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Todays program is the third researcher talk this year. Next month, we pick up the pace a bit. On may 19, a professor of law and taxation at the university of virginia law school, and a former chief of staff on the joint committee of taxation, will speak about his research and that committees records, and the history of the joint committee. And on may 26, we host the professor of Political Science at wingate university, who will discuss her research for her book manuscript about the politics of N...

By david wright. Its probably the definitive biography of douglas and especially of what is going on in the United States and the fight for racial justice. Nobody was more consequential and has been more consequential on the question of race in america. Boy ahead of his time. He was not only an abolitionist, passionist and former slave but he insisted from the earliest times in the 1840s, almost towards the end of the 19th century, that equality was the goal. And he would book no deviation from ...

And then to become Prime Minister in the forties of the german invasion weather is like in nazi germany when the they were in the war and the United States is in the war. It is an extraordinary book and it is a wonderful read and then ive also been reading the greatest stories Jean Edward Smith a great biographer with about the freeze the grant and eisenhower but he died in 2019 when fdr with american stories chooses the best book of the year back in 2007. And those that have been sitting on my ...

And especially with whats going on in the United States, no one was more consequential and has been more consequential on the question of race in america than Frederick Douglass. Way ahead of his time. He was not only an abolitionist and and a passionate abolitionist as a former slave, but he insisted from the earliest times, in the 1840s right through his death almost toward the end of the 19th century, that equality was the goal. And he was, he would take no deviation from that. He was very cl...

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Joining us now on book tv was representative tom cole a republican from oklahoma. Congressman kobe have asked you this question before, you have always had a large reading list. What is on your current reading list . I have just finished the splendid and the vial by erik larson. A wonderful of churchill and his family. Really in the worst year of the war. Right after he becomes prime minister, may 10 of 1940, really the day of the german invasion in the low countries of france. And basically wha...

Court helped to pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from california, mr. Swalwell, to suspend the rules and adopt House Resolution we break away now and go to the house floor for one more vote. The clerk resolution reaffirming the house of representatives commitment to the orderly and peaceful transfer of power called for in the constitution of the United States and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will t...

A. Phone and the last president ial debate. Facebook says it has a plan for fighting misinformation if the u. S. Election in their words descends into chaos but all facebook and other social media platforms doing enough to stop the spread of fake news and incitement of violence this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im wrong on social media shape the way people across the globe perceive everything from politics to pop culture and Tech Companies have long taken a hands off approac...

The book read update there are two i want to start with. One is the monumental biography by david blight. Its fine probably the definitive biography on a special with what is going on in the United States in terms of fight for Racial Justice. Nobody was more consequential and has been more consequential on the question of race in america in terms of douglas. Way ahead of his time. He was not only an abolitionist, and a passionate abolitionist as a former slave , but he insisted from the earliest...

Facebook says it has a plan for fighting misinformation if the u. S. Election in their words descends into chaos but all facebook and other social media platforms to you know to stop the spread of fake news and incitement of violence this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. Social media shape the way people across the globe perceive everything from politics to pop culture and Tech Companies have long taken a hands off approach all giving that uses should be able to judge content f...