Welcome to concord, New Hampshire, on booktv. Located about 70 miles north of boston, it has a population of about 42,000. Settled in 1725, this capital city is home to the oldest statehouse in the country and has the largest state legislature in the nation with 400 members. It was also home to franklin pierce, the 14th president of the United States, and christa mcauliffe, the teacher who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle challenger disaster. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next hour well feature the areas Literary Community beginning with dante scala on New Hampshires role during a president ial election. New hampshires role is to be the primary that is first of all the primaries mt. Nomination process in the nomination process. And thats a spot on the calendar that weve held now for about a century, and its grown in importance over time as the president ial nomination process became more democratic with a small d. New hampshire and iowa Work Together to basically n
Inside the cold war the unprecedented died to this strategy and key documents of the cold war this should be interesting and historical discussion. On a similar note october october 23rd talking about the book nixon and europe on september 11 we will have the 11th commemoration and on november 7 the daughters of president george w. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush to talk about their book sisters first. And so now to our speaker douglas shown is one of the most influential Democratic Campaign consultants over 30 years his clients include Michael Blumberg and indiana governor procter and gamble and at t also he is a commentator on fox news as well he wrote a comprehensive book on nixons policies called the nixon effect. His new book is covering another presidency looking at Politics Today it is called the mayor cut in the age of trump. Fox news political analyst one williams said all Real Solutions for error people of all political stripes and how americas cando spirit can get back. [appl
The power of the common, the fascist. Thats where we get the word fascism. Todays neofascism is likewise an unbreakable bundle of power, its a group of people bound together so tightly in unbroken compliance, no differences, no diversity, its the rule of the gang. It is unquestioned and unchallenged power, the call to arms of these modernday jacob and, you must omit. So the questions we face today is whether we want to be ruled by the ideological fascism of prevailing across our land or do we want to enjoy intellectual freedom . Let me ask questions just to point out headlines of the past couple years. Should government have the power to force religious syncretism on its students or do we have freedom to believe and behave by the dictates of our conscience unimpeded by government hubris . Should the government have the power to force a jewish owner of the Meat Processing business to process pigs . Should the government have the power to force the muslim owner of a newspaper to publish
Presume ishiguro judges praised the originality and Emotional Depth of the british offers work including his best known novel the remains of the day. And a taking environmental time bomb are both shows are becoming choked with Plastic Waste including tiny particles that could enter the human food chain we ask an oceanographer if the tide can be turned. To her great to have you along. Catalonia is big for independence has had a deadlock spays highest court now says it is banning a parliamentary session in catalonia scheduled to take place on monday catalan lawmakers plan to use the session to declare independence from spain madrid says its illegal for the region to break away but can learn leaders continue to push on with their plans despite divided opinion in the region itself. Not everyone in catalonia once independence these demonstrators in the regions capital barcelona are against the independence process which the Spanish Government also rejects is illegal. Criticism of the Moveme
Somebody who insults women, marks the disabled, marks pows, just wanted to get an education. Watch afterwards sunday night at 9 00 eastern on cspan2s booktv. South dakota, along the banks of the missouri river, chosen as south dakotas capital city in 1889. Reflecting the american frontier is home to cowboys and cattle, the backdrop for iconic American Writer laura ingles little house on the prairie series. With help of our Cable Partners for the next hour we feature the Literary Community beginning with nancy koppel on the Important Role south dakota plays in american history. We are in the research and Publishing Office of the daily Historical Society and also the headquarters of the south dakota Historical Society press. Back in the day in 1997, i felt it was a niche we could fill in south dakota. Nobody was doing our history seriously. I shouldnt say nobody, that is not fair. There was a concerted effort to do publishing for the state of south dakota, to do it right, you have to hav