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Highlighting programs from our archives with Pulitzer Prizewinning historian David Mccullough. Over the past 20 years he has appeared on book tv more than 50 times. All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org. You can use the search function at the top of the page. First , 92 on cspan book notes program, David Mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was ins...

All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org. You can use the search function at the top of the page. First , 92 on cspan book notes program, David Mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Heres a portion of that interview. Attempted assassination number of president s have already been assas...

Was published in 2019. And now im book tv for highlighting programs from our archives with Pulitzer Prizewinning historian David Mccullough. Over the past 20 years he has appeared on book tv more than 50 times. All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org. You can use the search function at the top of the page. First , 92 on cspan book notes program, David Mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarde...

Mccullough. Over the past 20 years he has appeared on book tv more than 50 times. All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org. You can use the search function at the top of the page. First , 92 on cspan book notes program, David Mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Heres a portion of tha...

Was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Heres a portion of that interview. Attempted assassination number of president s have already been assassinated. Why would the government at that time have protection for them . It wasnt done. Why would the government have a pension . Their pensions for Army Officers and pensions for everybody else but no pension for president. In fact to very little money. Had to borrow some money quite secretly which dean atchison cosine, to p...

So were going to look to guys like jack to do it. Thank you all again for coming. It was great fun writing the book. I hope youll buy many copies [laughter] ill just tell you, i dont know if lannys here, but and elaine and others who have written books probably have gone through this, but theres this phenomenon, amazon. They keep rob, youre probably a bestseller. Bruce went up about a da zillion points when rahm got named chief of staff. But anyway, every hour they rate your books. [laughter] an...

Have been the inauguration of the munsters. Jeanne moos, cnn, new york. Cute. Okay. It turns out that the folks in ottawa actually do have a sense of humor. We misspoke earlier in the newsroom that a hockey fan was not actually thrown out of last nights senators Florida Panthers game. Sportsnet reports the man was actually taken away so that refs could get some personal information to contact him in the future so it could be a money maker for him. Our apologies to the ottawa senators. You do hav...

Is an election. Good morning. Im Melissa Harrisperry. If i asked you what day is november 5th and you answered, duh, melissa, its tuesday, instead of, enthusiastically offering the alternate correct answer, its election day in america well, youre in good company. Because its election day 2013, an odd number, which makes this an off year election. And well, to be honest, we tend not to get too excited about off year elections if voter turnout is any indication. In fact, its not uncommon for voter...

Thanks so much, you guys. Virginia is the best. Virginia is the best. And its also the state barack obama won. One year later after a gop autopsy and a vow to rebrand, they havent learned anything. Any moment dozens of Senate Republicans are expected to vote against a gay rights law that would ban discrimination against gay and lesbian employees in the workplace. Thats 39 republicans who didnt get the memo. Why . Because they havent learned anything. What about womens rights . Republican senator...

Stark. Same thing in the president ial race in texas in 2008. It was barack obama running against john mccain. White voters went for the republican by this huge margin. This does not mean that 47 of white people voted republican in texas. It means that white people voted for john mccain by a 47point margin. Black voters picked the democratic candidate for president by a 96point margin. The black vote in 2008 in texas was 982 for barack obama. For latinos it was a similar huge margin for the demo...