Robinson obama. applause she is a lawyer. She is an author and she is the wife of the 44th president of the United States, barack obama. applause throughout her initiatives as first lady, she has become a role model for women and four girls. And an advocate for healthy families, Service Members and their families, Higher Education and international adolescent girls education. Her much anticipated memoir will be coming will be published in the u. S. And canada on november 13th, 2018 by crown, a division of Penguin Random house and it will be released simultaneously in 24 languages. Considered one of the most popular first ladies. applause mrs. Obama invites leaders into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her from her childhood on the south side of chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the worlds most famous address. Warm, wise and revelatory, becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul
We will have with us later today two representatives. We understand in this building that can be a challenge. Fingers crossed we will have both congressional representatives with us. We also have several former commissioners with us. Thank you very much. Two fellow commissioners on the eeoc, thank you for coming. I understand that susan eisenhower, the granddaughter of president eisenhower, who in 1957 signed the commission into existence thank you for that. For joining us. John gore, acting assistant attorney general for civil rights at the United States department of justice, and cameron quinn, the officer for civil rights and Civil Liberties at dhs and also a former Virginia State Advisory Committee member for civil rights in virginia. We have several people who have traveled from california, illinois, and missouri to be with us. Thank you for coming from afar and thank you to everyone in our staff who has been with us today. You make sure we do the work we need to do. Thank you to
Join us live next weekend to discuss all of her books and take your questions. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Former new York City Police officer steve osborn is next. Talks about some of the experiences he had throughout his career. Our you doing. My name is steve osborn. I used to be in new york city cop for 20 years and years, the accent is real. The funny thing is a didnt know i had an accent and a liking to savannah. I was a cop for 20 years and became a writer. People ask me how do you go from being a cop to a writer . I dont like telling this story especially at a book festival with all the writers because they want to strangle me. A happened by accident. After retiring from the Police Department my life went from the fast lane to the slow lane and all of a sudden i have all this time on my hands. When you are caught, like a real cop and living that life you have no life. Working aroundtheclock, working nights, we cans, holidays, and never home. Then all of a sudden