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Good evening, everyone. Im just so so glad here tonight. Im going to say a few words about the strand before i welcome tonights guest. For a moment of history, the strand was founded 93 years ago by my grandfather, benjamin bass [applause] he founded the store in an area that was known as book row along Fourth Avenue just around the corner from here. It was the storm of the depression, and he defied the odds by surviving while all the other 48 bookstores in book row shutteredded. The store was then passed on to my late father, fred bass, who grew the store to a scale and popularity he never th...

Booktv was scheduled to be live in tucson and los angeles and cover festivals in new orleans and san antonio as well. All canceled. We know the effect its having on book fairs and large gatherings but is it having an effect also on bookstores and smaller businesses. Mitchell kaplan runs a chain of bookstores in based in coral gables florida called books and books mr. Kaplan has coronavirus affected your business . Yes, unfortunately it has. We been holding on as long as we could it looks like it looks like tomorrow will be closing down all six doors we have in the miami area and trying to move...

A little bit on the history thing there. A time for truth, if you can keep it by arab taxes, david and goliath by malcolm gladwell. And, i read the power behind the life by Richard Simmons and andy andrews. I think there is a another one or nine of them i will think of them in a minute. How do you select the book to read. Vaes i am big on biographies. And history. I tell people that smart people learn from their mistakes but brilliant people learn from other peoples mistakes and thats why you should read history. And biographies. Because you have the opportunity to learn not only what right, a...

Good afternoon everyone and welcome back if your with us earlier or you just joining us welcome to the Annapolis Book festival into the key school read my name is john beat i am a Foreign Service officer for International Development but much more importantly, am a proud father of three including a son who is a junior here at key school. I am very delighted to be able to join this conversation with our next author. Kenneth starr. Lets graciously come back to the festival this year to talke about his latest book. A memoir of his time leaving the 1990s investigations into whitewater and the Moni...

First of all i have to read various reports so there is ongoing work as the chairman of the subcommittee with a 90 billion of taxpayer money that keeps me busy however all the other things i want to read im working my way through the habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire 400 years of war with a great book called on me at the gate that details every one of the battles centers around the siege of vienna. To understand turkey understand the history of the empire and western europe right now a book called the death of caesar we are not into that political intrigue but what is happening during the perio...