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so, again, encouraging people to take their seats. good evening, everyone. my name is kai bird, i m the new executive director of the leon levy center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. and i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. this is our first sort of jointly-sponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. and that will also be happening here at cuny. should be a great event with over 200 biographers. i also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of $65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. so if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. and finally, i just, you know, i m really thril ....
details, but i put it in the book because i felt it had to be understood. many people reported the abuse being snatched out of the arms of mothers into this inferno wind.o tokyo s canal, so people who got out of the asphalt and out of the shelters wind with their families into the canals to escape from the fire. but the canals were broiling in tens of thousands in the canal. the winds were all but flipping them over. thousands of feet still above, the crews had to put on their oxygen masks to escape the stench of burning flesh. so, as lemay, who was in charge of that, curtis lemay tells it in his book, it was the greatest man-made killing in the history of the world. book tvs live coverage of the savanna book festival now continues. youom will hear from author bryn curtis. he s talking about his vote that looks at the only rose bowl to ever take place outside of pasadena, california. this is live coverage on booktv. good morning, book lovers. my name is nancy lieb a ....
c-span3 s and american history tv. now, american history tv looks back 50 years at the voting rights act of 1965. we will listen in on white house telephone calls between president johnson and his aides civil rights leader martin luther king junior, and members of congress, who strategized how to implement the law. it will be 50 years ago that president lyndon johnson passed the civil rights bill. we will be talking to experts as well as going behind the scenes with white house telephone recordings. let s introduce our experts. joining us in washington, d c can t germany kent germany. thank you for joining us. chef but it is my pleasure. host: our next guest was the secretary of health, education and welfare, and he was the author of the triumph and tragedy of lyndon johnson. thank you for joining us. host: mr. germany the lbj project, what is that? mr. germany: it is trying to get all of the recordings transcribed, edited, annotated anything you would need to kno ....
host: it will be 50 years ago this august that president lyndon johnson passed the civil rights voting act. we will be talking to experts as well as going behind the scenes with white house telephone recordings. let s introduce our experts. joining us in washington, d.c. kent germany. he is a history professor at the university of south carolina but also the editor of the lyndon b. johnson project at the university of virginia. thanks for joining us. mr. germany: it is my pleasure. host: our next guest was the secretary of health, education and welfare, and he was the author of the triumph and tragedy of lyndon johnson. thank you for joining us. mr. califano: nice to be with you. host: before we starts, a little bit about your perspectives. mr. germany, the lbj project what is that? mr. germany: it is a gold-mining project. it is trying to get all of the recordings transcribed, edited annotated, anything you would need to know to understand what is going on in a convers ....
voting rights act in 1965. it are outward together, we will learn how lbj got the voting rights bill passed in congress and we will also talk to experts and also be going behind the scenes with white house telephone recordings. let s introduce our experts. joining us in washington, d.c. kent germany. he is a history professor at the university of south carolina. thank you for joining us. mr. germany: thank you. it is my pleasure. host: our next guest was the secretary of health, education and welfare, and he was the author of the triumph and tragedy of lyndon johnson. the white house years. thank you for joining us. thank you for joining us. thank you for joining us. guest: nice to be with you. host: mr. germany, the lbj project, what is that? mr. germany: it is trying to get all of the recordings transcribed, edited, annotated anything you would need to know to understand what is going on in a conversation. the editors are there. we are trying to put everything out fro ....