Revolution on americas education system. Join the conversation as he takes your calls, emails and tweets live for three hours summed, august 3rd, at noon eastern. And tune this next month for author, historian and activist mary frances berry. Best selling author and historian michael corps can is our guest in november. In depth on cspan2s booktv. Television for serious readers. Booktv recently attended the 2014 harlem book fair. Coming up next, a panel of experts explores approaches to increasing audience awareness and market gland for multicultural literature for acquiring libraries and expanding the the interpretation of what is multicultural. My name is wade hudson, and i am president and ceo of just ush books inc. , an independent Childrens Book publishing company. My wife, sheryl, and i startedt it in 1988. We established just us books to address the need for more books that reflect our societys diversity. I will moderate todays discussion. I will moderate the but before we starts
He was definitely an engaging teacher and as you mentioned his experiments influence a lot of people including including you. [inaudible] this is a bit of a followon and im still trying to formulate what is probably a very elementary question but you talk about all the research you did and obviously he mixes in real historical characters with his primary fictional characte characters. Was he primarily using fiction to illuminate history and historical forces or using history to illuminate human nature . Yes and yes. [laughter] i mean thats a huge question. One of the criticisms that this book has received is that tolstoy intentionally distort historical facts for his own purposes so for instance he creates in the character could to save us a far more salt of the earth kind of character than he actually was. He was apparently much more widely, much more questionable in terms of his morals so historians have accused the full story of using history and distorting it for his own ends. I do
This month. Three or four books that i think particularly good. I wish i could take credit. And the Brilliant Communications director came up with this. No one is going to be interested in what i am reading. Surprisingly has become quite a bit. They like it. Interestingly, the kind of like to know what your thinking about. It is kind of refreshing. It actually reads a little class action. Thank you. It was fun. What are you reading this summer . Tell us what is on your Summer Reading list. Postage your Facebook Page or send us a name of. Her. You can watch panels and multicultural Book Publishing, the black Arts Movement, and more first, founder Max Rodriguez kicks off the festival the talk of the state of africanamerican literature. There is always that conversation of home for us. And we have an answer from. The theme of this years book fair is global. As we all are. And the book fair from this point forward will reflect that. We started with an event yesterday that Columbia Universi
Care system that needed to be reformed. The fact is america had an imperfect system developed with a number of public and private forms of money, tremendous , and the like. Crashing it into a wall is not a fixed system. With that, i recognize the gentleman from maryland for his Opening Statement. Thank you for calling this hearing. This week, i had the tremendous honor and privilege of traveling to south africa. As part of our nations delegation to honor the life of the late president Nelson Mandela. It was an inspirational trip, life altering because i have the opportunity to reflect on the amazing changes that one individual, working with determination over a lifetime, can bring to millions of others. There will always be forces aligned against progress, against quality, against basic human dignity. But Nelson Mandelas life reminds us that our mission on earth is to transcend these district to forces and always pursue the betterment of our fellow man. Atraveled back yesterday on 20 h
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