Spring and summer long on our crowd cast a channel and i want to take a moment to say thank you to the Madison Public Library and the Madison Public Library foundation. Their support for online cultural events has been absolutely unwavering. Im just so excited to see john nichols. The support for these events has been unwavering and theyve been so dedicated to bringing these author events to all of you whether you are watching in your home in madison or across the country or across the globe we have seen an incredible uptick in our audience, people from all over and its just absolutely wonderful to see the response so thank you to everyone here tonight and all of the sponsors that made sure that these keep going. Without further ado i would like to bring you to the screen and step away myself. Hello everyone thank you for joining and larry thanks for coming all the way from massachusetts to be here tonight. Larry is on cape cod as we speak and we have about 100 people with us and as wa
Please click the button at the bottom. I am sure larry will pick it up i will let me support your bookstore and make an offer nobody will find attractive but if you wanted personalized, normally doing a book signing, indicate when you put in the order, i will send the signature plate personalized to you, i want to say thank you. An extraordinary person we dont see on screen today was supportive of me in the Bobby Kennedy book and hes an extraordinary guy but thank you all. Weekly this month featuring booktv programs as a preview of what is available every weekend on cspan2. We focus on covert operations. Former fbi special agent talks about the early years of the war on terror. Chris whipple talks to former cia directors to provide an inside look at intelligence operation operations. The book the great secret looks back at the sinking of 17 allied ships in italy in december of 1943, that starts at 8 00 pm eastern. Enjoy booktv this weekend every weekend on cspan2. You are watching book
The generous support of our underwriters of the Kennedy Library museum. The Lowell Institute in our media sponsors the boston globe and wbur. We look forward to robust questionandanswer period this evening. You will see full instructions on the screen for submitting your questions via email or in the comments on our youtube page during the program. We are so grateful to have this opportunity to explore president kennedys earlier years and depth with our distinguished speakers this evening. This is the first major work about president kennedy in many years. We have been anticipating this for some time. Much of professor legevalls research took place in the kennedy archive and we are please to look at this conference a new look at president kennedys formative years. Im now delighted to introduce tonight speakers. We are so glad to welcome Frederik Logevall back to the Kennedy Library virtually. He is lawrence the bill for professor of International Affairs and professor of history at har
Foundation. Their support for online cultural events has been absolutely unwavering and they are, oh my gosh, im so excited to see john nichols. Their support for these events has been absolutely unwavering and they have been so dedicated bringing author events to all of you whether you are watching in your home in madison or across the country or across the globe. Seen an incredible uptick in her audience of people from all over and it is just absolutely wonderful to see the response. Thank you to everyone here tonight and everyone who comes and to all the sponsors who made sure these events keep going. Without further ado i would like to bring john and mary to the screen and step away myself. Larry tye. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us. Larry, thanks for coming all the way to massachusetts to be here with us. [laughter] larry is on cape cod as we speak. You have about 100 people or close to 100 people with us and some more may join us as we go along and as was explained upfro
Your television provider. Good evening everyone. Im the director of the book festival. Thank you so a much for being here tonight. We are absolutely delighted to be hosting larry tye for his book demagogue. About senator joseph mccarthy. His long sign john nichols. The Capital Times and associative and under in a magazine. We could not be more delighted to be hosting this event for you. Also along here on our podcast channel. I want to take a moment to say thank you to Madison Public Library and the foundation. Their support for online cultural events has been absolutely unwavering. Im so excited to see john nichols. Their support for these events have been absolutely unwavering. And they have been so dedicated to bring authors and to all of you, said that you can watch her home. It in medicine, weve seen incredible uptake in our audience, people from all over and its absolutely wonderful to see the response i think it everyone who is here tonight. It and to all of the sponsors to make