Host good evening and welcome to the rare book room. My name is nancy and i am the owner of the store. This strand was founded in 1927 by my grandfather benjamin and then on to my father fred and then on to me. For a little bit of history in the late 18 hundreds, syria around this bookstore here in greenwich village, was the epicenter of publishers and booksellers. Divine press, and they all had editorial offices and down below, they had theks bookstores to display their books rated along Fourth Avenue just around on that side, was known as book row. And spike of the work 48 used bookstores of which strand is the sole survivor. As the owner of the strand, 18 miles of books, i am not easily faced by 1000 books. But the bucket list, and tonights featured book taught me in my tracks. [applause]. s expansive scope is coupled with a delightful wit and a perfect eye for supplies of detail never again will you have to wonder what to read next. It is a one stop shop holiday gift for anybody who likes books. And who does not like books. His book 1,000 boks to read before you die. And ie cannot think of a better person to have written a book like this. James mustick, princeton graduate with a degree in English Literature and a bookseller who started his career as shop briarcliff working for just 2. 70 an hour. [laughter]. Is no don is the cofounder and guiding voice for the claimed bucket catalog, the common reader. Up until recently, he was a Vice President of Digital Products a barnes noble. Everybody is wondering about the future books. In bookstores at the strand i would like to say that we are going great. [applause]. Thanks all of you. Were thrilled to have our friends cspan book tv with us tonight. They are an american treasure was done an amazing job of promoting incredible books. For the format tonight, i going to ask james some questions and then will open up the mike to your questions but first upon being seated, hope everybody got their literary quiz. [laughter]. No. [laughter]. I read it. In 2016, the New York Times challenged their readers best strands literary quiz job application rated tonight, james and i are challenging you to tester book smarts with a new version of this quiz. The 1,000 boks to read before you die quiz. The use of any 21st century device, is prohibited in answering these questions. Its a noo you cannot phone a friend, used during google or alexa. At the end of the event, james will give us answers to the quiz and spoiler alert, we have five prizes for the soon to be affirmed reforms. Our top prize is 100dollar Gift Certificate for the strand and so big with overflowing with items including any books from workman press. Now, without further ado, please join me in a big warm welcome to james mustick. [applause]. James thank you nancy. Thank you everybody. [applause]. Nancy so james, tell us how does this book take place. James about 15 years ago now. The late peter workman, personally about this book. Workman is published quite successfully 1000 places to see before you die which some of you may know. I was very successful. One evening as i recall, we were having cocktails at the workmans home in connecticut. And the owner of workmans publishing is here tonight. [applause]. And peterd said, i think we should do one of those books about thousand things books babout books. When you like to write it denied without hesitation, i said yes. Then i hesitated for 14 years to deliver the manuscript. So in addition to being visionary, workman has been extraordinarily patient. Nancy agrees to take me out for lunch. A week every year if not spicier. Humanoids talk about you in the book. So i think, while he died five years ago. I know he was so on abusive part of me thinks he must be proud of this very moment that world together. James i hope this a case im pretty sure it is i think it would be pretty pleased to see all of these people here. And you know many people are talking about the book and see such a beautiful execution of the book byy the whole workman team. This is an extraordinary effort in terms of the design led by janet who is sitting right there. [applause]. Extraordinary job of design. It was almost exactly one year ago today, that i sent ten lastminute manuscripts for this book. In the book of houston, its a thousand digital. Its beautifully designed and went off to the printer in march. So between november and march, theres a of work done. I think peter would be delighted. Nancy you read all 1000 books. James of read the majority of them. Some books you can talk about softft enough you beat them convince you read them. So sure theres a couple of dozen of them in here but ive become familiar enough with them that they can be in here. Speedo to have like the ranch, the bible, things like that. James is a pretty broad range of titles. In a degree goes. Yes. Fourteen years is a long time. Nancy can you describe your process of eliminating hundred and 30 million books that are in print joella down to 1000 books. James the process is dignifying the whole thing with a little bit more rigor than aat house. But what i did the start was make an enormous list of books. It was several thousand. These were books that loved myself or loved selling going to love the advocacy of other readers. The common reader was a wonderful community. You call it a book while the social community of readers except until the invention of the internet, we just. The scallop to mail them out. When hundreds of thousands of customers around the country and they would often brighten after they have purchased books to say that they were delighted to discover a certain book. But also to recommend other books that they thought belonged with the collections that we were making. My wife margo who is here,. [applause]. And i and if she knows, we have eight filing cabinets in a basement filled with these letters the people sentd us. Just prompting us to discover new books that were catalogued. And bring some of them back into print. We would publish from another who from people who are sitting here in the audience. He did not know this book and so we got together and he didnt provide condition we sold new catalog. That could reader enthusiasm for books, that really was a criteria. Either i wanted to give someone come you have to read this or me the samegiven to fashion. The more books would to be included. So i finally decided to do is the framework was to, was reading the book a great literary critic and at one point, he has a passage about the miscellaneous morning a bookstore unorganized by the larger principal which seems to me a perfect thing for this project. So that would apparently have a thousand bucks. I can only have 1000 books, will they be. I want to have something for anyone who might come in looking at for that help me to narrow it down and get the kind of ranges that i wanted to get rid of many people to keep a book that would be fun to explore when they opened it up. The static reference book. Nancy and you could open abo book like this. James we can talk about that. We could go into a partnership. Nancy you have tried to set the description in the audiobooks and you have other books written by that author. So he kept going on and on and on. James every book of the thousand has a short essay to give context and become an invitation to the book. And then the end of the each of the essay is an endnote. When the book was first published, with the best translation might be but the recommendation also for further reading. Either of the books by the same author for further reading on the subject, if the book is about world war ii or the civil war or football. In another book to try be like that one. So it is about 500 books referenced in this book and theyre all indexed in the back. And also, i should add is i always forget to say this. We built a website, a thousand books to read. Com. Just 1000. Com. The house one question of the top of it. What book should everybody read before they die. He has my list. And has three buttons next to books i have chosen. A little snippet fromk the book itself. But the buttons are green and life is too short in the third button is to be read file. Greed was the first one. You can add your own book on that site. Beyond 1000 that i have chosen. Theres no sales on site. It is designed as a tool for source libraries. People can come and on their phones and some of list by genre or subjectst to find interesting things too read. Nancy so if you are writing a book, the one book you have to read before he died. James it would be this one. [laughter]. For long time i wasnt sure i was going to get there. Fourteen years. Nancy on to say i love your sub headers. You described as the American Union and that i love the any for sharing crossroads. Single white outofprin print. He mustve had a lot of fun imagining and how to summarize the book. James and sometimes they can easily and sometimes it took longer to come up with than actually writing the essay. Because its hard right short. Writing this very long letter because it didnt have enough time to write you a short one. As the famous maclean said. Nancy so going back to the choice of which book. The pressure from your daughters or your wife or your publishing to include books because everybody has their opinion. You feel that. James was be below your writing a book called 1000 books to read before you die. You can never enjoy the dinner party and quite same way again. Everyone has their own words put in. His mother the enthusiasm of everybody from a book that they really love. So that was part of the fun of the process and for me, really part of the fun of the whole project is to promote those discussions among readers and among booksellers and librarians. And just traveling around various stories and libraries across the country, promoting the book, there was a lot of fun to talk to audiences like this read and bookstores have would often have displays of the book with books from within the book get it. And would say you should also have a table of books that you think that should be in it that i left out because as part of the fun. Nancy we have stranded 90 table. Were checking out what our choices were. James is a pretty good crossover yes. Nancy was it hard to sometimes not give the ending of the book in the synapse another and rebecca, you did not tell us what was going to happen. James is very conscioussc of not runng any spoilers to the book. Because of the that would particularly for certain kind of books, you would not want to give it a away. I had rain myself in sometimes. And sort of europe, like what part of the research was knowing enough to know when not to say. For that reason in particular. Nancy give a lot of jims books and here and travelogues and you have interpretation of dreams they were so expensive. You were. James i believe that people read the way the eat. They might want to hotdogs for lunch one day and the next day, they will go out for a fancy french meal with wine and the whole 9 yards. I think that is really important to our reading lights. I wanted the book to represent that. To be more of a menu and people would find inviting rather than a prescription. That was homework or physical therapy so if i wanted to have something for every type of reading appetite. Six. This book as a reader if you have Good Night Moon and where the wild things are and go all of the way through to the comingofage and others. It is a cradletograve reading is you could call it. James i will read a little bit from the introduction then we can open it up to questions. Once people know youre writing a book called 1,000 boks to read before you die, never enjoy the dinner party by the way you did before. No matter how many books you have managed to consider, no matter many pages you have written, every conversation with a fellow reader is almost sure to provide seeking out or to expose an egregious omission for a gap in your knowledge to say nothing of revealing the privileges and prejudices however unwitting, underlying points of reference. For years, a thousand bucks felt like too many to get my head around but now it seems to view by several multiples. So let me say what already should be obvious, this book is neither comprehensive nor authoritative. You have a good number of the title assembled here, would be most most essential reading for it is meant to be an invitation to a conversation even primary argument about the books and authors then listed as well as the books and authors included. Because the question of what to read next, is the best prelude to even more important one like how to live. And who debate. Such power in the learning and imagination it nourishes, something ive been lucky enough to take for granted as both fact and freedom. Its nothing i fear may be forgotten and in the great amnesia of our in the moment news feed and algorithmically identities which hide from our view the complexity feelings and ideas, the books demanded we quietly and determinedly engage in. To get lost in the story or even study, is inherently to acknowledge the voice of another. To broaden ones perspective beyond the confines of ones own understanding, a good book is the opposite of sophie. The right look at the right time can expand our lives in a way that loved us. Making us more thoughtful, more generous, more brave and more alert to the world wonders and more pain by its inequities. More kind. And more wise. [applause]. Nancy we ask that you stand up and not be so timid. Its a goahead and raise your hand and il can bring your microphone so that you will be heard. Guest to make the value of any crisis, will prizes, National Book awards. James i reviewed all of the list of prizewinners. To kind of nature that i was not overlooking something. But the award itself, except when giving the book and easy access to the book, didnt mean all that much. Guest i would like to ask you what are you reading out be said that youre probably not reading out. [laughter]. If you know it, because youre so busy when is the last book you read. James twopart answer. The last book that i would think everybody is these truths by jill which iss the history of te United States from the discovery of north American Continent up until two years ago. It is remarkable in being 800 pages long but still very readable. But it reveals, means that we are grappling with as a country no that have been present from 1776 and before. So its instructive. I recommend that to everyone. The book im ready now, as an author that is appearing at is another strand of it tonight the China Institute called the body problem. Im not quite sure how to pronounce his name. It is a marvelous book, recommended to me quite passionately by reader. Im in the middle of that. Speech of you find copies left over to. But bac the challenges and the interesting aspects of reading somet guest can you talk about the interesting aspects about the translation of of reading. James thats a great question. I try to be as international as possible given the fact that i was ready for the emergingmarket most predominantly works in english. But theres more than 200 works in translation. I think a fire drill. With translation, theres a couple ofon additions. One iser for the older works because if you are talking about uomework for the greek tragedies are neat latin literature, there are many translations pretty sunny pick the best ones. I think it was careful to try to do to try to recommend to people because there is nothing worse than someone taking up a great book like the odyssey and having to translate work translation that is dated or does not really speak to moderator. So for those folks, i was pretty lonely with recommended translation for classic works. Its the same thing. Every great book for each new generation, as new translation. In part because the language changes in part because publishers want to keep the copyright. That means there are lots of choices to make. So i was careful there too. What is particularly difficult in terms of working translation is that anymore that we get, but are translated from another culture, are already filtered by an editor orr publisher who is deciding this book would appeal to an american or british market. That is why it is translated and you never really know for actually getting a deep picture of what that literature is of another culture. Its problematic but its fun s well. Guest i really love your description of cradle to grave reading. And what you read and what you from before printing anything p about your process when you percent might be reading a book versus when youre au tidal chid or two daughters. James i try to be conscious of the fact that i wanted this book to appeal to somebody who was 17 as well as 37 and not just my age. So when you read the book when you areun younger, it is a certn meeting to you and some books are rich or if you reread them when youre older. I think particular middlemarch by george eliot, which is my own favorite novel which i read when i was 19 read i thought it was the wisest book i never read them. So much so the reddit every decade since then read and it just seems to have gotten so much wiser. It was only there beginning you notice different things. And then there are other books that you read that were really important to you, my case look like on the road. Marvelous book to read when youre young. Its important that those folks are represented here as well. Still a marvelous book but not quite as overwhelming when you read it when youre 20 years old. And then there are books that are totally different. Ill tell you a little story. I was fortunate to read an author and a cocktail party. At the time i met him, his book, catch22, had been listed on the list of the Modern Library. The 100 best novels of the 20th century november 6. So i went up to him, because he lived down the road for my wifes parents. Is it congratulations on the book being so hot on the Modern Library list. But i think they picked the wrong book. And he glared at me really what you mean. The boy was thought that your second book something happened, which was a much better book. Images glowed. He sits on the die. So i told him about my express with that book. Read it in 1970 when it came out. I was probably in college. I thought this was the funniest book i have ever read. I memorized both pages of his description of office life except on them so mutely. I told that he said it was really middle age persons book dennis i know because i read last drink got it completely horrifying. All the things i found very amusing when i was shallow 20 yearold, is a middleaged person, i was just over there for but the grace of god go i. So book changed. In the space you different ways at different times. Nancy reading patti smith just kids, its published in 2010 a first they did not and i cannot read thisk. Book. In an addictive just recently in a cell brilliant and i poetic. But i needed that time to absorb it. Guest did you include any books that you disliked. But for some reason they were aimportant but could be read bt would lead yous angry or they were there to serve as a warning or whatever. Atlas shrugged. James and assumed such promise in our culture because it is loved by many readers. But the philosophy such as it wis, was not enough makeup for the wooden characters all of that. But spend a look of enormous influence. Its kind t of like maybe if you run it and let it thats kind of like watching your Football Team when the game one oh three seven. Because it is so going in one direction. And i presented it in context. Then i used some version of that line in the football game. Big sister about it. Guest iva literary question a technical question pretty dark two books here that i think the mike candidates of the Great American novel. Set as a concept. What you think is the Great American novel. Did you read it the technical question is screens versus books. Did you read any of these folks on screens. On a kindle or an injury everything on paper and is there a difference. James i was the Vice President of Digital Products of barnes noble. So i read them and looks but i did read some of them on screens. I am furnace quiz when it comes reading. I would rate on screen, or on milk cartons if it was there in front of me. I think the reading is convenience if you traveling or commuting, you could take several books at once. Its great for people who want to make tight bigger and smaller all that stuff. So any qualms about that except i dont know if any of you read ebooks but its a dog person. But it got an interesting the looser reading ebooks and so the state if im in the middle of a novel and a character appears appeared earlier the cat remember quite who it is, my hand will start to like slip back amazing physical will, you have this kind of sense it was like three flips back and is on the lefthand side. An ebook in the middle of the ocean pretty have no idea where you are or how to get back. Then the question the Great American novel what you two. Guest sister carrie and americans best world. Speak. James theyre both in the both of those books. E an american serial particularly because of the themes which ruth do fix the vibrant life of new york in his rapid decline. Because those of us who are, will and from the bronx originally. D and i know when of small, when a vibrant city was. As was brooklyn and before brooklyn was in was recast as a sitcom patiently. [laughter]. But that whole kind of urban decline, and never been in my reading, so vividly captured. If i big one, it would probably be moby. Because it embodies the kind of combination of work ethic and craft and labor and craziness on the other hand and a sense of manifest destiny is all part of the american psyche both of things and most of these things. Guest e im very excited to be here. Thank you so much. Gives a perfect segue moby for what im about to ask you. So theres a lot of people that no new here personally for a long time youre very grateful for you here inspiration both as someone who has always shown us thean beauty books and what it n do in our lives but also just as a difference. So if i can get this personal for moment, we have not talked about you. I think two things. One, common reader was an incredible compliment. This, is an incredible accomplishment. You can have passion for book severals. Of the parts and do al that, you may both of those things happen. We both thought you were nuts both unique. Ng any talk a little bit about it. And i think you talked a little bit about, things that influenced you, inspired you and help you in both of those processes. James will, thank you. Ill get an envelope to you later. [laughter]. Part of me wants to say i think this is in large part true, i fell in love with books in the written word very early. I never wanted to do anything else. I tried to t find ways we keep those things primary to what you do everyday. From a job. And i was either determined or unimaginative enough to just keeping doing the same thing and finding another way to do it. So when one operation like a common reader to find some other way to do it, this book came along of the time. In some other projects at barnes noble. I didnt really want to do anything else. Wanted to find a way to k keep e near the stuff that i loved. They give me energy. More than anything else, it was a sense that a lot doing this. I was good at it like Nothing Better than to be able to express in some way, distinctly of what book was about to what it to me. As long as i could have that opportunity to write about books again in the way to share that with others, that was what i was going to do. Guesttheres also a lot of information. Myself, happy to do this and and not somewhat so dont like and not have to be here on saturday. So i came up with the catalog. Guest thank you so much for sharing tonight. So my question is whether any particular attention was paid to the races, genders and nationalities from the books are fwhether that focus was just a sibling on literary substance of the book. James i dont think they could be divorced as easily asm. We could divorce them. So is looking for books of quality spoke to readers, whatever the providence was. I was conscious of the fact that women certainly throughout history have been under rep represented. In the late 19th century the middle of the 20th century, the outputs become equal. In terms of ethnicity and race language, is the same thing. I wasio conscious of not followg any other dictate to what it would be other than it was good reading. So there is i think a fair representation of those different categories. Although not as rich as i would like it to be for reasons having to do with my own limited reading. But also having to do with the nature of literal history. Guest so given that the thousand books list, can you tell us the first books that didnt make it to the list. James the last book that i wrote about was a book called most recent book, in the book. Life c encode. A personal history of technology by allen which was published last year. That is a marvelous book. Helen allman is a very interesting writer. She began herar career as a software developer. In the very early days of soaking valley and she was one of the few women developers. At the time. At about 20 years ago, sharon the book something called a classic, among coders focus to the machine which was really about how coders think and so on. Then she went on to write two novels. When told by flood and other the blood. The last year she published his book called life encode. A series of essays and its about, technology more about the world of technology is made for us now we live in it today. Marvelous book. You learn a lot about technology and cutting to learn more about life. I want them to read it. When the not make it, is a childrenss book, bert toast on davenport street. Timmy can. It is a marvelously funny delightful book about a family and animals, a great picture book to read to a toddler. What is importantt to me becaue i discovered this book one day in a Childrens Bookstore in manhattan. And iris my younger daughter was about three years old she was wandering around while margo and i and the younger sister were looking and she saw this book that was at a her eye level and she marched over and took it off of the shelf and she brought it over to me and said i want this one did and i brought it home and i read it to her. And i was the first probably have 792 readings of that book. I was a great cook. So so delighted that she has somehow gotten the book selling jean. She knew immediately that this was a great book so that has a great personal attachment to me. Nancy we have what time for oneos finl question. Guest cerney authoring mightve shortchanged that you wanted have multiple entries. Because you like that other source but had been in an author who had just one great book. But maybe not a second or third. James ct the whole project has been plagued with that issue. Whether the person was in the book at all. When i can put my books in it. Theres about three dozen offe authors who have more than one book and even some of this, now looking back, im not sure i got right. Virginia will has for books because shes a marvelous writer and the more i read this point in my life the more astonished i was. But when i finished the book, way back and really read a novel called the wave, which i believe is better than any of the books i wrote about in it. So is always changing, and so is new and theres always so many books that could be in here. The military histories, i could go on and on with stuff i left out. There is a part of me that every day, since i finish this book, feels like a slacker. [laughter] host okay its quiz time are going to find out who is wthe best well read person here or people here. Five prizes. James is going to read out the questions and then the answers. And we are going to trust you to evaluate your own work. [laughter] right is everybody ready . Question number one, who said tis the good reader makes the good book . That was ralph emerson. A wonderful quote. Question number two. In which to decade is christopher decade set. Thats thehe 1930s. What french gastro noel wrote tell me what you eat and i shall tell you what you are . That was in the physiology of taste. This one is pretty amazing. How long did it take for the first english translation of victor hugos 15 plus page 1862 novel, to appear . Charles edwin wilbers translation appeared in 1862. The same day as the publication in france. It is a mark of hugos popularity that translators working in several other tongues matched that achievement. There were multiple International Additions of a 1500 page book in the year of its original publication. Which is pretty amazing. And what novel does the sentence appear, nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing . That was from the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde. He also quoted himself in his play, lady windermeres fan, he is the same line. That was after though. Fill in the blanks of this line from Philip K Dick and his election commentary. It is sometimes an inappropriate response to blanket to go blank. And the answer is b, reality insane. It is sometimes inappropriate to reality to go insane. What bestselling series of historical novels were written by the english translator of simone, the comingofage . One of the most prolific translators was patrick obrien, who wrote all of the ship faring tales, master and commander being the first one and made a movie with russell crow out of that. So thats how he made his living for a long time before his novels became popular. Alford best serves pioneering 1957 Science Fiction novel the stars my destination is a retelling of what 19th century french classic . Thats the count of monte crisco. What is the late blooming is essential figure in Alan Bennetts the common reader . Thou bequeath elizabeth the Second Period the pen name for the Science Fiction visionary alicedo Bradley Sheldon was james tipped three junior. What performer start in both the iconic 1939 film ab dictation of the wizard of oz in the 1956 american premier of Samuel Becketts waiting for ghetto . Bert lahr, thats right he was the cowardly lion and a good joke, he played esther god. What book of the bible plays a pivotal role for the protagonist of bradberrys fahrenheit 451 . Thats the book ofoo a ecclesiastes. The ducklings is a classic one that never gets old whats the name does not one of the eight ducks. Jack, tac, or quack . The answerk. Is c back. What awardwinning 2010 i will devote several dozen pages of its narrative to powerpoint charts . Thats a visit from the goon squad by jennifer egan. This is one of my favorites. Which heroin of a Childrens Book series has been cited by three Supreme Court justices as a formative influence . Nancy drew. Sandra daynd oconnor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and sonya socha my hour and interviewers year part independent of each other when they werehe all asked what set you down the path to a life in the law . They all said nancy drew. Which book to Dorothy Parker right. This is the greatest review of all times. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lately, it should be thrown with great force. Thats interestingly enough the novel was by the only foray into fiction moves a lady, the book was called the cardinals mistress. What do dan brown, scott turow and Richard Wilbur have in common . They are all graduates of amherst. When bob dylan won the nobel prize in literature in 2017, he became the second noble lawyer w to be awarded both that prize and an Academy Award. Who was the other . George bernard shaw, won the Academy Award for best writing screenplay for the 1938 version of pygmalion with Wendy Hilliard and leslie howard. When this news was brought to him in london he reportedly said i have never been so insulted in my entire life. [laughter] who invented the phrase stream wof consciousness . That was william james. What naturalist has more than nd300 plants and 1000 animals name for him at more places on earth and heavens that any other person in history . Alexander van humboldt. There is a marvelous book by andrea wolf called the invention of nature. Its a biography of van humboldt thats where it began and thats where learn that. And this one is for, im sure, all of my fellow graduates from a Catholic High School in the bronx who are in here tonight will know this immediately. What autobiography does the phrase give me chastity and selfrestraint but dont do it just yet appear . Thats in the fashions of saint augustine. Which of his own works was dickinsons favorite . Thats david copperfield. Jane reeses why deceit was a response to which 19th century novel novel . That would be jane eyre. What a novelist whose ashes are interred and poets Westminster Abbey had his heart buried in st. Michaels churchyard . Thats thomas hardy whose biography should clearly have been written by steven king. [laughter] what was the working title of Joseph Hellers catch22 for the eight years he spent writing the book . It was catch 18, so Joseph Heller spent eight years working on this book in his own head it was called catch 18. And then a few months before publication of his book, a book by leon joris called myla 18 and was a great bestseller. So his publisher said you have to change the title because people would be confused by the 218 books. So they had to come up with another one and they came up with catch22. Which actually sounds funnier than catch 18 for some reason. And then the last question is the answer to the last question is far too long. [applause] so you all go ahead and tally it up, i ready . Tell me who has gotten 20 or more questions correct . Oay, its going to like an auction. Who has 18 or more correct . Fifteen or more correct . I thought you guys were bookish. Twelve or more . Okay. [applause] first prize, 100dollar gift card and lots of books. Nice job okay, so were at 12, right . Okay ten . J. [applause] and thats a 50dollar gift card and tons of books. And then lets try for nine . Eleven . Okay anymore leavens . , who has nine . Okay perfect. Those are the fourth and fifth prizes, 25dollar gift cards and loads and loads of books. Thank you so much, james. You were a great audience, thank you cspan, so james is going to stick around and sign copies of his book. Thank you. You. Ank [background noises] you are watching a special edition of book tv airing during the week while members of congress or in their districts. Due to a coronavirus pandemic. Tonight the presidency, first u. S. News World Reports Kenneth Walsh looks at different president s have had a crisis. 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