‘National Book Festival 2009′
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The Library of Congress has just announced that it has received a $5 million donation from David M. Rubenstein, cofounder of the Carlyle Group. The donation, spread over the next 5 years, makes the festival’s future more certain, as it was founded by Laura Bush in her first year as First Lady and was relying on the interest of subsequent First Ladies to continue.
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2 Responses to “National Book Festival Gets $5M from Rubenstein”
May 6th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Great to see this.
More chairs now for Grisham? :-)
May 27th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Thanks for giving credit to Laura Bush. No one else seems to be.