Festival. This panel is called reagan, life and fact and fission. Im the a column is in for the san Antonio Express news and im excited to be part of the panel with two great writers who in very different ways look at the legacy of Ronald Reagan. Before we get started want to let you know that both authors will be signing books in the reference area on the second floor right after the session, and a portion of the proceeds from the book sales benefit the San Antonio Public Library foundation. Also, this panel will air on cspan 2 on april 30th. Were going to devote the last 10, 15 minutes for questions so well do our best to give everyone a chance to ask questions. To my far left, h. W. Brand. Holds the university of texas at austin, and the New York Times best selling author, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for First American and traitor to his class, he as written on roosevelt, ulysses grant, andrew jackson, and his latest book is reagan the life to my immediate left, Tho
[inaudible conversation] book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. I hope to finish a couple books, first of all im reading freedoms task which was given to me by senator roy blunt and this is a book that is about the dome being put on the Capital Building precivil war but what i found is especially interesting is as i get into the book of focus on the House Chamber and Senate Chamber and how those were added to the original Capital Building and one of the main proponents of that is Jefferson Davis so while we are approaching the civil war, we have Jefferson Davis really helping our country, helping build a Capital Building which would serve our entire country and we know later that he became the president of the confederacy so that the book im hoping to get through, i started it and i need to finish it. I also want to read about destiny and power which is the book by john meacham on george hw bush. I would like to get that done t
You can watch all previous after words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. Host margie raz of regnery, what are some of the books you have coming out this fall . Guest we are so excited. When its an Election Year, regnery likes to get into things and try to connect with all the people who are thinking, what is going on in this crazy Election Year. So we have two big books coming, this one in late july, one in late august. And these are really geared for the election crowd. But were moving into the general election season now instead of the primaries, so were focusing our sights on not surprisingly Hillary Clinton. So the first book is a big book with a big author, Dinesh Dsouza. Hes bringing out a book called hillarys america. The subtitle is Something Like the most frightening book youll read this year, and its coming alongside a documentary which hes typically done with his last big book. This one is going to open in, i think, 2,000 theaters across the country on the same weekend
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