Nominated twice for the pulitzer prize. The author of i think one of the great books about the civil war, america which was in the library a few years ago talking about it and talking about the importance of the evangelical religion in american politics leading up to the civil war and in some senses, the decline of evangelical religion, certainly the righteousness of evangelical religion after the civil war in the beginning of postreconstruction era and jim crow. It is i think a great book that refrains from what we have thought about the civil war and what we thought about race and religion in america. In a sense, you get his generation whose new book, when government was good is the subtitle. It may seem like a distant path for some of us today. We phrased also the conversation about the place of government in American History and particularly executiveleadership. Its really a book about truman and eisenhower and johnson who was the coda about those who came after. Here in kansas cit
Good evening ladies and gentlemen as director of the library we have professor of history at the university of North Carolina nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize in the author one of the great books about the civil war talking about the importance of religion of american politics leading up to the civil war with the decline of evangelical religions after the civil war with the post reconstruction era and jim crow. It is a great book that refrains for race and religion in america. In his new book when government was good that may seem like a distant past we heard about the place of government and with executive leadership it is a book about truman and eisenhower with those who came after with the truman president ial library we know a lot about truman and his executive leadership with form policy with the great decisionmaking without domestic policy and in particular with race and those inequalities that we are very concerned with today but to use those executive powers of the presid
Integrity in wisdom and courage we have sought a leader who is of the people a man raised to leadership by the people a leader whos whole life has been spent for the people. A sturdy humble heir to the respect and the affection all peoples felt the lincoln such a man is general Ike Dwight D Eisenhower the man from abilene. Never in history have so Many Americans known so much about the very essence of one man a hundred million americans. Know eisenhower the way, you know a neighbor. We know him by heart and why do we cheer for him . Not because he is a general but because instinctively we believe in you we hail him as a hometown boy who is all the best about america. His roots are in the heartland main street usa. I come here first to thank you. To say the proudest thing i can claim is that i am from abilene. I want to speak first of the dreams of a barefoot boy. Frequently they are to be a streetcar conductor. Or he sees himself as the town policeman. Above all he may reach the positi
Granddaughter in law and of course daughter president next 10. We are pleased to have everyone here. We are going to put the numbers up on the screen. 202 5853885 in eastern and central time zone. 5853886 in the mountain and pacific time zones. And now, the eisenhower said mr. Smith were talking. You hear a lot about presentation. Weve got people lined up here and im going to give everyone a chance. I get my questions out of the way really fast. Jean edward smith, did president eisenhower like campaigning . Certainly not in 1952. In 1952, this was a new job that he had to learn. But he learned it effectively ended in 1956, he campaigned quite a bit. Is somebody that recreated for me and i tried we tried to capture that in going home to glory. The ambience around the eisenhower office, people enjoying a quiet morning over coffee, and in that period rusty brown and dr. Mccann pick up a lot of things that Dwight Eisenhower did conversationally, and one comment they made that stayed with m
People who pay for that service can have access to those numbers but its still one of those areas where its difficult to figure out exactly what is selling because books are sold in so many different ways not only on line but in conferences and in book sales as well as in bookstores. Host booktv is celebrating its 15th year this fall. How has the literary publishing world changed in the last 15 years . Guest its been completely transformed. I mean in the last 15, its like ancient history. Everything has changed on the number of publishing houses and it was the big six and now its just the combined five. The launch obviously if the readers and tablets and the internet has totally transformed not only where people are buying their books but how they are reading them, at the coverage obviously in the media and the print media has grown dramatically on dramatically down. At the same time we see arise of vibrant on Line Community of readers whether its on sites like good reads or book claus