With support from our spectrum cable partners, this begins traveling to chapel hill, North Carolina. Coming up in the next 90 minutes, will learn about the citys Literary History and speak with local authors including jake smith on his book cheated. Then in about ten minutes, we sit down with the citys first africanamerican mayor, howard lee. Following that in about 30 minutes, subpoenaing president nixon during the watergate hearings. We begin our special feature with the academic scandal that involved the Athletic Program. [applause] four seconds to play. I would say sports are very important. In that respect, youre like probably other universities but maybe a little more so because weve had such Great Success in theres an ingrained tradition of winning and competing in lots of different sports. Its an important part of the culture. For many years, weve all involved in the myth of being the tarragon of virtue and the master of joining athletic rights. I think we all convinced ourselv
Others have been our guest. Medea benjamin of codepink women for peace has been here and lynne cheney and tom hartman as well. Those are the authors we have had on this year. You can go to booktv. Org and watch the full interview with any of these authors. Tonight we will show you with Medea Benjamin and lynne cheney. We will begin with ms. Benjamin. Host Medea Benjamin, when and how was codepink founded . Guest peter, we were a group of women environmentalist that were sitting together in a retreat right after 9 11 talking about how we could deal and we g about the attack and the u. S. Invading ask and we were talking about how horrible it was that the United States was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11. We started laughing about the color coded alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts with the yellow, orange, and red saying how it was to keep people in a state of fear and that we needed another colorcoded alert to say there is a different way of dealing wit
The “Hallmark” holiday brings its annual run on mushy, sentimental cards of the “sugar is sweet, and so are you” variety.
But there was a time when people sent and received some pretty vicious valentines. Historian Susan Benjamin takes us back to the Victorian era through this audio time capsule.
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