NPC -- 32nd Annual Book Fair & Author's Night -- Notes:
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Description of Pictures: Authors shown here: James Reston Jr., Anthony Pitch, Wayne Alan, Nancy Baggett, Stuart E. Weisberg, Max Cleland, Harlow Giles Unger, Harold Evans, Gil Klein, Vali Nasr, Richard Wolffe, Henry Waxman, Craig Crawford, Helen Thomas, Haynes Johnson, Dan Balz, Janet Langhart Cohen, Ann Coulter, Jack Williams, Ariel Glucklich, Bryan A. Garner, Jeanne Fogle, Kinky Friedman, Deborah Tannen, Barbara Boxer, David Updike, Reif Larsen, Steve Roberts, John Ferling, Patrick K. O'Donnell, Farai Chideya, Paula Tutman, P.F. McKinley, C. Bruce Johnson, Joan Biskupic, Leslie Sanchez, Garrett Peck, Neil Sheehan, Ken Auletta, Jason Killian Meath, Barney Frank, Gwen Ifill, Spike and Carla, Christina Asquith, Pamela Newkirk, Ben H. Winters, Jim Lehrer, and Quinn Bradlee.
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Description of Subject Matter: The National Press Club puts on an annual author's night, bringing in perhaps 35 authors to talk about and sign copies of their new books. The list of authors varies each year based on publishing schedules but I've seen an amazing variety of people there each time. Funds raised by the Book Fair will benefit the Press Club's Eric Friedheim Library and News Information Center, a resource for journalists around the world.
Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
NPCBF_091117_003.JPG: Anthony S. Pitch ("They Have Killed Papa Dead! The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage of Vengeance") and James Reston Jr. ("Defenders of the Faith: Charles V. Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536").
NPCBF_091117_006.JPG: Wayne Alan ("Magical Meatless Meals Cookbook").
NPCBF_091117_015.JPG: Stuart E. Weisberg ("Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman")
NPCBF_091117_017.JPG: Max Cleland ("Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed, and Karl Rove")
NPCBF_091117_020.JPG: Harlow Giles Unger ("The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness")
NPCBF_091117_023.JPG: Harold Evans ("My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times")
NPCBF_091117_027.JPG: Gil Klein ("Reliable Sources: 100 Years at the National Press Club")
NPCBF_091117_030.JPG: Vali Nasr ("Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World") with Hugh Grindstaff.
NPCBF_091117_039.JPG: Richard Wolffe ("Renegade: The Making of a President")
NPCBF_091117_042.JPG: Henry Waxman ("The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works") and fan.
NPCBF_091117_045.JPG: Helen Thomas and Craig Crawford ("Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President To Know and Do")
NPCBF_091117_050.JPG: Haynes Johnson
NPCBF_091117_053.JPG: Dan Balz
NPCBF_091117_056.JPG: Haynes Johnson and Dan Balz ("The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election")
NPCBF_091117_063.JPG: Janet Langhart Cohen ("Race and Reconciliation in America")
NPCBF_091117_070.JPG: Ann Coulter ("Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America")
NPCBF_091117_071.JPG: Jack Williams ("The AMS Weather Book: The Ultimate Guide to America's Weather")
NPCBF_091117_079.JPG: Carole Sargent, Ariel Glucklich ("Dying for Heaven: Holy Pleasure and Suicide Bombers -- Why the Best Qualities of Religion Are Also Its Most Dangerous"), ???, and Eleanor Herman.
NPCBF_091117_082.JPG: Bryan A. Garner ("Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges")
NPCBF_091117_085.JPG: Jeanne and Edward Fogle ("A Neighborhood Guide to Washington, D.C.'s Hidden History")
NPCBF_091117_088.JPG: Sylvia Smith and Carole Sargent.
NPCBF_091117_092.JPG: Kinky Friedman ("Kinky's Celebrity Pet Files")
NPCBF_091117_095.JPG: Carole Sargent and Deborah Tannen ("You Were Always Mom's Favorite: Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives")
NPCBF_091117_099.JPG: Kinky Friedman @ the National Press Club Book Festival.
NPCBF_091117_107.JPG: Barbara Boxer ("Blind Trust")
NPCBF_091117_113.JPG: David Updike ("Old Girlfriends: Stories") and Reif Larsen ("The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet")
NPCBF_091117_116.JPG: Steven V. Roberts ("From Every End of This Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made In America")
NPCBF_091117_120.JPG: Anthony S. Pitch.
NPCBF_091117_121.JPG: James Reston, Jr.
NPCBF_091117_124.JPG: User comment: James Reston, Jr., Melissa Maxman, Glenn Marcus
NPCBF_091117_126.JPG: John Ferling ("The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon") and Ann Coulter.
NPCBF_091117_131.JPG: User comment: Ann Coulter, Melissa Maxman, Glenn Marcus
NPCBF_091117_134.JPG: Patrick K. O'Donnell ("They Dared Return")
NPCBF_091117_139.JPG: Farai Chideya ("Kiss the Sky") and Paula Tutman ("Deadline!! Second Block")
NPCBF_091117_143.JPG: John Maxwell Hamilton ("Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting")
NPCBF_091117_146.JPG: P.F. McKinley ("Alexander the Salamander and The Challenge")
NPCBF_091117_152.JPG: C. Bruce Johnson ("Heart to Heart: 12 People Discover Better Lives After Their Heart Attacks") and Carole Sargent.
NPCBF_091117_162.JPG: Joan Biskupic ("American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia")
NPCBF_091117_166.JPG: Leslie Sanchez ("You've Come A Long Way, Maybe: Sarah, Michelle, Hillary and the Shaping of the New American Woman")
NPCBF_091117_174.JPG: Garrett Peck ("The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabenet")
NPCBF_091117_185.JPG: Neil Sheehan ("A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and The Ultimate Weapon")
NPCBF_091117_190.JPG: Ken Auletta ("Googled: The End of the World As We Know It")
NPCBF_091117_192.JPG: Bill Hickman standing in for Paul Dickson and promoting his book, "The Dickson Baseball Dictionary".
NPCBF_091117_196.JPG: Jason Killian Meath ("Hollywood on the Potomac")
NPCBF_091117_208.JPG: Barney Frank.
NPCBF_091117_213.JPG: Gwen Ifill ("The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama")
NPCBF_091117_218.JPG: Top Chef's Spike and Carla ("The Quickfire Cookbook")
NPCBF_091117_221.JPG: Christina Asquith ("Sisters In War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq")
NPCBF_091117_224.JPG: Pamela Newkirk ("Letter from Black America")
NPCBF_091117_260.JPG: Jeanne and Edward Fogle
NPCBF_091117_271.JPG: Harlow Giles Unger
NPCBF_091117_273.JPG: Steve and Linda Bauer ("Recipes from Historic New England: A Restaurant Guide and Cookbook")
NPCBF_091117_276.JPG: Leslie Sanchez
NPCBF_091117_282.JPG: They had a Twitter feed going on. I didn't think much of it until I noticed it told me that Jim Lehrer had just come in.
NPCBF_091117_288.JPG: Ben H. Winters ("Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters")
NPCBF_091117_292.JPG: Jim Lehrer ("Oh, Johnny: A Novel")
NPCBF_091117_302.JPG: Richard Wolffe
NPCBF_091117_316.JPG: Quinn Bradlee ("A DIfferent Life: Growing Up Learning Disabled and Other Adventures"), Dick Templeton, and Neil Sheehan.
NPCBF_091117_324.JPG: Jim Lehrer @ the National Press Club Book Festival.
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2009 photos: Equipment this year: I was using mostly the Fuji S100fs. I've also got a Nikon D90 and a newer Fuji -- the S200EHX -- both of which are nice but I still prefer the flexibility of the Fuji.
Trips this year: (1) quick jaunt to Niagara Falls, (2) quick jaunt to New York City, (3) the Civil War Preservation Trust annual conference in Gettysburg, (4) out west for the San Diego Comic-Con and various places, and (5) the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Springfield IL .
Ego strokes: I had a picture of a Lincoln-Obama cupcake sculpture published in Civil War Times and WUSA-9, the local CBS affiliate, ran a quick piece on me. A picture that I took at the annual Abraham Lincoln Symposium appeared in the National Archives' "Prologue" magazine.
Photos taken this year: 417,000 (over 1.5 million since I went digital back in 2002).
User page views this year: 22,700 (almost identical to last year -- definitely not an ego stroke!).