of the two most famous american madams ever. in american rose we learned about an american icon who hasn t been explored the way you explored her. now with liar, temptress, soldier, spy you hit on several things i have door. unexplored american history, espionage, and women with real spines, adventurous incredible women. tell us about what this book is about. i will tell you the origins. i was born and raised in philadelphia and moved to atlanta in 2001. the civil war seats in the conversation in the south in a way that it doesn t in the north. i saw the occasional confederate the, heard the jokes of norton war of northern aggression. [laughter] homehe point was driven that it wasn t a joke. for i was stuck in traffic hours behind a pickup truck that had a bumper sticker that said. blame me, i voted for jeff davis. i looked at this for hours and started thinking of course, what were the women doing? they didn t have easy access to , they didn tcourse have the right to vote.
this event was taped in 2014 at a bookstore in asheville, north carolina. t s about an hour. denise: i am thrilled to be here with karen abbott. i love her book. love all her books. you show us this entire other view of chicago through the eyes of the two most famous american madams ever. in american rose, we learned about an american icon who hasn t been explored the way you explored her. now with liar, temptress, soldier, spy, you hit on several things i adore. unexplored american history, espionage, and women with real spines, adventurous incredible women. tell us about what this book is about. karen: i will tell you the origins. i was born and raised in philadelphia and moved to atlanta in 2001. i noticed immediately that the civil war seeps in the conversation in the south in a way it never does in the north. i saw the occasional confederate flag, heard the jokes of the war of northern aggression. the point was really driven [laughter] good point. and the point was
migration. international migration at the graduate and undergraduate level. i also teach family, and i ve taught religion, development. but my favorite course is migration. host: what s similar about the current migration patterns from mexico to the u.s. to past immigration in the u.s.? anything? guest: it s, the composition has changed. there are more and more women. there are more and more unattached youth. so unaccompanied minors has become a huge part of the migration flow from mexico. there are more and more of the poorest leaving. it used to be migration was more selective. you had to have some resources to make the journey. but the situations have become so desperate, especially in honduras. and parts of salvador can. so it s really salvador. so it s really pulling the youngest and the poorest. more and more women, more and more danger. host: anyone make it on their own without spending on a coyote or guest: yeah. i mean, there are seasoned migrants that wi
you re watching booktv on c-span2 with top non-fiction books and authors every weekend. booktv television for serious readers. from my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when one s own interests or even one s own life is in peril. growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the second world war and greece that i always kept close to my heart. the first was in 1940 when benito mussolini italy s prime minister asked the greek prime minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3:00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. it was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. it prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest
published as the president but a lot of stuff i didn t publish. one thing corry told me was the diary and write down the stuff that is interesting to you. so i did and i thought it was so important. when young doctors and aspiring writers asked me how do you get started? i say you have to record your reflections. .. i had been in school for 19 years. 19 years after graduating from high school. i had that quantum dot detour. so i was just ready to be done, and reap some rewards for all that all those sleepless nights and what i found was that doctors were very unhappy, and when you re in training, the focus is on the physiology and learning about the heart. it s not really about the culture of practice. so i was largely blinded to that. and then i took on my first role and i m talking to doctors and i find they re very unhappy with medical practice today. and it wasn t just about the stresses we all know. it upabout the paperwork and the malpractice fears and so on. it was a d