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Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much for coming. My name kim dorman and im the Community Engagement coordinator for the princeton public library. Its my pleasure to welcome you here. This and to introduce tonights program. I want to start by thank you all for joining us. This program is presented with support from the National Endowment for the humanities and in partnership with Princeton Universitys, charming and beyond, most of our Rahmani Center for iran and persian gulf studies and laby...

Youre watching booktv with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv the, itsing for serious readers its television. Were very pleased to have our speakers today. Its great to have you and them back. After the program they will be signing their books out in the lobbylo for a brother brief period, so we encourage you to buy the book both during the program if you can do it quickly and after the program outside. I am very pleased to introduce peter baker, Susan Glasser and adam rah a ...

Were thrilled that cspans book tv viewers are also joining us so welcome. Cspan will be herent throughout the day recording the events throughout the day. This stage has a long history of being one of the festivals most popular stages. Today youll be hearing from authors who delve deeply into the role women played in the civil rights movement, the improbable history of americas relationship with the bald eagle. A more complete accounting of the mexican revolution, and the strange history behind ...

Mikhail gorbachev, why did you write this book . So i thought that it is important to write a book about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to ...

Started. So, as always, when we are looking at in this class is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness culture. With working out. Even as the United States is not a particular fifth nation, and even as if anything, in the past 75 to 100 years or so that we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or a signal of individual virtue and morality, even as the ability to do so and having a quote unquote fit body has be...

Mikhail gorbachev, why did you write this book . So i thought that it is important to write a book about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to ...

Today, the San Ramon Valley Unified School District will hod a welcome back event for studens getting ready for another year t kicks off at twin creeks elementary school. Meanwhile, ts is the scene in contra costa coy yesterday, where the Teachers Union rallied. They are asking for smaller class sizes, mentalh programs, curriculum changes ine cost of living. With their needs coming up, y can do it at the moment. This wl hinder our ability as a safe school for those who needed the most prospectiv...

Fatally stabbed by a home oiner he was trying to rob this morning. Officers were called out just before 11 00. Police tell abc 7 news the tenant heard a man. The resident retrieved a shotgun. Intruder lunged at the ten yanlt. The tenant stabbed the expect, killing him. The 54yearold had been previous lay rested for burglary. State safety investigators looking into the death of a warehouse worker crushed by a big rig in hayward. Sky 7 shows the initial investigation at the scene. The truck pinned...

Secret meeting, and it was quite extraordinary, and it formed a lifetime bond for the two of them. So once again, sally sort of pushed the envelope a little bit and figured i can bend the rules as long as no one gets hurt. In fact, no one knew this story fully until ive told anytime the book. So state department only now is finding out about it. [laughter] other questions . No questions. Everyone wants to get their books signed. Okay, well, thats great. Thank you all for coming. [applause] the b...

Doing this, but we are talking about i think an increasing number of people doing this because frankly it is lucrative but the first one is what you might call a milker bill because first of all it has nothing to do with the dairy industry. Thats what you need to recognize. A milker bill is something that is introduced by a member of congress were senator and the bill isnt defined really to pass. The idea of writing the law isnt a hope that this is greatd to be good policy or change things. Its ...