That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Im a senior policy analyst with the center for global prosperity and i run a website called human progress. Org. During the 20th century and 21st century, political dictators were not only popular in their own country but admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic westerners. The object of this political hero worship included Benito Mussolini, adolf hitler, joseph stalin, mao seton, fidel castro and more recently hugo chavez. Few people remember it today but the original lyrics of call borders popular musical anything goes originally read you are the talk, mussolini, today, you are an oneill drama, you are whistlers mama. Some progress there. Whereas few people today openly praise hitler or mussolini it is not uncommon to see young men and women in our Nations Capital wearing tshirts, to see American Entertainers like Michael Moore and intellectuals like noam chomsky praise the castro brothers and hugo chavez. Decades trying to unders
Right now. Thanks a lot of red on the screen heres the question. Is a summer stock swoon starting were down across the board. The once red hot nasdaq at its lowest level since midmay stocks bringing us down on tesla. Worst performer on the nasdaq 100. Well tell you why huge downgrade for ge. Why one analyst urges you to sell that stock and answers our question of what is the biggest mistake ge has made. Thanks. Im michelle carusocabrera. Heres what else is happening. Microsoft officially announce being its cutting 3,000 jobs. Liberty media buying the rest of hsn. 2 billion deal brings the nations two best known Home Shopping outlets, qvc and Home Shopping network and despite a soft first half for auto sales the outlook remains strong welcome im Tyler Mathison we begin with the president s big overseas trip a very consequential one. He spoke early this morning point land and a short time ago landed in germany and his first face to face meeting with russias Vladimir Putin. Eamon javers i
I started thinking about competitive elections long ago, and i started the project thinking that i was writing as a devils advocate. I saw people assume without question the competitive elections are intrinsically good and intrinsically healthy, and i thought it was important to have somebody make the argument in the other direction. Later, go inside the Cleveland Public Librarys special collections to explore the life of harlem renaissance writer Langston Hughes and his connections to the city. During Langston Hughes time here, he lived in about five different residences. He said he lived in a lot of basements. He enrolled in Central High School which was one of the first public high schools in the country, first in the city. But first, we hear from author john gras bow sky about the history of cleveland and how transportation has shaped its identity. East boulevard and University Circle, but i wanted to look at a history, and i worked on this with my wife, diane, that looked at the i
[inaudible conversation] book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. I hope to finish a couple books, first of all im reading freedoms task which was given to me by senator roy blunt and this is a book that is about the dome being put on the Capital Building precivil war but what i found is especially interesting is as i get into the book of focus on the House Chamber and Senate Chamber and how those were added to the original Capital Building and one of the main proponents of that is Jefferson Davis so while we are approaching the civil war, we have Jefferson Davis really helping our country, helping build a Capital Building which would serve our entire country and we know later that he became the president of the confederacy so that the book im hoping to get through, i started it and i need to finish it. I also want to read about destiny and power which is the book by john meacham on george hw bush. I would like to get that done t
By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, lisa desjardins. Desjardins hello and thanks for joining us. The police chief in dallas is convinced that mass shooter Micah Johnson was plotting additional attacks. Chief david brown today pointed to weapons, explosive materials, and a journal found at johnsons home as well as letters the gunman wrote in his own blood on the walls of the parking garage where officers cornered and killed him early friday. In Downtown Dallas, a makeshift memorial outside Police Headquarters continues to grow, as people leave flowers, balloons, and stuffed animals in remembrance of the five officers johnson killed on thursday. He also wounded seven officers and t