Addition to being chilly and highly controlled, its also within several hundred yards walk from this spot are for me probably 95 of the documents i will read in my working life. For a scholar or someone who has studied its once you are standing here you have to contemplate your mortality because theres so much that you could. And in fact peter, a book that could be so important to me could just be 15 yards down here on the right but unless i know its there i will never see it. And so everyone who comes and looks at this collection take that challenge. Theres an infinity of doors and pathways you can go down in your research and the challenge is to resist all of those opportunities or almost all of them and just take the ones that really matter to you. I presume there are cameras at this point besides a cspan camera. There are. I will turn on the light here. We controlled temperature and humidity. One of the challenges for rare materials is that we need to keep them dry and thats one of
Addition to being chilly and highly controlled, its also within several hundred yards walk from this spot are for me probably 95 of the documents i will read in my working life. For a scholar or someone who has studied its once you are standing here you have to contemplate your mortality because theres so much that you could. And in fact peter, a book that could be so important to me could just be 15 yards down here on the right but unless i know its there i will never see it. And so everyone who comes and looks at this collection take that challenge. Theres an infinity of doors and pathways you can go down in your research and the challenge is to resist all of those opportunities or almost all of them and just take the ones that really matter to you. I presume there are cameras at this point besides a cspan camera. There are. I will turn on the light here. We controlled temperature and humidity. One of the challenges for rare materials is that we need to keep them dry and thats one of
Addition to being chilly and highly controlled, its also within several hundred yards walk from this spot are for me probably 95 of the documents i will read in my working life. For a scholar or someone who has studied its once you are standing here you have to contemplate your mortality because theres so much that you could. And in fact peter, a book that could be so important to me could just be 15 yards down here on the right but unless i know its there i will never see it. And so everyone who comes and looks at this collection take that challenge. Theres an infinity of doors and pathways you can go down in your research and the challenge is to resist all of those opportunities or almost all of them and just take the ones that really matter to you. I presume there are cameras at this point besides a cspan camera. There are. I will turn on the light here. We controlled temperature and humidity. One of the challenges for rare materials is that we need to keep them dry and thats one of
President johnson. And we will look at the live of first lady adams in brooklyn, new york. We will be back in new york city friday for new yorker staff writer report on the literary curriculum that most engaged students at three different high schools over the course of an academic year. Next saturday we are live for the Annapolis Book festival. And that is a look at some of the authorer programs booktv will be covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air into the fear future. Booktv took a tour of the Folger Shakespeare library in washington, d. C. It holds the largest shakespeare collection in the world. Here is a portion of that. This is the most complete volume of shakespeare work and it is important his friend assembled it because they had a better idea of what he liked. They said here is comedies, histories, and tragedies and helped us as literary critics. This engraving was part of the book. It is missing from some copies. It is very valu
But a lot of the time, what people react to and deal with successfully are challenges put in front of them, and it was an eyeopener for me, and i think it comes through in the book that a satisfying life requires work, even if its on pleasant, even if you dont choose it. It still seems to be fundamental to a decent and happy life. As a reader of the book, and not one of the authors, and someone who has read a lot of those studies and those books, one of the interesting things i find, the big takeaway is the interviews and the voice of the poor in here, because you read a lot of the books on the left, nickel and dime, the other famous books and they deal with people. You read a lot of books on our side of the debate and they deal with numbers. And the fact that this does speak to the people and the people who are hurt by the welfare system, i do find unique and important voice in this debate. For those who want to read that, the book is the human cost of welfare. The authors are phil ha