Sellers are perceived and will help us to adjust the metrics that we and the expectations for our clients. Letting them know that, you know, hope is in the length of time not only in the thank you so much have a greathi everyone. Welcome. My name is katie kotch, and im an agent at don congdon associates. And im just finishing up my second term on the board of and i cant think of a better way to be wrapping up that term service than here with you all today, the u. S. Book show. So thank you being here. I am very pleased to be conducting our audio called listen up making the most from audio books here with me today. I have lovely panelists that i am very pleased to introduce to my right is Scott Sherritt and is a producer and director of scotch productions. To my immediate left is lance fitzgerald. He is the Vice President of content and Business Development for Penguin Random house audio and. To his left is carol mackie, who is a senior Acquisitions Editor with recorded books. And final
University press have only six directors and its 100 years and only four of those served in a fulltime capacity. So, but reflections that we hear today encompasses 50 years of history. It is my pleasure to introduce the moderator for todays panel, doctor james anderson. Doctor anderson serves as the dean of the school of education and has held leadership roles during his nearly 50 year tenure at urbanachampaign including serving as the head of the department of education policy organization and leadership. Doctor anderson was selected in 2016 as the unified president ial fellow and is known internationally as the groundbreaking scholar in the history of education and School Achievement in the u. S. Hes a member of the National Academy of education and is a professor of history of American Education and endowed member on the campus. Hes also served on the faculty board of the University Press during each of the tenures of the panelists today and we thank him for being here to lead us th
Letters between rosa parks and her husband and her mother, and you can see some of rosa parks political writing, you can hear her voice talking about why she did what she did. Is so i very much recommend them. Host is so youre spending a little more time at the library of congress. Guest absolutely, absolutely. Host jean theo harris, the rebellious life of mrs. Rosa parks, is the name of the book. Youre watching booktv, television for serious readers. Watch any program you see here online at booktv. Org. Now joining us on booktv is steven watts. Mr. Watts, what do you do for a living . Guest well, i am a professor of history at the university of missouri. I teach cultural history, intellectual history. For many years. Host youre also an author. How do you pick some of the topics that you write about . Guest well, in my earlier career i published a couple of books on the era of thomas jefferson. It was quite by accident, i went to disneyland with my wife and nieces and nephews, and i go
And he had magical powers as a diplomat. It was the chinese revolution. He could get in the door of prime ministers, and he had a lot of influence at the key moments. He got in the door to some extent because of eddie jacobs said. He would come and say youve got to see him and that would seal the bar. [applause] if you would like your copy of genesis, we are sending it in the hall and he would be happy to sign your copy. Thank you. [applause] booktv is on facebook. Like us to interact with guests and viewers, watch video and get uptodate information. Facebook. Com booktv. Stephen talks about the life and Lasting Impact of Dale Carnegie author of how to win friends and influence people and a number of other books. How to win friends has sold over 30 million copies published in 1937 and was named the seventh most influential book by the library of congress. This is about 45 minutes. So tonight we are really happy to have steven watts back. Steven watts has been called by a biographer of
This country for reasons that hope for reasons that help to layout a little bit in my talk, and if youre kind enough to get the book i would be happy to sign it for you afterwards. The notion of success i think lay at the heart of the american dream. And, in fact, the idea of the individual living head in the race of life, pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps as the old of them are saying, i think its embedded in our national dna. All of us avert i think some version of go make something of yourself, go make something out of yourself. Usually from anxious parents during our adolescence when we prepared to go off to college. And actually i think from the founding days of the republic, boosters and moralists, politicians and shysters, although i risk redundancy on those last two i think [laughter] they been instructing people in the best way to improve their social status and increase their material possessions, which are the two big parts of course of the success formula. In the 1