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Joseph henrik for his book the weirdest. People in the world how the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous. Weird stands for western educated industrialized rich and democratic and henrik explains how this part of the world the west came to lead the way in embracing markets and individual liberty. The book is a stunning accomplishment. And a testament to the power of culture to build prosperity. But before we hear more about joseph henrik and his research, i wanted to talk a bit about the hayek prize and what it stands for the prize comes with a 50,000 award which ma...

On booktv on cspan 2. Good afternoon. I am so glad to see all of you here on this Beautiful Day to join a National Book festival. Mine is in a Community Affairs at wells fargo for the midatlantic region. And so want to be here representing wells fargo is both an avid reader myself. I really dont remember a time in my life when i wasnt an avid reader. I just loved reading. I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina and had the benefit of the library account be an adjacent to backyard. But at the library of congress obviously, but its a wonderful asset to the community. Around the corner t...

We get started, there was some big news last week that slipped through my news crack, and it concerns someone ive admired for years, and yet surprisingly is not me. Im talking about david letterman, who last thursday night announced his retirement. And i am going to miss this good man. Dave has been on the air my entire adult life, late night debuted my first year in college. I learned more from watching dave than i did from going to my classes. cheers and applause . Especially especially the ones i did not go to because i had stayed up until 1 30 watching dave. applause this man has influence...

On autobiography. The book examines the differences in writing styles between men and women in autobiographical works. This encore presentation is just under an hour. Cspan jill ker conway, author of when memory speaks reflections on autobiography, where did you get the idea for this . Guest well, i have been traveling around with my publicist from alfred knopf and giving readings from some of my earlier volumes and memoirs, and i started to explain to the audience before i read something about the genre, something about its history and where i thought my own work fitted in with it. And the au...

At a recent trip to new york city, but tv tour the headquarters of book publisher Simon Schuster. While there were profiled several principal players respond beaufort books publication from acquisition to editing, and sales. We also discussed the history of your now it 90th year in the Current Health and future of the Publishing Industry. The mac who are your . Well, they were not shuster and Richard Simon and they were two gentlemen who are friends with one another. Way back in 1924 they decided to start a Publishing House on their own. They have been working on Publishing Houses that thought...