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I give an example in god guns grits and gravy a guy who is heading greenpeace in europe. He is all about wanting to reduce co2 emissions but it turns out an audit of greenpeace shows he is flying from his home over two i think its luxembourg a couple of times a month and the output of co2 that he is expanding because of this jet travel is like 100 times that of the average person. And so when confronted about it here was his answer. He said well, the train trip would take 12 hours and that would be time away from my family and a whole lot of time that i wouldnt be working. In other words becau...

The city of washington. Net emissarys name was Frances Blair and he has an extraordinary offer, he said will you lead and the union army to crush secession . Remember the story, blair tried in every way to convince robert e. Lee to say yes. He said the country looks to you, quote, as a representative of the washington family to save the Union George Washington forged and that is not an exaggeration because the son of George Washington son in lot of George Washingtons adopted child. So now only one word separated robert e. Lee from the pinnacle of his profession, from command of what would be t...

Of the gate ways to let galveston from an 18th century to the new century. More than not it is a point, sort of a marker that we can always turn to and say that it happened here. He is an author and former white house president ial speechmaker who spent years researching and writing his new robert e. Lee biography, the man who would not be washington, published in january of this year. Jonathan has appeared as a commentator on msnbc and bbc radio. His writing has appeared in the new york times, the Weekly Standard and other outlets. During his time at the white house, jonathan served as a spee...

York times the Weekly Standard and others. During his time in the white house Jonathan Horn served as a speechwriter and special assistant to president george bush, Yale University and we welcome him. [applause] thank you sell much for that love the introduction. As mentioned i used to work as a president ial speechright ear before i started writing this book so you can imagine my shock when i learned the subject of my new book didnt much care for my old occupation. Robert e. Lee was so offended when he heard that George Washington might have used a ghost writer to pen his famous farewell addr...

Booktv is live this weekend from the tucson festival of books. Starting at 1 p. M. Eastern, 10 a. M. Pacific were covering several author panels on topics such as the obama administration, natural disasters, politics, immigration and the impact of concussions on football. All this live from the university of arizona, the site of the seventh annual tucson festival of books. How did an army officer so associated with George Washingtons legacy go to war against what we today consider George Washingtons greatest legacy the union . It was this question that ultimately drew me to robert e. Lees stor...