And over the past 30 years we have built and expanded in the neighborhood around us has changed dramatically. So what used to be a Light Industrial district is now a late Retail District and we are surrounded by wonderful places like anthropology and starbucks for reuse to be surrounded by auto repair shops and ball bearing manufacturers. This is symbolic of all the things we have here at powells books. The base of it says four things in latin. It starts off with vending lieberman sell the book and on the side it says carpeting the room, sees the book. And over here it says leave room, read the book and finally our favorite, by the book. What makes us unique is a combination of several things in one of the most important ones is we started out as a used bookstore so we sell used and new right next to each other and to us its the content that is king and it doesnt matter where it came from so out of our million books, half of them are used, half of them approximately new. That makes us
State university and the two of them worked on the book together and they will be talking about it together and we are so thrilled and honored to have you both here and i should mention also that route larry is a regular customer at thecorner bookstore and has been for years. And that makes it so special and so personal so please join me in welcoming larry and brian, thank you. [applause] thank you very much, i appreciate it. Are we on, both mikes . We welcome cspan for covering us, thank you very much. Its true, i larry kudlow and im a local. Actually, when random house started organizing this, which one . That works. This one doesnt sound great. Random house said a while back when we finally got this thing published, its good to have a couple local bookstores and i said how about across the street . He said terrific idea. Weregoing to do a bunch of these around the country, weve done tons and tons of media. A lovely oped piece of ours was published in todays wall street journal. This
But mostly she was the great love of john f. Kennedy his life and the deathly wanted to each of the big it was not asleep it was a romance but there were two problems. She was suspected nazi spy and you still married to her second husband. Based on the research do you believe that that is an accurate kind of accusation of her being a suspected nazi spy . Is a 1200 page fbi file and i would say ultimately it was concluded she was not a spy. Interestingly, for seven which is considered a prime suspect, like the key to the entire Espionage Network in use all based on circumstantial evidence that turned out not to be correct. When j. Edgar hoover himself was convinced inga was not a spy, president roosevelt personally intervened and directed him to continue the observation and continue to be, have her phone tapped, her apartment bug, her mail open. It was a remarkable thing. You are the author of two other books, kennedy and reagan, and almost president. What do you think the legacy will b
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