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and 30 years ago today you cannot keep me away. i ron to work every morning and i think that working here and being here surrounded by books, manuscripts, musical scores, movies, the whole gamut of what is knowledge and america is such a thrill and privilege that you are really going to have trouble getting me to retire. >> is this exhibit open to the public? >> it is entirely open to the public. will be open through the end of september. but let's say you can't come to washington. we have a virtual version of the exhibit on the web site, and part of this exhibit, part of this conver...

to booktv, diane brady recalls the efforts of reverend john brooks who traveled the east coast recruiting african-american students to the college of holy cross. with the hope of realizing martin luther king, jr.'s goal of an integrated society following his death in 1968. reverend brooks the future president of the college introduced several students to holy cross idea which included future supreme court justice justice thomas and edward jones. it's about 50 minutes. >> good afternoon. i would like to welcome everybody and start the program if we could. good afternoon and welcome. i...

happened in washington mutual, which was a huge trauma for the city, trauma that continues to reverberate, but much broader policy implications for what happened in the great recession and how the banking contributed to the meltdown. there were times when your book reads like a thriller. after one of those kind of thriller teases we don't start out any of the things that went with that. we start with a guy named lou pepper. why is that? >> well, lee pepper was one of the early ceo spot during the 1980's. i thought it was very important to start out with him because he represents the ...

problems of the world, they are is an obliviousness that comes along with it. but you have thunder in this. >> thank you, and i did. it is one of the things i must've learned from my father. one of his complaints was he worked hard to often. >> he seems to have a wonderful knack. wonderful and memorable statements that he made. you know, a we also learned, and this is david brower. maybe people that don't know who david brower is. maybe we ought to explain something about why we are doing this book and what david brower did. serene: >> david brower was my father. in 1952 he became a ...

many of them continued to be and have not gone out of principle even though it wasn't specific criteria so many of them have been translated and carried american ideals across the world. >> i want to ask about another specific book which is a lovely dickenson's book of poetry. >> of course emily dickinson is a must have american poet. but the particular book we have on the show is done by a cooperative in key west and they reproduced the book of poetry and a facsimile of her house in amherst and a little tree and it is made of recycled material. emily dickinson is a phenomenal poet a...