About 15 or 20 book raps pper year. If youre not already on the email list, and youd like to know about future events, please see me and i will put you on the list. Speaking of future events, we could try guest, i want to tell you about some coming up in july. All of which begin at 6 pm. On tuesday, july 8, tom purdom will discuss his book, an idea an idea whose time has come two president s, two parties, and the battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Brad thor will discuss his book act of war. On tuesday, july 15th, tom young will discuss his book, sand and fire. On tuesday, july 22, Aneesh Chopra will discuss his book, innovative state how new technologies can transform government. Events for this rap is as follows i will introduce our guest, then i will have a conversation with him. After that, you can ask them questions. When we have run out of time for questions i imagine quite a few he will be signing yearbooks. Also been told that we will have jazz night upstairs with a live b
Are open. The numbers are on the bottom of your screen. A very good saturday morning. Here are the headlines that americans are waking up to this morning. Many of them talking about the economic and jobs situation in the country. The lead story in the Los Angeles Times the wall street journal this morning. The Orange County register this morning. Heres the front page of the Financial Times weekend paper. Finally to the front page of the Washington Post this morning. President obama spoke about the jobs situation and wage situation yesterday in remarks at the white house briefly before he introduced his new pick to head the pentagon. Heres a bit of what the president had to say at the beginning of that statement. Last month americas businesses created more than 300,000 jobs. This keeps a pace so tar this year so far this year that we have not seen since the 1990s. So far this year over the first 11 months of 2014 our economy has created 2. 65 million jobs. Thats more than in any entire
Host did you ever do the post . Guest never did. Oh. Host where was this picture taken . Guest the first decent apartment i had in new york. Recently divorced, single mother in my late 20s. It was on the Upper West Side and my 2yearold daughters window looked out on the fire escape. Host quick preview of daring my passages anymore in the fall. You are watching the booktv on cspan2. Now on booktv marion berry discusses his up bringing in mississippi, his early political activism and experiences as the mayor of washington, d. C. He also talks about the scandals that almost ruined him from his time in prison for cocaine possession in dc politics following the release. This is just over an hour. Good evening everybody. Welcome to the National Press club for this special events. I am Eleanor Herman and im a member of the club book and author committee. We are very glad youve come to this event and we hope you enjoy it. The club has 15 or 20 of these every year on a variety of books fiction
Good evening, everybody, and welcome to the National Press club. Im eleanor herman, and im a member of the clubs book and author committee. Were very glad youve come to this e event, and we hope that you enjoy it. The club has about 15 or 20 of these book raps every year on a variety of books, both fiction and nonfiction. So if you are not already on our email list and would like to learn of future events, please see me after the event, and i will put you on our email list. We dont overload you we mails, its usually about one a month that youll get. So speaking of future events, before we get to our guest, i want to just tell you of some coming up in july, all of which begin at 6 30 p. M. Unless otherwise noted. On tuesday, july 8th, todd per dumb will discuss his book. On wednesday, july 9th, brad author will discuss his novel, about of war. On tuesday, july 15th, tom young will present his latest military thriller, sand and fire. And on tuesday, july 22nd at 6 p. M. , Aneesh Chopra w
Gamechanging kind of potential to have someone like ted championing this cause, and it had the potential it turn it from what had been at best a partisan fight into a debate about civil rights. And so they then set out to find the plaintiffs. And ted actually had wanted a different kind of he had a specific set of criteria. He wanted a bookstore owner. He wanted a cop. And i forget what the other two they wanted six altogether because they figured what if the opposition turned up something in somebodys background. They just wanted to have more, and he didnt want any children. He thought that that was a complicating kind of factor, which is, of course, really ironic because if any of you have followed this, when Justice Kennedy when these cases finally got to the Supreme Court, it was the kids that Justice Kennedy was very focused on, like what about the 40,000 children of gay couples in california . Dont they have arent they part of this story . Arent they part of this argument . Why s