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
Morning. Good morning. I am claudine wong. Good to see you on this saturday. If you are waking up with us, lets say good morning to meteorologist Rosemary Orozco with a look at how the weekend is shaping up. Good morning. Happy saturday to both of you. We are looking at just minor warmup for the weekend. Outside the doors at this hour, we have the clouds, once again, giving you a live look across the east bay. We are waking up with a partly sunny sky for the inner east bay. Around the bay and along the coastline, plenty of overcast skies. Into the afternoon, temperatures are expected to climb by just few degrees today. And a tad more tomorrow before we begin to cool it down once again. I will have details on your current conditions. Those afternoon highs and the extended forecast coming up in just a little bit. All right. Rosemary thanks for that. California is seeing troubling new numbers in the fight against the coronavirus. According to johns hopkins, right now, the state is at 440,
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John f. Marszalek discusses his process for writing in his relationship with Abraham Lincoln and what he mainly focused on with civil war and not his presidency. Held at the lincoln form symposium, this is one hour. So, let us begin with our last session for the 23rd form. I am Frank Williams your coach. We are delighted to have with us once again, every other year, we have the john and craig show. applause and that is much deserved, because they get high grades, high marks from you. Deservedly so. Im not even sure what it is there going to talk about this morning. But we will be entertained. I can tell you that. What can we say about two of our very loyal members who have served for a long time. A long time on our board of advisers. John john f. Marszalek is our dear friend from Mississippi State, university. Executive director of the Ulysses Grant association and president ial library where i served as president. He is recently the editor along with david mullin and louis gallows of
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