Announcer this week on q a, author simon sebag montefiore. He discusses his book, the romanovs. About the dynasty that ruled russia for over 300 years. Brian simon sebag montefiore, the book is called the romanovs 16131918. I want to read your headline in the london daily mail. You wrote this back in january. Simon [chuckles] i did not actually wrote that. Thats the headline by the daily mail headline writer. Would say, it is the most outrageous and most explicit correspondence ever written by a head of state. I have to say the correspondence is so outrageous that they edited the daily mail. They rang me up. They said, were a tabloid newspaper. We cant print this stuff. Were a family newspaper. Brian who was it . Who was the head of state . Simon the head of state was tsar Emperor Alexander the ii. The emperor who liberated the serbs the slaves of russia. At exactly at the same time 1861 as your president lincoln was about to liberate the slaves of america, the two men were in correspo
This week marks a special anniversary. It was 100 years ago that archduke Francis Ferdinand was shot dead in sarajevo. The assassination sparked the First World War. Bosnia was part of the austriahungary a hungarian empire. A serb nationalist shot the archduke and his wife dead from up close. A short while later, austria declared war on serbia, and europe was plunged into a terrible war which was to last for long years and would enter history books as the First World War. Decades later in the 1990s, war raged again in the balkans between bosniaks, croats, and serves serbs. The differences between the ethnic groups still exist today, and it becomes particularly clear now that the world is commemorating the assassination 100 years ago. That was when this bridge went down in history as the place where archduke Frantz Ferdinand of austria was assassinated. These days, it is a tourist attraction. 100 years ago, this month on the 28th of june the assassin, a serbian from bosnia, was sentence
Churchill said to kennedy he held out his hand and he said i am so sorry for your loss. Joe junior had died during the war and churchill was sincere and he said to churchill, what good was it all . Churchill looked at him unbelieving world war ii had destroyed in churchills mind hitler and mussolini and the dictators. It had saved democracy. It had saved western civilization so churchill thought. Kennedy lazed hatred at him. As booktv looks back at our 15 years on cspan2 we bring you programs from our archives. Erik larson appeared on booknotes in 2003 to talk about the devil in the white city. In the book mr. Larson tells the story of two men architects Daniel Burnham and. Or henry h. Holmes who played prominent roles in the history of 1893 chicago worlds fair. This is about an hour. Cspan erik larson, author of the devil in the white city, you write early in your book that this book is about the evanescence of life. Whats that mean . Guest really, what i was struck by, as the book pr
In your own state, the quality of education dropping. The black youth in the country employment for black youth is , andgoing up to about 16 now with the budget deal being passed, and the amount of money being spent for, as you said yourself, trying to get qualified people into positions, what is in this budget deal that is going to make it so that we can find any kind of money and relief for education for black youth and trying to find money and put placement into any kind of education through this budget of the placement for qualified people and to get host , ducation host i think we got the point. The sequester relief gives appropriators in the house the flexibility to fund and and defund various programs. One of the hardest bills to pass was the education and labor bill because of the great need, as you pointed out. With regard to there being 20 there might be further than that thetem education around world, we need to prioritize funding education. Down ison we are so far because f
I would like to welcome you to the university of minnesota. We have a terrific program here today talking about the significance of the budget deal reached in washington in terms implicationscal for both the democratic and republican parties as well as the origins of some of what we have been seeing in washington. We have a terrific panel. I would like to introduce the panel. , he served gutknecht in 12 for 12 years in the minnesota house and 12 years in the United States house of representatives. , who servedin sabo for a long time in the minnesota house of representatives, including a speaker from 1973 1978. He went on to washington, where he served for 13 terms, i believe, in very important positions. It passed a budget act that played a major role in the reduction of the deficits during the 1990s. Mine and colleague of teaches courses as well as working with us in some of our other programming. He was a representative in the minnesota house from 19792000 seven. He was also speaker