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This weekend C-SPAN’s Book TV will feature “LOVE LEADERSHIP” author and Operation HOPE Founder, Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant as he joins Civil Rights Icon, Ambassador Andrew Young and Harvard School of Business Professor and bestselling author Bill George for a dynamic Conversation on Leadership at 10am (ET) Saturday, December 5th and 1am (ET) Sunday, December 6th in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

Their lively discussion will focus on some of the biggest issues of our day and facing this generation, from the economic crisis and the future of capitalism itself, the role of government and views on the Obama Administration, the role entrepreneurship will play, and what each of us can do. The

discussion will also turn specifically to and around the leadership strategies outlined in Bryant’s new bestselling book LOVE LEADERSHIP, looking alternatively at successful models of leadership based on “what I have to give” versus “what do I get.”


Moderated by Professor Roy Bahl and the former dean of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, the authors will explore the age-old conflict of “giving” vs. “getting” and how a “giving” philosophy adds value to any venture in life -- even in and maybe particularly in today’s world.

The speakers dialogue about how understanding the strategies of successful business leaders like Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett, elected leaders such as former Presidents Bill Clinton, civil rights leaders such as Dr. Dorothy Height, and entertainment icons Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones, who have built their legacies around philanthropy, can help create a better world.

Bryant has donated all proceeds for purchases through the Operation HOPE website to benefit his financial literacy nonprofit Operation HOPE. The book can be found online at www.operationhope.org : .

For more a complete viewing schedule visit BookTV/C-SPAN.


About John Hope Bryant

Born February 6, 1966 John Bryant is an American financial literacy and poverty eradication activist, and "silver rights" entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Operation HOPE, America’s first nonprofit social investment banking organization, a leading self-help provider of economic empowerment tools and services for the underserved. His work to empower low-wealth communities has earned him a role as the Vice Chair of the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy and the Chairman of the Council’s Under-Served Committee. Bryant is author of the new bestselling book LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World. To learn more about him visit www.operationhope.org : or follow John Hope Bryant on Twitter at twitter.com/johnhopebryant : .


About Operation HOPE, Inc.

Operation HOPE is America's leading nonprofit social investment banking and financial literacy empowerment organization. With more than 400 private sector partners, 3500 nonprofit organizations and schools, and 100 government partners in 69 major U.S. cities and six provinces in South Africa, HOPE has raised more than $500 million in its pursuit of educating, assisting and inspiring the next generation of global stakeholders in financial literacy, economic empowerment and silver rights. Through international initiatives and its principal programs, Banking on Our Future (teaching school children about money), HOPE Coalition America (Mortgage HOPE Crisis Hotline, 1-888-388-HOPE, financial emergency preparedness and disaster relief), Walk-In HOPE Centers (loans, bill pay, computer literacy, understanding banking principles), and our 10,000 strong volunteer HOPE Corps, Operation HOPE has delivered services to more than one million low-wealth individuals and assumed the responsibility of piloting the Silver Rights Movement towards making free enterprise and capitalism relevant to all underserved communities. Senior aide to Dr. King in the civil rights movement, Ambassador Andrew Young, serves as global spokesman for Operation HOPE, and icons Quincy Jones and Ambassador Andrew Young co-chair 5MK (5 MILLION KIDS), aimed at breaking the cycle of the high-school dropout epidemic in America. To learn more about HOPE, visit www.operationhope.org : and www.5MK.org : , or read our blog at www.operationhope.org/blog : .



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