Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130810:15:01:00
You're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." sure, president lincoln's greeting was a bit of an overstatement, but what he was referring to was a series that stowe had written for the national era, a newspaper issued weekly out of the district of columbia for over a decade. that newspaper series that stowe published later became the book that we know as "uncle tom's cabin." and as far as starting wars with the written ward, the spanish american war is sometimes referred to as the general's war, because of how williams hearst used his newspaper to stoke passions agai...