i d like to welcome y all here to politics and prose. my name is allen watke and i m then events staff here where we host klose to a thousand author events a year at three locations. for everything confirm you can go to the website at politics prose.com or pick up a monthly printed calendar. before we get started i d like to ask everyone to please silence your cellphones so not to disrupt the event. and when we get to the q & a, if you could line up at themake crow phone at the pillar lat would be great because we re audio recording and c-span for booktv is filming as well. so we d really like to have your questions in there following the q & a we ll have a signing at the table and if you could just leave your chairs where we are because we have a couple mored reading today. so today we re very excited to welcome robert c plumb, celebrate his back the bert angel, five women who changed civil war america. collective biography of five extraordinary women who came to national
he was subject to savage criticism but i think he retained a certain amount of popularity with the ordinary confederate citizens. on the three trips that he took to the deep south during the course of the war in december 1862 and again in the fall of 1863 and the fall of 1864, he spoke at a dozen or more venues during those trips almost too large and enthusiastic crowds. so clearly there was some residue of support and even affection for davis among the general population. at the same time that governors, senators, newspaper editors were savagely criticizing him. that doesn t mean he was as popular as lee or stonewall jackson by any means but i think he was probably more popular than the popular image with the image we would have of his place in the southern affections would indicate. host: in the record there is some evidence of the behavior for the common people of confederacy even drilling his common escape. he passed an old woman in a cabin and she held up an infant chi
howard has been writing about the past. and what is really neat is how he took on architecture. his first book, the preservation progress was a collection of essays and profiles, and then when he went right for right, that was with frank loyd wright taking a look at the architectural biography of frank loyd wright, and he partnered with roger strauss to take the photographs, and what followed is a series of books that are just not only stunning to look at but really faceting to be. we had hugh here before for the house of the founding fathers is one of the things. just an interesting look at the founding fathers and the houses they live in. he s written a number of books but this one is especially timely at the observance of the anniversary of the civil war and as i say, the photographs are spectacular. the text that puts it all in context is really interesting so please join me in welcoming hugh howard. [applause] thank you tony, for those nice words. and thank you all for
a home in the 1,100 block of 18th street early this morning. it was a neighbor who alerted police. right now police are saying her death is suspicious. we expect more information later this morning and we ll have more on this tonight on news 4 at 4:00 5:00 and 6:00. a manhunt is under way in montgomery county for the suspect in a violent gas station robbery. chopper 4 captured the aftermath on tape and news 4 s molette green joins us live with the latest from the scene. reporter: barbara good morning. yes, crime scene tape all gone now. this gas station is back open for business. no sign as you said of the suspect. now, police were able to watch the surveillance video inside the gas station which captures the robbery go down but the suspect had his face covered. all of this happening during a shift change this morning just after 6:30 here at colesville road and university boulevard. it became dramatic scene with the victim stuffing a head injury after getting hit on the h
This tour will have you walking in the right direction.Gallery on Gazebo will host its architectural tour at 6 p.m. Tuesday beginning at the gallery, 140 Gazebo Park, downtown, and