History tv on cspan3, working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. Deputy defense secretary Patrick Shanahan delivered keynote remarks at the Reagan National defense forum. He discussed National Security threats, Defense Innovation and military readiness. Following remarks, mr. Shanahan was interviewed by cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. This is a half hour. [applause] how are you . Good. I say those 30 years were a good warmup act. John, thank you, and im going to make sure to get a copy of your book on the way out of town here. So thank you for that warm introduction. Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen,gu in todays Dynamic World strong leadership is more critical than ever. I can not picture a crowd more in tuned with the importance of good leadership than this one. It is my first time here but many of you have been coming to this event for years. The beauty of the forum is its ability to draw together such invested, y knowledgeable and diverse leaders fr
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. I karlyn bowmanim karlyn bowmar fellow at the American Enterprise institute and i would like to welcome all of you and the cspan audience to this lecture by peter schuck. This will conclude 20162017 bradley lecture series. We are as always grateful to the lives of milwaukee Wisconsin Foundation that supported the lecture for more than a quartercentury. When peter emailed me and colleagues to say he might be able to give a lecture about his new book, one nation undecided Clear Thinking about bipartisanship that divides us we jumped at the chance for he is one of many academic. But professor of law at yale he reminded me that he was an aei visiting scholar in 79. Hes the author of why government fails so often and how it can do better, understanding the institutions and policies that shape america and the world and it collaborated with the late james q. Wilson. And finally, the moderate, cool news on hot topics. To find out copies of th
Time, but glad to be here. Im also chair of the brickle avenue literary society. Turn your cell phones off, please. Thank you all for coming. Lets thank our sponsors. We need to do that in every session, because they are soan important to the success of the fair. So big thanks to knight foundation, ohl, the bachelor foundation, the degroot foundation. As always, thank you to all the friends of the book fair. We hope everybody whos in thisr room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all thee activities that are available for friends during the year. We thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miamidade college. [applause] okay, thanks so all. [applause] we have a big crowd, so let me start by introducing our authors introducer. She has been, talk about good examples, a friend of the Miami Book Fair since the very first year. How many of you are founding book fair friends . Anybody else been around as long as marcia . A few. Okay, good. A
For the atlantic profile some of the tens of thousands of people around the world have been inspired to join isis. That happens tonight on cspan twos, book tv. Heather and thompson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history, recounts the prison uprising of 1971. Her book is, blood in the water. [inaudible] good evening. I am harold, director of roosevelt house. On behalf of Hunter College president s who is in the room tonight, i am delighted to welcome all of you here to the home of franklin d roosevelt. One of them as you know, for gonna be talking about gubernatorial work today, we will of course new york state governor before he became president and his wife was a conscious of the empire state, just as she later became the conscious of the country in the world. Was never afraid to confront, challenging and uncomfortable issues like the one will discuss this evening. Even if it meant confronting her own husband, privately of course because this was the 1930s. I think you know as well
Post a comment on our Facebook Page acebook. Com booktv. And now the final portion of a threepart program. Authors, juniorjournalists, actors and other public figures complete a reading from elie wiesels night. The first two parts can be seen online at booktv. Org. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Please check your cellphone and make sure it is set to silent mode. And now the Jewish Museum of heritage, present the conclusion of an International Tribute to elie wiesel, a Community Reading of night. An icy wind was blowing violently. But we marched without faltering. The ss made us increase our pace. Faster, you tramps, you flearidden dogs why not . Moving fast made us a little warmer. The blood flowed more readily in our veins. We had the feeling of being alive faster, you filthy dogs we were no longer marching, we were running. Like automatons. The ss were running as well, weapons in hand. We looked as though we were running from them. The night was pitchblack. From time to time, a