Good evening, every saturday night throughout the summer booktv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of our twist on binge watching. Tonights featured author s historian David Mccullough the author of a dozen books including bestselling histories on the american revolution, the invention of manned spaceflight the settlement of the Northwest Territory and the creation of the brooklyn bridge. He is a two time winner both Pulitzer Prize and National Book award and appeared on booktv and cspan over 75 times. Coming up over the next several hours we will show you some of those programs. First up in 1992 he appeared on cspans book not programmed to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and hope to change the view of the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. David mccullough, and your last chapter called citizen Truman Truman had held to the idea of the mythical roman heroes cincinnatus. Whats that
Anna edwards is in for jon ferro and lisa abramowicz. Ferro taking the entire month off. Lisa only taking half the month off. We are thrilled anna edwards could join us today as well. Remember when augusts were boring . August is no longer boring, is it . Anna i remember when all of europe went on holiday in august, but no longer. We got alltime highs on u. S. Stocks. Is that really out of kilter with the underlying u. S. Economy comes with the underlying global ok . Omic story, and is that tom the persistency across yields is amazing. Yields come up 4, 5, 6 days, and they roll over and come back down. We are not through to new lows in the last number of weeks on yield, but nevertheless, watching that very closely. We will get to that with an important guest any moment. David malpass with us later in the hour. I want to go to a story which we have been covering the last number of days. For me in america, it has gone radio silent. That is belarus. This is between poland and russia, with
Address new concerns about the pandemic fight in this counoat. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. The governor of wisconsin summoning the National Guard after violent protests broke out. Protesters set cars on fire and clashed with officers in riot gear after the shooting of jacob blake. Shot in the back seven times. This was not an accident. This wasnt bad police work. This felt like a vendetta. The Republican National committee nominated President Trump for a second term. If you want to really drive them crazy you say 12 more years. This is now hurricane laura. And laura is doing exactly what it a onetwo punc se punore ockout. Desuctive wildfires continue to burn through parts of california. Thousands forced to evacuate. Were deploying every resource at our disposal. Every resource. Californias highest court overturned the Death Penalty for Scott Peterson convicted of murdering his wife in 2002. All that. Off the coast of greece, a little girl right here wa
The sunday before, we had the. Omens drop in announcer confined this coverage online at cspan. Org. We will take you live to an indepth preview of the second day of the Republican National convention. This could affect many more in the next few months. That is Affordable Housing. Americans go to the polls and many will feel the economic fallout of the covid crisis. Mass evictions are looming and americans are devoting more of their dwindling salaries to monthly housing costs. As these problems persist Affordable Housing is a growing concern, one that could be a factor in the elections. We are going to take a look at the policy measures that can be put into place to ensure all americans, especially those who are vulnerable, have access to affordable homes. I would like to thank the Enterprise Community partners for their support of the event. We have a fantastic lineup of speakers. Two mayors from very different advocates and housing experts. Thehillevents us hillhousing2020. As with an
Voting. Youre going to have a catastrophic situation. With universal mailin votes. He doesnt want an election. Our Convention Coverage starts this morning with senator Bernie Sanders, top Trump Campaign strategist jason miller. Nate silver. And insight and analysis from our powerhouse roundtable. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning, and welcome to this week. Four years ago, on the eve of the democratic convention, we were in philadelphia as the delegates gathered. All set to broadcast from the Convention Hall as all networks have done since the dawn of the tv era. Not this year. The pandemic thats upended so much of our lives has essentially cancelled the convention, the delegates wont beeakers will be taking a virtual stage. Beaming in from all over the country. In an epic display of social distancing. One thing that wont change from four years ago, the kickoff speaker will be the runnerup of did nomination, Bernie Sanders