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Good morning today it is being called the definitive biography of brett favre. His access to favres family and inner circle. Well chat about everything from the near fatal accident and his substance things never reported on the legendary quarterback before. Thats next on the Morning Blend. . . [ music ] . . . . Great music. That music is perfect. First up today a new book about brett favre. Most packers fans will say this about the legendary quarterback he was a hero, then a betrayer, think this is for sure will ever forget him. His time with green bay we feel like we got to know him pretty well, but our next guest had to know more. Jeff pearlman is a New York Times best selling author he interviewed well over 500 people including favres family and intermost circle to write this biography called gun slinger the remarkable improbable iconic life of brett favre. Welcome to the yellow couch. I always thought these were empty, but you are actually drinking out of thatug [laughter] can i ha
Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future on booktv on cspan2. Welcome to hattiesburg, mississippi, on booktv. Located in the southern part of the state as apocalypse of nearly 80,000 is home to the university of Southern Mississippi. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, over the next 90 minutes well talk with local authors as well as about the history of the area and the Dakota Clinic look at the civil war through the eyes of both wellknown and ordinary families. I really had always wanted to write this kind of sweeping, i guess sauger of the civil war. And for me as a military historian over the years what i of those is that as much as was ousted by what happens on the battlefield and this sweeping changes that take place because of his campaign on that campaign, the soldiers are always looking older i really came to deciding on my writing that you have to look at both. You have to look at the soldier and the families, the battlefron
In 1861. It started in these refugee camps. Im going to start with two stories. The first one might be familiar. The story of how the contraband decision got handed down. It happened Important Role virginia. Baker,ownsend, James Shepherd mallory get a boat where the union just arrived. There are confederates all around and these gentlemen had been building confederate fortifications for their master. They knew they were about to go to North Carolina and would be leaving their families and they decided to chance it. Next morning, a confederate soldier comes under flag of truce and says, please return the slaves. Were rebels really entitled . Werent they foreign country . You say you are a foreign country. Said, im confiscating these three men as contraband property of war. He even gave the confederate soldier a receipt. This spreads incredibly quickly. It is an in between status. Property likee of smuggled goods but you are a person. But whatever the ambiguities of contraband, it defini
. . heart beat . . water splashing rain drops engine revving tires on wet road . . Mike if youre a fan of the spartans, youre thinking december 5th would be nice. When they had a big ten championship over iowa. 22play, 9minute drive. They dont need all that. Out of the ground. That guy, l. J. Scott. And scott has about four yards, on first down. Isaac rochell the tackle. 5 44 on that clock. Doug we talked about in commercial break. A fullback in the flat. Make it look like the same play you just ran. Lo and release that fullback and make a nice safe pass play out of it. Mike the spartans bring in terry in at quarterback. They will send Tyler Oconnor out to a receiver spot. Terry, more of a runner. And he will do the designed run here. 5 07 to go. Its about to get loud. Doug theres no deception here. You see number 6 in the ball game. Staying lateral. Rochell, chasing it down from the backside. Puts a tough third down situation now. So much more difficult, to throw the ball, and convert