to be traveling. that isn t at all unlike bloggers today to send home news. so, they re used to be up until recently one sort of model but a foreign correspondent ought to be like in the last 50, 60 years but now we are going to see multiple models and it s important to understand what that s about because it will help us understand what news we want to read and how we should read the news. the author is john maxwell hamilton, the book is journalisms roving eye. .. better-known as the sugar ray robinson and the author is wil haygood. guest: agreed to be here. host: it is a worthy of sugar ray robbins said tremendous achievement. you are not a sports bar for her by trade why did you decide to spend five years of your life right to about sugar ray robinson? guest: i had two previous batteries when a big congressmen and the other was sammy davis, jr. part by thought if i could find another subject that interested me, i would have a trilogy three major biographies a
so i think in that sense it s clear that she s, she s acknowledged the fact that she needs a change of perception that she s not a policy wonk per se. right, right. and i enmoorks us owe so that i mean, you see that not only with her facebook page, but also a washington post op-ed. she knows she needs to be seen as more serious. almost all of the aides that we talked to said she didn t necessarily come in with a strong knowledge base, and they all sort of realized that or maybe even overdid it. she had these flash cards made up for her to study up for the debate with joe biden, and one of the flash cards said that the prime minister of the kingdom was gordon brown. so that was the level of knowledge that they thought she didn t have. but they all said that she was a sponge when it came to learning things, and she would brush up on it at night before she went to bed. almost all of the policy people who were on the campaign loved working with her and really praised ho
make themselves successful against the backdrop of segregation in america, and i think that they thought if they could fight their way into the headlines adam clayton powell and church politics of america and the u.s. congress, sammy davis jr., night clubs in the 1940 s and 50 s and than sugar ray robinson as a pure championship athlete. host: i think we are bad teaching history in this country and oftentimes the civil rights movement is taught as if it spawned the fourth from the head of dr. king in the mid-1950s as if there wasn t groundwork laid before then. and in all three men as well you see evidence of that ground work. and the idea of we are going to challenge racism in ways that may be will inspire people and the unintended consequences if you will and to take it to sugar ray robinson you have a brilliant chapter in the book about the experience in the u.s. army and comparing and contrasting his demeanor as i believe a corporal in the u.s. army with experienc