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Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much for coming. My name kim dorman and im the Community Engagement coordinator for the princeton public library. Its my pleasure to welcome you here. This and to introduce tonights program. I want to start by thank you all for joining us. This program is presented with support from the National Endowment for the humanities and in partnership with Princeton Universitys, charming and beyond, most of our Rahmani Center for iran and persian gulf studies and labyrinth books. Tonights event will run for about one hour. Dan sheffield, interim director for the sha...

Youre watching booktv with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv the, itsing for serious readers its television. Were very pleased to have our speakers today. Its great to have you and them back. After the program they will be signing their books out in the lobbylo for a brother brief period, so we encourage you to buy the book both during the program if you can do it quickly and after the program outside. I am very pleased to introduce peter baker, Susan Glasser and adam rah a sin sky all back to the Commonwealth Club. [applause] good afternoon and welcome to todays Commonwea...

Were thrilled that cspans book tv viewers are also joining us so welcome. Cspan will be herent throughout the day recording the events throughout the day. This stage has a long history of being one of the festivals most popular stages. Today youll be hearing from authors who delve deeply into the role women played in the civil rights movement, the improbable history of americas relationship with the bald eagle. A more complete accounting of the mexican revolution, and the strange history behind this search for the source of the nile river. Th the new bog fio of jim thorp. Please sit back, enjo...

Mikhail gorbachev, why did you write this book . So i thought that it is important to write a book about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i tried to avoid the temptation of the writers of many memoirs to prett...

Started. So, as always, when we are looking at in this class is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness culture. With working out. Even as the United States is not a particular fifth nation, and even as if anything, in the past 75 to 100 years or so that we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or a signal of individual virtue and morality, even as the ability to do so and having a quote unquote fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the kind of overarching arc of the class....