and uc desma in the book getting a lot of their paid for ptsd in two different forms that is successful and why. i will sign some books. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> it is said to our of the new york public library joined by isaac gewirtz what do you do here at the library? >> i am curator of henry and albert berg collection of english literature. worked in the new york public library in the past and was later a curator at methodist university and downtown at the theological seminary and got a doctorate and renaissance history at columbia and that led to me being here. >> host: how long have you been at the new york public library? >> as curator september 2000. >> host: you brought up things to show us. >> the berg has 2,000 linear feet of archives and printed items and $400 but this is what i like to call the tip of the berg. we have the only surviving manuscript of police on it satires and paradoxes done in his lifetime. not in his hand but in the hand of his secretary and personal assistant. this has the highest authority deriving directly from his own manuscrip

and uc desma in the book getting a lot of their paid for ptsd in two different forms that is successful and why. i will sign some books. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations]

and uc desma in the book getting a lot of their paid for ptsd in two different forms that is successful and why. i will sign some books. thank you. [applause] he quickly tried to explain in arabic to these illiterate yemeni tribesmen that this is not a bomb, it's a vacuum cleaner. and, of course, the yemenis have never seen a vacuum cleaner. they don't know what a vacuum cleaner would do. but his arabic was good enough to get him past this moment of danger. and he wrote in a letter afterwards, he told his wife that throughout the incident he was thinking of the novel our man in havana. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> claudio saunt recounted the events that took place outside of the british colonies in america in 1776, from spain's colonies in san francisco to the movement and territorial expansion of native american tribes. this hour-long program is next on booktv. >> good evening. thanks for coming out on what feels like a steamy night in july, though it's a chilly night in june. glad to see you all here. so we are being filby