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Because of the landscape also self carolina and virginia. Host remember it was pretty hard to get to the north. Almost all fugitive slaves from a the number four kentucky or maryland those that would border on free soil. If you were an alabama it would be pretty hard to get to the north. Either you become a maroons or go to the citys to blend in with fatfree black population there because getting any further north would have been difficult. We have time for a couple more questions so sylviane ca...

As a child to find out the truth and we wrap up tonights prime time programming at 11 p. M. Eastern. Iraq war veteran phil clay discusses his collection of short stories about soldiers experiences at war and back home. That all happens next on cspan2s booktv. Booktv continues with eric schmidt and jared cohen. The two talk about the updated edition of their book, the new digital age, in which they discuss nsa spying and current state of internet security. This is about an hour and ten minutes. [...

If the Growth Continues otherwise it maybe breaking down. I dont have great faith to predict that. Maybe it is already happening. It isnt going to continue the rapid growth unless it extends to increased in political freedom. [ applause ] thank you very much. Visit the authors website for more information williameasterly. Org. You are watching booktv with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Television for serious readers. Here are programs to look out for this weekend on after wards ...

And washington state. Today the d. C. Council will hold a hearing on a bill introduced by tommy wells calling for the decriminalization of marijuana. Kristin fisher is live outside the Wilson Building with a preview of the hearing. Good morning, kristin. Reporter good morning. Just to be clear, were talking about decriminalization here, not full legalization, two very different things. What this bill would do is it would decriminalize possession of small amounts of Recreational Marijuana in d. C...

And i go and and i just sit quietly in a think about little Dale Carnegie in the big cosmos and the sort of makes everything come into perspective. So the tale of carnegie is a little complicated. There is a renewed religiosity on the one hand, but on the other hand its very much in the vein of therapeutic selffulfillment brothers and a kind of more traditional protestantism. That is more or less where he ended. He was very Close Friends i should add that i can clinch the case of Norman Vincent ...

Booktv. Org. Doug most recounts the competition between boston and new york city, to build the nations first subway system during the late 19th century. This is a little under one hour. [applause] thank you. Thank you everyone for coming out on this lovely night. Ive done one of than earlier so far and the also was a slushy and lovely night. So maybe this is what you should expect Going Forward for things. It is also appropriate as i talk to people about this today, as i was thinking about this ...

Layed with 20 tons of goods and equipped with ors, sand and tow ropes the party left from winter camp on april 21, 1811 with sails set in a favorable wind. They hoped to reach the pacific in late summer or autumn. The second passage i am reading takes place as they are going up the river from their winter camp which was about 400 miles up river from st. Louis. And as i mentioned, they were to follow the lewis and clark trail that is going up the missouri, over the rockies and down the columbia. ...

Saturday, 12 and 9 p. M. On sunday, and 12 a. M. On monday. You can also watch after words online youre kind of booktv. Org and click on after words in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. Welcome today to a booktvs live coverage of the 2014 texas book festival held in austin, the state capital. Over the next six hours will hear from nine authors on such topics as social change an instant, the Death Penalty, the global history of train travel. Author and profess...

Youre watching booktv, television for serious readers. Up next, Sheryll Cashin argues that affirmative action policies in education do little to help the truly disadvantaged. She says these policies should be replaced with affirmative action admission policies based on where a child grows up instead of the color of his or her skin. This is about 90 minutes. We are going to go ahead and get started. Welcome to the joint center. My names spencer overton, im the interim president of joint center. I...

Schedule for coming. Call. On nine me my glass of water cells. Thursday book tv in primetime features books about the civil rights movement. At 8 00 p. M. And discussion with the author of an idea whose time has come the competition up capabilities more and more. Some disagree on this, but i personally consider the smart phone now we all carry around with us early 70 to be a trademark example of the internet of things. We are becoming human senses because were all carrying around an extremely po...