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After words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. And now a panel on the life and career of recentlyretired librarian of Congress James billington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Please take your seats. My understanding is were live on cspan, so behave yourselves. Inform. [laughter] welcome to valentines day a bit early. Im jane harman, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center, and i cant and we cant imagine what the Wilson Center would look like today if nobody had been smart enou...

American story. Visit cspan. Org history for more information. We traveled to the Minnesota Historical society and hear about the 1920s and 30s gangster era. Bank robbers were seen as kind of anti heroes who were evening the score after the depression which is totally untrue. They were killers who wanted money, but the public saw the gangsters and a more romantic light. And you knew as you drank with them that they wouldnt kill you because they all had the deal between the cops and crooks. We st...

Nice to see the sun has finally been beaten from its submission or else people would move. That was wonderful. Thank you so much for being here today. Theres a loss in the this property is no longer being handed down in the same way it has been since 1652, but the advantage is that there is an organization here now that is dedicated to preserving, down from 8000 acres to the remaining 243. And making sure that we dont lose another one. And there is an organic farm that is planted here. We have h...

Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to rem...

Im very pleased to present to this audience my new book, women only the gulag. Pore rates of five remarkable lives, at is said about writing letters, its mere difficult to write a short one than a long one. My book is short. And it attempts to capture sights, sounds, and smells of the great terror of 19371938, through the eyes of five women caught up in extraordinary circumstances. I wish to thank collectively my friends and colleagues at the Hoover Institution, the Hoover Institution library an...

The first is you have to have a legitimate government you cant have these powersharing agreements very at peac people n government are there to enrich their clan and there has to be a lot more people sen people cento there has to be some point where people are allowed to vote to select their own leaders and have a lot better situation. The second thing is to reduce the amount of violence. The main priority is if youre into violence in somalia you can have some Political Development and Economic ...

The president who saw the worst years of the depression and the Great Depression was so bad that a lot of our modern history is about assigning blame for it figuring out whose fault that depression was. Many people blame hoover and down the decades increasingly so. The 31st president of the United States was ranked 37 out of 43 in a recent u. S. News poll. That magazine wrote of hoover, he was known as a poor communicator who fueled. Wars and exacerbated the depression. Not only those on the lef...

There is a musician very much involved them a good living as a computer programmer. Some of the most shoplifted and lived in squats. So theres all sorts of different people. Unfortunately, weve run out of time. 20 thank you for questions. Human to touch on many areas i hope we would have more time to explore and theres so much more in the book. Masha gessen will be signing outside. Id like to ask all of you to think about supporting the program that brings these kinds of writers to los angeles. ...

I loved it so much. And i thought maybe start with what got you on to the book, lets start with the most difficult emotional narrative of your life. Can you talk a little bit because you do in the book what got you thinking about foster care and what happens when childhood is disrupted . Guest a couple things. First of all, thank you for being here and thank you to the strand for having us and thank you, everybody, for coming. Difficult stuff. Host but make it funny. Guest funny, difficult stuff...

They were both acquitted in the 70s. Or the case of the austrian perpetrators who go back to vienna and dont even, i mean, their cases are heard in a kind of closed court, but theyre treated with the utmost kind of respect as being these ladies and told to go home. Host so most of these women who worked with the nazis kind of faded back into normal, socalled normal life, correct . Guest yes, yes. And this is really another astounding piece of the story, is how much contact, how much this brought...