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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 bridge. Hes a two time winner about Pulitzer Prize and the National Book of board and his appearance he over 75 times. And coming up over the next several hours, we will show you some of those programs. S. First up in 1992, they appear on cspans program to talk about his ....
Programs. In 1982 he appeared on book notes to talk about his biography of president truman it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and to help change the view of the truman presidency. Here he is from 1992. Cspan you start off by saying as far back as he could remember truman held onto the mythical roman heroes. What is that all about . The mythical hero who left in time of war with the great general and was victorious and renounced all of his power and returned to the farm. Thats a theme the country was founded on. If you are at the capital with the great painting of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief of the Continental Army to congress the symbols earth all throughout that painting because they believe this is what democracy entailed that any citizen should be called upon at any time to ....
Test test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 st. Petersburg is a hardship outpost. Its cold. There arent a lot of other women there. Most of the diplomat wives dont travel with their husbands when they get sent to st. Petersburg. They have a baby girl, louisa Kathryn Adams and the child dice after about a year and thatle really devastates her mother louisa. Its painful. And for john quincy. He is also very much torn apart by this. The war of 1812 here has broken out. John quincy is sent to negotiate a treaty and he leaves louisa with her youngest son charles in st. Petersburg and when peace is resolved and he is sure he will be returning home or sent to london, he asks her to join him. She makes this arduous journey from st. Petersburg in the winter to paris with her son and who is only about 7 at the time and a couple servants she basically just m ....