Cspan where history unfolds daily. In 1979 cspan was greater as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. [inaudible conversations] hello, everybody. Wow. What a treat we have. I am so honored to introduce our next author. Shes an elegant and an exciting writer your shes the kind of person that other writers just adore. Stacy schiff. Envoy, dishing out to pick a good topic. Unbelievable. Even jon stewart was interested in cleopatra. She somehow brought to life cleopatra in a way that nobody else had. And by the way, a lot of peoplef new cleopatra for a long time. Of course, she has won so many prizes its fairly ridiculous. When she was a child she won the Pulitzer Prize for writing about the wife of vladimir noble cough. She was a runnerup for the pulitzer even earlier, in 1995. When she comes up in you see a young she is, its super a for the rest of us. Ron who knows how to write a book himself said this ab
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. I had the honor of serving that as deputy to the library. Welcome to the 2016 National Book festival. Generously sponsored by wells fargo. We at the library of congress are extremely thrilled to be presenting the National Book festival where the 16th time. This event would not be possible without the friends that we have supporting us, generously supporting like wells fargo and we are very appreciative of that. More important, we would not be here, but for readers like all of you who support the authors, are interested in them and come out, so we are extremely excited. Thank you so much for being here today. [applause]. This years festival is inspired by journeys. The idea that a book is a voyage unto itself, taking us to places that we might not be able to see in person, but we can visit by reading about it. It to gives us the opportunity to better understand our world and in particular why we are here today celebrating histories and biography
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[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. I had the honor of serving that as deputy to the library. Welcome to the 2016 National Book festival. Generously sponsored by wells fargo. We at the library of congress are extremely thrilled to be presenting the National Book festival where the 16th time. This event would not be possible without the friends that we have supporting us, generously supporting like wells fargo and we are very appreciative of that. More important, we would not be here, but for readers like all of you who support the authors, are interested in them and come out, so we are extremely excited. Thank you so much for being here today. [applause]. This years festival is inspired by journeys. The idea that a book is a voyage unto itself, taking us to places that we might not be able to see in person, but we can visit by reading about it. It to gives us the opportunity to better understand our world and in particular why we are here today celebrating histories and biography