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pleasure to welcome jerry mondesar. good evening. wake up, y all, it s early. all right. that s a little better. probably was worried because i was running late, but did i come prepared? all right. i would not let you down. friends select has a conversation about someone as important in black history and american history as harriet tubman, i wouldn t miss this opportunity to join the conversation and that s what i hope tonight is. a conversation about harriet tubman and the fact that for so long she has been a footnote in american history books and finally we have a serious study, thanks to mrs. clinton about harriet tubman. i m not going to discuss the book because the author is here and there are plenty of books for you to buy and that s why we re here for you to participate in the conversation by picking up one of these books. what i would like for you to like to do is discuss the historical context in which this book talks about harriet tubman. too often we don t disc
next encore booknotes. jill krementz was a guest on booknotes in 1997 to talk about her book the writer s desk a collection of authors and photos photos. c-span: jill krementz, photographer, you have a book out called the writer s desk. what s it all about? guest: it s a collection of my photographs over it period of 30 years of writers and i photographed over 1500 rider so of course it s not all the writers. my favorite pictures of a lot of the writers at their desks but they are all writers that there had desks or near their desks or behind their desks. somewhere there s a desk in the picture. literally or figuratively. c-span: why did you pick this for the covert? guest: i suppose because it s one of my favorite photographs. i think it s pretty recognizable now so people would know it was my book and because i think that it is a picture about a writer. it s a picture about a writers place and i think you feel looking at that picture that of course this is where she