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With president obama on the other side of the planet, Vice President biden led the nation today at Arlington National cemetery. Sex you are the most you are the most trusted among us and the most tested of all americans. You are not only the heart and soul, but you are the very spine of this nation. The 9 11 generation took on a responsibility that extended far beyond base or battlefields. They were prepared to follow Osama Bin Laden into the gates of hell and they did. On this veterans day, how...

Today at Arlington National cemetery. You are the most trusted among us and the most tested of all americans. You are not only the heart and soul, but you are the very spine of this nation. The 9 11 generation took on a responsibility that extended far beyond base or battlefields. They were prepared to follow Osama Bin Laden into the gates of hell and they did. On this veterans day, how is america treating our veterans . It is not a pretty picture. We have seen the scandals at the v. A. It looks...

Now, that might change. If certain people were to run for president who endorse my book, i would certainly consider getting involved with their campaign. [laughter] i might even do research for their super pac, you know . That might be interesting in the future. But as for the rest of it, you know, ive been involved in politics, ive helped numerous people get elected, ive helped a lot of people lose very successfully. [laughter] be and i do agree with you that the importance of voting is extreme...

Will say to the people of ferguson missouri, get to the polls by 7 00 this evening so you wont have to march at midnight. Thats the kind of stuff we have got to do today. Use the tools that we have. We have great tools to communicate but Everything Else we can text what do we call it . Lets do some voting organizing over the internet. We have the tools. Lets use them for a new Massive Movement that will make sure that we can have in november 2014 the kind of turnout at the polls that we had in 2...

That is the root and seed bed for black political activism in the United States. He realized if you are going to say you want equal rights and Racial Justice and whether people believe it because of a philosophical reasons or god has led us to this movement he was fine. During freedom summer he is organizing in mississippi and he is with young white organizers who volunteered to come into the deep south. And he said i know some are marxist and some are others but he said if they thing this is a ...

Weekends Television Schedule visit us online at booktv. Org. Stephen grant talks about henry and emily folger, a collection of shakespeare books and manuscripts they started collecting in 1885 and creation of the Folger Shakespeare library. This was toasted by politics and prose bookstore in washington d. C. Is just under an hour. Thank you, justin, and thank you, politics and prose. Authors are so lucky politics and prose is here for them. Biographers seek to capture a life. In this case it was...

[applause] we are very honor today to have Doris Kearns Goodwin is our special guest. Before i give her background for a moment and start some questions, how many people here have read a book by Doris Kearns Goodwin . Okay, all right. How many people have read two books . Three books . For . Five . Six . All of them. Okay. How many people are going to buy her book today and get it autographed . Okay. So Doris Kearns Goodwin is obviously a leading president ial scholars. She is a person who has w...

Boundaries of a town and presented it to the Territorial Legislature and said that this is a band we really had to convince a lot of people and so i think that that has a lot to do with how with how madison grew and there were other places in the state that have more People Living in them, larger industries, so the processor actually selecting a state or territorial capital is really just about convincing other legislators. Put forth a good case as white as should be the center of the government...

Democracy. That is a shame. It is a disgrace. It is really an open scandal. And we need to do something about that. I would totally embrace the comment that we need you as much as we can, first of all to change our policies we dont incarcerate so many people. And secondly for those people have been incarcerated i think we do over stigmatize them. We do hurt their ability to come out of prison and get on with the gainful, productive life. I wholeheartedly embrace the sentiment of that collect. Ho...

For our live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. And welcome to day to as live coverage of the 2014 Miami Book Fair civil. This weekend our 17th year in a row of live coverage by the way, 25 authors in 20 hours of live coverage. Today, panelists include New York Times book review editor pamela paul, Walter Mosley, matt bai, charles grow, among others, and to offer College Opportunities for you today. Randall kennedy of harvard is most recent book is called for discrimination and David Rothkopf iran...