The birth of a nation which premiered 100 years ago by filmmaker e w griffin. In the next 45 minutes we will open our phone lines. Part of the real america series. Joining us is hari jones. The curator of the africanamerican civil war memorial Freedom Foundation and museum. From boston is the author of the book, the birth of a nation how a legendary filmmaker and a crusading editor reignited americas civil war. David lehr. Thank you for being with us. The phone lines are open. 2027084901 for those in mountain and pacific time zones. Dick lehr, we will begin with you. In terms of history it is a foundational moment in american film history. A breakout moment. Until the threehour plus epic, films were much shorter. 10 minutes or less. The ambitious d. W. Griffith wanted to tell a big story in a big way. He employed all kinds of innovative film techniques that people had not seen before. This was americas first blockbuster. It summarizes this foam. You called it a masterpiece. You called
In its entirety, the film the birth of a nation which premiered 100 years ago by filmmaker e w griffin. In the next 45 minutes we will open our phone lines. Part of the real america series. Joining us is hari jones. The curator of the africanamerican civil war memorial Freedom Foundation and museum. From boston is the author of the book, the birth of a nation how a legendary filmmaker and a crusading editor reignited americas civil war. David lehr. Thank you for being with us. The phone lines are open. 2027084901 for those in mountain and pacific time zones. Dick lehr, we will begin with you. In terms of history it is a foundational moment in american film history. A breakout moment. Until the threehour plus epic, films were much shorter. 10 minutes or less. The ambitious d. W. Griffith wanted to tell a big story in a big way. He employed all kinds of innovative film techniques that people had not seen before. This was americas first blockbuster. It summarizes this foam. You called it
More effort to figure out how can we list fewer americans on the beaght field. Peace things are coming down the road. On energy, the breakthrough in hydraulic frackerring and horizontal drill, we take a place like north dakota which went from 800 Million Barrels of reserve in 2002 to over 24 billion today. And rising. North dakota has a high employment rate we have gone up 50 in the last eight years. And mcdonalds now pays a bonus if you will sign up to work. That actually should be the conservative answer to income and equality. We would like everybody to rise up. Were not in the business of tearing down. We should be in the business of helping every person rise up. And north dakota is a pretty good case study. If the federal government were actually encouraging it. We would be astonished how many additional jobs you would be creating right now. We are this year the largest gas producer in the world by 2015 well be the Largest Oil Producer in the world. Thats an enormous shift of powe
1890, which killed over 20 million old world wide. That is sort of a sag card. Number two, the American Economy had ramped up to produce armament for the war. Ironically, most of those never got in the war. When we got in the war in 1919, we used most european weapons. For example, we started building airplanes. Not a single american tanks had entered the war. And goodnight, we fought for the british. But we had a not quite was the largest armaments industry in the world. I Must Immediately after the armistice and the end of the war, the government started canceling contracts. When i see canceling, i mean just like this yet without warning, they pulled them. Factories were left literally with lines halffull. Thousands of workers were let go without warning. The state but connecticut really felt this because it had so many of these kinds of plants. And companies were left with buildings, factories to produce armaments. Well, they said youve got to do something for us. What are we going
As far as this goes. That being said. [applause] next some booktv, encore booknotes. In 1994 or Liz Carpenter discussed her books unplanned parenthood the confessions of a seventysomething surrogate mother. The book focuses on ms. Carpenters experiences raising rates three teenage nieces and nephews at age 79. She also discusses her years in the white house working as press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson. This is about an hour. Cspan Liz Carpenter, you say early in your book that, by heritage and by profession, i am a storyteller. Where did you learn that . Guest i think growing up. I grew up in rural texas. Rural areas seem to you need entertainment, and so my family had been rooted in texas for five generations and they were full of tales that had been handmedowns. We heard them a lot around the fireplace while youre cracking pecans, and it grew. Then, of course, i just was propelled to be a journalist, and thats what i did. I went to the university of texas and came to washington w