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competeses robustly in the world. we have a stock market that's nearly tripled since obama has been president. a jobless rate headeded down to half what it was the year he started. what do we hear from the democrats? woe is me. we have trouble in river city. oh, my lord, the sky is falling. i grew up watching and hearing the democratic party cheer. i heard of franklin roosevelt running for office with "happy days are here again," jfk bopping to "high hopes." what is it about the democrats today? they remind me of al gore refusing to take pride in the clinton economic success and losi...

Some love for north carolina. nothing gives me greater pride than to have attended the university of north carolina. what an incredible institution. just think of those who edited the student newspaper there. "the daily tarhill." the thomas wolf. author of "look homeward angel" and "you can't go home again." or jonathan daniel of "the new york times" or edwin yoder or jonathan yardley of the "washington post." or other chaple hill greats like charlie rose of public television. think of the people who made north carolina the center of learning that it is today. the research triangle of duke and...

30 days. we have an auto industry that competeses robustly in the world. we have a stock market that's nearly tripled since obama has been president. a jobless rate headeded down to half what it was the year he started. what do we hear from the democrats? woe is me. we have trouble in river city. oh, my lord, the sky is falling. i grew up watching and hearing the democratic party cheer. i heard of franklin roosevelt running for office with "happy days are here again," jfk bopping to "high hopes." what is it about the democrats today? they remind me of al gore refusing to take pride i...

>> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i'm jim milngto it's about 40 minutes. >> library of congress who enjog this extraordinary national book festival. [applause] >> we have involved more authors than at any time in the 12 year history of this festival, and it's for them we're especially thankful. your responses make the free public event possible, and one of them is the wells fargo, which has been the sponsor of this particular pavilion, history and biography. in a moment, i introduce to you michael l. golden, wells fargo's regional president for greater washington, d.c., who wi...

that history is a zigzag, that at times in history there was definitely a place for very strong women, in this case a teenage girl, to operate and have a really strong effect on historical events. so i think it's a good corrective to what we tend to assume about, especially the middle ages. >> watch booktv all weekend to see more of the visit to augusta, maine. for more information on this and other cities, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> from the 12th annual national book festival in washington, d.c., a discussion about dwight eisenhower with biographer jean edward smith, author o...