From you in your career. Thank you. Thank you. Booktv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Welcome everybody to a house divided coming to from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago. Thank you very much for joining us today. My name is bjorn skaptason, and i will be the administrator for todays program. I just have a little bit of information to cover before we start. First of all the book were discussing today on house divided is tecumseh and the prophet the shawnee brothers who defied a nation and author of the book is Peter Cozzens and you going to meet peter in just a moment when he gets talking with Daniel Weinberg, the host of your show. For someone to tell you something about tecumseh and the prophet. Comes to us from alfred aiken off published and we thank them from publishing the book and helping katie peter on the program with us today. The cost of the book is 35 and it can be ordered from our website. Those of you who are watching this on the live stream, o
I just have a little bit of information to cover before we start. The book we are discussing today on house divided is tecumseh and the profit. We will meet peter in just a moment but first i want to tell you about the book coming from can off publisher and thank you for helping to put peter on the program with us today the cost is 35 and can be ordered from our website those of you watching this on the lifestream and then you can have a signed First Edition on october 27, october 27, 2020 was the release date for the book and for signing a special day of the week bookplate so books that you order from us on this program will be a limited edition i cannot tell you how many books will be that is up to you you will get a signed limited edition bookplate from Abraham Lincoln bookshop. This will be we broadcast on television and later by cspan and thank you for participating in this program. So another piece of information here please leave your question in the Comment Section of this Face
Tomatoes they could be done as red gold the soil is ideal and theyve been cultivated in the country for decades yet ghanas tomato factories now stand empty and farmers are opting to leave the country. The reason is that tomatoes have become gambling chips in global trade policy as have other products africa is a lucrative market shipments of canned tomatoes milk powder and frozen chicken from industrialized nations promise huge profits. Global trade policies are destroying domestic markets and forcing people to leave their countries edward for one no longer harvests tomar says in ghana but in italy appalling conditions. Gonna build out its tomato industry after gaining independence in 1957 the country was keen to develop its economy and utilize its own Natural Resources today all of ghanas tomato processing plants have shut down including this one in paulo google there are many reasons an unstable power grid unsuitable tomato varieties and global trade policy italy china and other coun
Book the accidental president , now we have him here virtually to talk about his new book about the 1948 elections going 78 years to another Election Year and you will be amazed how similar it sounds in some ways and in others what is different is politicians were all younger than they are today. That is one big difference. Take it away and tell us about the overview of the book. I want to say a couple things. Thank you for having me lose the Commonwealth Club is a wonderful place to be. I know books, i fell in love with reading when i was 6 years old because books can transport you to another time or place and that has been a blessing. I started this book in 2017 talking about the accidental president and i planned this book to come out in the 2020 cycle. This was a book about the election and it will be relevant and give me an opportunity to talk about things that matter. Secondly, elements in our life conspired in such a way, everything i was writing about was no longer taking place
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