[applause] good afternoon. The telling of history is consequential and recognition is consequential also. I am deeply honored and appreciated to receive the american book award today. I am also very honored to share it with the other recipients today who have presented such rot and real engagements for social life. Not the least it is also quite an honor to share the award with previous recipients, some of the people who shaped my intellectual development. Kerry snyder, edwards i eat, and very baraka. I want to thank first of all waldo martin column aye author. We spent many years together working on this vote. I want to thank my friends and family in the audience in my many comrades and colleagues who helped make this poker reality along the way. There are too many to thank individually. You know who you are and i never could have dreamed of getting here without you. Thank you. The recognition is nice, or writing the history of the black interparty let alone the 12 years that, but the
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. This weekend on booktv Arthur Brooks is live on in depth. Jason so kill sits down on after words, nick childs and robinship advise africanamericans on how to deal with police and the criminal Justice System in the u. S. , robert baer provides a history of political assassinations and a literary tour of waco, texas. Check out our full schedule online, booktv. Org. You give me your name and the title of the book and tell me how you came to the project. Hi, im lawrence knutson, the title of the book is a wave in the white house, i came to the project because i am a retired reporter for the Associated Press and in my last three or four years i exploited a personal interest and wrote a column about american and washington history. That led me to the publisher of this book which is the White House Historical association. We started talking about it and someone said, wh
Lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorable possess would look like and peace would look like and the two of the myths of the gentlemens meeting of the minds and they had fundamental visions of what an honorable peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it did. But i will try to take us beyond lee and grant as the appomattox drama unfolded the countrymen and women would crowd the scene and vest the surrender with their oesh as pir own aspirations and agendas and dreams and the dream in the eyes of africanamericans and soldiers and former slaves and lees surrender was a freedom day, the day that the moment the moment that the promise of emancipation was finally fulfilled. Lee vision of an honorable peace emphasized confederate precisiveness and the vindication, africanamerican would associate it with liberation. So ill talk about the three visions of the peace. And lets start first with the lee and the confederates. Lee and the men saw that even as the surrend
Slightly positive territory for some of the averages right now. The dow though is down ten points. About five off the s p 500. 1750 is the level. The nasdaq sitting just above the 4,000 mark off 20. Speaking of moment of truth, twitter with its first Quarterly Results since going public due to hit within the hour. Investors will get their first real look at the numbers. Well see if they justify a stock price thats now up more than 150 since that initial Public Offering here that we remember so well. We will get you those full results right after the bell. And were not finished with earnings either. Disney also reports. A big bellwether for the economy and bob iger will be joining us here on the closing bell as soon as the numbers are released. Twitter and disney, two very Important Companies reporting in this jittery market right now. And lets remind people where we sit. After a series of losses to start out the year and after the worst start to a february in some time, we look a littl
The first seven days just by dropping the seven foods im talking about. But for the best possible outcome in the way you look and feel, i want you to pull them out for three weeks. And during those three weeks you cant cheat. You heard me, right . You cant cheat. So let me hear a collective ah. [audience sighs] isnt it easier when things are black and white, right . When you know exactly what to eat and what not to. And by the way, its only three weeks. I mean, thats less than the time between credit card bill payments. [laughter] so the reason you cant let any of these foods back in for three weeks is that you have to give your immune system a rest. If you cheat with a certain food, you activate those antibodies all over again and guess what you have to do . Yeah, you have to start over. So really, you have to stay the course or youre going to defeat the whole purpose of this being a fast, simple plan. Now it seems counterintuitive, but when youre reacting negatively to certain foods,