[inaudible conversations] good morning and welcome to the 19th annual National Book festival brought to you by the library of congress. [applause] this festival is free of charge thanks to the generosity of donors large and small. He. Please make it brief and to the point, you are giving us permission to use it to web cast and finally i ask that you please turn off your cell phones, thank you and enjoy your day. Good morning, book lovers, how are you . Can we stop for a moment and acknowledge the librarian, hardworking staff and the volunteers . Absolutely. [applause] im chairman for the National Endowment of humanities, we proud to continue partnership of National Book festival, topic of this festival, changemakers and one way we are doing so is to discuss topic on the bottom level of the Convention Center, theyll we will recognize importance of 19th document, documentary on pbs, we have wonderful cutouts of Suffrage Movement, leaders that you can pose with, grandchildren, Fredrik Dou
Behindthescenes a social media on twitter, instagram and facebook. Guys, we are here, chatter on books, r 34th episode which is stunning and we are in an undisclosed location which makes me unhappy because weve been in an undisclosed location for a few weeks and were at east city bookshop which is 645 pennsylvania avenue southeast. Im going to keeprepeating the address, 645 pennsylvania avenue southeast because it this is bricks and mortar and we want people to come to bookstores like east city bookshop so thank you for having us. David alldredge, kornheiser, Michael Kornheiser, the most important person in the room and were thrilled to have everybody from cspan here, god bless you all for being here in the close members of my family, thank you for being here. We have a good show and asi realized, this is our last one for a few weeks because were going to take a few weeks off and retool and take a breath. I like the show and i start piling a lot into it so at some point in one night mi
Everybody. I am bradley graham, the coowner and everybody at the bookstore and all the great folks, welcome. Thank you very much for coming. Every time we do a joint author event like tonight which we love doing by the way and marvelous facility, i think back 15 years when the building was up for sale and how close it came to being transformed into a nightclub. It came this close but instead the s founders and the staff hae transformed the wonderful place over the pastnd decade and a haf into the vibrant Community Center that it is today, lets have around of applause for that. We have a great event for you this evening featuring Melinda Gates here to talk about her new book, the moment of lift, this is melindas debut as an author and her book is part memoir and part call for more action as melinda recount the mission she been on, she tells the story tof her journey from taken a jb at microsoft in 1987 fresh out of Business School to marrying bill gates seven years later to partnering w
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