Statement good evening everybody and welcome. I am the coowner of the store along with my wife and we are delighted to have joshua hemmer back with this at p p. Joshua was here for his last book, about four years ago, and i would of course was the bad librarian in timbuktu which told the riveting story of how an art you fist in timbuktu managed with a very brave helper to smuggle more than three or 50000 historical manuscripts out from under miltons to safety about 600 miles away. The book was a best seller and established josh as someone and i truly believe it was a great story. And he said to begin, with his new book, the falcon thief which has another true and gripping tale of adventure. But this one about wildlife. And josh is a journalist by training and had a pretty adventurous globetrotting run himself working for newsweek over nearly two decades. He joined newsweek in the late 1980s as a Business Media writer and within a few years, he was asked to cover the rest of the world,
A little bit on the history thing there. A time for truth, if you can keep it by arab taxes, david and goliath by malcolm gladwell. And, i read the power behind the life by Richard Simmons and andy andrews. I think there is a another one or nine of them i will think of them in a minute. How do you select the book to read. Vaes i am big on biographies. And history. I tell people that smart people learn from their mistakes but brilliant people learn from other peoples mistakes and thats why you should read history. And biographies. Because you have the opportunity to learn not only what right, and not necessarily about to date in names and facts but experience. In my opinion, its just an important or more important to learn that what went wrong. You learn from other peoples mistakes. What you write . Wherever i can. I like on vacation, im not much of a beach guy so i take a bag full of books and i go through them pretty quick and i read them on the plane, just anytime i can get or find a
Good afternoon everyone and welcome back if your with us earlier or you just joining us welcome to the Annapolis Book festival into the key school read my name is john beat i am a Foreign Service officer for International Development but much more importantly, am a proud father of three including a son who is a junior here at key school. I am very delighted to be able to join this conversation with our next author. Kenneth starr. Lets graciously come back to the festival this year to talke about his latest book. A memoir of his time leaving the 1990s investigations into whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky matter during the tenure president bill clinton. When youve been in the White House Center of theil public ey, as can certainly t has, judge starr probably needs no introduction but ill just give you a quick snapshot of his distinguished career and law and public service. Heis hamza graduate of George Washington university coming brown university, duke law school, he was the us solicit
irs. and with less than two yearsd tl to go until the twenty twenty four election, democrats are once again shockingle y playing the race card. this time, they re trying to vilify the entire sunshine. state of florida. but first tonight, all eyes areh on the biden white house where joe is still refusing to come ta to terms on a debt ceiling that is , well, pretty imminent.t ist according to democrats, the sky. is falling. the american economyaccordin, the world s economy is about to collapse. and it s all kevin mccarthy s fault. when in fact, it s anything but kevin mccarthy s fault. so why didn t democrats care so deeply about this issue? over. one hundred days ago whens speaker mccarthy was all but begging the white house, you know, weekly, monthly, dayy after da y to sit down and negotiate this? take a look. we have to negotiatek. overtiat. the debt. our whole government is designed to have compromise. our governrepublican control. the house democrats have a small majo
the government, will crush you and your family if you try to expose the truth about their wrongdoing. now, make no mistake, there is serious misconduct going on at this fbi. some now believe that america is once premier. law enforcement agency is now beyond repair, especially the blatantly partisan washington field office, which seemingly operates as an arm of the democratic party. so let us be clear . this isn t just about the bureau s anti trump witch called crossfire hurricane, which we have gone into great detail this week. the political rot extends far beyond the former president of the united states . you have pro-abortion activists, traditional catholics, people, moms and dads who merely attend trump rally, even angry parents. how dare they speak out about age appropriate material being taught their kids or crt? how about we stick to reading, writing, math , science, computers? but if they speak out at a school board meeting, guess what? speak out against critical