Cox richardson about her new book, how the south won the civil war, the continuing fight for the soul of america. And im a professor of history at yale university. And i will have a discussion with heather about her book and this is brought to you by the Community Outreach for over 150 years and thats some real history there. Now, on to heathers book. Her book has gotten a lot of critical praise. For example, tthe Washington Post writes, Heather Cox Richardson of Boston College describes goldwaters crusade in her masterful book. Perhaps the most important Political Coalition of the 20th century and Publishers Weekly says, though richardson underemphasizes the prevalence of racism, sexism and unequality of other parts of the country during the civil war she marshals more for the books title. Conservatives will cry foul, but critics will be persuaded. And first, i want to invite those of you out in the world listening to share your questions for heather, you can do that, typing in the a
And from Justin Timberlakes new mission to a new gig for jay leno to the mom making a surprise visit during her daughters audition video, all the trending stories this thursday morning. Good thursday morning, everyone. We begin with the white house firing back after the release of those bombshell audiotapes. The tapes reveal that President Trump admitted downplaying the coronavirus back in february. He spoke out late last night. Abcs faith abubey begins our coverage. Reporter this morning, the white house fighting back responding to recordings made public in which President Donald Trump acknowledged he understood the deadly threat posed by the coronavirus back in february but misled the public about it. Journalist bob woodward interviewed the president february 7th, 1 of 18 on the record interviews for woodwards book, rage. It goes through air, bob. Thats always tougher than the touch. You know, the touch, you dont have to touch things, right, but the air, you just breathe the air, and
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 right. And by this point i think it was ron who brought up that the battle of tan nen burg alone had roughly, how many . 250,000 on the other side in roughly a week. Ten days. So when we have that number there, that number on the western front, were about to have that kind of number in the middle east, a couple of thousand you know, almost 2,000 people dying at sea would barely have made the news had it happened to anyone else but the americans. But the british understood that by 1915, logic didnt work. Morals didnt work. Appeals at saving your ancestors, the british, didnt work. So maybe having the americans bleed a little bit might work. Erik larson has a book about the lusitania, its all right. Its a bestseller. Im glad i read it. But as a historian it has slightly different ways of doing thing than we might. But one of the things that he alleges in his book is that churchhill had claimed what we needed to get the americans off
General suspends those controversial cutbacks until after the election and Congress Calls him to capitol hill demanding answers College Crisis notre dame, the latest university to suspend inperson classes just one week into the semester the spike in cases is very serious and we must take serious steps to address it. An entire Sorority House in oklahoma now quarantining. Just ahead what schools are trying to do to keep covid off campus state of emergency the National Guard mobilized in california with dozens of wildfires raging across the state. Evacuations underway overnight and a searing heat wave making everything worse all that plus just desserts. The Surprising New girl scout cookie thats already the toast of the town. Today, wednesday, august 19th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody welcome to today. Nice to have you with us couldnt you go for a french toast cookie got to wait
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