One of the more careful mayors colorful mayors you will find in the country. He was part huey long, part tony soprano. The good and the bad. He reflected providence as one of americas oldest cities. To me really embodies the american political story. Welcome to providence on booktv. With help of art Cox Communications partners, we will export a rich literary culture of this capital city as we travel to these local authors and to learn about the history of this town and the state of rhode island. We begin our program with a visit to providence literally landmark. To climb up those steps and make your way in and then to arrive at the top of the steps and then look in and see the mezzanine filled with books and its inspiring. I love when we have visitors that come in for the first time. They walk in the front door. And usually if its someone whos new to the public, the first thing i hear is a giant side, and then the next word out of their mouth is oh, my goodness, this is what a vibratio
President of the university of pennsylvania talked to book tv about her latest book the spirit of compromise. She also talked about her role as the president of the university. This interview recorded at the university of pennsylvania and philadelphia is part of booktvs college series, and its about 20 minutes. You are watching book tv on cspan2, and one of the things we like to do one book tv is visit college campuses. We can talk to professors who are also authors showcasing books that you may not know about otherwise. We are pleased to be at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia this week and we are joined by the president of the university, amy gutmann coming and she is the call author of this book, the spirit of compromise why government demands it and campaigning underlines it. President gutmann come are we a politically compromising nation . We were created in compromise. A lot of people think of the revolutionary war, which separated us from our mother country, but if
A decade ago, if you drove down highway 99, that flat zipper of road down the heart of central california, and you look to the side of the road, you would see this shack standing, and i remember the first time i saw it, i thought, jeez, thats been lifted from the mississippi delta, 1930s, you know, who lived there . Well, as i was driving, you looked closer, there was puffs of smoke coming from the roof. It was not someone who lived there. Someone was still living here in the year 2002, 2003. One day, myself and matt black, a photographer who, you know, is kind of a modern day dorothy lang, evans, we pulledded off the side of the road, came over the Railroad Tracks across this little dirt road here, across from this vineyard, and we pulled up to the shack. It was in better shape then, but a tarp paper shack, and as we walked up, there were rabbit furs that had been that were hammered on to the wall. I remember knocking once, twice, and this place was on stilts. The door creeked open, a
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