Previous book that was mentioned on Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass. That book prompted me to think the process by which slavery was destroyed during the civil war, and ended up producing the book, you mentioned, Freedom National last year. This is the rethinking of that process of slavery destruction. Before i continue the more i continue to think about the more i have to revise my freedom previous thinking. This book already revises some things that were in the Freedom National book. But they were all trying to do, all seem to be doing is complicating the usual, simple narrative of how slavery was destroyed. There are several of them out there. The most familiar one i suppose, lincoln freed all the slaves with the stroke of a pen by signing the emancipation proclamation. The more elaborate version of that, lincoln understood from the time he was a young man that it was his destiny to free the slaves, but knew that he had to wait until the American People came up to his advance to
the debt ceiling load and the prospect of higher taxes are topics i will raise with two of the top budget negotiators in the so-called gang of six, charged with coming up with a compromise proposal. the chairman of the senate budget committee, democrat from north dakota, kent conrad, and member of the senate finance committee, republican senator tom coburn of oklahoma. then, our political roundtable examines america s slumping confidence and the opening it creates for obama s loudest critic. i think that obama will go down as the worst president in the history of the united states. so, what to make of donald trump and the rest of the potential 2012 republican field? did the president s declining poll numbers, particularly about the economy, indicate a tough re-election fight ahead? joining us, columnist for the new york times, david brooks, columnist for the washington post, eugene robinson, republican strategist alex castellanos and former communications director f
lobbyists or don t have clout. or is there the basis of real compromise that s still under the radar? the debt ceiling load and the prospect of higher taxes are topics i will raise with two of the top budget negotiators in the so-called gang of six, charged with coming up with a compromise proposal. the chairman of the senate budget committee, democrat from north dakota, kent conrad, and member of the senate finance committee, republican senator tom coburn of oklahoma. then, our political roundtable examines america s slumping confidence and the opening it creates for obama s loudest critic. i think that obama will go down as the worst president in the history of the united states. so, what to make of donald trump and the rest of the potential 2012 republican field? did the president s declining poll numbers, particularly about the economy, indicate a tough re-election fight ahead? joining us, columnist for the new york times, david brooks, columnist for the washin