Your name is . Pam. Thanks pam enjoy your book. In the booth, as soon as we say good night, would you kill these mics so you dont hear us talking . Thank you so much for coming. We appreciate it. We are going to get her back for that second book. Thank you so much everybody. It was a pleasure. [inaudible conversation] youre watching 48 hours of non fix fiction authors and books. Heres a look at some of the current bestselling books here in washington d. C. Topping the list former israeli ambassador to the United States looks back at his tenure and details the relationship between the two countries in the book he wrote. Up next he reports on the 30 set seventh president. Class divide is about the class of yale 1964. David mccullough discusses the birth of flight in the right brothers. A look at the bestselling books continues with president jimmy carters recalling of his life and career in the full life. Next they discuss the hidden biases of the criminal justice system. Wrapping up the
Its great to have you here ralph, on cspan. Guest thank you. Host im very hardded to be able to interview on this new book return to sender. Is that an homage to elvis presley. Host thats the point these days. Guest its a message that 103 lettered sent to president bush and president obama from 2001 to 2015, were with very few exceptions not acknowledged and not answered. And so i thought id embarrass myself by putting them all in a book and raise a bigger issue which is the most Democratic Media is when a person writes a letter to an elected official, like a mayor governor, senator president , cant be censor order not distorted and not to respect it and to try to answer it or even to acknowledge it so that people know its not going to some dark hole, is major issue, i think and most young people dont realmize that a written letter to pool particular has far more impact than an email. They get lots of letters. I income a half million a week. Guest yes. Host certainly you dont expect th
The jewish right to be a tenenbaum from a lot of different days who is the director of the Washington Office at pepperdine as well as a number of pepperdine in. We are excited to have you here tonight. Also delighted to have ejb here tonight. Some of you might know in the far back we had to shut down registration, have a full house. If he wanted to have friends here who wanted to come and couldnt, well be recording tonight and posting the video to our side and www. Tts. Org or you can add your comment as well as check out based the page and twitter feed for video photographs and comments as well. For those of you who are familiar with the Trinity Forum we were to provide space and resources for the discussion of lifes greatest questions in the context of faith. We do this by providing ratings and publications which draw upon the classic works of literature and letters to connect the timeless wisdom with 10 issues of the day appeared as well as programs such as the one tonight to connec
Louise barnett appeared on booknotes but the military and private life of general george custer. In her book professor barnett depicts a man had never adjusted to life after his success at leading volunteers in the civil war. It examines how the battle of the little bighorn depicted him as a mythic hero and a villain. Heres a look at encore booknotes. Cspan Louise Barnett, author of touched by fire, whats that title mean . Guest it comes from a speech that Oliver Wendell holmes made about the civil war, and it seemed to me very appropriate. He said, to our great good fortune and our youth, our hearts were touched by fire. And we learned at an early age that life was a passionate and serious thing. I havent exactly quoted that, but the point is that people who were young during the civil war were inspired and matured in a way that perhaps hasnt happened to every generation. Cspan but the subtitle on your book is the life, death and mythic afterlife of George Armstrong custer. Who was ge
We honor and thank a legendary author, thomas j brokaw. Newsr of the nbc nightly and now nbc special correspondent. So many distinct guests are joining us to0 including many members of the nbc family. Meredith is right down front. Welcome. And we welcome our vice chair of the smithsonian region. [applause] in a dramatic shift from just a informationo, new and history is being disseminated through an evergrowing buried in fracture array of channels and media. Many of us find ourselves searching for clarity for fundamental questions that underpin our nation. It mean to the american and what is the american and what is story of him we are focused on bringing the nation together through a real understanding of our shared American History. Through fundamental american ideals and ideas. To create the most engaging, interesting, and inclusive that helpsstory people make sense of the present. As part of a 15 year reinvention, we open a new floor dedicated to the nation we build together one le