You better information. Given what you have gone through with your Cancer Treatment on a scale of 1 to 10, how complicated did you find the American Healthcare system . Guest i was very lucky because i have an employer who is paying for my coverage. I have a great insurance policy and im one of those americans who can be secure in that and it has been terrific. But it is not always easy. The doctors themselves dont always make it easy because their prescription of what is going wrong with you and what you need to do when you are in the situation and suffering is hard to take in and understand what they are saying. They need to be able to communicate in my view better with patients and understand what the drugs are there for and what they are supposed to do. There is a lot of tweaking that could be done with the American Healthcare system that would make huge changes to users, to people like me, it doesnt take an act of congress to do these things. Host what is the difference between a
Salons jacob weisberg, and we take a look at the life of florence kennedy. And finally, david reef questions if ending extreme poverty and hunger around the world is possible. Those are some of the highlights for this weekend. For a complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, this weekend 72 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. And now were kicking off the weekend with Brian Kilmeade and dan yeager. Their book, Thomas Jefferson and the tripoli pirates. [inaudible conversations] here we go. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] like were coming to court. You afraid of the audience, brian . I wanted to have a dramatic entrance. Oh, all right. [laughter] actually, he doesnt want to be seen on the same stage with me. Hes already found out im a little too smart alecky. Which he is, by the way. Five minutes, see what you learn . Good afternoon, welcome to the heritage foundation. We, of course, welcome those who join us on our heritage. Org web s
Youll hear from war veteran drupal amputee travis mill, former Bush White House secretary and bestselling authors. We will kick off our live Coverage Today with wreckers University Professionals David Greenberg. An inside history of the american presidency. This is live coverage from savanna on book tv. [inaudible] [inaudible] good morning everyone. Welcome to the ninth savanna book festival. I am delighted to welcome you this morning. My name is ann gardner and we are being presented here in the church and for the festival by georgia power, bill kelly and the estate of ralph handelsman. We are blessed once again to host such a celebrated author at Trinity United Methodist church which has been made possible by the generosity of substate bank. Many of you have already watched on deck with eric. Today we suspect suspect you are staking your claims around chippewa squares. As you choose among the dozens of renowned writers who have published outstanding books this year. We would like to
Much wisdom we would have missed out on. The one and only president for sure trevor of the Carnegie Corporation. Ishmael the director of the library in alexandria, and they are joining us to celebrate your service. We are also lucky to be joined by the latvian ambassadors to the United States committee acting librarian of Congress David howell and Jane Mcauliffe the director of outreach and delegates to the board. Grace mckenna and come i havent seen her come there she is, whose family has done so much to shape this Institution Come and Diana Davis Spencer who has been a great friend to our work. The gatherings like this remind me what a impact the center has around the globe including hundreds in russia and ukraine and even now we pick the best scholars and the most brilliant staff to work on the most important issues and we learned that from you. You always scholarship at the heart of the work. No one who knows you would be surprised. Some may already know this but jim and his daught
He brought 60,000 guest, the union army. Sherman had previously been to savannah and lost savannah. There was no burning, looting or destruction. Savannah was spared. Sherman just left savannah about four months later with those 60,000 troops. A significant amount of marriages occurred between savannah women and northern officers. So we come up past the American Civil War through the reconstruction period ending in 1876. By the 1920s cotton had failed because of overgrowth and lack of fertlization and in gave the weevil and savannah was back to being poor. Lady aster said savannah was a beautiful lady with a dirty face. By the 40s and 50s the old houses in downtown savannah were worth more dead than alive just to get the bricks to build new houses. One city planner said savannah was so poor she was not able to destroy herself unquote. Progress did make some hideous inroads in putting highways through one part of the old town and a street through three of the pressures squares. At one p