Still thinks he is a bit of and not, but at the same time says that he is growing as mandela grew. As i said, at the end of the conversation i was shocked because she said that he is really causing a big stir in parliament, and her expectation is that he may eventually take over this predominately white party, which is the only serious Opposition Party to the African National congress to it if he might take to the democratic space fact, the democratic alliance. Ibook just at what i was trying to a moment ago. We are dealing with a story that is not just complex but filled with contradictions. There is no one thing that is necessarily true. In my own book i see mandela as having many faces, played many roles, including the role of Nelson Mandela, which he invented. This man was in place. He played creon in antigone, and he played Abraham Lincoln in a performance. He was an actor on some levels, and he was able to bring those talents and those skills into politics without losing a beat a
Books on the most important president and today well talk largely about her new book, the bully pulpit, which is about Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard taft in the muckrakers of that area. Before we do so, like to give you more background about her another book shes written you shes written books on lincoln and kennedy family, fitzgerald family, eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt pokemon and johnson with whom she worked as a white house fellow. She is from brooklyn. [applause] a big fan of the brooklyn dodgers ensured a book about them as well. The brooklyn dodgers dont exist any longer, so she has shifted her allegiance to the boston red sox. [cheers and applause] she was the first woman to going to the boston red dots locker room. She is a graduate of colby college, Phi Beta Kappa naturally, magna laude. Later won a white house fellowship and is a white house fellow was assigned to the white house and work with president johnson directly. After she left, she went to harvard, finisher T
Discuss Abraham Lincoln stroll, 18601861. More specifically, i want to talk about why Abraham Lincoln rejected any meaningful compromise. Following his election as president november 1860, the country the script but a crisis. Because many southerners feared lincoln and his Republican Party. Republican party was a northern party, and proudly so. But it did not have a significant southern connection. Lincoln was elected without a single electoral votes from any of the 15 slave states, and only four border states, missouri, kentucky, maryland and delaware did he get any popular vote. And they are nearly a handful. For the first time in the nations history, a Party Without any notable southern component would be taking over the executive branch of the national government. But there was more. The Republican Party, as i said, was proudly a northern party, turning its brief existence found in the mid1850s, its rhetoric had a song of the south, and the south a social institution racial slavery
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