Has enabled us to invite so many prominent authors. [applause] i i would also like to recognize and thank New York Historical trustee, chairman emeritus roger herzog, who is responsible for the 2011 renovation of New York Historical Society Building as well as this magnificent robert a Smith Auditorium during his tenure as chairman. Lets give him a big hand, thank you. [applause] i also want to recognize and thank Trustees Barry barnett, joe pickett, ira and all the wonderful chapmans councilmembers with us with a great work and support as well. A few. [applause] so the program tonight will last an hour, include a questionandanswer session, and the q and who will be conducted via written questions on cards. You should receive a card and a pencil. If you havent, the staff are circulating right net and more out and they will be collected later on in the program. There will be a formal book signing in our ny history store on the 77th street side of our building, and copies of the books wi
Barack obama of wire tapping his phones during the campaign. Nbc news reports there is currently no evidence to back up those claims. In one of the six tweets he fired off at around 6 30 this morning, thats 3 00 a. M. Pacific time, trump wrote, terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is mccarthyism, exclamation point. How low has president obama gone to wiretap my phones . Trump has also tried to redirect the fallout from his attorney generals meetings with the Russian Ambassador. He tweeted, the first meeting Jeff Sessions had with the Russian Ambassador was set up under the Obama Administration. And just out, the same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the obama white house. The political fallout continues over sessions misleading answers to the Senate Judiciary committee about his meetings with the top russian diplomat in washington. He said this week he would recuse himself from potential inv
The great Russian-American writer Masha Gessen was standing on the stage at Bard College in New York in front of a sign that read "Crises of Democracy." It was