LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Volume 17, No. 40 A Weekly Newspaper for the Library Staff October 6, 2006

caption tk. Michaela McNichol National Book Festival Presents All Viewpoints to give “60 Minutes” an Readers came early and By AUDREY FISCHER exclusive interview — and stayed late. A half hour not the Bush Administra- before the festival opened he Library’s sixth annual National tion — that prevented Bob at 10 a.m., they began col- Book Festival demonstrated once Woodward from discussing lecting blue CSPAN2 book Tagain that the National Mall in his new book at the National bags and circulating among the nation’s capital is the place where Book Festival (see story on state tables in the Pavilion all voices and points of view can be page 5). News that the New of the States. At 5 p.m., heard. York Times revealed details they were standing three- Last year, the book festival shared about the book in its Sept. 29 to-five deep around the the Mall with antiwar protestors. This issue — two days before its History and Biography year, the festival, which is organized by scheduled release on Oct. 2 — Pavilion, straining to hear the Library of Congress and hosted by sent festival organizers scram- Woodward’s remarks in first lady Laura Bush, presented Pulitzer bling to make sure the book hopes he would talk Prize-winning author and Washington would be on sale at the event. about his book released Post editor Bob Woodward, whose new It joined hundreds of books by earlier that day. book “State of Denial” offers a harsh the 70 participating authors on sale at the Attendance topped last year’s record critique of the Bush Administration’s festival. At day’s end, Barnes & Noble as more than 100,000 people of all ages handling of the war in Iraq. reported that book sales were 40 percent dodged the intermittent raindrops to hear In the end, it was an agreement higher than at last year’s festival. NBF, Continues on page 13  T he G a z ette OCTOBER 6, 2006

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The library of Congress & laura bush 2006 National Book FESTIVAL Fresh Perspectives Keep History Interesting

istorians and biographers keep digging up new material on old Hsubjects and telling their stories with such fresh insights and perspectives that they manage to sell millions of books and draw hundreds of fans to the History & Biography Pavilion at the National Book Festival. Other recorders of recent history, attempting to put their topical subjects into historical perspective, appeal to those readers, Washingtonians in particular, who are fascinated by national news and current events. This year, National Book Festival audiences on Saturday heard riveting discussions of Abraham Lincoln, Pilgrims, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the House of Representatives, the civil rights move- ment, pioneer women, the deluge of New Orleans, war veterans’ memories, Bible stories and recent presidents. The Librarian opened and closed the

festival in the History and Biography Pavil- Jane Sargus ion. Preceding Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Librarian of Congress James H. Billington welcomes visitors to the National Book Festival opening talk about Lincoln and his band that he said celebrates “the joys of books, reading and lifelong literacy.” of rivals, James H. Billington welcomed visitors to the festival, which he said “cel- Genius of Abraham Lincoln”). “Stanton took one look at Lincoln’s ebrates the joys of books, reading and More than a biography, this well- disheveled hair and ill-fitting trousers lifelong literacy.” documented work chronicles the life of and said, ‘We can’t have that long-armed Speaking before some 500 people Abraham Lincoln and his rivals for the ape anywhere around us. It will hurt trying to squeeze into the 300-seat pavil- Republican nomination for president our case.’” ion to hear Woodward at the end of the in 1860 — William H. Seward, Salmon Goodwin noted that Lincoln was day, Billington thanked visitors for coming, P. Chase and Edward Bates. Quickly utterly humiliated by the remark, but Library staff members for organizing the putting the past behind him, Lincoln years later, when it was time to appoint seven-block book party on the National demonstrated his political acumen by a secretary of war, he felt Stanton was Mall, and the hundreds who volunteered, appointing his rivals to his cabinet: he the man for the job. including staff and members of the Junior made Seward the secretary of state, Chase “Stanton ended up loving Lincoln League of Washington. the treasury secretary and Edward Bates more than anyone outside of his family,” The following brief reports give Gazette the attorney general. With the exception reported Goodwin. readers a sampling of the discussions. of Chase, who, according to Goodwin, Goodwin attributes the change of never gave up his own political ambitions, heart among his rivals to Lincoln’s per- Doris Kearns Goodwin the men came to befriend and revere sonal qualities. “It’s a treat to be able to talk to you their leader. “He showed empathy, he shared credit about Abraham Lincoln, after living The book also examines Lincoln’s for successes, shouldered the responsibil- with him by myself for 10 years,” joked personal and political relationship with ity for blame, acknowledged his errors historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who Edwin Stanton. The two met when they and learned from them, bounced back recently published a book about the 16th were young lawyers working on a case from setbacks and never forgot where president (“Team of Rivals: The Political together. he came from.” OCTOBER 6, 2006 T he G a z ette 

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Goodwin also depicts Lincoln as a Arana, editor of The Washington Post’s does it feel to be scooped by the New man with a wonderful sense of humor “Book World,” said that prize-winning York Times?” Woodward replied, “It hurts — despite bouts of depression — and a author Bob Woodward would not discuss a little; it is the era we live in. I was sur- great storyteller. his new book, “State of Denial,” because prised. One of the editors of the New York “Haunted by the death of his mother of a prior agreement he had with the Times called and just chuckled.” when he was 9, Lincoln was worried television program “60 Minutes,” which The 45-minute conversation between about dying and just becoming dust,” was scheduled to air the next night. Woodward and Smith ranged over a said Goodwin. “He wanted to believe that Publisher Simon and Schuster origi- number of topics that Woodward has if you accomplished something worthy, nally embargoed discussion of the book written about in the last 30 years, from you’d be remembered. Your story would until its scheduled publication on Monday, Watergate and the Supreme Court to John be told. I take solace from knowing that Oct. 2. However, the book’s release date Belushi (whose widow, Woodward told he wanted his story to be told and that I was moved up to Sept. 30 and made Smith, didn’t like his book even though am one of those storytellers.” available to festivalgoers in the Book she had originally urged Woodward to — By Audrey Fischer Sales tents early Saturday, because The write it). New York Times disclosed some of the Woodward, in his quiet, measured Bob Woodward contents of the book in front page stories way, described himself as more journal- Groans and boos erupted from the earlier in the week. ist than historian, since his books deal overflow audience in the History & Biog- Asked by historian Richard Norton with contemporary rather than historical raphy Pavilion at 4:30 p.m., when Marie Smith during their conversation, “How events. Michaela McNichol Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin captivates her 10 a.m. audience with stories of Abraham Lincoln that she unearthed during 10 years of research for her new book, “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.” He chose his rivals for his cabinet and won the hearts of most of them through his compassion, kindness, courage and humor.  T he G a z ette OCTOBER 6, 2006

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“Your books are based on oral history as well as documentary evidence. How do you filter out what you’re told to get to the truth?” asked Smith. “I ask other people,” Woodward replied, “and I look at the documents.” In a sense, he added, a writer can never establish truth. “There is a version [of the truth] and there is the best obtainable version of the truth.” Speaking about former President Rich- ard Nixon and Watergate, Smith asked whether there is anything more to be learned about that event. Woodward pointed out that there are still many Nixon tapes to be released. Describing them as “the gift that keeps on giving,” Woodward said, “Understanding those tapes is a large, large task. What’s the dog that doesn’t bark on the Nixon tapes?” Michaela McNichol He said the tapes are “the tire iron Prize-winning reporter and author Bob Woodward reviews old political history for his fans around Nixon’s neck,” which emphasize but declines to discuss Iraq or his new book (below, left) because he agreed not to talk about it before a “60 Minutes” embargo ended on Sunday night, Oct. 1. Historian Richard “the smallness of Nixon” and are “always Norton Smith, right, guided the discussion. about the impact [of the Watergate affair] on Nixon and not about [its impact on] Inside the Supreme Court,” co-authored deposited their papers at the Library of the larger purpose of the presidency.” by Woodward and Scott Armstrong and Congress, that our book “is a conservative When asked which subject was the published in 1979). But “everyone talked,” rendition of what went on.” most elusive to write about or which insti- Woodward said. “Sometimes we had 15 Although he wouldn’t discuss his tution was the hardest to crack, Wood- or 16 different sources on one piece of latest book on the current Bush adminis- ward replied, “You would have thought it information” from the five justices who tration, Woodward concluded the session was the Supreme Court” (“The Brethren: helped on the book, in addition to law by saying that the story of George W. Bush clerks and court documents. We know and his presidency is the Iraq war. The now, added Woodward, because many of audience had to be content with that. the justices from that period of time have — By Helen Dalrymple

Martin Sherwin, left, and Kai Bird joined their researching and writing talents to pro- duce a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who created the atomic bomb and then spent the rest of his life trying to contain it. “His life and work stand as a warning to us all,” Bird said. Jane Sargus Craig D’Ooge OCTOBER 6, 2006 T he G a z ette  2006 National Book Festival

J. Robert Oppenheimer John Hope Frankin Two Cold War historians, Martin Sher- win and Kai Bird, teamed up to write Still glib and energetic at 91, historian recounted how the floodgates of his early what critics have called the definitive John Hope Franklin faced the hundreds of memory opened. Franklin recalled reading biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a book lovers who flocked to his presentation to a blind man every Saturday afternoon riveting personal and social history that with the confident demeanor of a man who and falling from his tricycle, “giving me the probes deeply into the mind, character knows his history and his place in it. only headache that I have had in my life,” and times of the brilliant physicist who Franklin, professor emeritus of history he said and laughed. comprehended fully the terror of his at Duke University, “ I t i s v e r y creation, the nuclear bomb. took the audience important that we Their work, “American Prometheus, to school as he ordinary people the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert talked about his record our past,” Oppenheimer,” won the 2006 Pulitzer journey to unearth he said, and chal- Prize and the 2006 National Book Critics the early facts of lenged the audi- Circle Award for biography. his life for his auto- ence not to fall into In the process of creating a biogra- biography, “Mirror the trap of some phy, Sherwin said, “you are recreating a to America.” How- professionals. “We man’s life, or a woman’s life, and that life ever, instead of have enough dis- is buried in the documents, in the stories taking everyone on tortion of history by that people can tell.” a ride through the the historians,” he Luckily, he said, he began his research in 1979, “when [Oppenheimer’s] students, nation’s history or quipped, to laugh- his friends, and people who didn’t like elaborating on the ter and applause. him but who were associated with him, condition of race “Keep your inde- were still around and willing to talk.” relations in Amer- pendence, keep During the next 25 years, Sherwin ica, Franklin talked your eyes on the amassed 50 archival boxes contain- about the principles prize and the prize ing thousands of pages of documents, that guide historical will be the truth many from Oppenheimer’s own papers research. Jane Sargus in history, and the housed in the Library’s Manuscript Divi- He lectured truth in history will sion. Through a freedom-of-information about the differences between autobiog- be important if all of us pool our own experi- request, he obtained an 8,000-page FBI raphies and memoirs, explaining that an ence together and write as accurately as file on Oppenheimer. autography is “subject to the constraints we can.” Five years ago, Sherwin showed some and rules of any other piece of historical Franklin, whose lifelong commitment of his documentation to his friend Kai writing.” to civil rights earned him the Presidential Bird, who was seeking a new writing Franklin said that he applied the same Medal of Freedom and an appointment as project, and Bird was hooked. “In less principles to researching his early years that head of President Clinton’s Initiative on Race, than a year we were in a partnership that he did when writing the acclaimed biography couldn’t leave the stage without someone I think has to go down in the annals of of his predecessor, historian George Wash- raising the question about the state of race writing together as arguably the most ington Williams, who wrote the first history relations in America. The stately historian wonderful relationship and useful rela- of African Americans. “What I undertook to answered sagely that discrimination and tionship that two authors have ever had,” do was to stalk myself the way that I stalked segregation are alive and well in America Sherwin said. George Washington Williams.” and cited the events following hurricane Walking miles together, they dis- For Franklin, the perfect setting to jar Katrina as an example. “We are still strug- cussed the material, argued about various his memory of his early childhood was his gling, trying to become a nation of peoples, interpretations and acquired orthotics. hometown of Rentiesville, a predominately and we have not yet gotten there.” Writing, and rewriting each other, they distilled different points of view and two African-American village in Oklahoma. He — By Sheryl Cannady voices into one. Bird discussed Oppenheimer’s life his anguish as an aspiring experimental psychiatrist who “prescribed red wine briefly — his genius that became evi- physicist (“he was so awkward with his and a professional woman”; and his even- dent early at the Ethical Culture Society hands that he broke things in the labo- tual love affair with a married woman school in New York (“Ask me a question ratory”); his late maturity and nervous who became his wife. in Latin and I will answer you in Greek”); breakdown in 1926, leading to a French “He was a very human physicist and a  T he G a z ette OCTOBER 6, 2006

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The festival audience then heard an necessarily like each other, but we have eerie tape recording of Oppenheimer’s to make it work.” voice, in his first public statement about The Pilgrims who made the trip to the the bomb, on Nov. 16, 1945: “The pat- New World on the Mayflower in 1620 were tern of use of atomic weapons was set at divided before they ever left England, Hiroshima. They are weapons of aggres- according to Philbrick. About half of sion, of surprise and of terror. If they are them were a small, inner-directed group ever used again and they may well be by of Puritan exiles who had been living in the thousands, or perhaps by the tens Leiden, Holland. They had left England of thousands, their method of delivery originally so that they could worship God may well be different, may well reflect in their own way, but now they wanted new possibilities of interception and new to start a new life because they feared efforts to outwit them. The strategy of use that their children were becoming Dutch. may be different than it was against our Philbrick characterized the other voyag- essentially defeated enemy. But it is the ers as “strangers.” weapon for aggressors, and the elements Because they set sail in September, of surprise and terror are as intrinsic to it three months later than they had intended, as the fissionable nuclear act.” the Mayflower encountered many storms Oppenheimer said a colleague had and gales along the way, averaging only warned him that speaking in public about a mile to a mile and a half an hour. The the terror of this new weapon could turn trip took two months. Their destination

Jane Sargus people away from science. “I think it will was the Hudson River, but their course Nathaniel Philbrick finds lessons in history not help avert another atomic war if we took them to Cape Cod, where they had that are relevant today. He said “the Pil- try to rub the edges off this new terror that no legal right to settle. grims realized they had to put aside their we helped bring to the world,” he said. “They were already starving,” said differences if they were to survive. — By Gail Fineberg Philbrick, “and if they were going to sur- vive, they had to come together.” The brilliant man,” Bird continued. “He built Nathaniel Philbrick the atomic bomb. He thought he was in result was the Mayflower Compact, which a desperate race with . . . the German “[The story of the Pilgrims] speaks formed the first basis for written laws in physicists, with whom he had studied so much to where we are today, not only the Pilgrims’ new land. in Germany and whom he knew were in this country but in the world,” said “So many fundamental aspects of this as capable of this as he was.” author Nathaniel Philbrick. “We don’t story relate to where the world is today,” Oppenheimer spent the rest of his life, after Hiroshima, trying to contain the bomb. “This book is extremely relevant to our post-9/11 era. His life and work stand as a warning to us all,” Bird said. In a 1947 executive session of the Senate, a senator asked, “Would it be possible, Dr. Oppenheimer, for four or five men to construct a crude atomic device and put it in a suitcase or a crate and smuggle it aboard a ship in New York Harbor?” “Yes, of course, that would be pretty easy,” Oppenheimer replied. Startled, the senator asked what the defense could be. “Well, sir, you could get a screwdriver,” Oppenheimer snapped back. “He meant that the only way to find a bomb was to open every container and Craig D’Ooge inspect it. I mean, there is no defense,” CSPAN2 brings Book tv to the National Book Festival for live coverage of the History & Bird said. Biography Pavilion. OCTOBER 6, 2006 T he G a z ette 

2006 National Book Festival said Philbrick. The story started with religious dissonance and led first to an agreement among themselves and then a realization that if they were to survive, the Pilgrims had to work together with the native American Indians. Massasoit, the chief of the local tribe, wanted to make an alliance with the Pilgrims, according to Philbrick, to hold off the rival Nar- ragansetts. “They needed each other,” said Phil- brick, “and they made it work for about 50 years.” “Every generation’s engagement with history is colored by where we are today,” concluded Philbrick, but he made it clear that there are still many lessons to be learned from our own history. His 2006 best-seller, “Mayflower,” is probably a good place to start. Michaela McNichol Historian Taylor Branch chats with a Savannah, Ga., fan Lisa White, while a television — By Helen Dalrymple cameraman and a microphone (between them) capture the conversation outside the His- tory & Biography Pavilion. Taylor Branch Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning staff to continue those efforts and to teach managed to balance both religious and author of a three-volume history of the other teachers. political roles, Branch said, because he civil rights movement and Martin Luther Nash, a native Chicagoan, was had “one foot in the Constitution, one King Jr., told his National Book Festival stunned by her first experience with in the scriptures, and both in nonvio- audience: “The civil rights movement segregation in Nashville, Tenn., accord- lence.” got people thinking about what equal ing to Branch, and “she became one of — By Helen Dalrymple rights meant — its benefits spilled over the great teachers of nonviolence.” She into other areas of society,” such as equal wrote what became the Selma voting Kay Bailey Hutchison rights for women and immigrants. rights plan and forced it on King. “She Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison — herself a “We can scarcely now remember,” was like a leech — a woman in her early trailblazer as the first woman from Texas he said, “when women couldn’t serve 20s who expanded the very notion of to be elected to the U.S. Senate — spoke on juries.” But in Alabama in the mid- what a movement was — from a small about her new book titled “American 20th century, a woman could not serve notion to a point where they could see Heroines: The Spirited Women Who on a jury of any kind; South Carolina history changing.” Shaped Our Country.” and Mississippi had similar prohibitions It was Nash’s idea, according to “I was inspired to write the book as I and many other states imposed other Branch, that when the civil rights move- traveled around the world and saw that restrictions. ment was running out of steam in Bir- America is the greatest place to be a “To me the civil rights movement is mingham, they use teenagers and chil- woman,” she said. an alternative model for how we build dren who were willing to go to jail for the Hutchison quoted from Alexis de democracy; we tend to want to com- cause, leading to what he called “that Tocqueville’s seminal work “Democracy partmentalize it for another time, but it heart-melting moment” in May 1963, when in America” (1835): “If I were asked, ‘To has lessons for citizenship now,” Branch children marched on Birmingham, and what singular prosperity and growing added. “Bull” Connor used dogs and firehoses strength of that people ought mainly For much of his talk he discussed the on the marchers, focusing the world’s to be attributed?’ I should reply, ‘To the two strong women — Septima Clark and attention on the civil rights struggle as superiority of their women.’” Diane Nash — to whom he dedicated never before. Hutchison’s book features women two of his three volumes. Clark, born in Asked why so many of the civil rights who broke barriers in fields such as 1898, was a teacher and activist all her leaders were pastors, Branch replied that sports, aviation, politics, journalism and life. She worked with the NAACP to start it is generally believed that the historic the arts. adult literacy classes in South Carolina as roots for equal rights can be found in She is perhaps proudest when she early as the 1920s and later joined King’s the biblical notion of “equal souls.” King writes and talks about pioneer women 10 T he G a z ette OCTOBER 6, 2006 2006 National Book Festival

“who helped settle the great state of wife, she chose to follow her husband’s second and third volumes. Texas.” Among them was her great-great- career before launching her own. As a biographer, Remini felt the story grandmother Anna Maria Taylor. Facing “The book proves that women today of the House was, at its heart, a story the Mexican advance and raiding Indian have all the choices,” concluded Hutchi- about people. parties, she and thousands of other refu- son. “They can raise children and have “Some did absolutely nothing,” gees fled Nacogdoches and other border a career. Women have come a long way exclaimed Remini. “Others did foolish, towns during the Texas war of indepen- in a relatively short time because this is stupid and even criminal things.” And, dence. Similar to other mothers caught America.” according to Remini’s research, there in the “Runaway Scrape,” she lost four — By Audrey Fischer were arguments, fights, stabbings and children, but returned eventually to her shootings. “Lots of mayhem,” he noted. home and bore nine more children. Robert Remini But other members, in Remini’s opinion, In addition to featuring women from Historian Robert Remini, whose nar- were exceptional. the past in her book, Hutchison con- rative history of the House of Represen- “Henry Clay was the first great Speaker cludes each chapter with a brief inter- tatives (“The House: The History of the of the House.” view with “women of today” who were U.S. House of Representatives”) was Remini noted a number of gifts the groundbreakers in their fields. To notable published last April by the Library of book has afforded him: the thrill of being women such as Sally Ride, Beverly Sills, Congress in cooperation with Smith- able to borrow books from the Library of Barbara Walters, Cokie Roberts, Sandra sonian Books, spoke of the challenges Congress, assistance from the Library’s Day O’Connor, Madeleine Albright and he faced in deciding what to include research staff, access to the House floor Condoleezza Rice, she poses questions in a scant, one-volume history of this (courtesy of Speaker Dennis Hastert) and about their greatest obstacle, important “unique institution” founded more than the opportunity to speak at the National traits for success and best preparation for 200 years ago. Book Festival. the “rough-and-tumble of life.” “I’m long-winded by nature,” he joked, Last, but not least, was the offer that By her own admission, Ruth Simmons, and offered as evidence his award-win- he ultimately accepted, to serve as the the first African-American woman to head ning three-volume biography of Andrew official historian of the U.S. House of an “A list” college (Smith College) and the Jackson. After the first volume, Remini Representatives. first African-American president of an Ivy said, he convinced his publisher with “You can’t afford me,” was his first League institution (Brown University) had several choice performances of Mozart response. But he realized this was some- a “circuitous route to success.” As a young and Wagner that he should publish the thing he could and wanted to do. Jane Sargus Michaela McNichol Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and her son, Houston, join the Librar- Robert Remini says his history of the House of Representatives is, ian in the History & Biography Pavilion before her talk. at its heart, a story about people. OCTOBER 6, 2006 T he G a z ette 11 2006 National Book Festival

“I’ve retired several times but they responded for a long time. Bruce Feiler can’t shut me up,” he quipped. In addition to New Orleans, “The Bruce Feiler seems much too young “That’s good,” chimed in a member Great Deluge” covers the devastation of to have done all these things — spend of the audience. the Mississippi Gulf coast, which took the a year as a clown, travel with country — By Audrey Fischer brunt of the storm. Brinkley said the area “received a storm surge that wiped them singer Garth Brooks, win an award for Douglas Brinkley off the grid. Whole towns were gone.” music journalism and four awards for his writings on food and restaurants, and Historian and best-selling author Brinkley, who is also the author of travel to more than 60 countries on four Douglas Brinkley told the History & Biog- continents for his PBS series “Walking raphy Pavilion audience that a major the Bible.” national initiative to rebuild the levees It’s all true, he said, and in his talk and restore the wetlands is needed now at the book festival he made it sound to save New Orleans. so easy. “Everyday, the Gulf of Mexico is get- Feiler grew up in Georgia, a fifth-gen- ting closer to New Orleans,” said Brinkley, eration Jew, but he wasn’t particularly whose most recent book is “The Great religious. “I decided I wanted to read Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans the Bible,” he said, but it sat beside his and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.” bedside unread until he visited a friend in “We lose two football fields of land Jerusalem. Then it came to him. “What if a day in coastal wetlands erosion. The I travel along the route [where the stories wetlands used to soak up the storm surges of the Hebrew Bible take place] and read like a sponge, but they’re not there any- the Bible along the way?” more,” he said. Thus began his immersion in the The 300-mile levee system in New ancient lands of the Middle East that led Orleans is a persistent problem, because to his books “Walking the Bible” (2001), “the U.S. [Army] Corps of Engineers built “Abraham” (2002) and “Where God Was faulty levees,” Brinkley said. Born: A Journey to the Roots of Religion” “We’re not protected in New Orleans. (2005). We patched three big breaches, but the His early trips were made during entire levee system is stressed. We need what he called “a bubble of peace” Category 5 levees. If we don’t deal with Jane Sargus in the Middle East, but by the time he rebuilding the levees and restoring the Douglas Brinkley gives insights into the wanted to go to Babylon (now in the wetlands, we’re living year to year, with a Katrina disaster. middle of modern-day Iraq) to research dodge-the-bullet strategy,” he asserted. “Where God Was Born,” the war there Brinkley, who lives in New Orleans “Tour of Duty,” “The Boys of Pointe du Hoc” had begun. and teaches at Tulane University, rode and “Parish Priest,” said he wrote “The After overcoming logistical and secu- out the storm with his family in a high- Great Deluge” to explain what happened rity challenges, Feiler finally managed to rise along the Mississippi River, a “verti- and what went wrong and “to make sure make the trip to Babylon, where the Tigris cal evacuation.” After the levees were we don’t forget what we’re doing.” and the Euphrates rivers join and where breached, he drove his family to Houston “The current Bush-Nagin (New Saddam Hussein built a presidential palace and then returned to work the rescue Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin) policy on on top of the ancient ruins. “I do think boats. The area, Brinkley said, resembled New Orleans is a non-policy,” explained that going to places like this can enhance a war zone, mile upon mile of devasta- Brinkley. “Their policy is this: They’re tell- our understanding,” Feiler said. tion. ing the people of the Lower Ninth Ward Israelis invented religion there, he “There was no federal cavalry coming to come home, that they are welcomed said, “but the message of this place is that on Aug. 29,” he said. The first respond- back, but ‘we’re not going to provide God belongs to everywhere and every- ers were “people on the block. It was water, electricity, sewage or schools,’ one. I’ve come to believe that religion Louisianans saving Louisianans and Mis- which is disingenuous at its core.” has surged [in recent times] because it’s sissippians saving Mississippians: cooks, Brinkley pointed out that if the Neth- universal. The only force strong enough accountants, salesmen, unbelievable erlands can work to save Amsterdam and to take on religious extremism is religious Americans, who risked their lives. the Italians can save Venice, then surely moderation, and the best tool is the Bible. Brinkley said the U.S. Coast Guard the nation can get behind New Orleans The Bible is too important to be ceded and the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries and the Gulf Coast. to one side in the argument over values,” worked heroically, but no other group — Donna Urschel he added. 12 T he G a z ette OCTOBER 6, 2006

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During the question-and-answer in public.” The vast majority of people Andrew Carroll period, Feiler said that he had also read are in the middle, he said, with only 10 When Andrew Carroll learned in the Koran and stressed how important it percent at the extremes. April 2004 that the National Endowment is to discuss religion. “One way to break “Reach out to friends and neighbors,” for the Arts (NEA) was sending writers the tension is to go back to the texts and said Feiler, “and begin the conversation. to military bases to collect the stories of read them ourselves,” he added. That has to happen in every neighbor- active-duty soldiers and their families, he “We have to get over the ‘no-no’ that hood, every community, every heart.” thought, “What a brilliant idea. But it’s we shouldn’t discuss religion and politics — By Helen Dalrymple never going to work.” He thought military men and women were too reserved, too stoic, to share their personal stories with a government agency. But he signed up to edit the contribu- tions for an anthology. “What is there left to say about these conflicts that we haven’t heard 1,000 times before in the media?” he wondered as he tackled a stack of more than 12,000 pages. As Carroll began to read the verses, cor- respondence and private diaries and jour- nals, he discovered stories that had never been told before, anywhere. He related some of them to a festival audience. One soldier gave a “surreal but hys- terical” account of having tea with an Afghani warlord, who was technically supporting the United States while at the same time currying favor with the Jane Sargus Bruce Feiler, father of 17-month-old twins, recommends going back to Biblical texts to Taliban. “I don’t know if you’ve ever been take on extremism. present at a socially awkward meal, but dining with someone who wants to kill you raises the tension to another dimen- sion,” Carroll said. In one encounter at a checkpoint in Afghanistan, a local man remarked upon the dark skin of the American soldier. “Muslim?” he asked. “I’m Jewish,” the soldier replied. The local man thought awhile. “We’re like cousins, then. We’re all children of Abraham.” Carroll’s voice cracked as he read a soldier’s memory of comforting an old Arab man who was wailing inconsolably for his son, killed in a crash with the soldier’s armored vehicle. “I haven’t lost a full-grown son, just a little daughter, a baby,” the soldier wrote. “Sitting on the steel gate of that monster that had killed his son, I think I knew exactly how one Iraqi man felt.” Carroll is the editor of “Opera- tion Homecoming” (Random House,

Michaela McNichol 2006). Andrew Carroll says only soldiers who write from experience can tell the real war stories. — By Gail Fineberg OCTOBER 6, 2006 T he G a z ette 13

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NBF, Continued from page 1 their favorite authors speak and have their books signed. Award-winning winning children’s book authors Louis Sachar and Andrew Clements signed nearly 1,300 books between the two of them. “This year’s festival has the thrill of the new with the comfort of the famil- iar,” said Jabari Asim, deputy editor of the Washington Post’s Book World. He singled out festival favorites Doris Kearns Goodwin and John Hope Franklin, who once again were part of the lineup in the “History and Biography” pavilion. Goodwin, along with authors Khaled Hosseini (“The Kite Runner”), Nathaniel Philbrick (“Mayflower”) and Sharon Draper (“Copper Sun”) spoke at the National Book Festival gala on Friday night. The presi- dent and first lady Laura Bush attended the evening event, along with Secretary Craig D’Ooge of State Condoleezza Rice. Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko signs a book for one of his hundreds of fans who “Join me in welcoming America’s first stood in long lines to meet him. lady of literacy, ambassador extraordinary to the world of literatures and the reader and Snook read aloud to children in As part of the book festival’s theme in chief of the United States,” said Librar- the “Let’s Read America” pavilion. As of “Lifelong Literacy,” the Library and ian of Congress James H. Billington. in past years, families waited in long the Ad Council, its longtime promotional In turn, Mrs. Bush welcomed the lines to be photographed in the Target partner, announced a new campaign to Librarian and Mrs. Billington, along with Big Red Chair. begin later this fall. Through its six-year participating authors, to a White House Now in its 20th year, Scholastic Inc.’s partnership with the Ad Council, the breakfast on Saturday morning, before Magic School Bus was parked on the Library has engaged all Americans in the start of the book festival. festival grounds to introduce children to learning their nation’s history through In her remarks at the opening event, fun scientific experiments. Ms. Frizzle, a its online resources at www.loc.gov. The world renowned forensic anthropologist most admired science teacher, and the effort will take on a new goal. Kathy Reichs, whose novels are the basis Dirtmeister, geologist extraordinaire, were “While 45 percent of fourth-graders in for Fox’s hit TV show “Bones,” noted that on hand to meet their fans. the U.S. say they read for fun every day, book festivals “are the payoff for all the Also popular among their fans were that percentage drops to only 19 percent solitary hours spent at the keyboard.” NBA/WNBA players Brendan Haywood of by the time they get to eighth grade,” said Another guest at the White House the Washington Wizards and Ruth Riley Kathy Crosby, senior vice president of breakfast was beloved “Sesame Street” of the Detroit Shock, who represented the Ad Council. character Elmo, who has the propen- the organization’s Read to Achieve lit- The new campaign is designed to sity to speak about himself in the third eracy initiative in the Children Pavilion. address this drop-off. A series of new person. They were introduced by NBA All-Star television, radio, print and Web public “Elmo has been up since 6 o’clock this BJ Armstrong. service announcements will encourage morning,” he told a delighted crowd of “My mother was a librarian, so I had children in grades 4-6 to “explore new children and adults who came to meet no choice but to read,” said Armstrong. worlds” through the wonders of reading. him (and his puppeteer Kevin Clash) later “Read in school, read for fun, read for The campaign will be augmented by a in the day at the book festival. “Elmo is work and read on the computer,” he sug- special Web site, www.loc.gov/literacy. really feeling it now!” Clash is the author gested. “This new site will engage and inspire of a new book titled “My Life as a Furry With help from several students from children to find their passion for read- Red Monster.” Jackson-Via Elementary School in Char- ing,” said Jo Ann Jenkins, the Library’s Along with Elmo, other PBS charac- lottesville, Va., Armstrong read aloud chief of staff. ters such as Maya and Miguel, Clifford “Martin’s Big Words, an inspirational Visitors to the Library of Congress the Big Red Dog and Arthur were on story about Martin Luther King Jr., by pavilion were welcomed to express their hand to greet festivalgoers. Miss Lori Doreen Rappaport. passion for books and reading on the 14 T he G a z ette OCTOBER 6, 2006

2006 National Book Festival graffiti wall. Armed with colored markers, adults and children noted their favor- ite books and indicated how reading inspired them. “Books are my vision when I lost my own, my escape when none was possible, my friends when mine were lost,” wrote one festivalgoer. Others noted, “Reading makes me lose myself to a better world,” and “read- ing keeps me humble.” In his closing remarks at the conclu- sion of the 2006 National Book Festival, the Librarian of Congress articulated his thoughts on the subject. “Reading is important for everyone; it is the basis of our democracy. “If we don’t keep reading, we don’t keep thinking.” o

National Book Festival Craig D’Ooge A Library of Congress Pavilion wall for graffiti, in this case authorized writing on a public Distinguished Benefactor: Target surface, captures the enthusiasm of hundreds of readers for their favorite books. Charter Sponsors: AT&T, The Amend Group, The Washington Post Patrons: AARP, James Madison Council, National Endowment for the Arts Contributors: Barnes & Noble, Marshall and Dee Ann Payne, NBA/WNBA, PBS, Penguin Group (USA), Scholastic Inc. Friends: Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Endowment for the Humanities Volunteers: More than 750 people volun- teered to help at the National Book Festi- val, including more than 330 Library staff members as well as 420 members of the Junior League of Washington. Volunteers served as author escorts to and from all festival events, managed pavilions and lines, and dispensed information, some 40,000 programs, 21,000 posters and 20,000 bottles of water.

The LCPA What IF... Science Fiction & Fantasy Forum “Maria’s Study Hall” Maria V. Snyder, Compton Crook Award, describes the research methods she uses to write a novel. www.mariavsnyder.com/ 12:10 pm, Monday, Oct. 16, Mary Pickford Theater, LM 301

A book-signing will follow and copies of “Poison Gail Fineberg Study” and “Magic Study” will be available for purchase. Contact Colleen Cahill at [email protected] for Christie Weng, right, of Chevy Chase, brings her flock to the festival, with the help of more information. Nikki Gribble (kneeling between the girls). The children are, from left, Natalie, 2, Sophie 4, and triplets Alex, Jason and Dianna, all 8 months. OCTOBER 6, 2006 T he G a z ette 15

Summer Interns Discover New Worlds in G&M

By ERIN ALLEN

This summer a group of college stu- dents processed some 20,000 nautical charts from all over the world in prepara- tion for their transfer from the Library’s Geography and Map Division (G&M) to an offsite storage facility at Ft. Meade, Md. According to Mike Buscher, leader of G&M’s Collections Management Team, many of these charts were obtained from various federal agencies that had purged their files during the past year, as well as from recently acquired collections of Rus- sian and Chinese maps. From 30 coun- tries, large and small, including Canada, Australia, Taiwan and Israel, some of the maps dated as far back as the 1840s, and Keisha Manderson others were as recent as 2006. Andrew Flatness labels and processes a recently acquired Russian nautical map that will Before the interns could begin work be added to the Geography and Map Division’s collections. on these charts, they first had to move other maps out of the way. “Upon arriving Both the newly cataloged nautical Although none of the intern’s specific to start work, we found tens of thousands charts and the Heezen-Tharp Collection, majors related to geography or world of maps that had to be moved and then among other map collections, are des- history, the students seemed to find rel- sorted by country of origin, with the aim tined for Modules 3 and 4 at Ft. Meade. evance between their work at the Library of pulling out duplicates to create room With construction scheduled to begin and their studies. Casey Crawford, a third- for filing new entries,” said Andrew Flat- this fall and a tentative completion date year graphics design major at Howard ness, a senior at James Madison Univer- of early 2009, these two new modules University in Washington, D.C., said, “I sity in Harrisonburg, Va. are designed for long-term preservation can relate to the demand for detail and In fewer than three days, the students of the Library’s special collections in precision. After the first couple of days, I shifted the entire Heezen-Tharp Collec- special formats, including maps. began to see how interesting maps could tion from one end of the division to the The modules will feature an ideal be. The creators of these charts and maps other. This collection occupied 375 draw- preservation environment of 50 degrees are truly artists in my mind. Being an ers — enough to cover almost two-and-a- Farenheit and 30 percent relative humid- artist myself, having the opportunity to half football fields. Bruce C. Heezen and ity. Maps and other items will be placed work with what I consider artwork cre- Marie Tharp were pioneers in the explora- in special acid-free containers for long- ated a positive and productive outcome tion and mapping of ocean floors. Tharp, term storage. for me.” who died on Aug. 23, 2006, donated her “What we did this summer took some Toni Horne, another Howard Univer- collection of more than 40,000 oceanic effort, and we’re proud of what we have sity student with an artistic bent, added, maps and related items to the Library in accomplished,” said Sam Stevens, a fresh- “Most people would not understand how 1995. Maps in this collection date from man at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, one could gather inspiration from maps, the 1940s to the present. Iowa. but that’s the beauty of the imagination. To move collections, the students “Smart,” “enthusiastic” and “highly As an artist and fashion student, I can worked out a system of rolling carts from motivated” were just a few choice words appreciate how beautiful and intricate the one end of the collection space to the Buscher used to describe the group, maps are. The lines, shapes, textures and other. They also set up a system for sort- saying they “plowed right in” to the tasks colors were at times very interesting.” ing, arranging, labeling and filing the assigned to them. “Working for the Geography and Map backlog of nautical charts, as well as “I was really impressed with this Division at the Library of Congress was a inputting the information into an online group, and I could not have been more great opportunity,” Horne, a junior, con- inventory that will be critical to identify- pleased with what they accomplished,” cluded. “I was able to see the world!” o ing and locating the items once they go he said. “Best of all, they asked if they Erin Allen is a writer/editor in the to Ft. Meade. could come back next summer.” Library’s Public Affairs Office. 16 T he G a z ette OCTOBER 6, 2006

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Noon – 12:30 p.m., LC 1. 11:30 a.m., LC Wellness Wellness Center, LA B-36. Center, LA B-36. Gallery Talk: Clark Evans Pre-Concert Talk: Pianist of the Rare Book and What If … Science Fiction Bellydance Class: Beginners, Rachel Franklin gives a talk Special Collections Division preceding the Beaux Arts Trio. and Fantasy Forum: with exercise emphasis. 12:45 discusses the contents of “Disneyland: Mars and p.m., LC Wellness Center, 6:15 p.m., Whittall Pavilion. Abraham Lincoln’s pockets Contact 7-5502. Beyond” will be screen. LA B-36. Contact Michelle in the “American Treasures” Noon, Dining Room A, Cadoree Bradley at 7-1215. exhibition. Noon, Southwest Concert: Beaux Arts Trio. LM 620. Cosponsored by the Yoga/Pilates: Start at your Gallery of the Great Hall. 8 p.m., Coolidge Auditorium. LC Employees’ Film Society. own level. 1 p.m., LM SB-02. Tickets are available from Benjamin Botkin Lecture Ticketmaster (two per Pre-Concert Talk: Jessica Tuesday, Oct. 10 Series: Frank Korom, professor person). If there are no Crash, composer-pianist in the Department of Religion at at The George Washington CPR/AED Training: Register tickets, staff may request Boston University and recipient standby seats at the will-call University, and Norman via Online Learning Center. of a John Simon Guggenheim Middleton, Music Division, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., LM desk in the Jefferson Building Memorial Foundation at 6:30 p.m. Contact 7-5502. present “Dangerous Music.” 654 A-B. Contact Peter Torres Fellowship, gives a talk on 6:15 p.m., Whittall Pavilion. at [email protected]. “The Changing Worlds of the Thursday, Oct. 12 No tickets are required. Patuas of West Bengal.” Noon, Aerobics Class: High- Workshop: Basic Computer Contact 7-5502. Mary Pickford Theater, LM 301. Low. Noon – 12:30 p.m., LC Skills. 9 a.m. – noon, LM Concert: Mandelring String Sponsored by the American Wellness Center, LA B-36. 654-A. Sign up via the Online Quartet. 8 p.m., Coolidge Folklife Center. Contact Hispanic Heritage Month: Learning Center at https://olc. Auditorium. Tickets are 7-5510. A cultural program of music loc.gov. available from Ticketmaster Forum: Bible study. Open to and dance featuring the Symposium: Eleventh (two per person). If there are all. Noon - 1 p.m., LM 613. musical group Los Españoles, annual International no tickets, staff may request Sponsored by the Bible Study along with the dance troupe Cartoon Arts Festival, standby seats at the will-call Group, LCRA. Contact sajo@ Los Quetzales, culminates including a presentation desk in the Jefferson Building loc.gov. the Library’s Celebration of by Georgia Higley, head of at 6:30 p.m. Contact 7-5502. Hispanic Heritage Month. Women’s History Discussion the Newspaper Section in Noon, Mumford Room, LM Group: For staff and the Serial and Government Saturday, Oct. 14 649. Contact Anthony Ybarra researchers. Brown bag Publications Division, titled Symposium: The Prints and at 7-8313. lunch. 12:30 p.m., LJ G-07. “Researching Comic Books in Photographs Division hosts Poetry at Noon: Michael Contact Sheridan Harvey at the Library of Congress” and the 11th annual International Davis, Larry Johnson, John [email protected] or a talk by Jules Feiffer. Cartoon Arts Festival. 9 a.m., O’Dell and Kay Lindsay 7-2273. 9 a.m., Mumford Room, LM Mumford Room, LM 649. See present readings on “Ancient Aerobics Class: Strength 649. Sponsored by the Prints ICAF Web site at http://go.to/ History.” Noon, Mary Pickford training and floor exercise. and Photographs Division. icaf.

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