President ial campaign, and books on the decline of intellectual habits, a movement by former gang members to rebuild their families and lives and a dual biography of Andrew Jackson and cherokee leader john ross. All this and more this weekend on booktv. For a complete television schedule, visit booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours this weekend of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Historian Sally Mcmillen is next on booktv. She recounts the life of abolitionist and suffragist lucy stone who she contends should be celebrated amongst the likes of susan b. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady stanton for her activism. Its now my distinct honor and privilege to introduce dr. Sally mcmillen who is the Mary Reynolds babcock professor of history at Davidson College in North Carolina. She earned her ph. D. At duke university, and along the way we learned today got a degree in library science. She has been one of the most important and productive scholars of 19th century womens histo
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Is the most Democratic Media is when a person writes a letter to an elected official like a mayor, governor cant be censored or destroyed command not to try to answer it or technology so that people know that its not going to some dark hole is a major issue i think and most people dont realize realize in a written letter to a politician has far more impact than an email. You certainly dont expect him to answer every letter. And we speak about that in the book. Guest a lot of people dont know the teams of volunteers go to the white house every morning and separate all these letters. No one expects the president to answer these letters. But he has a staff and departments and agencies throughout the executive branch and they should all be acknowledged and thats my complaint. We have letters for highprofile issues like the bailout people are writing a book of letters, yes. Now they will send a call like this which doesnt even answer the letter or they will write letters to supporters or co
Im daniel runde. We are talking about the nonmilitary components of the us strategy in afghanistan. I think the first thing you have to say is i certainly welcome, i think many people welcome the fact that the president has come forward with a new strategy four afghanistan without timelines and with a commitment to a great cause. I think that there are there is a moral component to this as well. There is a lot of progress. I think that does not get a lot of coverage on this. And so for us to risk letting all of dad go with the price way too high. We have been working on this for a long time. I have been working with ambassador wayne and the Senior Advisor here. We have done a lot of things with the ambassador. We have got a very good panel to cover the issues today but i think the other point i want to make is, you cant solve the challenges of afghanistan without diplomacy and without development. And we certainly welcome the fact that there is a security it requires a security compone
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