Generally, did you write your own . Guest i did not write memoirs. I asked various officers for paperwork, but i only lived five years after the war. Host wheeling have one more caller left on the air on American History tv. Is somebody there . You are on American History tv. Caller i would like to know i read that for you, general lee, that you took it very bad when you lost the war. How did you cope and what did you do after the war . What did you do to cope from the loss of the war . Guest the first thing i did was get with my family in richmond and took some time of i guess you could say seclusion with the family. We left richmond for a friends farm which was far away from the people who wanted to come and pay their respects to me. I basically put my hands in the arms of god and said show me what to do next. Host general grant, you were in washington after the war. Guest in august of 1866, they created the rank general of the army and i got my fourth star. I was the first general o
Host grants memoir became a best seller after he died. Generally, did you write your own . Guest i did not write memoirs. I asked various officers for paperwork, but i only lived five years after the war. Host wheeling have one more caller left on the air on American History tv. Is somebody there . You are on American History tv. Caller i would like to know i read that for you, general lee, that you took it very bad when you lost the war. How did you cope and what did you do after the war . What did you do to cope from the loss of the war . Guest the first thing i did was get with my family in richmond and took some time of i guess you could say seclusion with the family. We left richmond for a friends farm which was far away from the people who wanted to come and pay their respects to me. I basically put my hands in the arms of god and said show me what to do next. Host general grant, you were in washington after the war. Guest in august of 1866, they created the rank general of the a
14. So the moment i got my green card, you know, the whole world just opened up to me and there were so many possibilities that came my way that i was able to jump on because i had a green card. And i would really love to see this happen to the dreamers, you know, for us to give them that chance to pursue their dreams, to and also give back to society. Because they will pay everything back the way i have been paying back through the writers and the work that i do. And i want to see that happen for them. And we have been talking talking with renee grande, the distance between us. A memoir simon and shuster title. Youre watching booktv on cspan2. Tell us what you think about the programming this weekend. You can tweet us at booktv. Comment on the facebook wall, or send us an email. Booktv, nonfiction bocks every day weekend on cspan2. Joseph recounts the life of union Philip Robert e lee. The author recalls the military tactic and the postwar career which included command of the u. S. Ar
Decision when to actually submit the article of impeachment to the senate where they will go ahead with the trial. And this is essentially the last act of Speaker Pelosi in the Trump Presidency, in the sense he has one week left. The senate will try him after hes gone. And Speaker Pelosi going to send this over shes going to make the case for House Democrats that they had no choice but to do this, even though the president is in his final days, he asked for this, he deserved it and this is the only way to have closure and justice, is to hold him accountable for what he said at that rally one week ago before the rioters hit the capitol. Her words are very important here. So too are the next words from the president of the United States because now the big question is how many republicans will vote to convict him in the senate. This is a very different climate. We are in very different times than the first impeachment trial when only mitt romney, the only republican to vote yes on one co
The pandemic is now responsible for the deaths of nearly 400,000 americans, as cases continue to skyrocket across the country. The other task for the president elect, crafting an inaugural message of unity for the nation after the deadly riot at the capitol january 6th. As tens of thousands of National Guard troops stand ready throughout a locked down washington, all of them being vetted by the fbi to prevent potential insider attacks. Although theres no alarms on that front. Military officials though say theres currently no evidence of any such plans. Joining me now, nbc chief White House Correspondent and weekend today cohost peter alexander, nbc political reporter ali vitali in wilmington, former maryland congresswoman donna edwards, the Washington Post contributing columnist, and lon kwlin, fellow at the hoover institution, fellow policy adviser to mitt romney. So Vice President elect Kamala Harris just now officially resigned her senate seat. As a letter to the governor of califor