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We dont always find newspaper editors and area embracing reporting. Its not just economics. Is the discomfort that investigative reporting often causes in the newsroom. Because its troublesome. Its that more than the economics. If youre going to ruffle the feathers of somebody powerful that gives those people running into complaint to the publisher and destroys their legion over those and we are fortunate to go through the 70s and really almost all of our careers to work for people who are really Strong Enough right in that area, and let the chips fall where they may. Akhil reed amar presents ...

The president who saw the worst years of the depression and the Great Depression was so bad that a lot of our modern history is about assigning blame for it figuring out whose fault that depression was. Many people blame hoover and down the decades increasingly so. The 31st president of the United States was ranked 37 out of 43 in a recent u. S. News poll. That magazine wrote of hoover, he was known as a poor communicator who fueled. Wars and exacerbated the depression. Not only those on the left but also sometimes on the right assigned blame to herbert and we are here today to talk about that...

And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis 50 years ago this summer while the struggle for civil rights was going on, Congress Passed one of the most important pieces of legislation this country has ever seen. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 required an army of dedicated advocates to succeed, and this tells that story in dramatic detail. It is by the New York Times writer clay risen. On theood to have you program, sir. Thank you. Tavis and congratulations. Thank you. Whether or not you can this, that a bill like this could get through congress today. I think ...

Joining us now on booktv to preview some of the books coming up from Yale University press, john donatich, lets talk about stronghold. A professor at the university of maryland in baltimore, and this is about exactly whats been happening with the Republican Party sort of majority in the house of representatives as the congress. And its a really interesting place theyve gotten themselves into, the gop, in the sense of different constituencies sort of tearing at the boundaries of their ideology. And it used to be, i always used to think to myself individually that the right was much better at as...

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