If you dont know who we are we are located in harrisburg pennsylvania a few blocks down from the state Capital Building we are not open at the moment but we are still shipping across the country so please in this weird strange time we are living in. Thank you for your support and for tonight if you have a question for jared at any point we try to get to as many questions as possible later in the program. Introducing her author and speaker it is the author of the man they want me to be his political writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times and the new public and salon. As the associate professor of creative writing and of course his new book is titled american rule. Just one blurb on the website the right think of american has a companion to peoples history of the United States with the Public Education system and that would be required in high school curriculum. If you have not yet purchased american rule i would encourage you to do so and with the future of th
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I asked him how much he wanted. He said 250. I said fine. I didnt negotiate with him. David the famous fund manager, peter lynch, once said if you like a product, find out who the owner is because maybe the owner represents a good stock to buy. On that principle, when i heard my family kept going to a company in my neighborhood called fresh fields, an organic food chain, i began to say maybe theres an investment here, so i looked into it, and it turns out fresh fields was looking for some capital. My firm invested. We love the company. Then along came a Company Called whole foods, who said they wanted to buy it. I initially said i didnt want to sell, but when i met john mackey, i realized he had a gifted vision of where this business was going to go, so we did sell, and it turned out he was right. He built an incredible chain, and i still go to the store almost every day. What compelled you to start safer way and then whole foods . You were at university of texas. And did you drop out
They gavel it is session saturday morning and ten eastern. Watch the debate live on cspan good evening. Every saturday night throughout the summer, book tv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of hard twisted on binge watching. Tonight teacherg author is historian David Mccullough for it is author of a dozen books including bestselling histories, on the american revolutions, and the invention of mans spacefligh for some ofe Northwest Territory in the creation of the brooklyn bridge. Hes a two time winner about Pulitzer Prize and the National Book of board and his appearance he over 75 times. And coming up over the next several hours, we will show you some of those programs. S. First up in 1992, they appear on cspans program to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won thepr pulitzer prie biography would have changed the view on the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. You start out by saying im a as far back as nearly as he co
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