Why slavery collapsed in north america, you should not only will look within the four corners of north america but you should look to haiti. And as i said in the previous book, you should also look to the inspiration if not the instigation of british abolitionists in london. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. What to do things like to be on booktv is preview upcoming books and craig hodges is the author of this book, long shot the struggles and triumphs of an nba freedom fighter. Mr. Hodges, this is a june 4, 1992 New York Times story. I want you to explain what this is. Craig hodges, a threepoint shooting specials and one of the leagues best sided Michael Jordan another national basco Association Players for failing to use their visibility call attention to pressing social and political issues. Guest first of all i want to thank god for being here. From its one of those things i was in the Civil Rights Movement. From 1968, my mom was dead of the Civil Rights
Going on. Melissa deckma n is here to talk about a good 27, women creating the Tea Party Movement and the greater significance of womens involvement in the tea party and it talks about our understanding of female Political Leadership and the future of women in the american right. It is fascinating and i am so glad she is here to share this with us. She is a professor of Public Affairs at Washington College where she also chairs the Political Science department, an expert on gender and american politics that is the coauthor of four books and we are so glad to have her with us today. Please join me in welcoming melissa deckma n to cramer books. Thank you to cramer books, i really appreciate it, thanks for coming. I am happy to see you here. I think my husband, shawn, who supports and encouragement, critical finishing the project and thank you for finding a parking space, it took us merely half an hour to do it. Before i talk about major findings in the book, talk about why i decided to w
No way should we be in the condition that were in with the number of championship that we earned in the amount of money that we made. That bothers me. Whats unite . When i was in milwaukee, a young brother murdered in 1989 and im watching the television and he comes on with you one of the young buddies and they said we felt like we were live and in a war zone. Said we need an organization but first we have to see whats happening. The operation was to unite ourselves. Thats where that came from. I wanted to build an organization to save our youth where athletes can be a part of it and re utilize our visibility and our economic input to help existing organizations in the community. Thats the basis of it. You write in your book that a lot of athletes have charities or foundations because your tax lawyers advise it. Yes its cool to give out some stuff, but what are we really doing on a daily basis on a nine to five basis because my position is that the way the world is right now, if for no
Dangerous to believe. That happens tonight on cspan to book tv. Good evening and welcome. By name is howard and on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial museum is my other two welcome you to todays program titled a relentless pursuit bringing holocaust perpetrators to justice. I am the son of a holocaust survivor and have served on the counsel for the Us Holocaust Museum for the past five years. Ive come to learn that the museum is so much more than just a building that houses exhibits. The Museum Research in history, trained educators and members of the military and judiciary within the us and internationally and has many programs focused on preventing future genocides from occurring again. Here in new york, the museums northeast Regional Office offers a variety of events including talks like this one that you are about to hear plus Film Screenings and holocaust history as well as contemporary genocide and antisemitism. Tomorrow, we will be holding this same program, so pleas
Television for serious readers. Edit down we kickoff the weekend with yuval levin, the authors most recent book is the the fractured republic renewing americas social contract in the age of idividualism. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thank you for joining us today for this lunch. I have never had the microphone too low for me. My name is oren cass, a senior fellow here at the Manhattan Institute and our speaker today is trying to and founder and editor of National Affairs magazine. Its a real privilege for me to introduce yuval levin today. Is now standing mentor and role model to younger scholars such as myself and really all you need to know about yuval levin is that he has the wisdom not to use twitter. I should probably say more about him that he does not tweet, so less impressive, but more relevant today, i would say better than anyone in america he is at the funny w