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For a little bit of history in the late 1800s this area around the bookstore in Greenwich Village was the epicenter of publishers and book sellers. Charles scribners and son. Divine press, they all had editorial offices, and down below they all had bookstores to display their new books. Along 4th avjust around on that side was known as book row at its height there were 48 used book stores of which strand is the soul survivor. As the owner of the strand with its 18miles of books i am not easily p...

Thank you for being with us organizing todays event in my Live Audience here in San Francisco you can always visit us at www. Commonwealth club. Org and with the upcoming schedule. With cohost of morning edition of npr with jesse and john fremont thank you for coming. [applause] thank you everyone im delighted you could come this afternoon one of the most beautiful cities in the world San Francisco and to talk about jesse and john fremont to had some issue with the creation of california as we k...

Beliefs, judgments,ideologies direct those decisions. Direct the report. So what does that mean . Does that mean its hopeless, that everythings opinion . In feature stories the choice of a protagonist and antagonist, we call this ammo when were running our word world journalisminstitute. Even simple stories out protagonist, antagonist, mission obstacles and the basic structure is someone does something because , but and then youhave the tension that comes in. Reporters decide who the someone is,...

We are very happy to have megan here with a new book, their three quarter, the union the confederacy native peoples in the site for the west. This is an engrossing narrative account which shows the civil war, the indian wars, and western expansion, were all interconnected. The 1860s were truly at times, National Conflict which involve not only the more pleasant south but also the american west. Her primary Source Research involved letters and diaries, military records and oral histories and phot...

Special event this evening with kim ghattas who is going to speak of the recent book, black wave saudi arabia, iran and the fortyyear rivalry that unleashed collective memory in the middle east. I have to say i spent the weekend reading it. I didnt quite get through but i couldnt put it down it was so interesting. If you havent read it after this evening you can get the book if you havent already but i would urge you to read it to be at its fascinating and very wellwritten and very well research...

Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert dems the break week 2020 candidates, gone but not forgotten, except the ones we forgot. Tonight taunts and prayers. Plus stephen welcomes mayor Pete Buttigieg and Patton Oswalt. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen hey, hi there cheers and applause fantastic. Very nice, very nice. How lovely. How lovely to be with all of you. No pla...

Horn. Please give a warm savannah welcome to jaquira diaz. [applause] hi. Thank you so much. Im so happy to be here and its wonderful to see all of you booklovers here and thank youo savannah for your southern hospitality. I also want to thank the savannah book festival and everyone who made thist event possible including sponsors, booksellers. Lets give it up for the indie room. Llers in the [applause] i love you all. Thank you for all that you do for championing writers and supportingng ordina...

Director of the schoolcraft institute of internationalst here at the texas a m university. I would like to welcome our specialco event this evening wih kim ghattas who will speak on a recent book, black wave, saudi arabia, iran and the 40 year rivalry that unraveled culture, religion and collective memory in the middle east. I have to say i spent the weekend reading and did not quite get the right but cannot put it down because it wasnt so interesting. If you have not read it afterre this evenin...

We dont do that in america. I know. Because theres a huge distance between that kind of invasion and the stuff im talking about, which is stuff that we can control. We can control muni. We can arguably vote bart. Theres a huge difference between monitoring people on their cell phones that we do not do and will not accept in our culture and what you are recommending. Can you bring that together quickly now, sir. I would say the key issue is for us to minimize, to the extent possible, nonessential...

Additional funding is provided by. E corpornding is provided by. L ken starr, welcome to firie. Thank you, margaret. Youve been involved in both impeachments in this countrys modern history. In the 1990s, you led the probe that investigated bill clinton and ultimately recomnded grounds for impeachment. And then, you were alsoen most ry involved as defense counsel in president trumps impeachment trial. True . [ chuckles ] te . True. True . I wou quibble a little bit with the description in the cl...