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On booktv on cspan 2. Good afternoon. I am so glad to see all of you here on this Beautiful Day to join a National Book festival. Mine is in a Community Affairs at wells fargo for the midatlantic region. And so want to be here representing wells fargo is both an avid reader myself. I really dont remember a time in my life when i wasnt an avid reader. I just loved reading. I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina and had the benefit of the library account be an adjacent to backyard. But a...

The executive director of the American Society of comptrollers. Without further ado, please join me in welcoming one of my favorites, robert hale. [applause] good morning. How is everyone doing . Listen, i am glad to be here. For a number of reasons. One of them is that comptrollers do not get invited out that much. I have a number of stories. Bad news is you have a serious problem and if you dont have an immediate transplant, youre going to die. But the good news is i have three donors, you can...

And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis exactly one year before dr. King was assassinated in memphis, he gave one of his most powerful speeches at the Riverside Church in new york city. He called into question his countrys involvement in vietnam and the economic disparity that was tearing the fabric of america. Tonight, in the first of two nights, we explore what led him to deliver a speech that would result in controversy and eventual betrayal. I come to...

Egocentric adrenaline junkie who deciphered the human genetic code is experimenting with synthetic life in the laboratory. Arent you playing god . Were not playing anything. Were understanding the roles of life. Do you believe in god . No. [ticking] this is the first allelectric sports car, the roadster, made by tesla motors. Yeah, you can floor it, no problem. Itll be fine. All right. Here i go. You ready . The chairman of tesla, elon musk, says the roadster can accelerate from 0 to 60 in four ...

We had john hodgman from the daily show who came out and helped us to it. Being in a bookstore on a friday night people, okay so all of us really, all of us. I want to say the most important thing of all and it will be the most important thing i say tonight is thank you. Everything i say after that well be will be straight downhill and i will tell you some of this is a big thank yous to the end. But we are here to talk about is the the fifth assassin. People say what you where do you get your id...

Donald barlett, when did you and james steele start working together . Guest 1971. Host how did you meet . The newsroom of the Philadelphia Inquirer. It was interesting. We were both hired. Guest we actually arrived on the same day. Guest same day. We never knew each other and had almost no contact area are firstyear. Host who teamed you up . Guest someone at the paper, the paper and recently changed ownership, and he was very interested in projects, investigative projects, enterprise journalism...

Decoder rings used in one place. That is the nerdiest thing you can do with your time ever. We had john from day daily show helped us. And nothing is better except being in a book store on a friday night. So i pity all of us, really, all of us. I want to say the most important thing of all, it will be the most important thing ill say all night, and thank you. Everything i say after that will be straight downtown hill, and some of the specific thank yous to the end. Were here too talk about fifth...

As Bobby Kennedys memoir was called back in 1959 and is hollywood version with kevin costner. What made you decide to focus on the aftermath . Guest there are two things i want to talk about what this book, two different tracks that end up dovetailing. First of almost of the books on the cuban missile crisis and on october 28 when khrushchev decided he was going to back down and he had agreed to withdraw the missiles from cuba. So the first question i had was not what . What happened . Interesti...

Kind of treat. My good friend and sometime ago author has written what will surely be considered the definitive account of a onceinalifetime case, the constitutional challenge to obamacare. Not the definitive academic treatment on the Supreme Court ruling, let alone its indications for health care policy, but the inside story of a legal and political tugofwar that embroiled all three branches of government. The book was the wall street journal calls excellent offers unrivaled access to the key D...

Interested in projects, and investigative projects, enterprise journalism and he thought the two of us were newcomers, might be able to work together. Very often that doesnt work and people dont like to work together. We tried an experiment and so far so good. Hey say. Host why did it work for so long . Guest we think it worked because a similarity of work ethics. We both love to research and report. We love to research and report and we were of sound mind and it makes for a sound mind that is h...