Im robert dear. Im like to read from the opening paragraph. Put the spike of a drawing compass into a map of virginia at George Washingtons boyhood home. Stenthe other leaking the come pass that reaches out 60miles and draw a circle. Within it not only washington, but also Thomas Jefferson, james madison, and james monroe were been. Grew to manhood and mad their home. From this small expanse of land on the north American Continent came four over nations first five president s am dynasty whose members led in securing independence, greating the constitution creating the constitution and building the republic. What a great way to start a book. Ive spent most of last night reading it and its a wonderful chronicle of four major leaders and their network that tied them together at the founding of this country. It as story that evokes with the historians bill mcclay call the spirit of hope and perseverance that runs straight through the american experience, dr. Cheney is a long time member of
Thank you for watching wherever you are and really thrilled with engagement level weve had with all of you. Well be doing a lot of fun stuff, and pretty compelling conversations in the fall. I would say would probably not be doing any inperson events since 2021 which is a bit of a bummer obama but we want to be safe and smart with what we are doing. We will keep bringing you guys interesting conversations with authors, so we have everything from a wonderful event coming up in october, a conversation you wont want to miss. Everything from that to a conversation with matthew mcconaughey. If thats not a wideranging list of events, its going to be quite a fall so stay tuned. You can follow all our defense on magic city books. Com. I will go through the whole list here. Tonight im so thrilled to have a conversation with mychal denzel smith in the book that seems like it was written for the moment were living in, although books are written quite a bit before the published in print it and Eve
Really thrilled with engagement level we had with all of you. You will be doing a lot of focus stuff and some pretty compelling conversations into the fall. I would say we were probably not be doing any close events until 2021 which is a bit of a bummer but we want to be real about that and the statements but with what were doing. Well keep bring you guys really interesting conversation with authors. So if everything from a wonderful event coming up in october, a conversation you wont want to miss. We just book of that. Everything from that to a conversation with matthew mcconaughey. If thats not a wideranging list of events, its going to be quite a false or stay tuned. You can follow all of our fence on magic city books. Com. I wont go through the full list here. Tonight im so thrilled to have a conversation with mychal denzel smith in a book that seems like it was written for the moment we are living in, although books are written quite a bit before their published and printed and Ev
Of them as i possibly can as time allows. We will be broadcasting excerpts of this interview on Second Thought this friday. You will hear me what we do reid to keep consistence while we are going. Im so excited to speak with lisa napoli, who got her first journalism job at cnn after interning at cnn new york and dc bureaus as a teenager. Shes a reporter for the new york times, marketplace, msnbc, and many other outlets. She is author of two previous books ababout the man who made the mcdonalds fortune and the woman who gave it all away. Lisa, thank you so much for being with us, really excited about talking about this book. Lisa back at you, thank you so much, i use the Atlanta History Center for research so im delighted to be virtually what the constituency now. Its difficult for people watching to imagine life before news was all the time or what Television News look like before cnn launched four years ago. Just how out there was this idea of 24hour, 24 7 Cable News Network before cn
Here is a look at our recent visit to chapel hill, North Carolina. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story. As we take book tv and American History tv on the road. With the support of our cable partners, we traveled to chapel hill, North Carolina. Over the next hour, we will go to notable locations, speak with experts about the citys history and talk with some history makers themselves. In a moment, the story of the university of North Carolinas planetarium and the role it played in early nasa missions. Following that, in ten minutes, a conversation with howard lee, chapel hills first africanamerican mayor and the first africanamerican mayor elected in a majority white southern city. Then in 30 minlutes, the histor of uncs basketball tour as we tour the Basketball Museum. We will speak with an author on the academic scandal that involved the universitys athletic department. We will end our special with local lawyer rufus edmonston talking about delivering a subpoena to pr