dead. they can t talk back. it s nice to see live people. so, engrossed in the kind of things i and other writers here write about. i was very fortunate to have grown up in a home that was filled with books. i grew up in yonkers, new york, a suburb of new york city, with thousands of books, all filled with books. and as a little kid, the sense of books around me is one of my most indelible memories of childhood, and remembering also that as a tiny kid, starting to climb, i thought of the bookshelves from floor to ceiling as mountains that i could climb up, and my mother would find me five shelves up crying to get down again. and both my parents were fortunately great readers. my father was a self-educated working guy. he installed boilers and heating systems and my mother, on the other hand, had a degree in classics. she was a poet. she was a human rights activist. she worked with the american indians back in the 1950s. a frequent adversary of the federal government at that t
technologies available to us. it was just making the point that if you ask about look at history through aviation, you would say history has not changed much in the last 60 years. we still fly at exactly the same speed. on airliners that, if anything, are less comfortable than they were then. if you look at the speed of communication, and the declining cost of communication, that is a totally different world. from the world when the first jetliners were developed. and in that sense, yes, it looks like history has speeded up. but i m going to be flying to england next week, and i think i m going to have the sense, as i fly there that history is moving very slowly indeed. john gaddis is the author of this book george kennan: an american life. he joins us here at the book philosophy. thank you so much. i. now, several hours left in our coverage today. it s book tv, and three more authors will be discussing their books in the history and biography tent. we ll bring those
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programming throughout the week, and every weekend, 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and c-pass programs at our websites. and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. each week, american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the nation s college professors. watch the classes every saturday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern and sundays at 1:00 p.m. this week a look at the compromise of 1850 and collapse on the second party system with gillis harp, a professor in grove city, pennsylvania. the class is part of a survey course called history of the united states to 1865 which covers american history from the colonial era through the civil war. this is about 50 minutes. all right. we ll begin as usual with short selection of saplasms. blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart. they do nothing wrong. they walk in his ways. you have laid down precepts that are to
not all to halifax either. but to other locations. with the new about it thif t where the family was. but that s one area we don t really get into. we sort of go through as i say to the point where the car pait i can t rescue and then we deal with the changes to the ship itself, to the sister ship and the other ship under construction. okay. sam, thank you for your time. you re welcome. [ applause ] each week american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the nation s college professors. this week a look at the compromise of 1850 ands collapse of the secretaries party system with gillis harp, a professor at grove city college in grove city, pennsylvania. the class is part of a survey course called history of the united states to 1865, which covers american history from the colonial era through the civil war. this is about 50 minutes. all right. we ll begin as usual with a short selection of psalms. blessed are they whose ways are blameless who walk according t