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Give a warm welcome to the stage. [applause]. I hope you are having as much fun as i am at this festival. [applause]. I think of students in college a few of you were in college a few years ago as the best thing to do is to take the teacher not the course and here i think of things to take these incredible authors and be in a room with them. Whatever theyre talking about. The only problem is there is someone in every room. That you want to be with. I think you heard from them all at one point or another. They have also done some the other interesting things. American shots. He is the cn and hi...

Macmillan and jon meacham. I hope that you are having as much fun as accessible as i am. [applause] [cheering] the best thing to do is to take the teacher, not the course. To take these incredible authors and whatever they are talking about. The only problem with this festival is there is somebody in every room. I think you heard from them all at one point or another. Douglas brinkley has also done so many other interesting thin things. John f. Kennedy and the great space race. He is the cnn historian and has a little basement studio envy of jon meacham, whos got that at msnbc. [laughter] of c...

I think that they raise issues that we have today. In the tension between idealism and pragmatism. The important thing is that traditionally weak cover these guys independently. We assume that because the it or was republican and franklin was a democrat that you can segment them and they contribute to different silos of American History when in fact they intertwined and integrated families, with the last name roosevelt is of much more interest. Exponentially more interesting when you see how related they arent that there is no franklin or eleanor without theodore. That there is no new deal, wi...

Subject. And you are obligated to respect that and cover it, write about it in all fairness to your reader. The cast of characters is already ordained. With this book, i can cast the book myself. I would take the people that i wanted to write about. Probably 12 major characters in this book, probably 20 some people overall who are americans but thats a fraction of the number that went to paris during the 70 year. Not that i am covering. So when organizing the book, organizing my approach to the subject i was in many ways like a casting director. They would come in, show me what they could do, ...

Challenged in the ray rice case. Baltimore ravens back on the field. Espn reports that he said he did punch his fiancee. That appears to contradict what commissioner goodell told us. The accused is found guilty of culpable homicide. Now its up to the judge to determine how much time pistorius will face in time if any. The maximum is 15 years. The convicted killer of three Ohio High School students is back behind bars this morning. T. J. Lane escaped from a prison in limon, ohio, last night with two other inmates. Torrential rains fell in tennessee, up to 8 inches in just over five hours. And s...