Readers. Heres our primetime lineup tonight, starting at 7 00, Carol Anderson describes the guest i am reading a book that Robert Barwell road, a biography of alex haley. Alex haley was in tennessee. Hes in the news right now because this is the 40th anniversary, which people may have forgotten was the best watch Television Show ever, the last episode of hers about 85 of the American Television said watched some part of the 1977. Alex here they spoke about slavery really told it in such an terms that had been presented for. That has been with the movie. It just jolted the country and it filled up the library is with americans searching for their family histories. Robert norrell is a university of tennessee professor who wrote a book about his two books, the autobiography of malcolm x, which he wrote in the six days, race which he wrote in the 70s, which the author says are the two most bugs about black america in the 20th century and maybe the two most important books about American Cu
Covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look at them to air in the near future on the tv on cspan2. Senator lamar alexander, someone asked you for a recommendation for a book about tennessee or tennessee history, what would you recommend. Guest i would recommend alec stewart, by john griese. Alec stewart was a cooper, its a barrel maker. He lived up maker. He lived up in Hancock County which is one of our remote counties and John Rice Irwin is the creator of appalachia and he interviewed alex stored about his life. He was a a remarkable man. He can make anything. He could pull teeth, he he could catch a squirrel, skillet, fright, eat it. He was so interesting that he was invited to washington to be part of the smithsonian folk festival on time. If you want to get a sense of how some Mountain People lived and totally off the land, alec stewart, john reiser. A lot of things politicians from tennessee, that janes couple of president s andrew jackson, what about bi
What is conveyed on the back as well as on the front. Because you were forced at that time with the people at that time were forced to write things in a very short, succinct format it gives you an indication of what they felt was important. In many cases is very different from what we feel is important today. In some cases its very much like we do. They tend to stick with, in the words of joe friday, just the facts. They really believe that conveying the most important thing more important but it is you are real idea of what things, what people, what events were important in their daily lives. That kind of a window is very often a tough thing for historians in particular to get an idea of. Thats one thing in particular that i think the era has been able to document in ways that you may not have been able to document the errors are a maybe even in the air is since. For more information on booktvs recent visit to port huron and the many other destinations on our cities door go to cspan.
As a 17yearold, i couldnt understand. Reading this anthology i finally understood what it meant to be in a community with folks writing for and in some ways putting our community on our back and going where we are going. But i think it is much more daring in this American Literary enterprise to write to your folks. Its hard to say that in this room that is mostly white life of a young black folks out there im talking to you when i say this, it is imperative. You cant love somebody if you dont communicate to them. We will tell you to communicate over. It is a necessity to understand you come from a people who made a living two and four the deep south. [applause] i think we are out of time. This has been a great panel. [applause] [inaudible conversations] senator lamar alexander, if somebody asked you for a recommendation for a book aboutn tennessee or tennessee history, what would you recommend . Ale alex stewart. He was a barrel maker. He lived in Hancock County which is one of our rem
Meet and greet in washington this week. But he talked to me first, exclusively. Also, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. Thats what the black at the statue statue of liberty says. But does that not include refugees from wartorn countries . Is america turning its back on the worlds most desperate . Michael lewis gives a look at what wall street is really up to these days. First here is my take. In an appearance on cbs news face the nation before being reelected as israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu was asked if he was offended that the white house had tweeted one of my columns. That column pointed out that for 25 years bibi had been wrong in his predictions about Irans Nuclear program. Here was the Prime Ministers response. If i had to choose, i would retweet something that relates to iran and thats the Supreme Leaders ayatollah cohaneys recent tweet in which he cites nine ways and reasons that israel should be destroyed. Netanyahu is right to draw attention to