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And thank you for the invitation. Now your book style is library ssl to explore the intellectual life biography. And i would say psychology of joseph stalin, whom you described as the 20th century, most self consciously intellectual dictator. And i think its a somewhat controversial undertaking in this day and age because in order to understand the evil one needs to engage with that rather than dismissed it and condemn it out of hand. Why did you decide to do it at this point of time . Well, what would you come on . The most important thing between sounded by my book in the past on is that he wasnt intellectual. He was a man, man of ideas, as well as action he believed in the transformative power. While it is not just in terms of changing peoples consciousness, but in terms of tracking human nature and as a couple of months as the socialist. You know, he was committed not just to the transformation of he was the thought is, but the transformation of people including himself so, so in h ....
I was so worried. [applause] i was so worried. It was ringing. I thought are going to want to stay in bed and read. Here you are. Thank you and good morning. Welcome to the 2017th National Book festival. I am carla hayden. I am so honored to be able to say im the 14th librarian of congress. As you can see pretty excited to open this event. Our 17th consecutive celebration of books and reading. It is wonderful to see a full house here. Not only will we have a full house here at the convention center, but we have millions and millions of people joining us live on facebook. Thanks to everyone for joining us. Now, we have a fantastic lineup of mainstage authors this year. What better way to kick off a festival than with one of our nations most beloved historian historians, mr. David mcculloug mccullough. [applause] he is here for his sixth National Book festival appearance, and we ....
Took all of the medical research amendments and all of the democrats and republicans and said lets put everything in one amendment, susan went along with it and she said that she had the alzheimers amendment specifically. And we had 42 or 43 that had cosponsored amendments when it came to medical research. Now we were all together and that is the way this works in the way that you build the coalition. When you look at heart disease, alzheimers has got the largest footprint out there in the costs are the highest as i understand them of all of these. But the level of Research Dollars that the federal government spends is really a pathetic third or less of what you see going into similar rates. Im interested structurally what you think is happening in this field that has made it difficult to step those numbers up. Thats a good question. I am asked about it as long as i have been in the house and the than it how do you pick your res ....
Columnist tom friedman, best selling authors j. D. Vance and Michael Lewis, astronaut Leland Melvin and many others. Now, for a complete schedule visit booktv. Org, and you can follow us on social media for updates and behindthescenes videos. Were on facebook,visit facebook. Com booktv, booktv is our twitter handle and on instagram, were at book underscore tv. This years festival kicks off with librarian of congress carla haden making opening remarks, and shell be followed immediately by author and historian david mccullough. Youre watching booktv on cspan2 live from the 17th annual National Book festival. [applause] wow, i was so worried [cheers and applause] i was so worried. It was raining [laughter] and i thought, book lovers are going to want to stay in bed concern. [laughter] and read. [laughter] well, here you are. T ....