Brutality where individuals lost their lives and what we have the tendency to do is group everything together as the same and what america felts is its rugged individualism. What die mean . Its very difficult for us to look at the case that, lets just say in minneapolis, of where george floyd e george floyd died and the Law Enforcement we think about he was a black guy. Oh, it was white Law Enforcement officer. That tells me everything i need to know about why this to an took place. When you try to make an vanderbilt that the individual who died was black and the person who is responsible was white, you sort of eliminate other human beings who should also he the same moral outrage, too much time is spenting on this herd mentality. Everybody is an individual first and that individual is solely responsible for that action. We should not be outraged because the race of the person. Its the fact this individual died in a very gruesome and brutal way for no reason at all because what happens
You are watching book tv on cspan2 in prime time, television for serious readers. Tonight, a look back at some of our stops on our cspan city tour. This is the most talented and important political theater in American History that people have not heard of. He was without a doubt the most talented political machine builder, the most talented politician of his generation. People talk about the age of Andrew Jackson but in many ways we should at the age of Simon Cameron. This is a man whose political skills were undeniable and a man who built a political machine that lasted far beyond any of those constructed by his contemporaries. He was a man who mastered his moment and when he was born in 1979 the last year of george washington, he died in 1889 he rose to the top of the first pennsylvania than americas political elite. I think one of the reasons that he is languished historically is because of this outsized reputation as for corruption. It goes Something Like this. The congressma congr
You are watching book tv on cspan2 in prime time, television for serious readers. Tonight, a look back at some of our stops on our cspan city tour. This is the most talented and important political theater in American History that people have not heard of. He was without a doubt the most talented political machine builder, the most talented politician of his generation. People talk about the age of Andrew Jackson but in many ways we should at the age of Simon Cameron. This is a man whose political skills were undeniable and a man who built a political machine that lasted far beyond any of those constructed by his contemporaries. He was a man who mastered his moment and when he was born in 1979 the last year of george washington, he died in 1889 he rose to the top of the first pennsylvania than americas political elite. I think one of the reasons that he is languished historically is because of this outsized reputation as for corruption. It goes Something Like this. The congressma congr
You are watching book tv on cspan2 in prime time, television for serious readers. Tonight, a look back at some of our stops on our cspan city tour. This is the most talented and important political theater in American History that people have not heard of. He was without a doubt the most talented political machine builder, the most talented politician of his generation. People talk about the age of Andrew Jackson but in many ways we should at the age of Simon Cameron. This is a man whose political skills were undeniable and a man who built a political machine that lasted far beyond any of those constructed by his contemporaries. He was a man who mastered his moment and when he was born in 1979 the last year of george washington, he died in 1889 he rose to the top of the first pennsylvania than americas political elite. I think one of the reasons that he is languished historically is because of this outsized reputation as for corruption. It goes Something Like this. The congressma congr
Special feature with a look at Simon Cameron. Simon came in as the most talented political leader in American History that people havent heard of. He was without a doubt the most talented political machine builder the most talented politician of his generation. People talk about the age of Andrew Jackson but we should talk about the age of Simon Cameron. This is a man whose political skills were undeniable and a man who built a political machine that lasted far beyond any of those constructed. He was a man mastered his moment. He was born in 1799. He died in 1889 and during that 90 year timeframe he really rose to the top of first pennsylvania and then americas lead. Its unfortunate that his name has become shorthand for corruption and sharp dealing because in reality history has so much to tell us about american politics one of the reasons the outside. There is a great story that every student of the American Civil War has heard. A wall no abolitionist was meeting with president linco