And the brooks still worth reading. Thank you for your time and good nights been a good afternoon. I want to welcome you on the half of humanity tennessee to the southern festival of books. I want to particularly thank our key sponsors, Metro National art commission, and chrome content, tennessee art commission, vanderbilt university. This session is entitled dreaming america. We have a panel of three authors and three books and our first we will read some, but im going to reduce the authors first. I will begin with amra sabicelrayess. She grew up in bosnia. After surviving ethnic cleansing and more than 1100 days under the serbs military siege she immigrated to the United States in 1986. By december, 1999, she earned a ba from Brown University and later obtained to master degrees in a doctorate from Columbia University currently, shes a compass a professor eric on the egg working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and what role education plays a rebuilding decimated cou
The president withholding Sensitive Information to president elect biden. I just think its an embarrassment, quite frankly. This morning the incoming chief of staff ron claim and republican governor of arkansas, asa hutchinson. Also, record covid spike. This is kind of like standing on the beach and watching the hurricane slowly roll towards you. This surge is much more intense, widespread and thank results. Were headsing toward a cliff. 49 cases see a rise in cases. Many cities and states finally cracking down. Im a announcing twoweek free for the entire state. Stay at home unless you must go out for essential reasons. I will talk to president elect bidens covid transition head, Michael Osterholm. Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news correspondent carol lee, republican stratist ard card nis, Maria Teresa Kumar, president of voto latino, and jeffrey golderg, editor and chief of the atlantic. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the l
There are more than 400 National Parks across america covering over 85 million acres of land with locations at every state. More than 325 Million People visited the sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes we will feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland at Cayuga National park. Situated a along the river will learn how the canal system here plays a role in the expansion during the 18 thirties and forties. The ohio eerie canal is part of the two canal system. That was actually put in place in the early years of america, built between 1825 and 1832, and basically its a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river, which is part of a larger idea. A National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies also tweeted right along the atlanta seaboard. And our leaders at the time saw a problem. That problem was we needed the country to expand westward
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