Speakers included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, historians David McCullough, Michael Beschloss and Henry Louis Gates Jr., chef and humanitarian José Andrés, graphic novelists Raina Telgemeier and Ngozi Ukazu, TV personality and author Matthew Gray Gubler, award-winning novelist Laila Lalami and Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction recipient Richard Ford.
2019 Festival Videos
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Film, VideoKathleen Glasgow: 2019 National Book Festival Kathleen Glasgow discussed "How to Make Friends with the Dark" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoRenée Watson & Ellen Hagan: 2019 National Book Festival Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan discussed "Watch Us Rise" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
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Film, VideoBarbara Kingsolver: 2019 National Book Festival Barbara Kingsolver discussed "Unsheltered" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
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Film, VideoLaila Lalami: 2019 National Book Festival Laila Lalami discussed "The Other Americans" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoRichard Powers: 2019 National Book Festival Richard Powers discussed "The Overstory" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
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Film, VideoJoyce Carol Oates: 2019 National Book Festival Joyce Carol Oates discussed "My Life as a Rat" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoAnn Beattie: 2019 National Book Festival Ann Beattie discussed "A Wonderful Stroke of Luck" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoThomas Mallon: 2019 National Book Festival Thomas Mallon discussed "Landfall" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoSigrid Nunez: 2019 National Book Festival Sigrid Nunez discussed "The Friend" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoReal People: 2019 National Book Festival Louis Bayard discussed "Courting Mr. Lincoln" and Roxana Robinson discussed "Dawson's Fall" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoRebecca Makkai: 2019 National Book Festival Rebecca Makkai discussed "The Great Believers" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoDouglas Rushkoff: 2019 National Book Festival Douglas Rushkoff discussed "Team Human" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoDavid Quammen: 2019 National Book Festival David Quammen discussed "The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoLisa Margonelli: 2019 National Book Festival Lisa Margonelli discussed "Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoDaniel Stone: 2019 National Book Festival Daniel Stone discussed "The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoBeth Macy: 2019 National Book Festival Beth Macy discussed "Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoPeter Brannen: 2019 National Book Festival Peter Brannen discussed "The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoThomas W. Malone: 2019 National Book Festival Thomas W. Malone discussed "Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoHuman-Animal Relations: 2019 National Book Festival Alexandra Horowitz launched her new book "Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond" and Frans de Waal discussed "Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoJim Ottaviani: 2019 National Book Festival Jim Ottaviani discussed "Hawking" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoDavid Sloan Wilson: 2019 National Book Festival David Sloan Wilson discussed "This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoSusan Choi: 2019 National Book Festival Susan Choi discussed "Trust Exercise" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoRace in America: 2019 National Book Festival Henry Louis Gates Jr. discussed "Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow," Judge Richard Gergel discussed "Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring" and Steve Luxenberg discussed "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation" at the 2019 Library…- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoElaine Pagels: 2019 National Book Festival Elaine Pagels discussed "Why Religion?: A Personal Story" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoEssential Libraries: 2019 National Book Festival Joshua Hammer discussed "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" and Alberto Manguel discussed "Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions" in a conversation moderated by Carla Hayden at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2019