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
Secretary of state to president nixon and to president ford but also a parttime consultant to president kennedy and johnson as was just alluded so more than any living person you see of the commander in chiefs can you talk about each of those men and what characterized theirther whbition of for . First of all, let me say what an honor is for me to be here and to participate in the conference which is needed to heal wounds with the debates over vietnams or want to congratulate the library for organizing this am providing the opportunity. It is symbolic that secretary kerry is coming here tomorrow night he was walking outside the white house. Make is [laughter] the point i want to make is they have become good friends he came to my 90th Birthday Party and made a toast where he pointed out of with his actions had been and it was a pity that we did not have an opportunity to talk rather than confront each other in that period. In the spirit we have worked together with the foreignha Relati
Mojave desert, about 42 Million People every year visit the city for its many casinos, shows and restaurants. With the help of our Cox Communications cable partners, for the next two hours well learn about the history of the city and tap into the literary scene here with local authors. We begin our special feature with its former mayor, Oscar Goodman. Mayor goodman, how did you become a lawyer for the mob . Oh. The refuted mob, of course. All by accident. Its the most amazing thing in the world. I came out to las vegas with my beautiful wife in 1964 and, basically, i would take anything after i passed the bar that would walk in the door. I had a motto in my office where theres a fee, theres a remedy. And carolyn was, believe it or not, one of the first card counters even they they didnt call them that at that time. And my dad sent us 25 a week for pleasure. We couldnt use it for rent, for gasoline, it had to be for pleasure. So we went out to a place called the charcoal room at the Hac
Doubleday is approximately 50 bucks here. Half nonfiction. We publish a lot of literary novelist and on the nonfiction side we publish a lot of history, politics and science. , has doubleday been in business . 1897. On a bike . Someone named mr. Doubleday. We are here to talk to you about previewing some of the books. You have coming up . Three books to your viewers and a novice where publishing Jeffrey Toobin book about patty hearst, her kidnapping, what she did while she was in the Liberation Army and have very germanic tribal. As people know, a new yorker staff writer and chief Legal Correspondent and the author of the and also the o. J. Simpson case which is recently made it to a television series. What is so fantastic about this book from my good as everyone says we are living to this terribly tumultuous time. In the early 1970s that ballot country was having a nervous break down. An average of 1500 terrorist bombings here. Nixon was being impeached. Political turmoil, economic ma
1974 when the new opry house was built. But during the run of the 40s, 50s, 60s and early 70s, some of the most famous people in all of Country Music history debuted here at the grand ole opry including hank williams, george jones, dolly parton, all these brand names of Country Music cut their and got their start in this wonderful building. The Ryman Auditorium almost didnt happen because of the 1884 president ial race versus Grover Cleveland versus blaine. And the democrats had lost literally six president ial races and had not won since 1856. And tom ryman, who was a river boat captain here in this town, was a very bad gambler. And he was walking the streets of downtown nashville and got goaded on to start betting on the president ial election. And the blaine people were all out thinking that blaine was going to win, and ryman basically took all bets or people that thought that blaine would win. So hed say ill bet 100 to you, 500 to you, 1,000 to you. And before captain ryman knew wh