From you in your career. Thank you. Thank you. Booktv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Welcome everybody to a house divided coming to from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago. Thank you very much for joining us today. My name is bjorn skaptason, and i will be the administrator for todays program. I just have a little bit of information to cover before we start. First of all the book were discussing today on house divided is tecumseh and the prophet the shawnee brothers who defied a nation and author of the book is Peter Cozzens and you going to meet peter in just a moment when he gets talking with Daniel Weinberg, the host of your show. For someone to tell you something about tecumseh and the prophet. Comes to us from alfred aiken off published and we thank them from publishing the book and helping katie peter on the program with us today. The cost of the book is 35 and it can be ordered from our website. Those of you who are watching this on the live stream, o
The middle of anywhere you should have access to staffs reliable internet. We are leading the way. Media, along with these Television Companies support cspan2 as a public service. Resident doctor andrew weiss sitting in the middle. University distinguished professor of history in the school of humanity at the university of southern mississippi. I. Reese also the founding director of the dell center for the study of war and society. Several major publications including vietnams forgotten heroism and betrayal for which she won the society for military history distinguished book award. So i know i mispronounce part of that. But take it away. [applause] good afternoon. I have the arm today of posting america war panel here at the mississippi book festival id like to thank the festivals organizers especially ellen rogers and daniels who is out early b wearing this beautiful dress with butterflies on it. You all think or if you see here. And i would like to thank the audience members both he
Andrew wiest sitting in the middle is University Distinguished professor of history in school of humanities at the university of southern mississippi where he is alsoe te founding director of the dale center for the study of war and society. He has several major publications, including vietnams forgotten army heroism and the trail, for which he won the society for military histories distinguished book award. So, i know im mispronounce part of that, but take it away. [applause] good afternoon. I have the honor to date of hosting the america war panel here at the mississippi book festival and up like to thank the festivals organizers especially alan Rogers Daniels who is earlier. Shes when disputable dress with butterflies on it. Dont think or if you see her. Of course would like to thank the audience members will fear and in person andus on cspan fr joining us today. Yall are in a treat come in for treatment we get to talk about four books to cover the entire span of u. S. Military hist
Business meeting will come to order. Do just a little bit of business on the front end and hopefully take care of some business quickly. Now people have other meetings and then move to the hearing itself. We thank our witnesses for allowing us to do this, and were glad youre here. We have a number of items on the agenda today. Well move a number of nominations and Foreign Service officer lists. We will also take up s1928. The multilateral if a review act of 2017. Want to thank senator koonce force his leadership and hard work and recognize senators isakson, rubio, young, cane, and merkley for their contributions to this important Bipartisan Legislation before our committee. This bill would establish a process for conducting objective reviews on how well multilateral institutions carry out their missions with our funding. The authorities sunset after four review periods and 11 years. Through this process well be able to evaluate their performance in an objective way. The review will loo
Newsmakers is next with democratic senator Chris Van Hollen of maryland. After that, well show you the swearing in of senators doug jones and tina smith this past week. Followed by Senate Leaders Mitch Mcconnell and Charles Schumer discussing the congressional agenda. You guys have narrowed the advantage in the senate this week. It looks like there are some ther interesting senate races, some retirements. Ere less than a year from the midterms. Will the democrats win the majority back in the senate this november . This was a great week for the for alabama and for the country with the swearingin of jones who ran a Campaign Based on Kitchen Table issues so not going to make any predictions about what will 2018. N in november, what i can say is all the signs you have a very nergized Democratic Base plus lots of independent voters who are crossing over to support democrats as they did with doug of disaffected republicans and i believe that the republicans in congress have taken are actuall