Im one of those rare creatures that we profile in this book. The font is conservative professors on liberal arts campuses or intimidated. There is the sense that conservatives are moving into enemy territory. But that isnt what we found. We interviewed over 150 conservatives in the social sciences and humanities. And we found they tell us the universituniversity is a much me tolerant place than we sometimes think and then the rightwing critics of the university tell us it is. What specifically did you hear from these professors . A lot of them felt away from home in the university because large swaths of the university are not as politicized as we think they are and the conservatives gravitate towards the least politicized quarters of the academy. Academy. So, they often become a subfield in other disciplines that are not in American History and claimed to be historians, military historians. Its deeply politicized by the left and therefore they find the economy to be a relatively. If t
Water and he was trapped and drowning for several minutes. Fortunately neighbors and a deputy came to the rescue. If everybody doesnt show up, he doesnt make it. Reporter the cries for help came at 11 00 p. M. Friday from the icy but not frozen channel. The voice of 21 nathan v and cody did not hesitate climbed down a ladder and put his feet in the frigid water. I dont know how i did it. I pulled him up there and bear hugged him on the chair until the paramedics showed. He went un under the water. I never seen anyone like that. I thought he was dead. And then a deputy showed up and had to get cody and his friend out of the water. I was frozen to the channel because my hands were locked i reached the one guy and picked him up and i turned around and threw him on the bank. The deputy turned his attention to sean holding onto the victim. I kept yelling that i am losing this guy. You got him. The two Work Together to pull beam from the channel, his body temperature dropped to 90 andahalf d
For those of you in the east and central time zones 7488201 in the mountain and pacific and if you cant get through on the phone lines and want to make a comment. Facebook. Com you will see right youll see right there at the top of some video you can go ahead and post a comment right underneath it and also email booktv at cspan. Org. You can make a comment there as well and finally you can also text a message if you would like to. This isnt for calling. 20,271,791,684 and if you would just include the first name and your town so we can know that much about you before we get started. David maraniss. In your book. [inaudible] guest every life is random. Maybe more random a chance meeting of the student at the university of hawaii who moved there because of the russian language class theres so many different aspects of what caused those people to that place and the fact that it really was a romance that didnt last. The point of this book and the story is really to show how much of a produ
I was nervous because i am the panthers fan and there was an onscreen teeing lombardy in this battle skid they had to do and all of a sudden there was a commercial. I was not really focused but i saw a freeway sign that said detroit and i got my attention and the pocket of backbeat of music and all the symbols of between, joe louis downtown, the diego rivera murals, incredible murals in evoking the manufacturing sculpture, the spirit of deflate downtown and a black sedan driving a couple woodward avenue, the main thoreau fare of detroit, and c. Eminem in the car. I am not an eminem guy. I am now but wasnt then. I love the music that was playing in the background, but he gets out of this restored theater in downtown detroit and walks down the aisle and there was a gospel choir. This is the motor city, and it got to me some way. What detroit meant to me. And my earliest strongest memories of that city, and that commercial, set me on the path to thinking about what do i do . How can i hon
Resignation. This is about an hour. A testimony to the job they do and the reverence for books books that we all share. Richard nixon is a hard man to let go of. By first i remember as a child in black and white fuzzy television seeing this odd man, he was on a good ticket with general eisenhower and there was some problem taking money from a secret fund. And i thought this is interesting. He never stopped being interesting. Richard nixon was never boring. David mentioned he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. I chronicle in the book beginning with spiro agnew. Remember spiro agnew being in some trouble and i said to my editor at the new yorker, thought lamented and just the legendary William Shawn saying what are you thinking of writing next . I dont know. I have a feeling we are going to change Vice President s and president s within a year. This is labor day of 73. A way out there kind of wild thought at the time. We agreed i would wr