America at the point of no return. Welcome. You might know michael from his previous work he wrote 93 election. He was working the private sector at the time under a pseudonym until he was outed and then went to work for the Trump Administration and the National Security council. That work it is safe to say as an existential question and now you tell us we are at the point of no return. Ive attempted to ask at the top what do you consider to be an alarmist but i look around and see what is going on all around us right now. What is going on. What is your general assessment i would agree. The question is am i right or am i wrong. Im comforted somewhat by the fact people have come around and said i dont know or even im now completely convinced to be vindicated by that is only somewhat comforting for everything to turn out okay. So, i wrote the bulk of the book before the lockdown before for the 1619 riots, and they serve as a further indication the country is headed in a bad direction but
Twice. Report from theyre going to care about capital as rockets rain down knocking out power and driving residents of the disputed region underground. Police in baton rouge to use water cannon to disperse tens of thousands of protesters demanding the release of Political Prisoners. And the London Marathon defies the pandemic and throws up a surprise winner. 48 hours after the u. S. President was taken to hospital with code 19 its still not clear how sick he actually is doctors treating donald trump say theyve given him dexamethasone a steroid the World Health Organization only recommends for severe cases this after his oxygen levels dropped briefly on friday and saturday but they also insist hes doing well and could be discharged from hospital as early as monday mike hanna reports from bethesda where trump is being treated. The team of doctors of urge for another update and the president s personal physician 1st explain the reason for the particularly rosy prognosis that was given 24
Fight between president Theodore Roosevelt and financier j. P. Morganover the size of corporations and Government Intervention at the turn of the 20th century. I wanted to sort of ask you to paint a picture of j. P. Morgan. Obviously youre telling a story about roosevelt but a large amount of the book is about j. P. Morgan. For a lot of americans hes one of those, i dont mean this in a demeaning way but hes out of an empty household name area will know his name from public institutions, obviously from the banking legacy. They dont know a lot about him. Can you tell us about him and why, what you found so compelling about him as an agent, an actor within this story, this landscape that your drawing. So when i first started looking into this time period , i think i knew a lot more about roosevelt than i did about morgan. As is probably true of most people. And what i realized is i began researching that this was really morgans world, that roosevelt very kind of quickly and abruptly and u
Rehabilitated his image and set , precedents for what presidency life could involve. This evening, we are pleased to introduce an author on the postpresident ial years of Richard Nixon. This very important and often overlooked part of nixons life is worthy of a book of its own probably a series of books. ,not one to be written off, Richard Nixon rose from defeat to become americas elder statement. Andhis period between 1974 he reinvented what it means to 1994, be a former president , serving as advisor to everyone of his successors. He made 29 foreign trips and worked with World Leaders across the globe. To tell this remarkable story, were joined by kasey pipes. He is a historian whose previous book on president eisenhower is well acclaimed. He served in the administration of president george w. Bush and was later a senior fellow at gettysburg college. Would you please join me in afterng the author of the fall, kasey pipes . [applause] kasey thank you all very much. Thanks for being he
Welcome to the clifton park halfmoon public library. Were very pleased today have david with us this morning to talk about the book 1948 Harry Trumans improbable victory. He is the author of a number of books. He has been here to talk about his books of the past. 1920, the year of six president s, lbj versus jfk versus nixon. Also ted williams my life in pictures. He also produced a documentary called local heros capital baseball diamond heros. Portraits of candidates and the even handed aprald of truman. It is one of the best at leading. After three straight home runs, i think this is the undisputed champion on chronicling american president ial campaigns. He is the recipient of the excellent of letters and arts award from the university of albany. Information to president ial biographies and elections, he is a member of s. A. B. R. A. , the baseball historian organization. He is a k. C. Winning judge and jury and edgar award finalist. Thank you, it is great to be back here again. Peo