Trauma and figuring out how we as americans had come to that point where we could be living so close to poverty without recognizing it on a daily basis. Sreenivasan all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by heres to lifelong friendships and partnerships of all meaningful kinds. Heres to love that lasts yearin, yearout. For more than five generations, lincoln financial has helped people plan for the future because this is what you do for people you love. Lincoln financial, youre in charge. Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the f
Trauma and figuring out how we as americans had come to that point where we could be living so close to poverty without recognizing it on a daily basis. Sreenivasan all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by heres to lifelong friendships and partnerships of all meaningful kinds. Heres to love that lasts yearin, yearout. For more than five generations, lincoln financial has helped people plan for the future because this is what you do for people you love. Lincoln financial, youre in charge. Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the f
Now we kickoff the weekend with a report on required reading for College Freshman. If we dont have enough people go out and find some. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the National Association of scholars. I am peter wyatt wood, president of the National Association of scholars. In 2009, a young man heading on vacation in mexico picked up and unusually heavy book for his beach reading, and 800 page tome of the life of an 18thcentury immigrant. 50 pages or so into the book the story took possession of the 29yearold. Would emerge from his reading of Alexander Hamilton is now the hottest ticket on broadway, the hiphop musical hamilton. Broadways play is widely noted for many things including its exact fidelity to historical facts. Each bowl must not be Light Reading and the right beach book can kick off a lot of things. As it happens one of the top five most common readings for College Freshman last year was also a book about the obstacles overcome by an immigrant, the considerably sh
Cspan courage to do more tests . Guest we could golan iran dawn broke john a. And on. Fast and loose is good for politics if you are misreading the bell lot but if you want to make a case to take any action that is the uncomfortable or to make of virtue of necessity a candy lot of the tight corner. How much of the of language of shakespeare from the 1500s . In england and britain when shakespeare was around. With different dialects the north does not sound like the south the west does not sound like these. And then to become the dominant media form is to stabilizer och stabilize from london. Said the end of the 16th century that is interesting because that is the english that becomes the official dialect. Cspan the Folger Shakespeare library is available to the average person . Guest we are open and we are free to the public. We have an exhibition and hall where you can see great exhibitions. Right now the history of longitude we do three shakespeare plays per year and here is one that
Copy. Everybody, i have about 300 people to thank and i am going to thank them tonight. However, between me and thanking those 300 people, there is an open bar and lots of sliders waiting for us at joes bar which is an amsisterdam and 83rd street. Lets keep the party going there. I will sign books there that you buy here. I will sign books here obviously. But thank you, everybody for all of the support along the way. You have been incredibly helpful. [applause] our booktv lineup continues in a few moments. Tomorrow night more authors and their books. Starting with steve osborn on the job. And mary sander builder examines jam madisons notes on the Constitutional Convention with madisons hand and a Panel Discussion about politics and democracy later in the night. And one of the panelist will talk about her book in greater detail. Booktv has 48 hours of nonfiction authors. Here are some programs to watch for. This weekend joining us for the 22nd annual festival of the book in charlottesvi