Good evening, every saturday night throughout the summer booktv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of our twist on binge watching. Tonights featured author s historian David Mccullough the author of a dozen books including bestselling histories on the american revolution, the invention of manned spaceflight the settlement of the Northwest Territory and the creation of the brooklyn bridge. He is a two time winner both Pulitzer Prize and National Book award and appeared on booktv and cspan over 75 times. Coming up over the next several hours we will show you some of those programs. First up in 1992 he appeared on cspans book not programmed to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and hope to change the view of the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. David mccullough, and your last chapter called citizen Truman Truman had held to the idea of the mythical roman heroes cincinnatus. Whats that
Returned to the farm. Thats a theme that this country was founded on. If you go up to the rotunda in the capital and you look at the great painting of the tremble of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief and the Continental Army to the congress, the cincinnatus symbols are all do that painting because the Founding Fathers really believe this is what democracy entails. It meant that citizenship met any citizen should be called, could be called upon any time to serve his country or her country and any capacity including the greatest power. In the power belong to the people, therefore, power would be returned by those who held it for a time. Truman liked to say i try never to forget who i was, where he came from, and where would go back to. Thats the cincinnatus Team Obviously but it also shows that he knows who he was. He knew who he was and he was proud of who he was and the return to independence after he left the office of the presidency in 1953 was his way of
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A fair trial you know that so if youre in this situation this constant threat to be extradited there and then to receive a draconian punishment of 175 years or maybe to reduce it to 120 in prison in the Supermax Prison and we know what the conditions are like there this is this crosses the line of cruel inhuman and degrading treatment thats not just my opinion thats a consistent opinion of myself my mandate my predecessors everybody thats actually seriously deals with that thats the threat scenario he faced for years is not being taken seriously hes been ridiculed by the press hes been mobbed by areas authorities hes been accused of all kinds of things but not given a fair chance to actually defend himself we have a swedish proceeding that is in a preliminary investigation stage for 9 years well yes the media care in fairness to them said this is. Thing to do with the revelations of war crimes people have seen the video that julius and his organization released of the cold blooded kill
Seriously deals with that thats the threat scenario he faced 4 years is not being taken seriously hes been ridiculed by the press hes been more bitter various authorities hes been accused of all kinds of things but not given a fair chance to actually defend himself we have a swedish proceeding that is in a preliminary investigation stage for 9 years well yes the media care in fairness to them said this is nothing to do with the revelations of war crimes people have seen the video that his organization released of the cold blooded killing of journalists is not about that its about this we didnt. Allegations and i understand you claim there are 50 perceive process violations by the swedish authorities in this case yes well i am all eyes meticulously all the documents that were made available to me including the original 1st questioning d of Police Reports that the the alleged victims the older the email correspondence that has leaked between the Crown Prosecution Service and the swedish