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.
A fantastic book and i enjoyed it thoroughly. Its a pageturner a thrilling adventure permanently accessible. Congratulations on it. Guest thank you, coming from you that is praise indeed. Host talk about the subtitle of your book if i may quote henry folgers obsessive hunt for shakespeares first folio but i think it might be helpful originally to talk about those two men in the context of their times. Of course if i made they were two men look alike in dignity quoting from shakespeare and yet separated by 400 years and the Atlantic Ocean very different that but they share one thing, a passion for in one case writing and the other collecting but put them in the context of their lives if you would please. Guest sure. Shakespeare was writing around the 1600s. His life was 20 years before, 20 years after the 1600. During the rain of elizabeth and james the first. He was a wellknown playwright poet. He wrote sonnets and he was also a businessman. Here is a shareholder in the globes Theater
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Book, perhaps the most personal story of his career. It tells the story of his father, a nationallyknown physician who specialized in brain disorders, be who showed an and who showed an astonishing ability at the onset of his own alzheimers disease to explain the causes of his sickness and hen to narrate step by step his slow descent into dementia. Less about the loss of memory than the effort to create a testament to to forgiveness and to love. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming Jonathan Kozol to the free library of philadelphia. [applause] thanks very much, janet. Im honored to be here and very grateful for all the work youve done for the library. And thanks also to andy cahan, laura [inaudible] i hope im pronouncing that right and all the other good folks at this very special library. One of the real Cultural Treasures of our nation. I say that coming from boston. We have a good library too. [laughter] and thanks to even and every to each and every one of you for bein