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National book festival Live Saturday september 26 on booktv. And welcome to another summer evening with booktv is binge watch series. Tonight were focusing on books written by former first ladies. The first first lady to venture into publishing was nellie tapp who recalled her time in the white house in her 1914 memoir, recollections in four years. Since then another for slaves have published memoirs. We will focus tonight on five women with serve in a position in the last few years. First up, R...

Pivotal point in the president s work to ensure there are more smart, conservative jurists in the federal judiciary. Under the leadership of President Trump and leader mcconnell, the senate has prioritized confirming bright, wellqualified men and women who will serve our country for years to come. Im proud to support judge cory wilson and urge my colleagues to approve his nomination. Thank you, and i yield the floor. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the madam president. The presidi...

Good evening. It is a pleasurepl to welcome you here tonight please silence your cellphone no recording more photos allowed during the program. But cspan is here tonight so brush your hair you could be on tv. [laughter] sally quinn founder of the religious websites on a for the washingtonn post did has authored several books including the top party and happy endings. She is it in conversation with two good friends or also authors, elsa walsh the private and public struggles of three women and a ...

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 d...

The his strength in compassion in courage shine through any perceived shortcomings from this large portrait. The book has drawn praise from far and wide from john mecham in secretary of state kissinger. The New York Times book review praised in this fashion greenback to life the young president who for a brief moment is still the hope for the future for a angry and fearful americans. What we will never know is what might have been, no one can say. New nixon, no watergate, vietnam . No one knows....

I dont think so. The gop remains divided over trump. We immediate to build a relationship. This is like an arranged marriage. We thought we were going to marry somebody else. Were now going to marry somebody else. Paul ryan and his ilk have become so disconnected from the people whom they are elected to represent. You would think with donald trump getting the nomination it opens a republican voter to you. Ive had a lot of outreach from republicans in the last days. In canada firefighters have re...

Theyre fantastic bookstores, and we are grateful for them as always. Former Governor Haley barbour needs no introduction. You are familiar with his many years of work in the Nations Capital and he gets around on the world stage. I was talking several years ago to richard ford, who at the time was doing teaching at Trinity College in dublin and he was wandering around the campus kind of exploring his new setting and the opened the door to lecture hall and there is Haley Barbour lecturing on Inter...

Not. To assign this up . Then does what i want to know. Carry this with your wife mitt we had to introduce her to the kitchen because that is the one part she does not tell. [laughter] the other day we did that [laughter] i want some toast. [laughter] this was a darker color in the art was different. So we bright to ended up in the earlier the process to change out the carpet and some of the furniture. It has been almost 20 years. Because the interview with kerry is scheduled at 2 00 rand 5 00. ...

The most recent book 1932 the rise of hitler and fdr. Give us a snapshot of what america was like. It was a mass. A great depression. People were stopped from foreclosing on mortgages. Rioting in some of the cities like philadelphia and new york city a bonus march and in washington and a march and it was this uninspiring figure Herbert Hoover in the white house said roosevelt moving up fast but there were questions is he the man for the job . Is the light weight . Not just republicans but promin...

Middle east. Whoever gave a thought to kurds, for example. Who. But this is as i said, we used to know a heck of a lot about south africa. Now that knowledge has faded. And now we are experts or semi experts on the middle east and about what region next. He knows. I think, you know, what youre saying, the intimation. The first answer to your question is stop reading the New York Times. [laughter] much more than it used 210 or even my commentary. There is a sort of classic effort to say what is i...