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Good morning. I am the Education Specialist at the roosevelt president ial library and museum and on behalf of the fdr president ial Library Museum welcome you in our audience, those of you at home watching on cspan to the tenth annual roosevelt reading festival. Franklin roosevelts plan for the library to become a premier Research Institution for the study of the roosevelt era, the librarys Research Room is one of the busiest of all the president ial libraries and this years group of authors re...

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Roosevelts tomorrow is now. Coverage of the 2013 president reaching festival starts now. Here is maureen beasley. Good morning. I am the Education Specialist at the roosevelt president ial library and museum and on behalf of the fdr president ial Library Museum welcome you in our audience, those of you at home watching on cspan to the tenth annual roosevelt reading festival. Franklin roosevelts plan for the library to become a premier Research Institution for the study of the roosevelt era, the ...

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>> more successful influence on how government operates than they did 15 years ago, and, of course, a lot of that is people like elizabeth warren and many of us in this room disagree with, but you have, you know, increasingly through blogging through real world-oriented scholarship, you have much more effective liberal forms of, you know, styles of being a law professor than you had back in the days of critical legal studies and critical rest area. theres the second end not that closel...

core the complete booktv schedule at booktv.org. >> next on booktv military historian jonathan jordan presents a biography of general eisenhower, george patton and omar bradley. the author explores the personal and working relationships of the three men, all graduates of west point who were equally friends and opponents. it is a little under an hour. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the national world war ii museum. of pleasure to see such a pact house tonight and i ca...

her on "the communicators." thank you. >> guest: thank you. >> next, we continue our first lady programming with jacqueline kennedy. barbara perry, former judicial fellow at the u.s. supreme court, recounts the transformative effect mrs. kennedy had on the office of the first lady from her renowned celebrity to her engagement in the arts and the championing of cultural institutions. this is about an hour. >> thank you, don, so much for putting this series together, for that very nice i...

her most recent book is what she will be discussing with us today. "eleanor roosevelt: transformative first lady." [applause] >> thank you so much. it was really wonderful to find out that we have this connection. his grandfather was mayor of that town that i grew up in. i have a feeling that his father actually was a student of my mother at smith caught a high-school. im going to tell you of a bad about that as i get into my speech on and eleanor roosevelt, but i do want to thank dr. ...

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schedules e-mailed. sign up for booktv alert. >> the 2011 pulitzer prize winners have been announced. at 9:45 a.m. eastern, watch three authors discuss their books. >> for a complete list of the 2011 pulitzer prize winners, visit booktv.org and check out the news about books section of the page. >> maureen beasley recalls eleanor roosevelts years as first lady detailing her involvement in politics and her transformation of the position of first lady from one that was largely unacknowle...