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So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in an...

Good afternoon and welcome to the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum. I am the executive Vice President of the foundation. Welcome to the 2020 Great American author series. Id like to start by thanking you all for participating in todays program especially those that submitted questions. All watching or providing a tremendous amount of support to the library as we have been closed for six months. I encourage you to sign up for a membership and to do that, visit Nixon Library. Com aft...

Traditional constitution and his critics. To watch the rest of this Program Visit our website , booktv. Org. Click the afterwords tab to find all previous episodes. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum. My name is jim byron im and im executive Vice President of the Nixon Foundation. Welcome to the Nixon Library 20 20 Great American authors series. Id like to start by thanking you all for participating in todays program especially those who have submitted ...

Books as a historian what is your contemporary view of how our world will be viewed . We have so little perspective on this moment is quite impossible to say but the perceptionptio t many peopln the United States and around the worldha have the extraordinary initial time. In a way that was experiencing. Host thinking about today do compared to any other period of history . Guest know. As a historian i think we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to be thing like anotherre f. And then to...

You just joined the military that was a promise but now most of that is gone are diminished. So does trump disrespect the troops absolutely and do our Mainstream Media and politicians from both corporate parties also disrespect the troops our salute come to you from washington d. C. The belly the beast is redacted tonight. Welcome only can mehlis take the news from behind youll be happy to hear that americas most expensive military mistake the f. 35 fighter jet is still of too big to fail theyve...

Color photographs from the 1930s and 1940s. They started as an experiment with color film. Kodak was just putting its color film on the market. Sent it out to photographers at institutions to give it a try, to see if they could create a market for it. The pictures were free. So they were appealing to newspapers, magazines, publishing agencies, book publishers. That kind of thing. I was familiar already with the black and white photographs. There are about 171,000 Farm Security administration and...

Nearly everyone in the room and some they would never repeat them indeed they have not been reported until now i wouldnt go to war with you people trump told the assembled brass addressing the room the commander in chief parked your a bunch of dopes and babies in a conversation with senior Staff Members on the morning of the scheduled visit trump said why should i go to the cemetery its filled with losers in a separate conversation on the same trip trump referred to the more than 1900 marines wh...

The selection and presentation of library of congress for fiction is one of my favorite responsibilities the product is this Great Institution an opportunity to honor the novelist for short story writers to interview books from the most recent novels and short story collections past prizewinners include luminaries Toni Morrison it is my distinct honor and pleasure to award the prize this year to one of our nations most gifted writers someone Time Magazine the longest largest recipient and only o...

They gavel it is session saturday morning and ten eastern. Watch the debate live on cspan good evening. Every saturday night throughout the summer, book tv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of hard twisted on binge watching. Tonight teacherg author is historian David Mccullough for it is author of a dozen books including bestselling histories, on the american revolutions, and the invention of mans spacefligh for some ofe Northwest Territory in the creation of the brooklyn b...

The library has a collection of color photographs from the 1930s and 1940s. They started as an experiment with color film. Kodak was just putting its color film on the market. Sent it out to photographers at institutions to give it a try, to see if they could create a market for it. The pictures were free. So they were appealing to newspapers, magazines, publishing agencies, book publishers. That kind of thing. I was familiar already with the black and white photographs. There are about 171,000 ...