You, senator mccaskill, to talk about your new book. I feel like we should start at the beginning with the title plenty ladylike. It seems like it has a little irony embedded in it, your trademark attitude. What were you thinking with that title . I hope a little humor. I want people to know this is a book that will make people laugh or smile hard in several places. A teacher took me aside saying i should not speak up in class because the boys will not like me. I was hurt. And then after my debate in 2012, with todd akin, he told the press i wasnt very lady like. So those instances affirmed in my mind i need to tell girls it is plenty ladylike to be strong. Host host your book as a very readable book because it is outspoken and frank. This notion of being ladylike and being a member of the United States senate in the place is pretty much an outlier. People are blown away when i tell them it is only 44 women that have ever served from the entire beginning of time. So not only are women
Letters between rosa parks and her husband and her mother, and you can see some of rosa parks political writing, you can hear her voice talking about why she did what she did. Is so i very much recommend them. Host is so youre spending a little more time at the library of congress. Guest absolutely, absolutely. Host jean theo harris, the rebellious life of mrs. Rosa parks, is the name of the book. Youre watching booktv, television for serious readers. Watch any program you see here online at booktv. Org. Now joining us on booktv is steven watts. Mr. Watts, what do you do for a living . Guest well, i am a professor of history at the university of missouri. I teach cultural history, intellectual history. For many years. Host youre also an author. How do you pick some of the topics that you write about . Guest well, in my earlier career i published a couple of books on the era of thomas jefferson. It was quite by accident, i went to disneyland with my wife and nieces and nephews, and i go
The Canton Civic Center for canine officer jethro. We are trying to be quiet to be respectful of the ceremony going on behind us. But you can actually see behind us there are hundreds of officers as you guys mentioned from across the country. We have seen nypd canine officers, officers from virginia are also here honoring the legacy of canine officer jethro. He was shot while trying to capture a burglar in a Grocery Store on saturday and later died from his injuries. As we are hearing in todays ceremony, people are talking about bravery and devotion to the job and to people being carried on four legs. They are also talking about the brave sacrifice that canine officer jethro made in the line of duty. Now we do plan to stay here. We are also Live Streaming this Memorial Service right now on cleveland19. Com. So you will want to join us again on cleveland 19 at 4 00 and also that live stream is cleveland19. Com. Laura thanks. Aaron dunnings plead not guilty in the murder of threeyearold
Without their integral involvement. I think from the challenges, the article does that, naming them, talking about them, and trying to understand where theres common ground, theres difficulties figuring out, ultimately with a goal of Getting Services to people who need them, from a Public Health evidence based services to people that need them is the end game we want. And then lastly data, we took a cursory look for today. Id like to do more on that, i think thats critical. Mark . Where you live often changes where you think. Where im located, i dont see the negatives as much as the positives. Were flooded with great opportunities, we cant take in all of them. To see the partnerships that are going on are terrific. So im very positive on this. I think in terms of addressing the challenges, it is the faith communities can be the trip wires for the challenge and the solution at the same time. Weve had conversations with the north american chair of somalia, hes very interested in working
And so one of the things at the very basic level we need to do is just get more people participating. Its hard to run a good democracy with less than one in five people participating. And what that tends to do is bring out the people who are the most focused and organized and generally the most ideological. And its going to take a while to shift that around. The political scientists will tell you thing that is dont make sense to me but theyre pretty consistent on it that moving to more early voting doesnt actually show an increase in turnout. Which again i thought it would. But do you know why we have voting on tuesdays . Because about 200 years ago most people liked to go to church and a lot lived too far from county seat to get there too far on monday. So you go to church on sunday, ride your horse and vote on tuesday. Chris rock said do you know why . Because they dont want us to vote. There is a strong sentiment that hard working folks who dont have an ability to control their own