Congratulations on it. Guest thank you. Coming for me thats praise indeed traded. Host you are kind indeed. Talk about the subtitle in your book if i may quote henry folgers obsessive hunt for shakespeares first folio. I think it might be helpful originally to talk about these two men the context of their times. Of course they were defying me two men both alike in dignity to quote from shakespeare but separated by 400 years and the Atlantic Ocean very different that they shared one thing, a shakespeare wrote his plays seven years after he died. Two of his friends decided to create a memorial volume to him and collected all of that they had available and published 36 have been known 38 plays that shakespeare had written and the two men are connected across time and across the ocean and its the book that saved half of shakespeares plays from obscurity became a fetish object for collectors and henry folger chairman of the Editorial Company wanted to own every known copy of his first olio.
Wisconsinmadison are the can coauthors. Are the coauthors. Thank you very much. Guest thank you. [inaudible conversations] and now booktvs live coverage of the wisconsin book festival continues. This is author andrea mays. Shes the author of the millionaire and the bard. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] here we go. Ill start over. Welcome. My name is susan, and i work for the uwmadison libraries as a special collections librarian, an english language humanities librarian. Welcome to the wisconsin book festival. I would like to introduce today our author, andrea mays, who will be talking about her book with this fantastic cover, the millionaire and the bard. Tell you a little bit about andrea mays. Like henry folger, possessed by a lifelong obsession with shakespeare and his times. Ann create ya spent much of her andrea spent much of her girlhood holed up in the library listening to vinyl recordings. A graduate of stuyvesant high sch
Here we go. Ill start over. Welcome. My name is susan, and i work for the uwmadison libraries as a special collections librarian, an english language humanities librarian. Welcome to the wisconsin book festival. I would like to introduce today our author, andrea mays, who will be talking about her book with this fantastic cover, the millionaire and the bard. Tell you a little bit about andrea mays. Like henry folger, possessed by a lifelong obsession with shakespeare and his times. Ann create ya spent much of her andrea spent much of her girlhood holed up in the library listening to vinyl recordings. A graduate of stuyvesant high school, she was not only a protege of frank mccourt, but also his mentor. Andrea has degrees in economics from the State University of new york at binghamton and from ucla and teaches economics at cal State University at long beach. She was a president ial appointee to the u. S. International trade admission where she served as economist to the chairman. She d
But there will be divergence as well. The way the differences tend to be around issues of social welfare policy and by this i mean writ large, education policy, healthcare policy, policies that have to do with children, the elderly, women are more willing to see the government as a positive force in terms of these particular issues more so than men. Women, some parents might it is more sophisticated than that. A more positive attitude towards state involvement providing for healthcare, supporting education, supporting childcare, supporting Maternal Health and other Health Issues as well. The other arena is around issues of Foreign Policy and peace. These are not stereotypical differences between men and women but women are much less, women are more reluctant to see the National Government involve the United States in military conflicts abroad. Women are less likely to support the use of force by the military by the us political system. Women are more likely to be supportive of issues t
[inaudible conversation] book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. I hope to finish a couple books, first of all im reading freedoms task which was given to me by senator roy blunt and this is a book that is about the dome being put on the Capital Building precivil war but what i found is especially interesting is as i get into the book of focus on the House Chamber and Senate Chamber and how those were added to the original Capital Building and one of the main proponents of that is Jefferson Davis so while we are approaching the civil war, we have Jefferson Davis really helping our country, helping build a Capital Building which would serve our entire country and we know later that he became the president of the confederacy so that the book im hoping to get through, i started it and i need to finish it. I also want to read about destiny and power which is the book by john meacham on george hw bush. I would like to get that done t