Some of the voyage colliding with this tragedy that passengers dont know their sailing into . It is like the collision of those ideas . Note. I was drawn to the lusitania because i have this maritime thing, everyone does, the titanic, the flying dutchman, i think what happens is there is something about the idea of being any amount of what happened to you, that is what taps into my brain. The isolation of it . The isolation and romance, and suddenly that is my scandinavian roots. And from minnesota and south dakota. You won them over. Being scandinavian, and we are a seafaring people. Before su falls, we were pillaging from the sea. You were that night. We were that died. You know something about the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald. I think this kind of defies your theory because there was nothing all that glamorous. It is and worship on Lake Superior and yet it is something the the anniversary of the sinking that we observed, and talk about every year. I dont find that particularly rom
Process of schooling and achievement and the fact that in our 21inch century world the achievement ladder gets narrower and narrower at the top. Theres so much inequality so much space between the one percent and the 001 percent it freaks parents out into acting ill logically and in terrible competitive ways. That what i strived to washing on as a parent to say where am i not making space for my kid to develop socially and emotionally and make her happy and the calmest she can be so her home is a refuge, and loving books and loving ideas and indulging her natural curiosity is part of it and so is opting out of the madness attached to what looks like a really greet goal, getting the best possible education for your kids. But well see. Shes only throw. Shes only three. One more question. Thanks. Every weekend booktv offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2 and watch any of our past programs online a booktv. Org. Eric larson is next
Start just about a halfhour to the north of the here in dundee, ill. It also features a lawyer by the name of Abraham Lincoln who i also understand came to prominence here in illinois. I will give you the plot in a nut shell. The year is 1861. Lincoln has been elected president and it turns out that there was a period in our nations history when president ial elections had a divisive and polarizing effect on the population. Very unlike the perfect harmony and stability of our present day. So over the period of 13 days as lincoln is making his way by train to his home in springfield, ill. Washington d. C. For his inauguration as president the air is filled with rumors of an assassination plot. In maryland where his train will pass below the masondixon line, there are rumors that he will be shot or stabbed to or his train will be blown up at a whistle stop appearance in baltimore. Allan pinkerton of the legendary Pinkerton Detective agency is on the scene, he is already there in baltimor
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Meanwhile, on capitol hill, the senate moves ahead to provide more sanctions on russia, but the measure could get hung up over proposed reforms to the International Monetary fund. Those changes are opposed by more republicans in the senate and the house. That is the one thats gone. The republicans continue to set up those that dont have that in it in the house. When you get to committee, i dont know exactly what happens, when you get to conference. Investors, meantime, are going to be keeping an eye on a new batch of Economic Data in the United States today. We get the s p caseshiller home prices for january out at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time. Economists are thinking well be seeing a 13. 5 year over year rise on home prices in the nations largest markets. But, again, there will be a key read that economists are watching. At 10 00 eastern time, we get consensus forecasts, calling for a 4. 9 drop in february new home sales. And at the same time, well be finding out how competent consumers ar