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[inaudible conversations] welcome to the third mississippi book festival. Im with the department of archives and history. Have been asked to remind everyone you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media. Literary lawn party this is sponsored by the Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have a strong supporter of its literature, music and ar arts. Now in his fifth term in the u. S. House of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee and serves on the committee of energy and commerce and perhaps most pertinently as the chai...

Have been coming to again and again this month. This is the fourth installment of the series. We have focused mostly on architecture. You might recall we had House Speaker on the folklife, but this one is different to me. It speaks very clearly and closely to my heart as a historian. I know visitors that come to d. C. , they want to go to library of congress, they are in on and they should be. Researchers cannot wait to read in the main reading room. It lands a certain something lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. Scholars that really know the score walk right ...

I was so worried. [applause] i was so worried. It was raining, and i thought booklovers are going to want to stay in bed and read. But here you are. Thank you and good morning. [applause] and welcome to the 2017 National Book festival. I am carla hayden and im the 14th library and of congress. As you can see, as you can see, i am pretty excited to open this event, our 17th consecutive celebration of books and reading and it is wonderful to see a bold house in our largest presentation space. Not only do we have a full house here at the Convention Center but we also have millions of people joini...

Ofll tick and politics polid prose and on behalf of the staff, at the book store, welcome. Thank you very much for coming. Back in february 2016, when the republican primary field still was pretty crowded, john nichols wrote an article for the nation magazine, head lefthand, president trump, it could happen. At the time, of course this scenario seem quite a stretch. Well, now were living it, and john has taken the time in his new book, horse many hope to trump apocalypse i was talking to john how tricky that word is, i was determine not to trip over it. So, anyway, in his new book, he has take...

In the main reading room. It lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. That is the way it should be, but scholars are really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the Madison Building is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts collection is, and there are 60 million items. This is from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jeff Flannery, an old friend of the so...