President ial debates will open the doors and turn on the light and welcome viewers to the debate. A little after 9 00, the debate will begin. It begins a few minutes after 9 00 so the networks can introduce coverage. Cspans up at 10 30 and will get your calls and reaction. That is what is coming up tonight. Joining us is greta. What do you have . Greta lets start with a closer view. This is from the cspan twitter feed from yesterday set up at the university of utah. You can follow our coverage on twitter. Lee from the New York Times reported senator harris was prepping for tonight with hundreds of index cards and a mac a mock debate with pete pence andplaying mike an effort to lower expectations. The wall street journal reports that harris tried to lower expectations coming describing pence as a formidable bader. She says debate her. She says she will make this about leadership during the pandemic. That is what democrats plan to do. They plan to make it about all pandemic, all the tim
But how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. So how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. I should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. David white and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that . Is that whitman, emerson . Who said a fire never extinguished . I have been doing a Little Research and have one possible source. One is Edward Everett hale, a wellknown unitarian minister during the civil war in boston a writer especially of short stories. He is best known for his short story the man without a country, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863. It is about a man who goes on the ship, disavows his country and loses his whole sense of identity. It is designed as a story to rally support for the union cause. The union c
The text itself stays the same, but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. So how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. I should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. David white and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that . Is that whitman, emerson . Who said a fire never extinguished . I have been doing a Little Research and have one possible source. One is Edward Everett hale, a wellknown unitarian minister during the civil war in boston a writer especially of short stories. He is best known for his short story the man without a country, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863. It is about a man who goes on the ship, disavows his country and loses his whole sense of identity. It is designed as a story to rally support
As a way to highlight the transformation. Yesterday, one of the things i did was to compare certain texts like uncle toms cabin, as a framework exploring some of the themes of the displacement of god, the masculinization, this artifacts of the transformation of culture following the civil war, with Rebecca Harding davis, mark twain, and frederick douglass. Today, what i want to do is start out telling a story, and i want to do it with one work of literature that you all know. So the text itself stays the , same, but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. So how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. I should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. David and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that . Is that whitman, emerson . W
Tomorrow night right here on cnn with Anderson Cooper. Would anyone have predicted a candidates Main Campaign promise would be, i will never drop out of the race. While his own running mate says, hes offended by the candidates remarks. At issue, appalling 2005 video showing trump embracing sexual assault. The reporter who broke this story, david faronholt, is here. Trump issued a rare and hedged apology. Ive said some foolish things, but theres a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill clinton has actually abused women and hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victim. But all day long, a lot of his big name supporters are abandoning ship. Also on this program, when this pennsylvania teen asked Hillary Clinton about trumps treatment of women, was it orchestrated by the Clinton Campaign . Shes here for her first interview anywhere. Polls are already trending hillarys way. Could she clinch it tomorrow . Ill speak to two debate pros or might t