We have to get your energy back up and back together so we can have our last Plenary Session together, and my last little piece of message to you is about the thing that Bill Sullivan talks about, which is strategy to divide us. A couple people talk to me about what we saw in the earlier plenary. There were some vote tests. As we know there is really a terrible incidence of folks showing up in charlottesville, creating calamity there. There is a big difference between the kind of protest that is meant to harm people, to bring people down, and healthy protest. I know some folks will disagree with me, but we have to agree to disagree. I think that protest is actually necessary, but there are times when people have power, they have the stage, they are able to talk. Other folks will have to stand up, and is Elizabeth Warren said, they will have to be bold in order to get their voices heard. If the people that were not getting their voices heard never took a stand, if they were always polit
Youre watching live in depth on booktv. December 7, 194,a day of infamiliary. Even as japanese diplomats were con ferring on peace measures, japanese plains were swooping down on pearl harbor. They dropped their death on the air base, civil homes and schools. A hundred japanese planes and midget sub marines took part. The arizona was completely destroyed and four others severely damaged. Three other battleships and three cruisers suffered damage. Nearly 200 planes were destroyed and that sunday morning the Pacific Fleet appeared to be completely immobilized by this sneak attack. Nearly 3,000 casualties added to the catastrophe. Its been 75 years since over 2400 american sailors and soldiers were killed in the japanese attack on pearl harbor, december 7, 1941. Starting now on booktv, on cspan2, a threehour discussion of that day, what led up to it and its aftermath. We have three authors joining he did you ask the question why did japan attacked the you want negative to United States qu
We want to hear from you with your calls, Facebook Comments and tweets. Campaign 2014 Election Night coverage on cspan. We have a facebook question today. Do you vote and why or why not . Joined the conversation at ok. Com cspan. Org. Because ines says care about my country and want to have a vote. Want to have a voice. Attorney general eric holder spoke last week at the washington ideas for him and offered his thoughts on the ferguson, missouri shooting and discussed Race Relations in america. This is about 20 minutes. Mr. Attorney general, i do not think they are applauding for me. I think they are actually here to see you. I want to start by asking you something that is on msnbc and reported a deal is being worked out that would remove Ferguson Police chief Thomas Jackson and wilson, thedarren Police Officer who shot and killed Michael Brown this past office in missouri this past august in missouri. This is all part of a first step of the Ferguson Police department. Could you shed m
You sort of have these multiple reinforcements of this process all the while opening cascading throughout the night. Again, thank you very much for coming out helping me to tell these stories. [applause] i am happy to sign books either to you or to any of your holiday gift recipients. Thank you very much for coming out tonight. [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook. Like this to get publishing news, schedule updates, behind the scenes pictures and figures. Author information and to talk directly with others during our live program. Facebook. Com booktv. Heres a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. Saturday january 24 is being called National Readathon day by a group. What is National Readathon they . So National Readathon day is a day in january coming at january 24, were all across america we are inviting readers to commit to spend the afternoon reading any books that they like and you can do it at home or in any of the many venues par
For example in wales who was edgar snows wife. There were a lot of them and some of them stayed on. A polish jewish refugee who went to china early in the war to escape the nazis became a member of the Chinese Communist party stayed in china until his death a thing. He was still there. I met him 1980 or 1981 at the American Embassy of all places. Thank you. [applause] their books for sale and you can bring them back here for him to sign. [inaudible conversations] booktv recently visited wheeling West Virginia with the help of the local cable partner comcast. We start a trip with Jeff Rutherford. His book, combating genocide on the eastern front, examines combat and occupation policies of the german army during world war ii. We are with Jeff Rutherford author of combating genocide on the eastern front. Why did you write this book collects. Ive always been interested in the Second World War and the war was between nazi germany and the soviet union so i looked for my dissertation and i wa