Thanks for inviting me to come on with you, and im really looking forward to this conversation. As you know, aye been add an mirier of your work on executive privilege. This should be a lot of fun. I started out wary of President Trump. I wasnt a supporter of his in the 2016 election, expect thing that really worried me was that he was a populist. The constitution seems designed to stop populists. Its fairly democratic in a lot of ways. The so i was worried when trump came in as a populist who wants to achieve an agenda that he feels he received a mandate for, that he would strain against or even go beyond the constitutional constraints of husband power. And i was worried he was doing that in things like the travel ban, threats to build the border wall without congressional approval. And in that early piece i urged him to try to use his president ial powers primarily for National Security and Foreign Affairs and instead to understand Domestic Affairs that his role is really to enforce
Or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. And now from the 2015 roosevelt reading festival, Molly Guptill manning discusses her book, when books went to war the stories that helped us win world war ii. And now it is my pleasure to introduce our author for this session, Molly Manning. She will be discussing her new book, when books went to war the stories that helped us win world war ii. Molly manning grew up in new york north of albany, so welcome back to the Hudson River Valley to you. She graduatedfy bay a that capita from if fy beta cap kappa. A graduate of the Cardozo School of law in new york city, shes an attorney for the United States court of appeals for the Second Circuit in new york city. In 2012 she published her first book. It tells the true story of one of the most elaborate literary hoaxes in american history. Her latest book, when books went to war, tells the amazing and inspiring story of how the United States government and americas librarians and p
Member of the Roosevelt Library and become a member of the information table just outside the door. At this time i would like to ask you to turn off your cell phones and thank cspan for covering this today and quickly go over the format for this session. We will start with our speaker in just a moment. Then i will follow that up if you have questions make your way over to the microphone so we are able to pick up the question in the author will move down the hall to the table outside of our new deals bookstore where you can purchase the book and have the author signed them. 2012 is an adjunct member of the Arizona State university and his fields of study include Public Policy, political history, latin america, u. S. mexico border land and sanford, arizona, i want to introduce patrick lukens. [applause] thank you. I want to thank bob clark and the rest of the staff and the president ial library to be one of todays presenters. And preparing this presentation and Headline News over the pas
Onto a commute to the National Book festival and to this presentation on the new book, our declaration. Earlier today Walter Isaacson discussed his book, the innovators in which he places creativity at the intersection of science and art. Danielle allen, the author of our declaration finds her creativity at the intersection of classical studies and political theory, subject of which she is a master or a doctor tissue holds ph. D. S in both subjects. Isakson found that the brilliance that gave the world a programmable computer and eventually the internet could not have come from the inspired efforts of an individual. Of necessity they sprang from the collaboration of many inspired individuals. Similarly dr. Allen finds the assembling of the 1337 words of the declaration of independence was the result of a vast array of conversations, collaborations and debates among a surprisingly large number of collaborators. Indeed, this book itself is a brilliance collaboration. While a single hand,
All of our projects are tragedy because we no tragedy is a tool. But im sure, is a tool, too. Talk to us in 20 years. Thank you so much. Hello. How are you . First of all, just thank you for the wonderful, wild, cosmic, strange, fantastic reading. I think everybody feels the same about it. We are very touched and involved emotionally with what you were saying. And about account i just related posted to the part about dying in hospital. My father recently passed away, and he was not a soldier but he was a high priest in judaism. So i was listening very carefully when youre talking about the studying of hebrew. And also i think there was a point we mentioned w. H. I wouldnt in dover beach, the poem. Its a very wonderful thing a last stand about a good armies clashing by night, might want to do that in sometime. And thats alas, theres counseling nothing inappropriate for south florida. So when you go to the bar, go crazy. We will take that to heart when they go out tonight. Thank you. Tha