Cspan. Org thepresident s to learn about each president and historian featured in order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. Jaquira diaz is with us courtesy of david and noel ray and roseline rocks berg. She was born in puerto rico. Her work has been published in rolling stone, the guardian, and the New York Times style magazine. And included in the best american essays 2016. She is the recipient of two pushcart prizes and Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and fellowships from the kenyon review and the Wisconsin Institute for creative writing. She lives in miami beach with her partner writer lars thorne. Please give a warm savanna welcome to jaquira diaz. [applause] thank you so much. Im so happy to be here, wonderful to see all you booklovers here, thank you savanna for your southern hospitality. I want to thank the savanna book festival and everyone who made this event hospital including sponsors, booksellers. Lets give it up for the indy booksellers in the room. I lo
From our archives, with Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Mccullough. He has appeared on booktv more than 50 times. All of the programs youre about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website, booktv. Org, using the search function at the top of the page. First, in 1992 on the book notes Program David mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The attempted assassination, a number of president s of been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . Guest just wasnt. Why would there be a pension . Pension for everybody else but opens and for president , he had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly, which dean addison cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown it doesnt mean he didnt have any money, he did have money but needed some ca
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Generous report this year especially when trust. In our programming sponsor, Robert R Mccormick foundation, the alpha without foundation, the tribune, three al real estate, cspan poteet and the American Writers Museum for sponsoring this viewing event. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan twos tv. If there is time at the end of the presentation for a q a, we ask that you use microphones located at the center of the room is please speak clearly into it so our viewers at home can follow along. Also ask to silence your cell phones at this time. If you do choose to take photosw at this time, turn off your flash. With that said, please welcome carrie any viewing. [applause]ti hi everyone how are you. Great so this is going to be like fast. Really like 45 minutes. What carrie and i decided to do was i would talk it just a little bit about the book and read a few poems to get us started. Then i will hop back over here and he asked me some questions and will try to leave some time fo
Generous report this year especially when trust. In our programming sponsor, Robert R Mccormick foundation, the alpha without foundation, the tribune, three al real estate, cspan poteet and the American Writers Museum for sponsoring this viewing event. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan twos tv. If there is time at the end of the presentation for a q a, we ask that you use microphones located at the center of the room is please speak clearly into it so our viewers at home can follow along. Also ask to silence your cell phones at this time. If you do choose to take photosw at this time, turn off your flash. With that said, please welcome carrie any viewing. [applause]ti hi everyone how are you. Great so this is going to be like fast. Really like 45 minutes. What carrie and i decided to do was i would talk it just a little bit about the book and read a few poems to get us started. Then i will hop back over here and he asked me some questions and will try to leave some time fo