic role inn aspects of the promotion. Estivas planning and promotion. Im instructed to remind you this presentation is being taped and you should stay off of the risers located in the back of the pavilion. At the National Book festival in 2001, the final event of what was then a oneday festival was a presentation by scott curt in the Madison Building about his extraordinary biography of charles lindbergh. Scott is back with us today and it is both a pleasure and honor to introduce him for the second time at this festival. Ive known scott for 35 years. He came to miami where i was then living in 1978, promoting his wonderful biography of maxwell perkins. I adjust the year before published one of max perkins authors and so scott and i struck up a friendship that is persistent, although i must say a great physical distance ever since. You know scott is the author of maxwell perkins, is the author of lindbergh, as the author of a wonderful memoir of katharine hepburn. And
On booktv on cspan 2. Good afternoon. I am so glad to see all of you here on this Beautiful Day to join a National Book festival. Mine is in a Community Affairs at wells fargo for the midatlantic region. And so want to be here representing wells fargo is both an avid reader myself. I really dont remember a time in my life when i wasnt an avid reader. I just loved reading. I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina and had the benefit of the library account be an adjacent to backyard. But at the library of congress obviously, but its a wonderful asset to the community. Around the corner to parents to pick out books and am feeling very, very grown up when i got to go by myself to check out books myself. Ive attended here today come you must all know books can take you to foreign lands and give you a different perspective about your neighborhood. They can introduce you to people that came generations before and connect people in real time. My favorite incident happened to me when i