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the newspaper office and here is the man she was asked to interview, volunteer working there, james graham phelps stokes. as you can tell from the name very different backgrounds, anglo-saxon protestant, his friends call him graham. he and rose fell in love. he came from the most different kind of background imaginable. here, for example, his parents summer home. a house in the berkshire mountains in western massachusetts. at the time it was built in the 1890s it was for a time the largest private home in the united states, 100 rooms and legend has it that one of graham's brothers who was in the class of 1896 yale sent a telegram to his mother saying he was bringing some fellows home for the weekend. his mother in the telegram, the apostrophe got dropped from the telegram and his mother replied many guests here has room for only 50. when not in this home or later summer and weekend homes the family lived in new york and madison avenue and 30 seventh street a building that today is part of the morgan library. here are graham's parents. each of them came from a family with a substantial fort

stokes who is a founding member of america's communist party and married to new york millionaire james graham felt stone and later journalist janet kaplan on the discoveries of women geniuses today and throughout history. enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on c-span2.

stokes who was a founding member of america's communist party and married to new york millionaire, james graham stokes. later, journalist janice kaplan on the discoveries of women geniuses today and throughout history. enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on c-span2. >> robert wilson is with us today courtesy of paul and heather hamilton. bob is the author of matthew brady, portraits of a nation and the explorer king, a biography of clarence king. he is the editor of the american scholar, former editor of preservation and the founding literary editor of civilization. a former book editor and columnist for u.s. today and a former editor at the washington post book world. his essays reviews and fiction have appeared in numerous publications, including the american scholar, the american short fiction, the atlantic monthly, the new republic and the smithsonian, washington post magazine and the wilson quarterly. and on the op-ed opinion and book review pages of the boston globe. "the new york times", u.s. today and "the washington post". he lives in manassas, virginia. please give a warm savannah

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stokes was a founding member of americans communists party and married to new york millionaire, james graham and later, the discoveries of women geniuses today and throughout history. into a book tv and over the weekend on c-span2. >> c-span has round-the-clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic and it is all available on demand as c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world with interactive maps, watch on-demand any time unfiltered at c-span.org/coronavirus.

stokes was a founding member of americans communists party and married to new york millionaire, james graham. and later, the discoveries of women geniuses today and throughout history. into a book tv and over the weekend on c-span2. >> c-span has round-the-clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic and it is all available on demand as c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world with interactive maps, watch on-demand any time unfiltered at c-span.org/coronavirus. >> good evening everyone. i am so glad you are here tonight. i am going to say a few words about -- before i welcome to knight's guests. for a moment of history the strand was founded 93 years ago by my grandfather, benjamin bass. [applause] he founded this story in an area that was known as book row come along fourth avenue, just along the corner from here. it was the storm of the depression come and he defied the odds by surviving while all the other fortier bookstores them book row shuddered. the store wa

james: so the graham-re dman-hawlings -- do nots leap typically mention. think he became upset at it at the end and was not proud of it. but it puts limits on deficits. they are eventually replaced by spending cap. that is the beginning of this government by cliff, appropriations by cliff thing we see. they are forged via -- it is a very kind of complex procedure, reconciliation, where they are trying to put things and get over filibusters, but they are really written off the floor. if you look at the budget enforcement act of 1990, the bill and structure to replace deficit targets, will ultimately happens as they negotiate this deal off the floor. the figure out how to cobble it together, put it on the floor, and pass it. they are still not blocking mms at this stage, but all of a sudden, you begin to see, in this era things shifting away , from the floor. and not necessarily to committees. although the 1986 tax reform bill is a great example. basically say, how can we save this process that does not look like it will succeed? they ultimately end up passi