I am the director of Reading Services welcome to the Public Library thank you for your patience and flexibility for setting land speed records to get david branch here the circumstances brought out of everybodys control the plane was delayed you can insert your own airline joke here but tonight he will talk about his book a story of historical crime of greed and fear and racial cleansing part political history and in the book will be conversation long after he catches the next playing. It is easy to read the book because he tells the story in a detailed rich and suspenseful way. It is hard to read this book because it is true and devastating and maddening. But he is a magnificent storyteller for the New York Times magazine or atlantic or Washington Post wall street journals previous awardwinning books and if you cannot take their word than the Supreme Court stuff on justice he signed that in one of his opinions. David graham. [applause] two my first book was called velocity about a tri
Everybodys control the plane was delayed you can insert your own airline joke here but tonight he will talk about his book a story of historical crime of greed and fear and racial cleansing part political history and in the book will be conversation long after he catches the next playing. It is easy to read the book because he tells the story in a detailed rich and suspenseful way. It is hard to read this book because it is true and devastating and maddening. But he is a magnificent storyteller for the New York Times magazine or atlantic or Washington Post wall street journals previous awardwinning books and if you cannot take their word than the Supreme Court stuff on justice he signed that in one of his opinions. David graham. [applause] two my first book was called velocity about a trip to the amazon i tried to find that ancient city after leaving 9 00 oclock this morning to get to kansas it would have been easier to track through the jungle but i did comment it is great to be here.
How Political Parties have used the memory of lincoln. Let me introduce our next speaker. Michael kauffman is one of the leading historians of the lincoln assassination. He is author of american brutus John Wilkes Booth and lincoln conspiracies, which was named by the New York Times and the Washington Post as one of the best nonfiction books of 2004. There are copies of the paperback version on the Registration Table that you can purchase after our program is concluded. His other works include in the footsteps of an assassin and a modern edition of memoirs of a lincoln conspirator. His bus tours of the John Wilkes Booth escape route have been popular for many years. He has lectured throughout the country, appeared on Many Television documentaries. Civil war historian william c. Davis, jack davis, once wrote no one has studied booth longer or in more depth than michael w. Kauffman, a wellknown voice of reason in the field of assassination studies. Today, Michael Kauffman will talk to us
Grann here. These were circumstances out of everyones control. His plane was delayed. You may insert your own early joke here. Tonight david grann will talk about his book, 28, the story of the unspeakable historical crime of greed, fear, anger and racial cleansing. It is part crime thriller them apart political history and this is a book that will generate conversation long after david catches his next plane. It is easy to read this book because david tells the story in a riveting detail rich, suspenseful way. It is hard to read this book because it is true and devastating and maddening. David grann is a magnificent storyteller, staff writer for the new yorker and is written for the New York Times magazine on the atlantic, Washington Post, wall street journal, new republic and hollywood. His previous awardwinning book the lost city of the is in movie theaters right now and if you cant take their word or mine, then how about Us Supreme Court Justice Steven breyer. Justice breyer cited
Many of the authors have or will be appearing on book tv, you can watch them on the website, booktv. Org. Wow. Good evening everyone. And katie director of leisure services. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Thank you for the patients, flexibility and thank you rainy day books for setting land speed records for getting david here. These were circumstances out of everyones control. His plane was delayed you may insert your own airline show care. Tonight, he will talk about his book, killers of the flower mound. Strive unspeakable historical crime of greed, fear, anger and racial cleansing. It is part crime thriller part political history and a book that will generate conversation long after david catches his next plane. It is easy to read this book because david tells a story in a riveting, detail rich suspenseful way. It is hard to read this book because its true and devastating and maddening. But david is a magnificent storyteller. He has written for the New York Times magazi