Are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on American History tv. Tv,ext on American History novelist and historian kevin baker discusses his book, america the genius how a generation of tinkerers changed the world. At an event in cape cod, mr. Baker describes what he thinks are key factors in the nations innovative spirit. Guestant to thank our tonight. Kevin baker has written several your, at you are still in but also was raised in rockport, massachusetts. He has experienced being a massachusetts person. Tonight,ing forward to keeping an ion the weather, but please welcome kevin baker. Mark, for having me. Great to be on the cape, if only virtually. Hoped to be there, but i am going to have to make do. Talk to you about america the ingenious, this book i wrote. The best thing about writing books is that hopefully, you learn something. I learned a great deal writing this. Americansory of how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many innovations that would sha
Sackett definitely was. No not very much but ira written, he said he was in a run and i thought he wasnt running and certainly that was in my book and he doesnt run but he has an impact on the century on this country and all of a sudden these droplets of rain storm started about two weeks ago. Selected mr. Bloomberg anticipate and biography. He took questions, he allowed me to interview people i wanted to interview and talk to him several times. I followed him around a lot. But also written about in who almost 12 years. On and off who 12 years. As a member of the New York Times Editorial Board who had met note a lot of editorials about him when he was mayor of new york. How to get a start. He came from a very small sort of workingclass family in massachusetts. His father did not give him Million Dollars news in the third greg. If at his father, may not sure his father made it to see Something Like 5000 and then sometimes it was 8000 and then, but anyway, he went to Johns Hopkins, and h
children s books are to be printed in their original form after a backlash against editing them for modern audiences. president biden has ruled out sending f 16 fighterjets to ukraine, saying the planes are not needed for now. it comes despite increased pressure from ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky for urgent air support to help protect its skies from russian attacks. president zelensky has marked the first anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine by hailing his nation s year of invincibility. james waterhouse reports from kyiv on how the first anniversary was marked. the morning war rained down on ukraine. air raid siren. a shadow with haunting consequences. the once unthinkable playing out as the world looked on. 150,000 russian troops moving in from three directions. ukraine s leader had offers to leave. but he stayed. ..and is still here. this is a bittersweet day for ukraine, a reminder of remarkable survival and extraordinary loss. i kindly ask everyone to obs
in other news, large parts of southern california are struck by record breaking blizzards and freezing temperatures. you can see the hollywood sign, which i can assure you is behind me, for miles around, but today it is blanketed by a wall of fog, and dense and very heavy rain. and roald dahl s multi million selling childrens books are to be printed in their original form, after a backlash against editing them for modern audiences. hello there, and a very warm welcome to the programme. president biden has ruled out sending f 16fighterjets to ukraine, saying the planes are not needed, for now. it comes despite increased pressure from ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky for urgent air support, to help protect its skies from russian attacks. president zelensky has marked the first anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine by hailing his nation s year of invincibility . james waterhouse reports from kyiv on how the first anniversary was marked. the morning war rained down
Tonight, the parents are charged with torture. Plus, a tough lesson in life for wit thousand danish teenagers. There could be devastating consequences. Brent im brent goff. We begin tonight with the shooting death of the politician that is being called an act of terror. Today, a prominent leader of ethnic serbs in kosovo was gunned down in front of his Political Parties office. His murder threatens to inflame ethnic tensions between serbia and its former province, kosovo. Kosovo declared independence from serbia in 2008, a decade after a war that killed 13,000 mainly ethnic albanians. It still views it as its southern province. Serbian and kosovo officials have so far refrained from accusing each other of being behind the killing, but sererbs presidensaysys that the e killig was an act of terrorism. Assailants opened fire as the politician arrived in his headquarters. He was rushed to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save him. He had been hit at leaeast five times in the c ches