She said it is highly addictive but i was pretty is dawning. But he is dying i whispered. [applause] the folders Shakespeare Library created 1932 data big idea that it would have been of value to everyone so they collected those materials skier two blocks east of the capital as a gift to the nation. They felt it was an International City common was our capital coming through national and international assets. With the First North American van tutors feeder. But mr. Folders and he made his fortune and then very quietly acquired this in the collection are nine. Host we will hear this term so what is that . The first folio is 36 plays published by to a shakespeares friends who knew him. Without that book published 1623 the probably wouldnt how those plays it is probably the most eddied in the world and also agree connection to a shakespeare the writer. That was put together seven years after his death. Exactly. There are probably 700 copies there are 233 note copies of the book but the fo
Geneva and they eventually found in favor of the United States to the tune of 15. 5 million. But that was only for the alabama, with the alabama did and also what the shenandoah the ships the shenandoah tech after melbourne. Their british would not admit to any complicity for the ships before melbourne because when the shenandoah left great written, she was a registered british merchantmen and she was sold and commissioned with outside or just territory so they werent liable for the good since they did resupplied and prepare her in melbourne, they admitted no liability for ships dock after that. Wow. I want to remind everybody that these gentlemen will be selling these wonderful books immediately following. Lets give them a round of applause. [applause] thanks for coming. I hope you enjoyed it. [inaudible conversations] the idea of money is very basic and weve gotten away from it and policymakers today know less about money, Monetary Policy than they did 100 years ago. Since the early
They had a big idea that the original sources would be of value to everyone in perpetuity, so they collected those materials and brought them here as a gift to the nation. Why washington dc . It is an international city, our capitol. So in addition to putting this marvelous collection here they created this remarkable building which has the 1st north american to the theater with a beautiful great hall that we are in and another beautiful who are the folgers . President of standard oil and he made his fortune as an oilman and then while he was running standard oil very quietly acquired the greatest shakespeare collection in the world bar none including 82 copies of the 16,231st vote in. We would here that term throughout the store. The 1st folio is a collection of 36 plays published by two of his friends who knew him. Without that book published in 1623 we probably would not have 18 of his plays including mcbeth and 12th night and winters tale, the most studied single edition of the boo
We are either mad at its upper west side. We invested in this store to help harpers magazine also because i could not see another cash machine open i will make an appeal to you. Because in this space. With the fight against the amazon domination. To be worse and worse. And before the easy chair columnist. But was kind enough to give me a lastminute. Does anybody know this . That amazon is not happening to book selling but the future is happening . And that is what amazon wants what eight amazing to residents. [laughter] but we dont take that line down. And with this issue thatd is on sale in not go out to buy that because if you do we cannot keep doing these types of events of a marginal business. I really wanted to turn this place into a Cultural Center on a regular basis. And as a member of the Authors Guild that unless you take action to take more and more market share. It with my eight colleagues to meet with important people with the domination of the business. One reason is becau
Even if your letter doesnt get in, they count the number of letters from a particular perspective, and they will publish letters from that perspective. So it means, it means demonstrating, it means First Amendment protected activity, it means going to the trone base, Hancock Drone base and protesting in upstate new york, it means going to outside i know its not convenient, but if you have the opportunity going to Creech Air Force base where the drones take off outside of las vegas. It means working in any way you can, organizing and pressuring the government. Thats the only way that this is going to stop. Well, i think that is a wonderful question and a comment to end our discussion because, again, when i before i read this book, i mean, ive gotten another book on drones, and i hadnt, you know, there are drones and things that are going on out there, somebody else is doing it, doesnt affect me. But then when you say what are we doing with these drones, what is happening and what is bei