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Transcripts For LINKTV Democracy Now 20131129

Enslaved black people. He has more slaves than faculty. He has more slaves than trustees. Accounting, honest a bubbly more slaves than students. Today we speak with m. I. T. Historian greg Stephen Wilder about ebony and ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of americas universities. And we look at traces of the trade, a story from the deep north. One know in my family realized were that the walls were the largest slave trading family in the nation. They brought over 10,000 africans to the americans in chains. Half a million of their descendents could be alive today. With katrinaeak brown about how she traced her familys shocking history. All that and more coming up. We turn to a new book 10 years in the making that looks at how some of the countrys major universities, harvard, yale, then, rutgers, williams, university of north carolina, just to name a few, are drenched in the sweat and sometimes blood of the african slaves that were brought here. The book is called ebony and ivy

Transcripts For LINKTV Democracy Now 20131129

Enslaved black people. He has more slaves than faculty. He has more slaves than trustees. Accounting, honest a bubbly more slaves than students. Today we speak with m. I. T. Historian greg Stephen Wilder about ebony and ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of americas universities. And we look at traces of the trade, a story from the deep north. One know in my family realized were that the walls were the largest slave trading family in the nation. They brought over 10,000 africans to the americans in chains. Half a million of their descendents could be alive today. With katrinaeak brown about how she traced her familys shocking history. All that and more coming up. We turn to a new book 10 years in the making that looks at how some of the countrys major universities, harvard, yale, then, rutgers, williams, university of north carolina, just to name a few, are drenched in the sweat and sometimes blood of the african slaves that were brought here. The book is called ebony and ivy

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20121208

To welcome cspan again to politics and prose. It has added to cspan has added to our civil discourse and whatever bookstores you come to they are generally independent fast and cspan is really wonderful. I want to welcome tonight at 18. We are celebrating the publication of his book just plain dick. How many of you were around when the checkers speech was given . I am sure many people in the audience tonight will also the and statistically appropriate that this is the night before an election and this book is about the 1952 election and the context of the election, and kevin matson will tell us about it but theres a nice tradition in politics and prose of having wonderful stuff the night before the election. We were talking 12 years ago was the discussion of arguing the world which was the discussion with daniel bell or crystal irving, four years ago we had a new york review book and some of the contributors, Jonathan Friedman and others were talking about the problems whoever the new

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20130101

I hope at least its a start and that others will come forward and continue to tell the story. You can watch this and other programs on line at booktv. Org. Next Kevin Mattson recounts the president ial election of 1952 and Richard Nixons checkers speech delivered on National Television on the speech was given in response to allegations that nixon misuse political donations. The author recounts nixons usage of this family dog checkers to denote his every man status and save his Vice President ial nomination. This program is about an hour. Good evening everybody. Before we begin if its okay to come up closer, its not church, synagogue or a mosque. Mosque. I am very pleased that our friends from cspan are here, so this will be broadcast at some point, sooner than later i am sure. They always do a great job and i want to welcome cspan again to politics and prose. It has added to cspan has added to our civil discourse and whatever bookstores you come to, they are generally independent and c

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion On American Heroines 20131229

This is about an hour. Welcome, friends. Its delightful to be here and we are here tonight in part to celebrate a really wonderful book. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchisons American Hero in the spirit of when and who shaped our history. The country actually. Thinking about this today because if anyone else had written this book, she would have been a chapter here. Thats for sure. Senator hutchinson grew up in texas and graduated the university of texas and law school at a time when law firms simply didnt hire the women graduates. As larry temple puts it back then it wasnt just a glass ceiling. There was a glass door. So she became a Television Reporter before going into politics and after being elected twice to the house of representatives, she was elected state treasurer in 1990 and three years later elective as the first woman to represent texas in the senate. She was elected by the chairman of the republican conference which means she is the only woman among the the top five leaders of th

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