Staff picks from the Harvard Bookstore in cambridge massachusetts. Yahoo news Political Columnist matt by explores how the downfall of gary harts president ial campaign has shaped todays campaigns and all of the truth is out. Supreme Court Justice david breyer looks at how some of the high courts decisions are stretching beyond americas borders and the court and the world. In 1944, historian jay winick reviews the decisions fdr had to make regarding dday and the end of world war ii. Journalist Jenny Norberg reports on the lives of afghan women and girls in the underground girls of kabul. Another staff pic from the Harvard Bookstore is black man in a white coat. By doctor damon who weighs in on rates and inequalities in the American Healthcare system. And we should all be feminists, argues that everyone should be fighting for gender equality. An english Professor John burt has the seven debate between Abraham Lincoln and and lincolns tragic pragmatism. The first woman to fly solo across
Some people in the interest of the gun and conversation but they are not that different. Thank you so much the southern festival of books. Heres vanned arer built University Vanderbilt University Professor kelly oliver. Good afternoon and welcome to this session of the southern festival of books. Could afternoon welcome to this additional the southern festival of the books today we will talk to officer kelly oliver about her boss accounting girls professor oliver on g graduated with honors in 1979 with it double major in a merger ph. D. From Northwestern University in i philosophy she has held teaching positions at various converse cities including George Washington University University of texas austin and still be broken currently a distinguished professor of philosophy at vanderbilt she is published books topicss ranging from family love for and violence to affirmativeaction hollywood films and an mri its. For a nonfiction work includes over 100 articles and over 20 books today we w
I have a lot of faith in him, or a president. I work all the time with bill clinton. We didnt agree philosophically. He was a character, but we talked and a lot of times i didnt want to talk. He would call one night at 2 00 oclock in the morning. I was on trisha side of the bed, she picks up and hands it and says its the president and hands it over to me and i start saying yes, sir mr. President , we will look into that, yes or and i hung up, goodbye and i hung the phone up. She said what did he want. I said i dont know, something about central america. Heres the point, we talk all the time. We walked through all kinds of things. Budget issues, tax issues, defense issues, safe drinking water, you name it. Did we agree . No. A lot of times we pressed each other to the point we would get mad, but we communicate it. That was true with reagan. When i was in the house for eight years, we met with president reagan just about every Tuesday Morning that congress was in session. At 9 00 oclock.
In wrapping up the list will have information on the oregon trail. Many of these authors have or will be appearing on book tv. You can watch them on our website, book tv. Org. Historian jay winick is next on tv. He examines the political and military decisions that influenced fdr in 1934. [applause]. Thank you very much for that introduction steve. I want to give athe lights out there very bright dash i want to give a quick thanks to those who made this possible. This is their stepchild or brainchild. I want want to thank all of you, the readers for whom this exists, you are the lifeblood of books and as much as we love this festival, we hope you love the festival. Thank you so much for coming. [applause]. Let me take you into my new book. 1944. 1944 it was not inevitable that the war would end as it did or it would end at all. Indeed along the western line, the allies were pinned down against nazi divisions against the gustav line. In the east, the soviet union was making threats that
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