At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter as its literature, music and art as congressman greg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee on House Administration and serves on the House Committee on energy and commerce, the joint committee on printing and perhaps most pertinently for us here today, as the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gre
About the most difficult period of our familys lives. What did you find out that your parents had been communists at one point i knew as i was growing up but it was never talked about. It was a shadow of our familys life. But the time i knew my dad he was conscious of him, he had moved on and survived very well and taught me all the lessons i used in my own journalistic career, dont fall for any rigid ideology, search for the truth wherever it takes you. It was only a shadow in our family after that. But at the same time, you didnt talk about it within the family was it was it because tothey wanted to keep it camped down or why . I dont think my father was embarrassed by it but i think he didnt want to be defined by it. He had learned some lessons from that soperiod he always ma clear his idealism and optimism. It was different times. He was in a different place he wanted his family to flourish so it wasnt brought up. How did it affect your life growing up . It affected my life mostly
Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
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David, thank you very much. Thank you. We continue with the book, about how madison became the wisconsin state capital. F i decided to write a book that covered all of the history of madison because im not from madison. I group up in a suburb of seattle and i moved here not really knowing much about wisconsin and i started learning more about its history as i spent more time here and i really wanted to write a book for someone, like me, who may be didnt grow up here, wasnt really familiar with its history, as well as maybe people who have lived here their whole lives. I think one of the things that was the most surprising thing to me was how hard madison had to hang on to being the capital of wisconsin. They were in constant jeopardy of losing it stat losing its status. First, the territorially capital and the capital. There was a guy named james and he was a land speculator and he invested in the land and the only people were living here were people with a camp along the shores and fu