Five. Good afternoon Everyone Welcome for gold and i know you will enjoy a this presentation but because the presence of ali noorani i have been a huge fan of his and win they called me if i could moderate i had just ordered the book already. Even before i knew a was going to be presenting so few housekeeping items lets get those out of the of way. This is the fifth san antonio book festival is the he voodoo benefit to the city and many to think the library and also for opening the campus to host great authors from across the country and around the world if you are going to use social media please use the book fast so everyone in the world can see all the activities taking place. That is one of the of questions i have for the audience. We will have time for q a at the end this is being recorded for cspan snyder questions can be heard. Please use that we will try to provide 10 minutes for that. Please silence your cellphone you dont have to turn off just plodded on silent salute will no
Good evening, good evening. Thank you for coming out here to politics and prose, thank you for coming to politics and prose for another one of our lively and enlightened cant hear me . Okay. Thank you. Please silence all your cell phones at this point. Let me go through them some housekeeping details. And and during this questionandanswer period, and and in addition to recording your questions for prosperity. And audience members should be able to hear your questions. Thank you so much. Copies are on sale. Right by the door. Without further ado, city of sedition the history of new york city during the civil war is a very appropriate book for revising and reconsidering history. In regards to the civil war, we have often encountered a very narrow dialectic perspective, the adversaries are divided along the masondixon line between slaveholders in the south and industrialists in the north. Thankfully for the past couple decades, the faulty lens of history and city of sedition the history o
And all i am trying to do here, paul, is identify a problem and a course and possible solutions for the American People and hope that bubbles up to the grassroots political process so that you all in government and think tanks can get the job done that you know needs to be done. There is no question that things can go bad. Thank you, everyone, for coming. I really appreciate this. If anybody wants any information about that, crouching tiger. Net. Thank you so much, peter. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] James Thurber explores the challenges of partisanship in government next on book tv. Welcome professor James Thurber from american university, coeditor of a new book called American Gridlock the sources, character, and impact of political polarization. Good morning. Morning. Good to see you. Why are we so polarized . There are variety of reasons. Sorting going on. It is a phenomenon where people mo to e th we have a phenomenon, if
And if it is so we have the courts to tell what it means and that is fine on the other branches. Lives as well as he spent too. A discussion about race hosted by the Aspen Institute at the newseum. This is in downtown washington, d. C. Right between the capital and the white house along pennsylvania avenue. They will focus on new attitudes, opportunities, challenge for people of color in the United States in the 21st century. This is expected to run into the afternoon and we will be hearing from several panels of speakers. We will hear first from some the people involved in putting this together at the Aspen Institute as well as the Senior Vice President of diversity at comcast corporation. Later, the state of race in an election cycle, and raised in universities and urban settings. There will be a short break around 11 30 a. M. Eastern followed by discussion with Juan Williams on some of the possible next steps and recommendations for the challenges faced by people of color. We will w
Cherryh you remember her blossoms, that is not what she focused on. She wanted to build a band show near washington so that people could, and listen to find music. She has a young woman had attended the 25th Wedding Anniversary Party to the white house of rutherford and lucy hayes. She decided she would like to come back one day and spend more time. [laughter] , we talke tragedies about the string of tragedies of helen taft, who really wanted to be first lady. Today she would be president. About three months after taft became president , she suffered a stroke. With characteristic determination, she had to relearn speech. And she did. But it contributed to the general melancholy of the single taft term, over which hung this cloud called theodore roosevelt. Susan dempsey, although she had lobbied to support her husband for the presidency, she had a much better political mind. As far astrusted tr she could throw him. She kept telling her husband not to trust theodore. In the end, in 1912,