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Louisiana got lasted this past week via hurricane and i pray for everyone in lake charles and that whole area. We were speaking earlier saying they are probably going to have many weeks of not months of no power and trouble with their water system. And even people as far north as shreveport and monroe are still without power. Our thoughts go out to them. So anyway we are here today with jack davis in conversation with the author. Jack is a professor of history specializing in them for mental his...

Encouraging people to take their seat good evening, everyone. Im the new executive director of the center for biography, which is celebrating its tenth year now all data shall be white at the foundation, and i want to advertise first of all our new alliance with bio. This is the first jointly sponsored event with them but also courtesy of will swift of the president we are also going to be doing a cosponsoring of their great annual conference on biography next may that will also be happening her...

[inaudible conversations] encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is cia bird. Im in the new executive director of the leon leavy center for biography, which is celebrating the ten inch year now, all due to shelby white and the leon leave levery foundation, and i want to advertise our new alliance with bio, our first joint we sponsor the event with them and also curtsy of will swift here, of the president of bio, we have our also going to be doing cosponsoring the...

If it were possible to have poor writer minicamp that speaks solely for himself and without being a writer himself he could speak to the language of writers better than any editor or publisher he would meet and he was always tactful in speaking with writers. I have to admit i pulled a fast one because its not about or at least it was not written originally about bob weil, but it was written about the man who inspired him to begin an editor and i did not realize he had been inspired to Maxwell Pe...

So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their...

Many years, great house. Ive been at norton for 19 years which mix me a newcomer, and ive, you know, done the liveright division for the last six years. Host what are some of the books that liveright has coming out in the fall . Guest we have a great lineup this year. We have daniel allen who is a professor at harvard whos doing a memoir called cuz who was really destroyed by the prison system in los angeles. She is this brilliant academic who tells this sering personal story, which like the bes...

Of lou. He his wonderful new book making it. I had the pleasure of working with lou over a number of years as his editor and its been a great collaboration. Id like to congratulate you on the publication. An exceptional response early on and this party is meant to anchor the launch to making it. [applause] i want to thank you, im not sure this into would have happened without you. Oh, no. Youre a good editor. Thank you. So, lou, as many you know, has a distinguished pedigree and career in writin...

Committed to some sort of democracy. Its not like we are saying we dont mind if we produce a bunch of students that are marcus and we think that would somehow, we would have done something wrong along the way. Host professor thomas with the decline in liberal Arts Education overall in the country are we losing civics . Guest thats a great question and should be a serious concern to us. In fact at the end of the book i oppose the great challenge in our day really is the potential commercializatio...

With the women senators and frankly a lot of men it means a lot to biggio i am not ready again. People say why . But after 40 years people like you can carry that banner. We have you interviewing me i would not be more thrilled how did i get tough . Was my life like . In this memoir with eyes sat down to write this so long ago, and i thought it would be my dad of light and as a person because my dad was my idol the youngest of nine brothers and sisters the only one born in america his family was...

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