Within your means please pot buy books at the book tent. This festival is free to all of us, but book sales are important because it helps publishers and convinces them to send their authors to the book festival and we would like to continue to make this festival grow. Its now my great privilege to introduce our speaker, Sidney Blumenthal was the former assistant and Senior Advisor to president bill clinton and Senior Advisory to Hillary Clinton and began his career as a journalist and has been an National Staff reporter for the washington post. Washington editor and staff writer for the new yorker and Senior Writer for the new republic as well as contributor to many other publications. He has also written several bestsellers, the clinton wars, rise of the counter establishment and the Permanent Campaign and has worked in television and film was executive producer for the Academy Awards taxi to the dark side. He is here with us today to talk about his newest book, wrestling with his an
Proceedings lincoln knew how to use a fun to advantage, an opposing liar who claimed he could bring a man to prove an alibi heard lincoln shooting back i have no doubt you can bring a man to prove a lie by. You can watch this and other programs online a book tv. Org. Book tv tapes hundreds of other programs throughout country all year long. Heres a look at some events we will cover this week. Monday, National Press club in washington where derek grapple report on the us governments doomsday plan. That evening we fly out to california where former speechwriter and Senior Advisor to president richard nixon, pat buchanan will shed light on the inmate nixon administration. On wednesday, to the macarthur memorial where Washington Post Foreign Correspondent peter eisner will recall how the contingent of filipinos and americans survived Japanese Occupation of the philippines during world war ii. Also that evening in denver at the chatter cover bookstore to hear Laura Cardwell discuss how 14 e
His class is about 50 minutes. Allen guelzo welcome once again to civil war era studies 205, introduction to the American Civil War era. We are now in our third week in this course and my what ground we have covered thus far. We have more to cover because we are coming up to the 1850s now. We are talking about the crises of the 1850s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansasnebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. But as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is Abraham Lincoln. We touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again, Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. His parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself is born in hodginsville, kentucky in a log cabin quite literally. In 1818, his parents uproot from ken
His class is about 50 minutes. Allen guelzo welcome once again to civil war era studies 205, introduction to the American Civil War era. We are now in our third week in this course and my what ground we have covered thus far. We have more to cover because we are coming up to the 1850s now. We are talking about the crises of the 1850s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansasnebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. But as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is Abraham Lincoln. We touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again, Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. His parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself is born in hodginsville, kentucky in a log cabin quite literally. In 1818, his parents uproot from ken
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