My pleasure to be here with the author and really, wonderful person to talk about history and race, and just challenges during this time, Erica Armstrong dunbar. She is the author of one of my new favorite books. She came to sleigh. It is the life and time of Harriet Tubman. Thank you so much for doing this. Your book is really groundbreaking. And cute and first of all let me thank you for inviting me on. I really taken the time to have this conversation. I love to talk about history. But more importantly about the lives of africanamerican women during the 19th century. And harriet have one just became very clear early on that it was time to kind of do a bit of a refresher on Harriet Tubman. And to think about her as a person. Hennepin as an activist bird right now were thinking about about what social justice and activism looks like. I think theres no better representation of it, at least in the 19th century than Harriet Tubman. Its wonderful to be able to talk about her. Host what is
Westward. So how is it these days when something breaks, we find ourselves in a fix. Unable either to repair it on our own or find anybody else who can . A conundrum david pogue will explore this morning. Our machines are getting more complex to more expensive, from our phones to a trackers. So why dont the manufacturers want you to fix them when they break . Coming up on sunday morning. Pauley tomorrow is columbus day, the traditional day of pride for americans of italian heritage. But given all we know now, should christopher columbus, and some other historical figures, still be standingni tall . A controversial topic that mo rocca will explore. Reporter it has been a rough 2020 for christopher columbus. He has been protested, defaced, toppled, even beheaded. But the controversy of the italian explorer is just part of what has become a monumental reckoning. This is a wrestle over who gets to tell the nations history. Who gets to be at the top of that history. Reporter later on sunday
I found out that all the media people were distraught, totally distraught over the fact that hillary lost. I discovered something that i never understood. Why did they not fact [inaudible] as a regular person. Guest a regular person. Anybody distraught on election day wanting to be vindicated in the mall we have a president that is that he will not accept the result of the election if he loses, and that would be the end of america as we know it. I dont know what you are referring to specifically though. Host rick perlsteins most recent book is called a reaganland americas write a term 19761980. Its one of the four that hes written about conservatism in america and we thank you for joining us for the callin program on booktv. Guest what an honor. Thank you. Host coming up in half an hour, we have diamond and silk for a call in the program talking about their new book uprising who the hell said you cant ditch and switch. Thats coming up live on booktv. But now we return to the National B
Atlanta History Center virtual author talk featuring Heather Lende in conversation with jessica handler. I am kate whitman Vice President of the programs and Community Engagement for the atlanta History Center. Im glad you are here and thanks for being with us. This talk will also be broadcast on cspan so look out for that. You can purchase copies of of bears and ballots directly from our official bookseller. Theres a link in the chat so you can do that. Also we provide a link on our website. As jessica and had a talking please submit your questions for heather or jessica it just to entertain questions as well. I might. Theres a a q a feature at e bottom of your screen. Well get to as many of us as time allows. Heather lindsey has contributed to npr, New York Times and national geographic. Among other newspapers and magazines. Shes author of the bestselling book buying the good, take good care of the garden and the dog, and if you lift your i would know your name. And that shall be dis
Mr. Romero, before we get this book what do you do for a living . Are you an author . Guest actually this is my first book, my first book. I have written screenplays and sketches because im an actor and a standup comedian. Thats what ive been doing for many, many years. This story is a passion of mine because its base, not based but inspired by my family, members of my family. I wrote as a screenplay first as a matter fact, that i had an option to do it as a movie but ended up in a Production Company couldnt been budgeted 15 billion which is a lot of money for an independent film. I could come up with the money so the rights to the story reverted back to me. I threw it into a drawer for about two or three years and i took it out and vote as a book. Host is a historical fiction . Guest yes, it is. Thats exactly what it is, historical fiction. Everything in that book actually happened, not necessary to the family i wrote about because what i did was you know how the godfathers different