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Bahrain, signing an agreement between arab countries and israel, the first in a quartercentury. Donald trump will attend and that is really Prime Minister will sign with the foreign ministers. We have a lot to discuss in this halfhour. Their connection to china, lets start with the middle east though you also have comments. My first question looking at the longterm implications for the us and the region of this court. How does this structure look longerterm, into the middle east. Great to be wit...

Im director crust call. Crystal. Welcome to todays program with former congresswoman katie hill. Her new book, shes arrived. She will be in conversation with [inaudible] if youd like to ask either of them a question during this programming you can do that in either the comment or chat section of the live stream that youre watching. The Commonwealth Club has temporarily suspended inperson events, but during this pandemic we are running full speed ahead with a full slate of programs. Most of these...

Hello, my name is kai bird, im the executive director of the leon leavy centers for biography at cuny, university of new york. We are sponsored by Sheldon Whitehouse and the abto promote the arts and crafts and biography among other things. We been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years. We are here on a session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival, the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable publican ...

Joining us now on book tv was representative tom cole a republican from oklahoma. Congressman kobe have asked you this question before, you have always had a large reading list. What is on your current reading list . I have just finished the splendid and the vial by erik larson. A wonderful of churchill and his family. Really in the worst year of the war. Right after he becomes prime minister, may 10 of 1940, really the day of the german invasion in the low countries of france. And basically wha...

My own words. [indiscernible] [applause]. We hope you all have been enjoying yourself this morning. El now, we have a rather large crowd this morning for this particular session. And thats why im very thrilled to introduce our next program. For the past year at the library of commerce you may sit down i have a few more things i want to say. For the past year at the library of commerce we had been celebrating changemakers and i can c think of a few m people who more than aptly fit that descriptio...

Campus color line College President s and the struggle for black freedom. Its out on september 29. If you havent yet preordered a copy of the book please consider grabbing one from book depot, we ship nationally, internationally, we have Curbside Pickup and we are actually open at a limited capacity. Just a heads up, weekends are busy so your best luck is swinging by monday or tuesday. Will share some guidelines in our chats and share some links to the book so you have easy access to purchases. ...

Literature in the time of corona a short list of new praiseworthy novels a distinguished author and a digital book fair how is the literary world coping with the pandemic 21 gets the views of some writers and an organizer. But 1st the biggest awards of all that are built for as in literature for 2020 is awarded to the american poet reason click for her. Voice. Few people were expecting her to win the 2020 nobel prize in literature the poet louise glick the committee praised the austere beauty of...

On january 1st, 2015. In 2018 overwhelmingly reelected to a second four your term receiving the most votes of any candidate and becoming the second republican governor in the 242 year history of the state. Governor hogan discussed his new book which launched on the date of his book, surviving cancer, riots, a Global Pandemic and the toxic politics that divide america. He spitted the book to his publisher on february 1st just before the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and was in publica...

Racism in germany. Government has declared a state of emergency in madrid because of a rapid increase in. Cases of government over regional authorities enforcing a partial lockdown in the capital and the surrounding region the countrys Health Minister says the measures are necessary to prevent infection rate affecting the rest of spain. The United Nations World Food Program has one dis years Nobel Peace Prize for its effort to combat hunger and improve conditions for peace. Provided assistance t...

Of us 2020 feels like its been a decadelong and so this fall, two months from now we are going to be facing an election which will be the First Time Ever that an impeached president appears on the ballot. Could you talk a little bit about the dynamics that were set into motion by this investigation by the subsequent impeachment and the acquittal that are still playing out today as we head into this final stretch before the election . Thanks karen, i will start their. Two big big things, one is e...