parks is the name of the book. our topic for today is henry clay and america s greatest statesman. mr. unger is a veteran journalist broadcaster, educator and historian, former distinguished visiting fellow at the george washington. he is the author of 25 books including three histories of early america and ten biographies of america s founding fathers. among them george washington, lafayette, patrick henry and james monro. he s appeared on the history channel and a c-span book tv spoke at mount vernon, yorktown and many other historic sites. a graduate of the yale university with a masters university with a masters of arts from california state university. spent many years as an analyst for the new york world tribune in the service and the canadian broadcasting corporation. mr. president and john marshall reveal how george washington and john marshall constructed the executive and judicial branches of the american government. the greatest statesman tells how a fearless you
prof. feinman: he is the first president we know what that had any problems with assassination threats. there were three cases. there was the case of a young man who punched him in the nose in 1833. it is our first example. then we have booth, the father of the lincoln assassin, who writes a threatening letter to jackson in 1835. his handwriting has been authenticated. this is three years before john looks booth is born. john wilkes booth is born. it makes you wonder if it is genetic. brian: there were a lot of duels back in those days. andrew jackson have been involved. do you have any idea ?how many ? six times. he was a meteor figure, a person who made people furious. he had a contentious time in office. that is what may be caused in his second term that we would have the situation of people threatening his life. in this case, it was only on paper. then there is richard lawrence who actually came to the capital after a funeral. jackson was there. actually went ahead an
we ve been live on american history tv from the world war i centennial symposium at the macarthur memorial in norfolk, virginia. we ll reair the day s events this evening at 8:00 eastern here on c-span 3. up next constitutional law professor michael gere hardt talks about his book the forgotten presidents and discusss 13 presidents least remembered by americans due in large part to their strict constitutional vision. the national constitution center hosted this event and it runs about an hour and 10 minutes. this book is spectacular. i was so excited to read it this book on the forgotten presidents. what michael has done is take a topic which seems like a parlor game, these obscure presidents we don t remember well, and revealed that the constitution was at the center both of their failures, devotion to a particular constitutional vision but also that their failures laid the groundwork for the success of more powerful presidents. this is a constitution saturated book. it
every day in a criminal court room somebody will tap me on this note shoulder do you know, who my lawyer is? they have no idea they have not met them. kid you imagine god forbid it did not even knowing who your lawyer was? that is the language of lawyers say and people just have no idea how to navigate and don t even know who their lawyer is. said general and fairness is the manufacturer of crime of lot of police departments to undercover stings of buy or bust operation for drugs or for prostitution to use illicit a and other undercover things like robberies or a police officer with the iphone and i think that adds a level of randomness to cases to devote resources we don t need. host: to close out on a positive note. for both of you what to advice would you give to young lawyers speaking of law students going into this field or want to? you don t want to give all the bad stuff. what would you? we are happy defenders. i guess all of these things that suppress thi
1832 in the wake of nat turner s revolt. until then, there s an actual fair amount of teaching slaves to read and write, particularly artisans and house slaves. the other thing is, this is also a period in which the vast majority of enslaved people in the chesapeake have become christians, and they re usually methodist or baptist and their class leaders or teachers would like many of them to be able to read the bible. so there s much more literacy than we have bargained on, and you don t need everybody to be able to read it. if there s one group of 50 who can read, he can read it to everybody else. the other thing is that people in america are lousy at keeping secrets. they are the world s worst people at keeping secrets and this comes back to bite them all time in the war of 1812. you get officers in the front line writing letters about how terrible their troops are and they re not prepared and they re sick and they get published in the newspapers of that time. people talk a