Authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. Good evening, thanks for attending tonights bookmark with Mark Zwonitzer, author of the statesman and the storyteller. Facilitating tonights discussion is a friend and former education director, you will notice a camera in the back of the room. Tonights program is being filmed by cspan. We will be offering a q a at the end. Please, if you want to ask a question wait for the microphone to come to you. You want to be heard as well as scene. Finally on the way out, if you could please pick up a listing of our Upcoming Events and information on the Mark Twain Commemorative Coin Program we encourage you to take a look at those opportunities. Thank you for coming tonight. Double thank you if you are a twain house member. With that i turn it over to begin the program. Thank you. Thank you. Its my pleasure to introduce our author, Mark Zwonitzer who wrote the statesman and the storyteller, john hay, mark twain and the rise of amer
Coverage go to the book tab on our website, booktv. Org. Good afternoon and welcome to the session on trailblazing women. This is going to be an exciting channel and im glad youre here. This is the seventh annual book festival, thank you cspan for covering it and thank you to all you all rated the cold rain and whether even though we are in june. Im cheryl kagan andis my honor to be the senator for pittsburgh and ross well in the maryland state senate. On social media today if you are following along at home you can to at our authors and the book festival we are also on histogram and facebook and everything so im delighted to have marlene pressman and john noris here. Our country is at the brink of possibly electing a first woman president and none of that would be possible without some trailblazing women the two who have been profiled in these wonderful books were going to talk about today. I had never heard of Betsy Margolin before reading this book by marlene kessler. Youre going to
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