Pending books begin with jeffersons memoir and 18 cents have written books. Prior to the 20th century memoirs were rare grants were the exception. Jimmy carter the author of 25 books including Public Policy and Foreign Policy and a novel and also a Childrens Book which was illustrated and then appeared on book tv afterwords where he discussed the white house diaries he kept while in office 1977 to 1981. Welcome to washington dc mr. President. When you fly in and go over the monuments and the potomac what do you think flying into this town . I look for the white house to see if its there and the wonderful times. And we flew over the canal sounded by douglas a justice for the Supreme Court. I was running about 40 miles a week then. Thats a lot. I think about the good times and how thankful i am now to have that bipartisan support which doesnt exist anymore. Is there a republican in the senate are congress that you learn to enjoy working with that you became friends with . Senator baker w
As part of her summer series. Tonight you will hear from five of the last six men who have sat in the oval office. Now the practice of president s books, began with Thomas Jeffersons memoir in 1821. Eighteen president s since have written books prior to the 20th century, president ial memoirs were rare and Ulysses S Grant and mark was an exception since then, it is taken off since the 1950s. First of this evening, is one of our most prolific residents turned author. Jimmy carter. He is the author of 25 books including publicpolicy books, Foreign Policy books, a novel, and he is also written a Childrens Book which was illustrated by his daughter amy. In 2010, president carter appeared on book tv afterwards program where he discussed his white house diaries that he kept while he was in office from 1977 1981. Heres president carter being interviewed by president ial historian. Welcome to washington dc. It is wonderful to see you. I was wondering you fly in here, and you go over all of the
Rally. The bond market yesterday saying a bit of buying come back, but not much for printing. 71 basis on the 10 year right now. Action pivots over what is happening in the United States. We get to the Michigan Consumer center. A little stronger than economists seemed to have protected. 74. 1, up from 72. 8 last time around. 72. 8 was what the economists were predicting as well. Current conditions, 82. 9. That is slightly ahead of expectation which are at 60. 5. The expectations number is actually where we are seeing the strain. Lets turn to our big story of the day, we have seen that apart from the japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe, the countrys longest serving premier will be undergoing treatment for chronic illness. He spoke earlier today. Respond to ready to the mandate by the public. I made a judgment i should not continue my job as Prime Minister. To step down as Prime Minister. Indicated that he will stay on until Leaders Within his party choose the successor. That could happen
That is Sexual Violence. We will come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today, that of celia. We also talked about wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed about those narratives is the extent to which some issues, including Sexual Violence violence generally, and Sexual Violence, in particular was rather muted in the slave narratives. And so here, we have with the celia case the opportunity to take another pass at this question, to try to see this dimension of slavery through the experienceli so, why do i say try to see this dimension of slavery . As you have all begun to see in your readings for today, there are many ways in which the record and the evidence upon which we rely to discover, explore, and understand the case of celia is a challenging record to make use of. So part of our work today will be to talk about the evidence in the celia case, how it is we recover from what is in essence the record of a trial a rather fragmentary, carefully
Slavery, and in particular, the experiences of enslaved women. Weve already had a chance to look at the case of Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. There, jacobs introduced us, if you will, to that dimension of slavery that is exemplified, and we might say central to the experience of slave women, and that is sexual violence. We will come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today, that of celia. We also talked about wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed about those their lives, as you will recall, is the extent to which some issues, including sexual violence, violence generally, but sexual violence, in particular, was rather muted in the slave narratives. And so here, we have with the we have an opportunity with the celia case the opportunity to take another pass at this question, to try to see this dimension of slavery through the experience of celia. So, why do i say try to see this dimension of slavery . As you