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My name is jim firewood on the executive Vice President of the Richard Nixon foundation. Welcome to the nixon levers 2020 rate authors series hosted by hewitt. Like to start by thanking of all for participating in todays program, especially those of submitted questions for our guests to answer bird everyone watching tonight is providing a tremendous amount of support for the Nixon Library as we closed as an institution for six month months. I encourage you to sign up for nixon membership and to visit that go to Nixon Library right after this program ends. Today, our ghastly son son of the pres...

Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and the executive director of aspen digital of the Aspen Institute program really glad you could be with us today. The York Times Bestseller list can often seem to be a near untimely or of the national psyche. As such this year seems to reflect a nation going through and awaking of matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction prayed that is the good news. Sadly, the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest has...

Bestselling author James Patterson is our guest on book tv. Author of about 150 books or so. The most recent is a nonfiction. Yes. Welcome to my house. How many nonfiction have you written . I dont count so probably four or five. The first one was jeffrey epstein, filthy rich which is now, they just dropped the video today. It is for parts, i think the 25th of the month or Something Like that. Then it was Aaron Hernandez did that and then this one, john lennon coming out later which is interesting. This connected to a house john owned, a bridge between these two houses. Who used to live in you...

Buxton in the right corner. We are discussing race and journalism, and a blueprint for political actions for the next generation of people of color and live stream reporting of life on the margins. Visit townhalls Media Library for what is pretty recent. Thank you for the support of our concerts by the realnetworks foundation, ko w and northwest, most of you know townhall is a member of a support organization and i want to thank all members. People hit hard by the pandemic, the event is free but we hope you will consider making a donation by clicking a button at the bottom or use the url on th...

Whats being done to modernize the library of congress. We heard testimony from dr. Carla hayden, the librarian of congress. This is a little more than an hour. [inaudible] who also chairs the appropriated committee for library and i think thats particularly helpful that you could be here as well. Also a member of this committee so shes here as a of the committee but also on these topics, particularly fallible in her role as appropriate. We have been having with the library, with the smithsonian, with the architect of the capitol these kinds of oversight hearings to fulfill that responsibility ...