For today and cspan 2 booktv so make it all proud just to give a brief sense of how we do things in the next 15 minutes. Im going to introduce just an art. Make sure thereve book will have a discussion. I think the title of this panel is rebuilding or evolution informally in my mind. It is detroit and austin that the beginning and end of all things. That appeals more to my grammatic sense. So jeff kerr is the author of austin texas history. The first was austin, texas then and now. The next was republic of austin. On the most recent one of the reason we are here this morning is seat of empire the embattled birth of austin, texas, which is a history of the founding of boston and the battle in the republic of texas over by this capital would need. Jeff also raised a regular history and he is practicing pediatric urologist at the same time. If we have and the emergence sees. The author will take care of them. Mark binelli is the author of vincennes msi, contributing editor to relate to an
But there are actual funds that exist to put together opportunities to predict what i feel like i should back up for a minute for the nonwine folks in the ring. For the way that wine is made and sold, its harvested, its created, its made into wine and it is put into barrels and its put away for a really long time. So that creates a really effective futures market. You know you have this product. You dont know at the time it is fantastic or not and do much later on when comes out of those barrels and is put into bottles and jeff either a fabulous vintage or maybe a mediocre vintage. That creates tremendous opportunities for betting. Will be good . Not so good . What will prices be like . Where i was going with this is there are actual Investment Funds that put together groups of investors who want to buy a barrel or palette together and that that in the future this is going to be an amazing vintage or not. There are really great opportunities for betting on i should say investing in win
Start by asking each of our authors starting with h. W. About his subject and why they wanted to write it right now. H. E. W. . Yeah, thanks, erica. Thanks all for coming. I wrote a book about ulysses s. Grant because i had music that he said i was going to write a history of the United States through biographies. I had written my way up to the middle of the 19th century. Then i had a gap and i picked it up again at the end the 19th century and id been avoiding the civil war for a while for a number of reasons. One is theres lots of subjects about the civil war. Secondly, there was a lincoln bicentennial that was coming and it was pretty clear, it was 2009 and it was pretty clear stuff on lincoln was going to suck the air out of all the rooms on the general subjects i wanted to give it some clearance. When i eventually came back to it i wanted to write about someone i had a very specific need. I needed an individual whose public career or adulthood could spam from 1845 when the biggest
Not only at Abraham Lincolns bedside immediately after his assassination, but also at the bedside of William Mckinley in 1901. I thought, who could this below be . Of course, when i opened the archives, i realized with a rich subject it was. John hay, his life really has two bookends at either end of his biographical shelf. There is lincoln on one end, he was his private secretary, lived in the white house for every war years. So much of what we know about lincoln comes from hays time with him. He served on the mckinley as well and was secretary of state for teddy roosevelt, so you have these iconic bookends in american history, and then when you look deeper, you realize all the chapters in between, from the civil war to the beginning of the 20thcentury, he is a presence in every one of those chapters. His fingerprints are on the pages. In many cases, he has written those chapters in american history. When did he live . Born in 1838, and died on july 1 1905. Where did his last start .
In a referendum by the end of 2017. And the Prime Minister failed to say last week when he is going to back the stolen cash of the conservative party. When is he going to give it back . That been very active this week. What we need to see is when are we going to get the taxpayers money given back. Never mind a that happened 20 years ago, this happened about 20 weeks ago. Thank you. One of the first acts of his government was to bring a request to Fund Security measures. Paris in my constituency parents and my constituency would pay for these measures out of their own pocket after the Less Government refused to help. Minister if the prime will support my campaign to continue with this . I will look very carefully at what my honorable friend said. I am a strong supporter of preschools and amenitys and community security. And his constituency and my friend would be happy to look at this issue to see how we can continue to give them support. In the oilicefixing industry that is being inves