Library and museum. On behalf of my library and foundation colleagues i am delighted to welcome all of you for watching tonight program online. Thank you for joining us this evening. I would also like to acknowledge the generous support of her underwriters of the Kennedy Library forms. Lead sponsors bank of america and the Lowell Institute and her media sponsors, the boston globe and wbur. We look for to a robust question and answers this evening turkey 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 in depth with a 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 the research took place in the Kennedy Library archives and we are very pleased to learn more about this, rancid new look of president kenne
From our archives, with Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Mccullough. He has appeared on booktv more than 50 times. All of the programs youre about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website, booktv. Org, using the search function at the top of the page. First, in 1992 on the book notes Program David mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The attempted assassination, a number of president s of been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . Guest just wasnt. Why would there be a pension . Pension for everybody else but opens and for president , he had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly, which dean addison cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown it doesnt mean he didnt have any money, he did have money but needed some ca
Book, black waves, memory in the middle east. I spent the weekend reading it, i didnt quite get through it. I couldnt put it down, so interesting. If you havent read it, after this evening youll try to get the book if you havent already, but i would urge you to read it. Absolutely fascinating. Very wellwritten and wellresearched, theres a narrative flow to it and its very troubling, i have to say, but thats the purpose of the book, i think. I would like to announce, unfortunately, that our event in two days with ambassador dennis ross who is another expert in the middle east, is unable to come to college station. He had a family emergency and so his lecture wednesday evening will be postponed till later. Kim ghattas is an Emmy Award Winning journalist and writer covered the middle east for bbc and financial times. She reported from iraq, saudi arabia, syria, lebanon, and she covered the war between israel and hezbollah, earning an emmy for International News coverage. Shes also a repor
Study, mrs. Hols also conducted research at the jet Propulsion Library on the history of women in america at harvard. The first book. It is written widely for prominent publications. The los angeles time, the atlan atlantic. The rise of the rocket girls, the women who propelled us from missiles, to the moon, to mars. That work was a best seller and was widely praised bring critics including one who described it as immersive, e vvocative. Another called it a marvelous book adding when Neil Armstrong made his leap for mankind, there was woman kind in the control room. It is a plash, pleasure indeed to welcome nathalia holt. I am excited to talk to you about rocket girls. The sevecareers shaped nasa andt it is today. Now before i get into their histories, i want to share with you just a small slice of my own history. And that is because i cant to the book in a very unusual way. I came to boston, i was pregnant and expecting my first baby. We argued other names, we made long lists, and not
[ applause ] dont get carried away. Shell get, you know. Now, obviously, i could do this privately and i have, but id like to say a public thank you to terry for her support, which has not only been tangible in support of the series but also personal in her encouragement and advice over the course of many years, including many good topic suggestions and if you are here, you know she was responsible for the beach boys, but others we have enjoyed over the years. Thanks to her suggestion. So, terry, would you please stand up . [ applause ] now, tonights speaker claire l. Evans has achieved notable success both as a musician and as a writer. In the former career, she is the lead singer and cofounder of the conception al pop group yacht and has in fact recently turned from a tour in europe with that group. But it is her second career as an expert in the area of technology that brings her to us tonight. In that regard, she is the former futures editor of mother board and a contributor to vic