American artifacts programs anytime visiting our website cspan. Org history. You tweak American History each week American History tv sits in with a lecture from one of the Nations College professors. You can watch the classes here. Next, university of tennesseeknoxville professor Daniel Fowler and his class talk about president Andrew Jackson and the politics of the mid19th century. They also talk about how jacksons presidency was interpreted by historians. This is about an hour and 50 minutes. Professor feller we are considering the problem of drug sodium democracy and let me frame the problem. There is this phrase, jacksonian democracy, that shows up. Jacksonian democracy and let me frame the problem. There uses this phrase, jacksonian democracy that shows up. It is pervasive in a historical literature. What is jacksonian democracy . Is it a Political Movement . Is it merely jacksons Democratic Party . If so, what does that party stand for. Does it lay legitimate claim to the name o
[applause] our coverage of the International Summit of the book continues now by a panel called the publishing world yesterday and today. It about one hour 20 minutes. Good afternoon, ladies and supplement. Its a pleasure see so many of you, so many old friends here. I have a great privilege of being Senior Consultant for the librarian of congress, and i am also a writer and editor in chief and the world. And also a veteran of the publishing world. I have worked for many years as a Senior Editor and also at Simon Schuster as well. I have been around the block. A bit of a veteran in august. But we have learned so many things in this conference so far. Such a delight in such a pleasure to have heard the wonderful keynote speech. The report from the frontline with so many countries like russia and south africa, to learn that the First Encounter between europe and the new world, but between the conquistadors and into was over a book. With Thomas Jefferson and the wondrous discussion regist
I am with dr. Law clinic is great to be here talking about your new book malignant how cancer becomes us. How did you get the etf to right a book like this . The culture of the ethics of how we deliver cancer how did you get interested . I wrote about cigarettes but i never expected to right in the entire book on cancer until i was diagnosed at 36 and i was astonished at how different it was going through treatment in what i have heard about over what i expected it to be. I expect it the well oiled machine it was space guaranteed but i will be followed in to so i could do help to write about it. Host love this section in talking about getting the diagnosis. There were some awkward moments. There were a few about my diagnosis. The doctor the diagnosis was a medical professor and others who had petitioned against his use of pornographic slides did was my surgeon. I na researcher how i live so i had come with a stack of control trials and a bunch of questions i was particularly interested
Virginia. Host allen guelzo lets begin with your latest book, robert e lee a life, who was he before the civil war, what was his reputation . Guest he was best known for two things, son of a famous revolutionary war hero and that was the famed cavalry commander light horse harry lee, the one who served under washington and in fact, coined washington, first in war, first in peace, that was light horse harry. The other thing that people would have known robert e lee for would have been his service in the mexican war and especially on the staff of general scott during scotts fabulous invasion. Moving in land to mexico city in 1847. Lee served in many respects as scotts eyes and ears performing over and over again feats for scott so much so that scott made the confession that for all the honors he had won in that Great Campaign to mexico city almost all the credit really belonged to robert e lee, so lees two thing would have been robert e lee would have been noted before the civil war whic
Veteran of the publishing world. I worked for harper is a Senior Editor and Vice President for many years and went on to work at Simon Schuster as well. So i have been around the block. Im a bit of a veteran in all fields, but we have learned so many things in this conference so far. It such a delight, such a pleasure to the wonderful keynote speech about the importance of words and the report from the frontlines of so many countries, south africa and russia, marvelous and to learn that the First Encounter between europe and the new world, between the conquistadors and the quinta was over a book and on and on with the heritage of Thomas Jefferson and the wonderful discussions that you just heard. At such a vibrant discussion. And wonderful to know that it will go on on in the sum of as we go forward around the world. Now what we have learned in the whole process is that the book culture is changing, although we all know i think in our hearts that the world of books which we have known