Guest it came to me, i thinki used the word karma; theres lots of bad puns in writing a book about automobiles, but karmy karma waswe had a working title, carbound, that nobody, including me, liked. And my editor asked me for a list of cars, kind of a brainstorming thing. I sent it to him. He called back and he said, were going to call it asphalt nation. and i said, oh, thats good. Wheredwhere did that come from . and he said, it was on your paper. so somehow in this list of playing with metaphors, that one surfaced and that was the title of the book. Cspan whats the point of your book . Guest the subtitle, how the automobile took over america and how we can take it back, which they came up with, but i thought it was kind of rinkydink. But its been very helpful. If somebody says, whats your book about . and its how the automobile took over america, how the servant became a master and how we can alter that relationship, end automobile dependency. Cspan has anybody ever been successful i
Lamas lobby, the brotherhood lobby and the iranian love the have hijacked that notion nothing to do with their religion, nothing to do with the five pillars. They have been accused of islam a phobia. I think this is close to what the National Socialists in germany would have accused anybody of criticizing the policies of being against the german. And even at the International Level it becomes very dangerous. Wally ferris on u. S. Policy in the middle east. Tonight at 10 00 eastern and smart at 9 00 on book tv afterwards. And on april 6th more discussion on the middle east with military strategist and former assistant defense secretary banalized with your calls and comments live indepth study in any session. Book tv spoke with scholars at the Hoover Institution, Public Policy think tank in Stanford University to find out what theyre reading. Senior fellow Michael Mccall a recently stepped down as the u. S. Ambassador to russia is currently reading the shock. He shared im reading because
Donald L. Stull, pioneering architect of the Ruggles MBTA station and Harriet Tubman House, dies at 83
By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated December 30, 2020, 6:26 p.m.
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Donald L. Stull and M. David Lee went over designs in their Boston offices in 2010.Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff/The Boston Globe
With the two groundbreaking architectural firms he founded and led, Donald Stull designed Boston landmarks such as Roxbury Community College, the Ruggles MBTA station, the Harriet Tubman House in the South End, and Boston Police Headquarters.
Along the way he was celebrated for founding two firms that were owned and run by Black architects at a time when there were few such architects, let alone firms, in the country. Ultimately, Mr. Stullâs designs are more visible and enduring in Greater Boston than those of most architects from his era.
live tonight with red carpet interviews as well as the ceremony. there are finalists in the nonfiction category. fiction is also a category where they give an award for national book award, along with young on group young authors or young people s authors, and poetry. those are the for all boards that are given, plus a literary award is being given to ms. kaplan, the founder of the miami book fair international which is this weekend in miami. book tv will be live from miami as well, but in just a few minutes this room will start to fill up. we will broadcast live from the red carpet here. we will be talking with several of the authors who were nominated about their books, and then we will be bringing you on teefifteen, the entire ceremony live on our website. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] author walter mosley. i am going to enter this mix kaplan who is getting an award for, you know, his service to the community through literature and literary endeav
we ll may need about 4000 women nationwide to contest and win elections to have equitable representation and the senate and the house and the statehouses. there that many a lack of offices at the legislative level at least that requires we need 1 million qualified women. i think we can find 4000 or 45 and hundred qualified women to run. that is not the issue. the problem is the political parties and the unavailability of access to candidacies both through the incumbency effect, if we have, as we do, 83% of congress consisting of men and most of those men make it difficult for new openings for new candidates whether or not this new candidates are women so part of this has to do with political parties willingness to persuade members of congress, seated members of congress to sit down, willing to support women challenging incumbents within their own parties, willingness to recruit women for office. right now the so-called big money people on the republican side are trying to rec