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My name is and im a past president of the National Press club. We have a terrific program ahead and we invite you to listen, watch or to follow along on twitter. Using the press club live. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction here is not necessarily from the working press. We want to show our neutrality and other strategic to and our objectivity. Of dc media strategies. And press club staff liaison, Lindsay Underwood for their roles in making this event happen. And a special thanks, and i do mean special. Headliners team member who is also our photographer tonight and was the organizer of tonights event. Thank you all. Berlin in the 1950s was the spy capital of the world. As a nato power and the soviet union, jockeyed for advantage and postworld war ii europe. Without s ....
Bear with me. Number one, please silence cell phones obviously unless you are looking for a haubted one haunted one and have no control. After this event, this is the last event. Finally, chance for questions and we really, really ask you to use the microphone we have right here because cspan is here recording and our videographer is recording. Its a whole new development, it looks amazing, really cool, so go down there and check us out. If you live in southwest and you can prove it in anyway, show your id to one of bookstores and youll get a sixmonth trial membership which is really, really convenient because the present giving time is coming up and you can check website for information. We have events there starting next week, so finally im very excited to introduce colin dicky. This is not obviously his first into strange and unusual things, hes written two books and he also has short essays in the new republic, quarterly and contributes to la review books. How many of we here on th ....
Great day to be in texas and today i have the honor and pleasure to be at the texas book festival serving as a moderator, and im pleased to be here with rachel l. Swams. I will tell you a few things about rachel because you came here to hear her and not me and our time is limited. She has worked for the New York Times since 1995. Reporting on domestic policy, national politics, immigration, the president ial campaign of 2004, and 2008, and first Lady Michele Obama and her role in the obama white house. I met rachel at an event this year where i bought a book, the book she wrote, american tapestry the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of michelle obama. After hearing her talk, id bought six more copies. I bought them for all my family members and to give out as christmas gifts. Now after having read her book i can tell you it was a good investment. It he ....
Welcome to this session of the texas book festival with h. W. Brandis. My name is steve hair again. I will be doing a q a with bill. 15 minutes after the session phil will be signing books in the book signing campus between the tenth and eleventh down the street. Please patronized the book signing tent in the bookstore, and pleas by the the book which wont be a problem. This is the book, the man who saved the union, Ulysses Grant and war and peace. If you by this book, proceeds will go to support texas libraries and literacy. It is a great book to read and to find a word because. H. W. Brands is the dixon Allan Anderson centennial prof. Of history in austin. His focus has been for many years on American History and politics and his biographies and histories include a number of tremendous books. This is the just the most ....