Peter i am going to go ahead and turn it over to john. I want to start with something i read in the introduction. Just absolutely fascinated by. And it is about your father. It is really a lovely story. Irwin silber. Book, published a songs of the civil war. He was not like a diehard civil war buff. He was not that kind nina he did like to sing the songs. Peter i have a question about your father. This is what you wrote. This book is not about my father civil war. It is partly about the people who created the civil war my father came to love as well as those who created the kind of civil war that he despised. So tell us, what did you mean by that . How can that help us sort of frame your book . Then we will turn it over to john. Nina so i think come in terms of the kind of the civil war that he came to love, i guess i would say that was the civil war i am going to say it was the civil war created by the popular front. By that, i mean this sort of loose coalition of civil rights organiz
Measures. The new Field Hospital just opened as one city warns it will run out of beds within weeks. Rudy guiliani tests positive for the coronavirus as President Trump gives his first major speech since the election. Local republicans spent today refuting it. The government report first obtained by nbc news, was a foreign adversary hitting american diplomats with Microwave Radiation to make them sick . Plus, the show must go on. The nutcracker in the age of covid. The Sugar Plum Fairy Dancing under the stars. This is Nbc Nightly News with kate snow. Good evening. There is some hope on the horizon at the start of a new week. The first doses of the Pfizer Vaccine landing in british hospitals today. Here in the u. S. The fda set to meet this thursday to consider Emergency Authorization for the same vaccine. But that hope is over shadowed at the moment by far too many cases of coronavirus and deaths. California Just Announced they recorded 30,000 cases yesterday, a new record in that stat
1 10 of 1 . Minor gains for the australian and china markets for the shanghai composite. Situation with regards to the equity markets, what about some of the other Asset Classes and play . We can have a look at those. Take a look at the oil prices, retreating at the moment. You need currently, what, 41 essentially for a barrel of wti, 41. 09, moving to the downside. Stockpile to the upside. Gold not much of a haven, dollar index moving to the upside, the dollaryen currently stronger. It has been moving quite rapidly to the upside. . 11 currently for one greenback. The sec is pushing ahead with a plan that could see chinese come these kicked off of u. S. Exchanges. The intent to cap crackdown on companies that dont comply with rules that require an audit. That could hurt big names like alibaba and baidu. Tom, it looks like the sec is in a hurry. What is it proposing . Tom absolutely. The since we are getting as they are stepping up their preparations for this new Legal Framework that ag
The extraordinary life of hamilton aellis cose the author of trana they both have a lot to add for people that are interested not only in our history but a lot of current events. Im going to give kimberly and alice a couple minutes to introduce themselves and then we will jump into discussion. Kimberly, do you want to go first . Hi, i am so delighted to be here. As i was saying before we get started, i used to live in austin, he went to ut for my phd so being a part of the texas book festival has been a dream of mine for a long time. Edited picture it would happen this way but i will take it. Im very grateful to participate and thank you so much for having me. Im a historian and ice study women, sex politics, and science and medicine. Now i live in cincinnati and i teach in oxford ohio. I contribute essays to publications like the washington post, i have an oped in there today actually about kamala harris. I also have my new book free thinker which tells the story of the fallen woman a
He is currently writing the chronicling of life when she worked as a newspaper columnist and writer. Welcome, carl. Thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today and im very honored to give you a little bit of a background about Florence Harding and the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, a parent should not really have, per se, a favorite child and, you know, i think an author perhaps shouldnt have a favorite book. But i will say that this the research of this book and then the unique promotion that i did for the book will always be a very important part of my life. I started writing this book and researching this book at a time when the sun was just setting on the last generation of people who knew the hardings. Of course, they had been Young Children and one or two had almost been teenagers. And then at the end of the process the 75th anniversary of the death of president harding, of course he died in 1923, so this was in 199