Or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. And now from the 2015 roosevelt reading festival, Molly Guptill manning discusses her book, when books went to war the stories that helped us win world war ii. And now it is my pleasure to introduce our author for this session, Molly Manning. She will be discussing her new book, when books went to war the stories that helped us win world war ii. Molly manning grew up in new york north of albany, so welcome back to the Hudson River Valley to you. She graduatedfy bay a that capita from if fy beta cap kappa. A graduate of the Cardozo School of law in new york city, shes an attorney for the United States court of appeals for the Second Circuit in new york city. In 2012 she published her first book. It tells the true story of one of the most elaborate literary hoaxes in american history. Her latest book, when books went to war, tells the amazing and inspiring story of how the United States government and americas librarians and p
Member of the Roosevelt Library and become a member of the information table just outside the door. At this time i would like to ask you to turn off your cell phones and thank cspan for covering this today and quickly go over the format for this session. We will start with our speaker in just a moment. Then i will follow that up if you have questions make your way over to the microphone so we are able to pick up the question in the author will move down the hall to the table outside of our new deals bookstore where you can purchase the book and have the author signed them. 2012 is an adjunct member of the Arizona State university and his fields of study include Public Policy, political history, latin america, u. S. mexico border land and sanford, arizona, i want to introduce patrick lukens. [applause] thank you. I want to thank bob clark and the rest of the staff and the president ial library to be one of todays presenters. And preparing this presentation and Headline News over the pas
HYDE PARK, N.Y. — The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will host the 20th annual Roosevelt Reading Festival on Saturday, June 22, from 9:45 a.m. to 5 p.m.Theprogram will highlight the recently published work of 14 authors. The event will include a special afternoon presentation with Paul M. Sparrow, author of “Awaken ing […]
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Eighty years ago, in the winter and spring of 1944, Brooklyn-born author Betty Smith was entering a new chapter of life. A year earlier, she was an unknown writer, negotiating with her publisher about manuscript edits and the date of publication for her first book, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” …