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This week on q a, our guest is dick lehr, author of the birth of a nation how a legendary filmmaker and a crusading editor reignited americas civil war. Dick lehr, in a recent Washington Post review, the gentleman who wrote it, it starts off this way no redblooded american would favor censoring works of art. While reading dick lehrs book you may find yourself rooting for that with a clampdown of the 1915 film of the same name. Isnt that a great start . Why the birth of a nation and what is it . Its considered the first blockbuster film. The story i want to tell is not only the making and relea...

James lets get the latest on your forecast with anny hong. Reporter this is the more the strong system out of the two biggest customer like showers for instance and that we start a live look at the embarcadero shot looking at the bay bridge and were working up to clear stands on this monday morning. It ready for some big changes the pretty this is storm coming through lead on today storm track four temperatures were in the thirties and santa rosa and novato. Reporter also in the level 3743 in antioch and livermore and chile also in fremont and 44 degrees in san jose 39 and a Half Moon Bay and ...

In her current book, to make men free a history of the Republican Party which was , published late last year, this was her second book to be named as an editors choice selection of the New York Times book review. Professor richardson writes widely for popular publication. She is committed to presenting historical scholarship or four audiences on the economys wall. She is now the editor of and founder of a new web magazine called we are history. She is at work on an intellectual history of american politics and aggressive treatment of the reconstruction era. Heather richardson. Prof. Richardson...

Not capable of cordiality. On the confederate side we have only one man with lee, charles marshall. [applause] there are not as many confederates who bear witness and he will be prolific and writing about the surrender scene after the war. One of the challenges of recreating this moment down to the challenge of figuring out who was in the room and what they were thinking was partially the fact that grant wrote that famous memoir of 1885 and he tells us in the memoir how he felt at that moment. Leave it not need such a story. He lived for only another five years after the surrender. Lees views ...

Famous memoir of 1885 and he tells us in the memoir how he felt at that moment. Leave it not need such a story. He lived for only another five years after the surrender. Lees views have to be reconstructed from proximate sources, from those close to him , from the way people reacted to him. I will conclude by saying that in the immediate aftermath lee was a very controversial figure. Host dr. Blight thank you so much john. Thank you all for coming this afternoon. You are the loyal diehards. You have all been here all day watching the magnificent tableau of the reenactors in front of our eyes. ...