Considered president roosevelts personal and professional confidante. Hello, good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the Roosevelt Museum and to the reading festival. Were excited youre here for today. This program is a special one, ill tell, but it in just a moment. If youre familiar with the program at this point, about a 30 minute talk and ten minutes of questions and then a book signing. Were lucky enough to have cspan with us here today so if youre going to ask questions, use the microphone on the other side these sorts of programs are only made possible because of the trustees and our members. We have a trustee here today and thank you for your support. [applause] raise your hand if youre a member and would he truly appreciate it. If youre not a member, get one of the pins, and it gives you free admission to the library and museum. We have an exhibit on the japanese internment and very powerful. I hope youll see this. This program is very special because we are pea not going to be h
Member and would he truly appreciate it. If youre not a member, get one of the pins, and it gives you free admission to the library and museum. We have an exhibit on the japanese internment and very powerful. I hope youll see this. This program is very special because we are pea not going to be hear from an author, we are going to be hearing from a principal. Recently a fantastic book was written called the gatekeeper by a woman named kathryn smith, did research in one of the most least understood players in the roosevelt players. Missy lehand and it defined the presidency, its a remarkable book. I want you to take a deep breath and close your eyes, june 17th, 1933. And im going to introduce you to a woman who was probably the most powerful woman other than Eleanor Roosevelt in washington during this period. She had known president she knew Franklin Roosevelt when he ran for vicepresident , was with him throughout his polio recovery, and then in washington d. C. She was technically a s
Good afternoon everyone, welcome to the president ial Library Museum an in the 14th annual roosevelts reading festival. We are excited that you are here today. This program is a very special one i will tell you about in just a moment. We would ask if you ask questions to use the microphone on the other side. Its made possible because of the support of our trustees and members. We have a trustee today, thank you very much for your support. [applause] raise your hand if you are a member. There we go. I love our members. Your support makes the program possible and we truly appreciate it. If you are not a member this gives you free admission and we hope that you will go over and visit. We have a temporary exhibit right now on the japanese internment with photographs and i do hope you will see it. This program is very special because we are not going to be hearing from an author, we are going to be hearing from a principle. We simply a fantastic book was called the bookkeeper written by Kat
He has several books including the long reconstruction of popular politics in the south and after appomattox military occupation and the end of war. For those of you who were not with us last year, after the lens of the military to examine the time after the confederate surrender as an expansion of wartime. The last several years, dr. Inns has been very active broadening public understanding of the reconstruction era. Coedited a new essay collection the world the civil which seeks to redefine the United States. Are also look at sites that appropriate for memorializing reconstruction. , dr. Lowe,eaker earned ma and phd degrees from the university of washington seattle. She served as the Program Manager for the underground Railroad Freedom program, which places Minority College students from across the country and paid summer internships with parks and program offices, state Historic Preservation offices, local and state governments, and private organizations. Her academic fields of inte
My name is owen, im an author here in austin, texas, and im going to be your moderator, how to win friends or manipulate people. Going to be a fast im really excited about our two authors here. We will be taking questions at the end, but were going to basically have a conversation that i think is going to be fascinating, and based round these two fantastic pieces of work. So let me introduce our writers and then theyll read a short passage from their books books. To my left, we have a writer who is awardwinning for several books, young adult books, lost moon, which was apollo 13, which were aware of is a fantastic book. The sibling effect, and most recently, the book he will be reading from, the are in cyst next door. Underring the monster in your family in your bed in your world; please welcome, jeffrey kluger. Thank you. At the far end we have one of the cofounders of okay cupid and is in the pop rock band, byshot allen, which i saw years ago and one Motor Vehicle favorite bands to t