david sawyer, his book is the heartbeat of wounded me. sheriff robinson talks about her book, child of the dream. rick atkinson author of the british are coming in thomas malone, founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book super mice. the national book festival, life today at tenney and eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> david rubenstein, how did you get involved in the national book festival? >> it came about through serendipity. i had been involved in the madison council which is the support arm of the labor of congress a number of years ago led by jim billington. i said for 28 years for the library congress and retired a couple years ago. he told me that the national book festival was something he needed help with and had been started in 2001 as an idea that came from laura bush, laura bush asked jim billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001 whether not there was a national book festival comparable to the one she started in the texas, the texas book festival he said there is not yet bu

david sawyer, his book is the heartbeat of wounded me. sheriff robinson talks about her book, child of the dream. rick atkinson author of the british are coming in thomas malone, founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book super mice. the national book festival, life today at tenney and eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> david rubenstein, how did you get involved in the national book festival? >> it came about through serendipity. i had been involved in the madison council which is the support arm of the labor of congress a number ofea

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