Rights, the middle class, gender and more. For complete Television Schedule visit booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. Now we kickoff the weekend with Peter Kiernan talking about the history of the middle class. [inaudible conversations] good evening. I am the director of the redwood library. Please excuse my voice, my little twins came home with a gifted daddy yesterday and that was watery eyes and scratchy throat. First of all, a bit of housekeeping duties, if there is up fire you go out the front door, just push me aside and i will go down with the ship. Please turn off your cellphones. It gives me great pleasure, when we think about that i mentioned earlier, the word that is offputting to so many people, a public place where operators might try out their orations. A forum, two weeks ago we had the good people from newport show a documentary and richard holbrooke, a man whose values perfectly aligned with the intent of the re