they are ethel hirsch and joanna macgregor.f my professional life to spend time reading with them and i am deeply grateful to them as well. '5. —— applause. there are five of us in the room but there are always six. my deep thanks also go to the literary director of the booker prize who has guided us with wisdom and care occasionally today with something like a cattle prod stop to our decision. gaby wood, thank you very much indeed. 's. __ wood, thank you very much indeed. 's. -- applause. we love this shortlist and the six books. we love the project that margaret atwood has developed from the had made to's tale, into this book the testaments. we love this examination of complicity and resilience and resistance, we love the language, storytelling power, the language, storytelling power, the patient. we love the sheer chutzpah of lucy ellmann's mammoth mammoth full tome ducks, newburyport. it is one of the great comic deliveries i have ever encountered, and a worthy echo of jamesjoyce encountered, and a worthy echo of james joyc

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you're like, i'm talking as loud as i want to, ethel. [laughter] so when i heard c-spa was going to be here, they were, like, do you have any questions? and i said -- [inaudible] c-span encourages shorts, but i felt after that reply that i had to. the i want to also just acknowledge the shirt i wore specifically for you, washington d.c. it says, iowa: for some reason you have to come here to be president. [laughter] sucks. so is i wanted to just tell you the origin story of the book, because this is a book about religion, and you don't really want to, like, just hear me read from a book about religion. if you wanted to do that, you could go to christmas dinner with your grandma. she misses you. so i want to talk about the origin story of the book, then read from a small section, and then we'll take questions. chris was supposed to be here tonight, she couldn't make it, so if anybody wants to leave because they were here for chris, there's all right. i'm not offended. i'm out too. [laughter] if you want to do that, i'll just find you late

i've co-chaired the earth conservation corps for over a decade with ethel kennedy and bob nixon. we work with the most vulnerable kids in congress heights, kennelworth. interest willing i interestly, one day, they were serving and we brought kids from mcclain and potomac and had this great mixing in our service efforts. i sort of had the audacity to ask, what politics are you? there were republicans. there were democrats. there was even a libertarian. what faiths are you? christians, jews, muslims. and the project that they were working on was actually bringing the bald eagle, our nation's symbol, back to the nation's capital. we have bald eagles who fly over this beautiful landscape day in and day out because of the work of those national service participants. but i want to talk just briefly about could we bring this idea to scale and what have we learned from various models. interestingly, in 1933, franklin roosevelt calls congress into emergency session. by summer has 250,000 young unemployed men in the woods through the civilian conservation corps. by the end of the program,

starting with ethel a 6 the former coach of double olympic champion mo for a has been banned for 4 years alberto salazar trained for a from 2010 to 2017 while he was head coach of the nike oregon project the u.s. anti-doping agency found sellers are guilty of a range of 13 offenses including trafficking testosterone salazar says he will appeal the decision away from the athletics the barrett brothers are getting ready to make history at the rugby world cup bowden jodie and scots are all in the new zealand starting line up for wednesday's pool match with canada it's the 1st time 3 siblings have played in the same team at the world cup the all blacks have had an 11 day break since they opening game win against south africa. that's all the sport for now will have action from semifinals at the national stadium later on we'll see you later peter thank you well renowned american opera singer justin norman has died she was 74 years old. the. grammy award winning singer made her operatic debut in 1969 and gained worldwide fame in 1907 norman became the youngest person to earn a prestigious kenne

this is what happened and i stand on the shorter of [inaudible], ethel payne, those trailblazers in the white house. what happened to them in the 50s and 60s, 70 years ago, happened today. i encourage you to read my story. everybody's got a story. >> watch the rest of this book party visit our website @booktv .org and search for black books matter using the search box at the top of the page. >> our moderator today is colonel andy heard air force retired. colonel is a special assistance to the north university provost. he integrates university departments to expand expeditionary opportunities to students so that you may learn what is like to travel abroad into lead abroad. he has done a minus other things here at norwich university and part of that is to do with him being rotc but also his hopes and helping each one of you to be better leaders and leaving here to be the moderator of this panel. his bio is extensive i could spend time reading but i will keep it short. as i mentioned he is retired, united states air force and air force academy and the university of north carolina. his mili

this is what happened and i stand on the shorter of [inaudible], ethel payne, those trailblazers in thehite house. what happened to them in the 50s and 60s, 70 years ago, happened today. i encourage you to read my story. everybody's got a story. >> watch the rest of this book party visit our website @booktv .org and search for black books matter using the search box at the top of the page. >> our moderator today is colonel andy heard air force retired.