Book team of rivals was the inspiration for Stephen Spielbergs lincoln in 2012. Doctor goodwin earned her phd at harvard. So coming up, were going to re air her in death appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took phone calls. Will also be showing you discussions from her books, leadership in turbulent times. In holy pulpit. So well start with a january 1st, 1995 the parents on cspan series footnotes. In this hourlong interview, she discussed franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in the home front during world war ii. Her book, no ordinary time, won the Pulitzer Prize for history. Now here is historian doris goodwin. Author no ordinary time. If you could ask either Franklin Roosevelt or Eleanor Roosevelt a couple of questions after all of the work that is done. What would you be. I think it would like to understand why she was unable a certain moment in the middle of the war when he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him, and i
Of some of the top lid secular stories of the previous reyears. I dioud that last year with two of my colleagues and friends and im inviting them again. Reverend Dale Witherspoon. Go morning. Happy new year. Great to have you and reverend jim hopkins on the good to be here. Some people know your churches and know where you are but i did not ever ask you your family background and some of your family, i know you have spouses and you have children so tell us, beginning with you dale. Im married to reverend debby witherspoon, also a United Methodist pastor and she is working on her doctorates of ministry. I have two sons, teenagers, wesley, a senior and graduating at the high school. A younger brother justice, who is a freshman at el cerrito. I have a brother and sister in the sacramento area. Im a native San Francisco sis can. Wesley is in the audience. Great to have you. And jim. Karen and i, my i married nd years. We have three adult kids erin, a physical fair piz, kristen who is a reg
Populous states are member of the compact and your biggest states are not. Right. And if you look at the folks who the states that have decided to be part of the physician licensure compact, states like i think its West Virginia and one of the dakotas, idaho. California is not going to do it any time soon. Texas is not going to do it any time soon for all kinds of reasons. Compacts solve part of the reason, but again, theyre only as good as how many states are part of the compact. Right. I think if this were an easy problem to solve, simon wouldnt be spending his time on it there is the question of how easy it is to get it done, and then the question of whether it would work if you could get it done. Its not that easy to get rid of state medical boards either. But while youre in the system of state medical boards, the knack there are some efforts moving forward, it could be that that is the most likely, even though theyre all somewhat less likely way to overcome the professional proble
Issues, but i think we can get around them. I think we got the sense that there are serious and deep problems that need addressing. We thank you very much for coming to present your book and thank you to the panel. If you have questions we will be at the reception and just ask us in the informal setting. With that, our time is up. [applause] skraz oakland is 11th on the list. To find out the other cities making the top 20 list look for the article on booksquire. Com. Carla hayden was sworn in as the librarian of congress. She is the first woman and africanamerican to hold the position. Thomas jefferson sold most of his library to congress. The british burned the original library of congress when they invaded washington the year before. A later fire destroyed most of jeffersons books we still have some of them. They make up the heart of the library we have here today. Jefferson as you know was a very unique man. Others arranged books alphabetically or by size. He divided his library int
My sons came up with the idea a few years ago i should take p n plantation mistress to hollywood and say, real housewives of the old south. You should. But the patriot, at the same time, youre sitting there and these little freshmen come in, and why are you here, whats your interest . And they saw the film. Part of it is to get people excited about the past even if its not our past, even if its nobodys past, some fantasy past. Vampire past. And this brings us a question of what constitutes a film about slavery . Would you think of ride with the devil as a film about slavery or Cold Mountain . No. There are slaves in those films, but theyre very marginal and theyre thereubidleh almost to establish Cold Mountain had no slaves, no black voices. You see a black woman being drugged, being carried. R t hahp hc nod. And i think that was a subconscious Cold Mountain view of the world. We know theyre there, but this is our film. You even see Nicole Kidman taking refreshments out to the slaves b