Welcome to concord, New Hampshire, on booktv. Located about 70 miles north of boston, it has a population of about 42,000. Settled in 1725, this capital city is home to the oldest statehouse in the country and has the largest state legislature in the nation with 400 members. It was also home to franklin pierce, the 14th president of the United States, and christa mcauliffe, the teacher who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle challenger disaster. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next hour well feature the areas Literary Community beginning with dante scala on New Hampshires role during a president ial election. New hampshires role is to be the primary that is first of all the primaries mt. Nomination process in the nomination process. And thats a spot on the calendar that weve held now for about a century, and its grown in importance over time as the president ial nomination process became more democratic with a small d. New hampshire and iowa Work Together to basically n
Good evening and welcome to busboys and poets. My name is kristin king. On the book Events Manager here at the busboys and poets books and i want to thank you all for joining us this evening. A couple minutes before we begin first and foremost the book is available for purchase in the bookstore and will be available after the event. In addition to that there will be assigning. Second we do have a fantastic fall lineup coming up at all six of our busboys and poets locations this fall. Theres a signup list being passed around so please feel free to add your name and your email address to that. Thank you again for joining us. Please join me in welcoming andy and dr. Kendi. [applause] its a pleasure to have all of you here on this rainy afternoon although compared to whats happening our hearts and minds go to the people they are. I want to welcome all of you for being here and let you know independent bookstores are a dying breed. They can only make a comeback if you support them and i sup
New hampshires role is to be the primary, that is first of all the primaries in the nomination process and thats a spot on the calendar that we held now for about a century and its grown in importance over time as the president ial nomination process became more democratic with a small d. New hampshire and iowa Work Together to basically narrow the field for the rest of the country. New hampshire primary has been the first in the nation for a century and it actually happened by accident. Two accidents. The Fortunate One is for us. One is that New Hampshire decides to hold its primary in conjunction with town meetings which occurred in the springtime and that wasnt to be first, that was essentially to save money, to have multiple elections on the same day. But when we started the president ial primary, we were not first. There were a couple other states ahead of us but remember the time, it wasnt the case that primaries decided who the nominee was going to be. Even though some states he
Good evening. Im from the Smithsonian Associates and welcome to into the presentation of Patrick Henry. If you did not get a chance to buy the book it will be for sale afterwards. He will sign them at the table up front. Remember were able to bring you this program and so many others which i hope you have seen in the august issue of the associate which is a double issue. In fact, if youre here because youre interested in colonial history let me point you to a program on october 30 about espionage in the revolution. Thats coming up on monday october 30. Before we begin please silence your cell phones they do get reception here and youll be embarrassed if your phone rings on tv because the cspan group is here to record the presentation. So if youre sitting somewhere where tv light is bothering you please go ahead and find another seat because they will stay on. When we do get to q a, someone will run around with the microphone to make sure your questions are heard on camera. So be patien