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Up next on booktv after words with guest host Gregory Jaczko the former chair of the u. S. Nuclear regulatory commission. This week lets are prizewinning journalists Susan Stranahan and her latest book fukushima the story of a nuclear disaster. In it the environmental newswriter helps members of the union of concerned scientist to present the first definitive account of of the Fukushima Nuclear power plant meltdown after the march, 2011 tsunami. This program is about an hour. Host welcome susan....

Host this is a great opportunity for me. Normally, im the person having the questions asked of me, and now i get the opportunity to ask a former journalist questions about the book you wrote. So i look forward to guest ill do my best. It is an unas cos tommed role for me to answer questions. Its good to be here. Host im glad. I wanted to start to just ask you a few issues that are general in nature about the book. The first question is what drove you to this topic . What made you interested in w...

The battle of Lake Champlain was important. In my opinion, arthur cohn is the best person to explain why that is so. You know him from his career at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. I am most pleased he accepted an invitation to speak to us on the exact 200th anniversary of the battle. And to include the battles shipwreck legacy as part of the program. I understand that art will take a few audience questions after his presentation. Lets welcome art. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Good eveni...

Can critique that manuscript before it is too late . We have all been there when our book has come out and you participate in a panel and people always say, you should have done this, you should have done that. Today, we do have one of the worlds leading scholars, jeff engel, who i will say a word about first. Jeff is presenting his manuscript very much in progress. The title is when the world seemed new george h. W. Bush and the end of the cold war. Jeff is an associate professor of history and...

Conference, but you need something to tie the room together. Why dont you have a leading scholar come in and present a manuscript in progress and really bring some of the leading scholars and practitioners who can critique that manuscript before it is too late . We have all been there when our book has come out and you participate in a panel and people always say, you should have done this, you should have done that. Today, we do have one of the worlds leading scholars, jeff engel, who i will sa...

I had the idea that maybe i could just find an apartment over someones garage. I really didnt need very much, didnt want very much. But in a small town like that, an apartment, that kind of a rental was actually harder to come by than a house, for example, to rent. And a good friend of theirs had suggested that i look at the house two doors down from theirs where by that time i had spent a lot of time with both of them as something that i could rent for a time in monroeville. And i did say to bo...

Into the conference center. Lunch will be served. The rest rooms are to your right. People look out for the yellow wall. All that is left for me is to thank our panelists. Please, join me in thanking them. [applause] on tuesday, the first debate was held for louisianas u. S. Senate seat. Louisiana has an open primary system in which all candidates in office run against each other with the majority votegetter getting the election. However, run off election will occur between the top two candidate...

Collections off to the best possible advantage and great public spaces and we have a really exciting search and on the last day, of our last tour of duty, traveling around we were in oslow and we met with craig and his partner and at the end of that day, we knew and there was. We knew in no Uncertain Terms that this was the firm that we wanted to work with and i can only say that as i welcome craig up to the podium the last three thought and it actually does, this is followed by a creative phase...

Being questioned right now by officers. This morning, attorney general eric holder is in the bay area where hes expected to call for major changes to the criminal Justice System and it could mean inmates could be released sooner. Dozens guests evacuated in florida from a sinkhole. Well, good morning. Were looking at live pictures of a fire underway in vacaville. A lot of firefighters out there knocking the flames down. Several people were forced out of their homes as a result. Well bring you a l...

Entering dao into here, the next couple of years, to culminate will be the most exhilarating and exciting into the entire history of this museum. And i could not be more exciting about this and i think that the board and the staff and the Community Shares that great excitement. At the forefront of all of this work and we could not have asked for a better leader at this time is chunk shwabb the chair and i would like to pass it now to john. Good afternoon, good morning, everybody. What an incredi...