Worth two large books written by you . I dont know that it is about worthiness. It is more about interest. She was such a multifaceted person, had so many are compliments, too many for her own good really. Because of a lack of what you would call she never got a university degree, she was always afraid at every job that she was going to be found out that she was unqualified. That is why she changed professions so often. I am writing about a woman who had nine lives, not just one. I just got so intrigued by how she got to where she got, which was to congress. You were here 17 years ago. You said that you had done most of the research for the second book. Why did it take 17 years . She kept every scrap from the day she was born practically. Never threw anything away. All her diaries, letters, analysis of herself which she frequently wrote. I had seen them and they were to be shipped to the library of congress for me to work on them there. I didnt have time to xerox everything. I waited a
Particularly i began i was attracted to someone what a great influence on dickens. Author of thee french resolution revolution, etc. Here wasense that someone who was a victorian but inidences, a personal sort regard to the kind of authoritarian and commentary and take your he was. I just got entranced by the ministry of this man who was witty. A much more elaborate prose writer. Mort difficult to fathom. Someone who is basically out of fashion not only in the general reading world but the academic world. I thought he was someone who attracted me and i wanted to write narrative as opposed to writing analytic academic material. I wanted to reach a wider audience. There was no modern biography that i think represented him well. Cargileyear did you do carlyle . The divisions of my own life m any kind of 1970s. I have you a Charles Dickens in 1979. What really doing back then the . I was a professor at queens college. I was in very distantly now at the torilla nest, a recession in british
The phone conference with reporters is scheduled for this morning. Saw some articles this morning and Opinion Pieces looking ahead to 2016, elections in 2016, and some potential candidates for the president ial race, including governors. We will ask you whether you think governors make better president s. Here is how to join the conversation. We have also posted the question, to governors make better president s . On our facebook age. We would like to hear from you on twitter as well. cswj the next president should be an outsider just for sums perspective just for some perspective, this is from the center for the american governor at rutgers university. Particularly the last five governors to serve as president. Go back to franklin roosevelt, jimmy carter, Ronald Reagan, though clinton and finally george w. Bush. The question for you this morning, do governors make better president s . Caller good morning. , governor bushay of texas . Really . Do we really think you made a good preside
On this monday, december 16. For republicans please call you can also tweak at us. Question is posted on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. You can also email us at journal cspan. Org. We will take your calls in just a few moments but first lets turn to the New York Times to get the latest on the nsa. The headline says american intelligence and Law Enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former nsa contractor extracted. That is from this weeks New York Times. On cbs 60 minutes, they took a deep dive into the nsa and spoke with leading intelligence officials who disagree or not with offering Edward Snowden amnesty. [video clip] my personal view is yes, it is worth having a conversation about. I would need assurances that the rest of the data could be secured. It would be more than just an assertion on his part. Is that a unanimous feeling . Its not unanimous. Among those thinking making a deal is a bad idea is general alexander. This is a
New York University — Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow, Department of Spanish and Portuguese : The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education jbhe.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jbhe.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.