On the executive director of the center for biography at the university of new york and we are sponsored from the leave the foundation to do events like this to arts and crafts of biography and a sponsor of the National Book festival and we are here with the 20th anniversary of the National Book festival talking tonight with two notable public intellectuals Harold Voelker the leading lincoln scholar and the director of the roosevelt house Public Policy of Hunter College today we will be discussing the latest book lincoln on the verge the story of the journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington dc to be inaugurated as president. These are two very different books this is a many paragraph the and this is harolds work on the president s. And that is the notion that american politics that is contentious and downright toxic. Toxic. Lets begin with you. So with the description of the dangerous train journey and at one point you refer to the toxic climate of 1860 is a worse toda tod
New book we should have seen it coming. I am curious so lets just start with my personal favorite which is the first meeting between donald trump and steve bannon who would become a very influential political strategist and his world where he explains to trump hes thinking from running for president he cannot do it as a traditional republican and describe the scene. Yes. Thank you for having me. It made no sense but you have to remember donald trump did not just come out out of the blue he talked for years running for president but he wasnt quite sure he knew he was he is identity sometimes independent sometimes democrat it in a looked at Ross Perot Reform Party at one point but at 2012 he was getting serious. David about she a conservative activist, hardline was a friend of donald trump said he decided to talk to him about running for president and he took his friend steve bannon to new york to a meeting at trump tower to talk about the possibility he runs as the outsider how would he
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Of Master Sergeant trevor de boer who 1st deployed to afghanistan back in 2002 and recently told stars and stripes quote when we started this people asked why i was going and my response was so my sons dont have to fight this war well through no fault of Master Sergeant aboard that mission has clearly failed as his son payton slopes has now is also served in afghanistan even at the very same Forward Operating base that his father served at this never ending war has even outlasted the New York Times special at war a section dedicated to covering it the times of war editor Loren Katzenberg took to twitter to announce that the paper will be ending its at war forum pointedly commenting that there are fewer and fewer spaces that exist to examine the experiences of war and the toll theyve taken on both americans and the citizens of other nations for whom the cost of recent conflicts is almost insurmountable yet too often forgotten. And that my friends is why when it comes to americas war the
A cease fire deal in geneva the biggest step yet towards peace after nearly a decade of war. I appeal to all stakeholders and regional actors due respect to provisions of the ceasefire agreement and ensured its implementation we dont delay. And Foreign Ministers of mania and azerbaijan meet separately with the u. S. Secretary of state to defuse tensions over in a going to cut about. The breaking news this friday is that sudan has become the latest country to normalize its ties with israel under a deal brokered by the United States president made the announcement from the white house few hours ago the 3rd such deal in just 2 months remember previous the United Arab Emirates and behind agreed to normalize their ties with israel earlier this week a deal was also struck to remove sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. And they wanted to do a deal and that was it particularly nice because they essentially bettered war with israel for. A long time i dont know if it was fighting