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Doctor preston for sponsoring mr. Greensburg appearance here today which is perfect and the timing as it we are in the midst of a contentious and sometimes entertaining, and always mesmerizing president ial season. David greenberg is an expert in such matters as a professor of history in journalism and media studies at wreckers and university. He speaks often on media and content politics which is a subject of his latest book, republic of spin. And inside history of the american presidency. In i...

Would the tune into it on weekends, usually as author sharing their new releases. Sat watching the nonfiction authors on booktv is the best television for serious readers. On cspan they could have a longer conversation delve into their subject. Booktv weekend, they bring you author after author after author that spotlights the work of fascinating people. I love booktv and im a cspan fan. Now Edward Larson on his book the return of George Washington which examines the political career of our firs...

How he was feeling worn out and tired, freight his memory was going. Jefferson would say tell me more. Their relationship has been studied quite a bit. There has been a lot written about it. But it was clearly a nuanced relationship. The men respect each other. We tended to focus on the points of division. I saw flaws in china. When he feels jefferson was made a promise when he feels he broke the promise washington takes a personal. His own diary which is interesting. A big round. The conversati...

Marriage as a norm, but promote emotional and familial stability in whatever forms those families take. So youre asking a question that theres a real fight about. I happen to be on the side that says the kinds of policies i was talking about earlier, the higher minimum courages, expanded welfare programs, more protected pay and reproductive control contributes to stabilizing populations financially that then better enables them to form the kind of bonds and raise the kind of families that are go...

Yesterday it kind of was. Volume still remains below the 20 day average. Dow which fell the most yesterday, its rallying back today. Gains are up 190 points. They are showing relatively strong gains. The s p has a big cap gainers. We have amazon. Thatel advisor reports amazon saw an increase in sales it was a little bit of a slowdown. Uturnis introducing a youtube service. Allergan is introducing its buyback. Companies that are contributing most include Goldman Sachs and owing. We see a broadbas...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. We are all sad. I am rubber provided i am Robert Brevard i am rubber provided with the reverend reporter pete thank you for coming today. Those in the back pews might make about coming up here a little bit closer to his wonderful authors that are with us. Our panel today is called shadow country. Race and country. Race and crime 19th century america. It will be part of the san antonio book festival broadcast april 30th on cspan2...

Thank you for that kind introduction. We love having you here. I have been asked to speak about the origin of the vice presidency up to the 12th amendment. That way i hope to answer some of the wonderful questions. In its 1789 origin, the creator the creation of the office of Vice President was an afterthought to Constitutional Convention and reflected spectacularly for thought. It as aegates dismissed useless appendage, while others saw the constitutional mistake. Even its proponents of the con...

20 minutes. Dr. Keene all right, so today we are going to talk about america during the First World War. I called this lecture americans at war, the myth busters addition. I did that kind of intentionally because we think about understanding the First World War in general, there are so many myths and misconceptions attached to the war that it is really interesting for us to first understand why those myths exist and then unpack and see the reality of the experience. I wanted to start first by so...

And by that i think you meant black peoples party. And you mentioned that, of course, you wanted to write your party. History tells us that this was not always the case. As you talk about, at the beginnings of the book, talk about the evolution, how did it come to black people being all republicans to black people being all democrats . I am an older black folk from the south who to this day is republican because they have a visceral reaction to the word democrats. When they were growing up it wa...

Perspective on race. Former congressmen allen west talks about book guardian of the republic. And then at 11 00 collection of accounts of holocaust survivors. It happens tonight at cspans book tv. Surprise winning historian is next on book tv, he examines the political career of George Washington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is adam kushner, our weekly session for analysis and essay, arguments, Investigative Journalism and for this day Nonfiction Book coverage. Its amazing....