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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion 20140824

congresswoman clare boothe luce. the author reports on luc s tenure as board to italy and her political and personal life. this program lasts about an hour. [inaudible conversations] i am the senior director of programs and chief operating officer here at roosevelt house, and it is my great pleasure to welcome you here to tonight s very special discussion of price of fame: the honorable clare boothe luce, by sylvia jukes morris. price of fame is the second in a two-volume biography of ms. luce. the first volume was published 17 years ago, and as the wall street journal has written, both books are really models of a biographer s art, meticulously researched, sophisticated, fair-minded and compulsively readable. now, we are, of course, gathered for tonight s discussion here in the former home of franklin and eleanor roosevelt where i think it is probably safe to assume that clare boothe luce was not a regular social visitor. [laughter] mrs. luce s relationship with the

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion 20140824

[applause] if you would help us by falling appears shares, the books are available at the front . years. i am happy to sign them. every weekend book tv offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. keep watching for more here on c-span2. and watch any of our past programs online and booktv.org. sylvia dude s morris recalls the life of a conservative commentator. her a election to congress, her tenure as ambassador to italy, and a political and personal life. his program lasts about an hour. sylvia jukes morris recounts the life of the late conservative commentator and congresswoman clare boothe luce. the author reports on luc s tenure as board to italy and her political and personal life. this program lasts about an hour. [inaudible conversations] i am the senior director of programs and chief operating officer here at roosevelt house, and it is my great pleasure to welcomeou here to it is my great pleasure to welcome you here to tonight s very speci

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion 20140902

enterprises that are designed to make revenue and not facilitate creativity and the people that work there are private employees not public servants. you also write, astra taylor, in order to find the world you are looking for other options would be to demand that radio and television broad casters play te rate for technology or maybe thy technology compatible. guest: there is an idea that the tool kits of the pre-internet age like you know the idea of public broadcasting and public media and the idea of grants to fund things or i don t know the national endowment for the arts or all of these things seem like they are obsolete because we leave in a digital age. and the internet is somehow technilogically behind regulations and i did go through basic examples and there are lots i don t talk about in the book but public sub-saharsidies and the public isn t reaping the rewards. they are going into private hands at a disporportianate rate. we give it to wireless companies who p

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion 20140902

careers in multiple fields, politics journalism and diplomacy. she may have disagreed with much of mrs. roosevelt s philosophy, but as early as 1948 she was recommending that truman ask her to be his running mate. and for her part eleanor roosevelt publicly praised her appointment as ambassador to italy writing that mrs. luce would be an able ambassador who will represent us well. price of fame goes into fascinating detail about luce s relationships not only with the roosevelts, but with so many of the great figures of the 20th century from eisenhower to several churchills to jfk and of course her stormy marriage to henry luce. and so does morris herself in a wonderful account of how she became to be clare boothe luce s biographer the only one to have access to her public and private papers. and so it is really a great privilege to have sylvia morris with us here tonight. born in england, she taught english literature before moving to the united states in 1968 with her husban

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