the harvard bookstore is one of those places in my memory. i can remember individual books that i have bought there. i remember buying edmund kosice father and son down in the basement there, and it's just a place that has a particular flavor and i love the bookstore and i'm happy to be part of it even if i'm not in the bookstore. i was trying to write about something that happened a long time ago in this book, and -- but it just occurred to me that since i didn't know everything about what happened a long time ago because the documents were being withheld, that i would write about what was happening while i was trying to write about what happened a long time ago. i ended up, instead of having one timeline which is a timeline of the early cold war, harry truman, korea, china, a a gathering sense of suspicion and paranoia. i also wanted to write about my own life as i was trying to make sense of that early. it just happened -- early period. my wife and i got to rescue dioxins the day before -- dioxins. start the scene comes to the book but hap

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thank you and thank you to harvard bookstore. >> please feel free to visit the website. i want to take a moment to thank the wonderful speakers and all of you for joining this afternoon supporting the bookstore in general. we sincerely appreciate your support now and always. please make sure to check out the link in the chat or website. thanks for your time and support and spending part of your afternoon with us. have a great day, everyone. stay well. welcome, everyone. thank you so much for being here today and joining us for this important event celebrating professor jennifer's new book how dirty money the shocking injustice and unseen cost of white-collar crime. i am the director of the center for social justice at western new england university school of law which works to advance justice through research, education, advocacy and public engagement. please check out our website if you would like to learn more about our social justice initiatives and the ways we are strengthening collaborative efforts between the school of law and the region, the work towards a more ju

thank you and thank you to harvard bookstore. >> please feel free to visit the website. i want to take a moment to thank the wonderful speakers and all of you for joining this afternoon supporting the bookstore in general. we sincerely appreciate your support now and always. please make sure to check out the link in the chat or website. thanks for your time and support and spending part of your afternoon with us. have a great day, everyone. stay

my name is - on behalf of harvard bookstore, i'm very pleased to introduce tonight's thomas levinsonpresenting his book, money for nothing. the scientist and t

out to read it i specially, especially now. >> i appreciate it, john, thank you, thank you to harvard bookstoreay, so for anyone who has lingering questions, feel free to visit the book, i put up the chat a couple of links to buy it from the website. i just want to take a moment to thank wonderful speakers and all of us joining us this. make sure to check out the hispanic republicans at the link in the chat or visit website, thanks again for your time and support and for spending part of your afternoon with us, have a great day, everyone, and stay well >> and we are going to leave fulfillment. the u.s. senate gaveling in on a sunday to vote on limiting debate on president trump's supreme court nominee amy coney barrett the vote is scheduled for 1:00 o'clock eastern time. it would take a simple majority to give senators just 30 hours more to debate the nomination, setting up the confirmation vote to take place before monday night at 8:00 eastern or so. senators expected to work into the night or possibly overnight as the 30 hours ticks away, we will take you live in the senate floor in just a mi

. >> during a virtual event hosted by harvard bookstore history professor martha jones described the efforts by black women to gain the right to vote . here's a portion of the program. >> as i began to reflect on what i was finding i realized that first it was a core principle that black women had really arrived at 200 years ago at the beginning of the 19th century and had carried forward really until our own time and this was the idea that american politics should have no place for racism and sexism. and when i recognize how long black women have been championing that view, when i realized how long they had been alone in sort of carrying that forward and setting that ideal in front of us, i realized that they were indeed an intellectual and political vanguard, showing this country to its best, very best ideals . >> find the best of this program on our website, book tv.org. search for martha jones or the title of her bookvanguard . every year book tv asks members of congress about the books they're reading . >> joining us now on book tv is representative tom cole, a republican from o

you, thank you to harvard bookstore. >> okay, so for anyone who has lingering questions, feel free to visit the book, i put up the chat a couple of links to buy it from the website. i just want to take a moment to thank wonderful speakers and all of us joining us this. make sure to check out the hispanic republicans at the link in the chat or visit website, thanks again for your time and support and for spending part of your afternoon with us, have a great day, everyone, and stay well >> and we are going to leave fulfillment. the u.s. senate gaveling in on a sunday to vote on limiting debate on president trump's supreme court nominee amy coney barrett the vote is scheduled for 1:00 o'clock eastern time. it would take a simple majority to give senators just 30 hours more to debate the nomination, setting up the confirmation vote to take place before monday night at 8:00 eastern or so. senators expected to work into the night or possibly overnight as the 30 hours ticks away, we will take you live in the senate floor in just a minute. likely to be the last senate before they recess on el