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
Exactly what that volunteer chaplain was doing for me. Were you able to aggregate how much the u. S. Spends in taxpayer dollars on end of life care . Was that easy to find . It was not easy to find the right statistic. There are a lot of wrong statistics floating out there but the reality is a quarter of what medicare spends is spent on the last year of life so when you consider people may be in medicare 20 or 30 years that is an extraordinary imbalance and it shows something majorly wrong with our decisionmaking get the end of life. This is a preview of katy butlers new book knocking on heavens door the path to the better way of death 11. You are watching tv on cspan2. Next on booktv and discussion on africanamerican history and the twentyFirst Century. From the 2013 harlem will carry an annual book fair in new york city. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. My pleasure to welcome to our third panel of the day, the title is 50 years later blacks and the 21st century. The panel is fram
Peniel joseph. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. It is my pleasure to welcome you to our third panel of the day. Again the title was 50 years later blacks in the 21st century. The panel is framed around but kind of progress blacks have made since the Civil Rights Movement and the endorsement challenges and quality that these African Americans in the 21st century. The organizers have formulated two major questions for us to talk about. The first is of historical and contemporary factors continue to make racial equality a contested and elusive concept in the 21st century. And second, what kind of knowledge can we mobilize to face the specific challenges of racial inequity in our contemporary moment. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to be in conversation with two and possibly three speakers, dynamic speakers and thinkers today and i would like to introduce you to that before opening the conversation. Joining us is farah griffin, a professor of english, comparative literature and afr