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After words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. And now a panel on the life and career of recentlyretired librarian of Congress James billington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Please take your seats. My understanding is were live on cspan, so behave yourselves. Inform. [laughter] welcome to valentines day a bit early. Im jane harman, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center, and i cant and we cant imagine what the Wilson Center would look like today if nobody had been smart enough to put Jim Billington in charge. [applause] wed have no kennon institute, no wilson quarterly, tw...

American story. Visit cspan. Org history for more information. We traveled to the Minnesota Historical society and hear about the 1920s and 30s gangster era. Bank robbers were seen as kind of anti heroes who were evening the score after the depression which is totally untrue. They were killers who wanted money, but the public saw the gangsters and a more romantic light. And you knew as you drank with them that they wouldnt kill you because they all had the deal between the cops and crooks. We start with a look at the influence st. Paul had on f. Scott fitzgeralds. You want to understand the mo...

Nice to see the sun has finally been beaten from its submission or else people would move. That was wonderful. Thank you so much for being here today. Theres a loss in the this property is no longer being handed down in the same way it has been since 1652, but the advantage is that there is an organization here now that is dedicated to preserving, down from 8000 acres to the remaining 243. And making sure that we dont lose another one. And there is an organic farm that is planted here. We have history programming. We have plans to preserve the house, plans to restore cornelia and alices garden...

Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and theres a place to buy copies...

Im very pleased to present to this audience my new book, women only the gulag. Pore rates of five remarkable lives, at is said about writing letters, its mere difficult to write a short one than a long one. My book is short. And it attempts to capture sights, sounds, and smells of the great terror of 19371938, through the eyes of five women caught up in extraordinary circumstances. I wish to thank collectively my friends and colleagues at the Hoover Institution, the Hoover Institution library and archives, the hoover press, without which this book could not have been written. So, theres too ma...