He has written several sailing books. Heart of thehe won the National Book award for nonfiction. Books has been adapted into a 10 part tv series. Pbs. S also a consultant on everyone herefor this evening is that he turned his prodigious talents to the american revolution. The right another one of his book has an acquired by warner bros. For a film adaptation that ben affleck might direct. Stay tuned on that one. He has written for vanity fair, the New York Times book review, the wall street journal, the los angeles times, and the boston globe. He has appeared on the today show, dateline, pbs, cspan, npr. We are delighted to have cspan here this evening to found the lecture film the lecture. He hails from pittsburgh. Historyts his ap u. S. Teacher for recognizing his nascent talent and encouraging him to write. Her prescience is one of the reasons we welcome him here tonight. He is discussing his latest book that was just released today. Please join me in welcoming him. [applause] mr. P
Comments on what you think is the single Biggest Issue that will decide the 2020 race our phones arare open. Join in on the conversation on social media as well. Send us a tweet or online at facebook. Com cspanwj. Good sunday morning. A lot to talk about. Want to begin with this headline from the Washington Post. The president calls off the taliban summit. The president canceling a previously undisclosed summit at camp david with taliban leadership and the afghan president after the taliban took responsibility for an attack last week that killed a u. S. Soldier. Trump said the meetings had been set to take place today. On twitter the president up your to cancel the talk with the taliban indefinitely, a significant blow to the Peace Process which was nearing its conclusion. In tweets saturday evening the president wrote he is called off the negotiation and accusing the television of perpetrating the attacks to strengthen their negotiation. What kind of people would kill tomany anin orde
Journal, your reaction to last nights democratic president ial debate in houston and later, documentary filmmaker ken burns will enjoys us to discuss the history of Country Music and his latest project. Host its the washington journal for september 13. We will talk about last night and get your input on the results of the debate. Here are the numbers. You can text us this morning at city and you put your state when you do. You can also go to our facebook page. Here to break down those initial results from last nights debate and joining us throughout the morning to talk about it is john mcardle. Good morning, we will start with the tale of the tapes. This is from the New York Times, their wrapup of total speaking time. Former Vice President joe biden, the front runner in the race at the most speaking time, 17 minutes and 22 seconds followed by four of the five senators in ,he race, Elizabeth Warren followed by cory booker, then Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and there is a jump that mayo
Broadly the coowner along with my wife. In behalf of everybody here welcome, thank you free much for coming. It has been six years since the publication in a volume of the deliberation a trilogy. I wrote it that way earlier today and said i will not make that mistake again. His liberation about the l. A. Tramps and europe during world war ii, six years turned his attention away from the great work of the 20th century and started focusing on the great work of the 18th century that gave birth to this country. For those of you who have been wondering whether rick could do it again, whether he could bring the Extensive Research team attention to detail, narrative elegance to another green conflict, the evidence is now in, and yes indeed he has done it again. The british are coming which is volume one of what rick is calling the revolution a trilogy was released today. It is another magnificent history. Weaving together the perspectives of many characters of high lot along with meaningful a
[inaudible conversations] good evening everybody i am broadly the coowner along with my wife. In behalf of everybody here welcome, thank you free much for coming. It has been six years since the publication in a volume of the deliberation a trilogy. I wrote it that way earlier today and said i will not make that mistake again. His liberation about the l. A. Tramps and europe during world war ii, six years turned his attention away from the great work of the 20th century and started focusing on the great work of the 18th century that gave birth to this country. For those of you who have been wondering whether rick could do it again, whether he could bring the Extensive Research team attention to detail, narrative elegance to another green conflict, the evidence is now in, and yes indeed he has done it again. The british are coming which is volume one of what rick is calling the revolution a trilogy was released today. It is another magnificent history. Weaving together the perspectives