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A house homeland o Security Committee hearing on u. S. Counterterrorism efforts. Cent ann ryan joins us shes the author of the recently released book the presidency in black and white my upclose view of three president s and race in america. Well be talking about that book. I want to start withwe w the president s trip this weekend to selma. Id thi what did this trips mean, not just to this president but the american presidency as a whole . You were there, you saw the president s speech. Not only was i there, i got ai there, ride down to selma on air force presid one with the president. I was part of a group of five black journalists who interviewed the president. Jo we got one question each in the conference room. Of t it was a lot of race questions, most of them were race sidency questions. But what it means to this nation and the presidency, john, race house plays and has played throughout ey hav the course of history and at the white house, and for each president they have dealt wi
Facebook. Com booktv. My forthcoming book is called r freedom now, and i have an edited volume, black women respond to michelle obama. I want to welcome everybody on behalf of the links, wonderful organization here in charlottesville, virginia, as well as the Virginia Foundation for the humanities and the producers of the virginia festival of the book. Please turn off all your cell phones, okay . I will just tell you the festival is free of charge, not free of cost. So please remember to go online and give back or pick be up a giving envelope from the information desk at the omni hotel and support your festival so we may sustain it for many, many years. Please till out the evaluations, these provide useful information that helps the festival continue to be free and open to the public. Following the talk there will be a book sale so, please, support our fabulous authors by buying tear books, okay their books, okay . And the program today is called africanamerican stories of work, change
And also very good about corruption. They went to get installed of big guns. That this is where were going is what fascinates me. Gaul other than the revelation i thank you had a lot of fun writing the book. Then you think now what am i going to do . But i really felt it was fun. Yes. Is there a movie deal . We are working on it. [applause] i will not say anything until it happens. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] here is in the house we have the book for sale on the counter. That was a wonderful presentation. Give her another hand. [applause] [inaudible conversations] host joining us now on booktv, what do you write about . The latest book is called the eyes on target about the navy seals but it is different about the culture culture, what makes them different and unique. They spend millions of dollars to discover how when a navy seal is made what makes some people make it through basic training and 70 fail their luck at demographics and family background and
That the panel is being televised by cspan and one of our speakers michael corner will be zooming in for her remarks and you can see her right here on the screen. Unfortunately another panelists kerry lane merritt had a family emergency a while ago and and let us know that she would not be to participate today. So just in terms of this panel, i would like to just put forward a few framing remarks on the 1862 moment and then let the speakers go for around 10 minutes each. I deliver their remarks maybe talk amongst each other raise some questions for each other. Ill be happy to facilitate that and then really open it up for q a with the audience and another reminder do come up to the mic if you have a question. So in most conventional histories of the civil war the year 1863 is often taken as the turning point of the war the euro Significant Union military victories at gettysburg and vicksburg and most importantly the year president Abraham Lincoln issued the historic emancipation procla