and now pulitzer prize winner caroline fraser discusses the life and novels of laura ingalls wilder. she explained the differences between actual events in the authors life, the little house on the prairie book series, and the television adaptation. the jefferson county, missouri library hosted this event. good evening, everybody. we are really thrilled to see you here tonight. this is the third and final program in this series. we kept miss fraser very busy for the last two days and we ve had wonderful crowds turned out each time. we sold out of the books. it has been really very satisfying. to have c-span here taping this to show on television is just the icing on the cake. it s such a wonderful feeling to know that something so positive representing jefferson county will be on national television. my job tonight . [applause] is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. jane henderson is the book editor at the st. louis post
cake. it s a wonderful feeling to know that something so positive representing jefferson county will be on national television. my job tonight [ applause ] is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. jane henderson is the editor at the st. louis post dispatch. she graduated from st. louis and graduated from columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. she cut short her work as a grad student to go to work as a copy editor in the mid 1980s and later, after three years in the newsroom of the hartford in connecticut, she returned to st. louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. as a book editor, she assigns and edits book reviews choosing from some 300 or so new books each week. she s written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors from sam and rushdie to e.l. doctorel. so tonight she adds to that and she will be having a conversation with caroline fr
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representing jefferson county will be on television. [ applause ] my job tonight is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. jane henderson is the book editor at the st. louis post dispatch. she grew up in st. louis and graduated from the university of missouri columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. she cut short her grad student work to go to work as a copy editor for the st. louis globe democrat in the mid-1980s. after three years in the newsroom in connecticut, she returned to st. louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. she assigns and edits book reviews choosing from 300 or so new books each week. she s written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors. tonight she adds to that and she will be having a conversation with caroline fraser. caroline fraser is the editor of the library of america edition of laura ingalls wilder, the little house
iran hostage crisis. on november 4, 1979, 52 american diplomats and citizens were taken hostage by a crowd of iranian students who stormed the u.s. embassy, the combination of worsening relations between this country and iran in the wake of the iranian revolution in february 1979. even though the crisis ended with the release of the 20, 1981,n january after an incredible ordeal that lasted some 444 days, it has had a lasting influence on the relationship between the two countries. images of iranian students breaching the u.s. embassy, shouting anti-american slogans, detaining embassy officials and burning the american flag, traumatized a nation and a presidency. they live on in popular consciousness here with such movies as the 2012 movie argo and they continue to weigh on the public discourse. here today, we want to explore the lasting impact of the hostage crisis a bit further, and we have convened a panel of distinguished experts which will be moderated by my colleague.