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Will talk about inside the cold war from marx to reagan, an unprecedented guide to the history, strategies and key documents of the cold war. This should be a really interesting historical discussion. On that similar note, on october 23, we will have a historian that will talk about his book, reshaping the postwar atlantic world. On september 11, we will have, at 11 00 a. M. We will have our annual september 11 commemoration, and please look on our website at nixon foundation. Org, and on november 7 we will have the daughters of president george w. Bush and laura bush, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush and they will talk about their book sisters first, stories from our wild and wonderful life. Now im on to our speaker today. Douglas is the most, one of the most influential campaign consultants. He is the Founding Partner and principal strategist. His clients include new york city mayor bloomberg, corporate clients including time warner, Procter Gamble and at t. Hes also a commen
Unprecedented group so it should be an interesting and historical discussion. They will talk about reshaping the post war atlantic world. On september 11 we will have our annual september 11 commemoration. Please look on the website for that and the november 7 we will have jenna bush and Barbara Pierce Bush and they will talk about the book sisters first, stories from our wild and wonderful life. Now, onto the speaker today. Douglas is one of the most influential Democratic Campaign consultants for over 30 years and is a Founding Partner and principal strategist. His clients included the new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg and corporate clients including procter and gamble and at t. You can also see him as a commentator on fox news as well. Hes a bit of a mix enough. He wrote about the policies that i urge you all to pick up called hal Richard Nixons presidency fundamentally changed american politics. His new book is about another presidency in the current look of politics today. Its
Some of these authors have a will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Often i think of the beautiful town that is seated by the sea and often in fossil upanddown the pleasant streets of that town and my youth comes back to me. Welcome to portland, maine, on booktv. Located on a peninsula, it was the original capital of maine and started as a fishing and trading village. Today its the largest city in the state with a population of about 66,000. It still has strong ties to its maritime history with lobstering and tourism in its largest economic drivers. With help of our spectrum Cable Partners for the next 90 minutes will feature the areas history and literary community. Whitney kent are special feature on portland with a history of lobstering industry. We begin our special feature. Over here is my gps and radar. So and thought it helps us figure out where we are. I dont mark my traps with the gps. I i kind of do it by feel. Look at that bad boy. Its a
Yet to take it one day at a time and think about all the new day she survived already. I glanced at cynthia to see if shes appreciating this and her eyes are wide and a wet with amazement. We are witnessing a pivotal moment, a collective responsibility to care for someone else and no one wanted to end. You can watch this and other programs online at the tv. Org. [inaudible conversations] the texas book festival live from austin continues and this is the knob author conversation about race and the Justice System. Good afternoon. Welcome to the texas book festival and our panel on mass incarceration, racing criminal Justice System. Im a professor of Public Affairs and history at the university of texas at austin and we have really two very very brilliant and important scholar activists today talking about two brandnew books. To my immediate left and to your right is James Foreman junior, professor professor lott Yale University in his new book. Terrific book and i am going to give it som