Peter i am going to go ahead and turn it over to john. I want to start with something i read in the introduction. Just absolutely fascinated by. And it is about your father. It is really a lovely story. Irwin silber. Book, published a songs of the civil war. He was not like a diehard civil war buff. He was not that kind nina he did like to sing the songs. Peter i have a question about your father. This is what you wrote. This book is not about my father civil war. It is partly about the people who created the civil war my father came to love as well as those who created the kind of civil war that he despised. So tell us, what did you mean by that . How can that help us sort of frame your book . Then we will turn it over to john. Nina so i think come in terms of the kind of the civil war that he came to love, i guess i would say that was the civil war i am going to say it was the civil war created by the popular front. By that, i mean this sort of loose coalition of civil rights organiz
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fox news at night. breaking tonight the state of texas getting marching orders from the biden administration telling governor greg abbott to lead federal agency back in or there will be consequences. governor abbott ordered the texas national guard to seize control of the park with the massive influx of illegal immigrants. the clock is ticking for the wednesday deadline. it doesn t appear either side is backing down between abbott and president biden. shelby park in eagle pass, texas it, is what the u.s. border control uses to process migrants crossing into texas. texas fenced that off to slow down crossings. the biden administration said that s unconstitutional. following the drownings of a mother and two kids the department of justice filed a request with the supreme court to get access. dan patrick said his state is not endangering migrants. he blames president biden s lack of action at the border i tells them to go in. if you drown so what. joe biden has a cold heart.
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