so, again, encouraging people to take their seats. good evening, everyone. my name is kai bird, i m the new executive director of the leon levy center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. and i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. this is our first sort of jointly-sponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. and that will also be happening here at cuny. should be a great event with over 200 biographers. i also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of $65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. so if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. and finally, i just, you know, i m really thrilled th
90 miles from cuba, key west is closer to havana than miami. we learn more about the history of the island from the monroe county librarian. we are in the key west branch of the monroe county library. i house the archives for munro county. we try to keep all of the records we can, church records, plus some of the government records that other people have disposed of, a little bit of everything. i pulled out several things i thought would be of interest to the c-span audience. general items, various things that happened here over the many years we have been here. key west had native americans who either died out or moved out. most of most of the ones moved out at the end of the first spanish period. no one had a permanent population until the americans bought florida and commodore to keyorter was ordered west to establish the first naval station. really established the first .ivilization here followed by him was john the landwho bought from a spanish military officer. we
good was it all? and churchill looked at him unbelieving. world war ii had destroyed n churchill s mind, hitler and mussolini and the dictators. it had saved democracy, it had saved western civilization, so cur chill thought. and kennedy blazed hatred at him. booktv is the only national television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books every weekend, and this fall we re marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. at 3:45 p.m. eastern, juanita patience moss talks about the forgotten black soldiers and white regiment during the civil war. tomorrow at noon we ll be live with representative john lewis for three hours. the congressman will be taking your calls, e-mails, tweets and facebook posts. then at 5 p.m. eastern, booktv brings you some books on iran. visit booktv.org for a complete television schedule. pulitzer prize-winning biographer a. scott berg presents his book, wilson. this 45-minute presentation a
facebook.com/booktv. booktv is live from savannah, ga. home to the annual savannah book festival we will bring you several authors including mike redmond, lily cobble, scott bird, john rizzo and debra solomon. we kickoff live coverage of the savannah book festival with gabriel asherman, author of the loudest voice in the room. good morning, everyone. my name is alex gold and i am happy to welcome you to the seventh annual savannah book festival presented by georgia power. into our new venue of the lutheran church of ascension which is made possible by the generosity of fred and john kane. many of you have already attended our terrific special events with our opening and keynote addresses. today your work is cut out for you as you choose which authors to visit during this day that offers dozens of announce writers to established astounding books in the last year. we would like to extend special thanks to our presenting foster, georgia power, individual donors who make satu
speakers at least since the 1940s are known for at least producing one major work of legislation. but certainly at the top of that list i d have to say would be sam rayburn. host: what s the speaker s normal interaction with the senate? guest: with the senate? i wouldn t say that the speaker has a normal interaction with the senate. it varies by who the speaker is, it varies by which party is in control of the house and which party s in control of the senate, and it varies on the personal or the personalities of the speaker and the senate leadership. there s an expectation that speakers need to have an open line of communication with the leadership in the senate because you can t get any legislation enacted without the senate s approval. and so to that respect, there is some kind of communication or relationship. but the degree of closeness that there is between, say, the speaker and the senate or senate leaders is going to vary tremendously by who the individual speaker