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Its great to have you here ralph, on cspan. Guest thank you. Host im very hardded to be able to interview on this new book return to sender. Is that an homage to elvis presley. Host thats the point these days. Guest its a message that 103 lettered sent to president bush and president obama from 2001 to 2015, were with very few exceptions not acknowledged and not answered. And so i thought id embarrass myself by putting them all in a book and raise a bigger issue which is the most Democratic Medi...

As far away as new york. Maybe further. We are always delighted to welcome our visitors. We want to also welcome our viewers by cspan. So i want to let folks in the room know that cspan is here to cover this afternoons conversation. After Alvin Felzenberg i speak we will open up the floor for q a. We will ask those with questions to come down to the microphones that are just here. And ask your question from the microphones. Speak right into the microphone ck the Madison Program here is dedicated...

As far away as new york. Maybe further. We are always delighted to welcome our visitors. We want to also welcome our viewers by cspan. So i want to let folks in the room know that cspan is here to cover this afternoons conversation. After Alvin Felzenberg i speak we will open up the floor for q a. We will ask those with questions to come down to the microphones that are just here. And ask your question from the microphones. Speak right into the microphone ck the Madison Program here is dedicated...

Author of radio shangrila but we go way back to the 80s when we worked together as a tv station in north carolina. So were reconnecting now, with be asking the questions of her which might make her slightly nervous, except i know that she knows the answers to every single question im going to ask her today. Because she researched this book for five years. Welcome, lisa. Thank you so much. Thank you being here with. Host we are happy to have you. Her first book, was holiday raid raid show shangry...

Detect crime. But when we be more fruitful to say that what we can measure because weve never been able to measure deterrence as long as theres been criminology. If we stop looking at different racial categories and looked across the offending which unfortunately book argues that racism in the, Justice System but then at eight spends a lot of time saying that it is okay to think of black people as it dangerous or potentially dangerous. Guest that is an unjustified statement. Find one place in th...

Account of rivalry between president harry truman and general Douglas Macarthur inch november, senator Bernie Sanders recalls his campaign for the Democratic Party president ial nomination in our holiday revolution. Megan kelly looks back in settle for more. New york times columnive Thomas Freedman look ted speed in which the world is chenging in thank you for being late. John arthur profiles lewis till, father of civil rights martyr emmitt till, and George Mitchell outlans his recommendations f...

Exciting to find the figures like Adam Clayton Powell junior, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall who were not born into Mainstream Society and who by dent of their enormous talent and gift sticks themselves into the fabric of the country via entertainment, politics, sports, or in marshalls case the law, in the case of the white house butler, extra ordinary service to the country. These figures, when i look back at the figures, society, culture, race and style. Gues guest there is legislat...

And i could not do what i did without her, so thank you to senator mcconnell, mr. Leader thank you. Its been an honor to serve in his body. I will have more to say next week in my Farewell Speech but i did not want this day to go by without expressing my appreciation. Thank you. Today former Senate Majority trent lott and former democratic leader tom daschle talked about issues in congress including the Affordable Care act, immigration policy, the eric garner decision and the need for bipartisan...

From virginia, Staff Sergeant thomas florick. We have the story now live from the newsroom. Florick grew up in Fairfax County but went to high school in louisiana. He was the youngest of 11 killed when the blackhawk helicopter crashed last week in florida waters. This is Staff Sergeant thomas florick in happier times. A Facebook Page photo shows his wedding last march. Today the Louisiana National guard named him as one of four guardsmen killed in last weeks crash along with seven marines from N...

And for whatever reason, i did this time see a story, and the reason for seeing the story is that every book, particularly in history, has what i like to call scaffolding, which is the structure that holds everything together and makes sense of it. This story has so many elements to it that there is no obvious scaffolding beyond the fact of the chronology, from 1939 to 1945. But within that, what do you do . And the second time around, i saw some scaffolding. Not all of it. It sort of evolved as...