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For more information about the book fairs and festivals that booktv will be covering and to watch previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab on our web site, booktv. Org. Good afternoon, everybody. We shall get the proceedings underway. When barack obama was first elected president of the United States, he was riding a swell of hope however illusory that hope may have been been across the country that our first black or at least halfblack president would usher in an era of postracial h...

Press. I just did two delegation breakfast this morning before i came here. Over the last few days does a lot of work but there do with senator sanders team throughout the day just to coordinate and make sure that our floor programs are working together, we were coordinated on how to move forward on things. I think the next few days it will pivot a little more to focusing on planning for the next few days and that sort of thing. What has surprised you the most . Event interesting few days. What ...

Happened for instance in many families there is a lynching story. When you begin to think about what that means to have a lynching story in the family, how it shapes the way you move through this society and how it frames what you think about justice and how the system works in the society it is staggering. And so, one of the books i use was at the hands of persons unknown. That sounded like time, anyone else . Thank you so much. I appreciate this. [applause] we will have more book tv in prime t...

They speed up peace be that he turns right, left, and finally they stop what you doing . He said im not going to let you do this. It think about the courage that it took the 1946 in the middle of tennessee, and this lone white male in standing up before the sheriff and his posse to say i am not going to let you do this. Alliance so glad people in my age remember the aqua velvet of commercial . I needed that. It was a bracing moment. Okay. Fine. F solidarity. So there is history in this type of s...

Said all those made in dollars and everyone who works in the white house, he also trusted as the president leave something important on his nightly cable to iraq would be the president s daily brief or not but if the president s meeting with his closest advisers in the oval office with the situation room of the cabinet room and he realized he left something important on the nightstand, sometimes theyll have a butler bring it over, so youll have a butler come in with a plate of chocolate chip coo...

Attracted to the ideology, on the second question, the relationship with russia has been very complex and not to beat around the bush about it, russia is a player in syria and went in there to preserve their interests and at least to preserve it temporarily. But the russians will be key in moving him out at a certain time. Were in Constant Contact with the russians here and we have channels in geneva and people talk to them every single day about the ceasefire and in very extensive and detailed ...

Different rocket propellants and did trajectories for many early missiles. They worked on the corporal and the sergeant and then things changed when the space race happened and when nasa was formed. Then these womens roles began changing. They ended up becoming the labs first computer programmers. They had this incredibly long career at nasa. 40, 50 years. One of them still works at nasa today. And on sunday in depth is live with an author and documentary film maker sebastian younger who will ta...

To respond to these crises and to treat People Better in their own kick countries. Paleumbers, of course, compared to the large migrations we see overseas, but for many years we have been the leader in a program taking the most refugees from around the world and bringing them to the United States where they can restart their lives. This year, we are seeking to bring 85,000 refugees. So, an increase, and also to g 10,000 Syrian Refugees [applause] anne r. i get criticized from the right and the l...

Thank you so much. One of the questions i wanted to ask is about making sure women have the information they need. Having access to contraception. It is more of a technical one. Guidelines for women that are exposed or that are testing positive for zika. When they might give information about potential problems for the fetus. They had been saying 28 to 30 weeks is when they might be able to. I was wondering if you could comment on the state of the research, when women are getting information. Or...

[applause] thank you all for being here. Looking for to this discussion. No one appears congenitally shy so im hoping all of you can ignore me and ask each other questions. Have a lot of ground to cover and a lot of lively subjects. Lets start with the basics and then towards the end of the conversation i want to move into the world we are in now, the digital age, age of social media which creates a whole new set of questions. Jill, let me start with you. Editorial decisionmaking, for our collea...