Presidencpresident s into the bos featured historians, visit cspan. Org the president s available in paperback, hardback and ebook, wherever books are sold. Welcome to the program supposed to be cosponsored by the university of history. My name is jim andsign presidenand im president of theg important books in American History which 18th century volumes behind me or current important books by some of the major prizewinning historians in the country. William roka at the institute most recently on the Hamilton Education program, william will present the historians and then died the question and answer session towards the end. Other programs sponsored by lehrman. Good afternoon everyone is welcome to the Gilder Lehrman book break here on june 14. Welcome, everyone. Todays guest will be professor Elizabeth Varon in her book, armies of deliverance. For those that are not familiar with the Gilder Lehrman institute, first welcome. We are so glad you could join us. To tell you just a little bi
In the customs union. Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News live from singapore. The Bank Of Japan the bank ofjapan meets, as things go from bad to worse for corporate japan. We discussed the problems, and what needs to be done. And the of south koreas election, we hear from whistleblowers in the Culture Of Corruption which roared down the president. It is wednesday. Good morning, asia, hello, world. Glad you could join us for Asia Business report. I am you could join us for Asia Business report. Iam rico you could join us for Asia Business report. I am rico hizon. You could join us for Asia Business report. Iam rico hizon. We you could join us for Asia Business report. I am rico hizon. We start with japan, and companies there are making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Fuji has delayed its most recent Earnings Report after discovering accounting is regularities, and toshiba is restructuring its business after the colla Pse Restructuring its business after the collapse of i
And im not talking hairstyles. Donald trump will present his tax plan today. Big cuts are expected. Will it make multinationals bring their huge foreign cash piles back to the us . And ahead of south koreas election, we hear from Whistle Blowers On The Culture Of Corruption which brought down that countrys president. Welcome to World Business report. Im aaron heslehurst. If you have about eight minutes, i promised to give you a fascinating snapshot of the world of business and money. Lets start in the us. Shaking up the tax system has been a major theme of the trump administration. Today hes promising what he describes as A Big Announcement on his planned reforms. In fact mr trump has already said hes planning what hes called maybe the biggest tax cut weve ever had. Take a look at this. During the campaign he talked about cutting the top individual tax rate from 36. 9 to 25 . In terms of business, he wants to cut the Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 15 . Mr trump has also proposed chargin
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Prof. Hess thank you for that generous introduction. I was thinking about it this morning, what made me to this book . Whenever you go to a civil war roundtable and mention the name Braxton Bragg, there is laughter coming up the audience because in some ways, it is almost a joke in some ways. In other ways, as pete says, a cheap joke. And also the question this morning as someone asked of holeck theragg or most divided person of the civil war . And never dawned on me to say the most hated men of the civil war, but maybe i should have said that . Let me start out with a story, and i know many of you know this story. I overheard at least two people this morning telling this story to somebody else, but they did not know i was sitting next to them. Grant memoirs, ulysses as enlisted a story. Even though grant himself admitted he did not know if it was true or not, but he said, it is kind of emblematic. The story is before the civil war, Braxton Bragg in the u. S. Army commanded a company h