American, old ben butler is said. Yesterday morning the angel of death acting under the devils orders took him from earth and landed him in hell and all the southern countries there are no tears and no regrets, he lived only too long. He has the last remove from earth and pity the double the position he has secured a. They dont write them like fat anymore. Is my view that editorials by and large have got more water down over the years and the greatest editorials i believe were written around the late 1890s to the 1930s or the 1940s and as newspapers became more homogenized the editorial pages became more homogenized, the editorial began there have been great editorials written in the last 20 years. I have limited space in this book. I didnt think more recent editorials were as great as some of the earlier ones. Im mentioned chain newspapers. The first chain owner was frank muncie and he died in 1925 and when he died, the daily gazette wrote this. Frank manzi, the great publisher is dea
You freedom fest, and and you will libertarian conference featuring several others. These panels will air on saturday and sunday. For complete scheduled visit booktv. Org. Afterwards veterans correspondent jay barbree talks about Neil Armstrong on the 45th anniversary of the moon landing. Then to des moines, iowa, literary sites and authors, you will see former wall street journal publisher Karen Elliott talking about saudi arabia from our college ceres ask pepperdine university. Former representative james rogan discusses his new book and actor danny glover is part of a panel on the black power movement. Of this and much more, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors on cspan2. Booktv, television for serious readers. Now on booktv, dayo olopade 11 talks about her book the bright continent breaking rules and making change in modern africa at the chicago printers fest. This is new and great ideas people in Subsaharan Africa are coming up with to deal with the global challenges they face
Associate director at the air and space museum. This week veteran space correspondent jay barbree and his latest book Neil Armstrong a life in flight. And at the nbc news man and a bestselling author examined the life of the first man to walk on the moon on the 45th anniversary of the moon landing. The program is about an hour im a curator at the museum here to talk to the author of Neil Armstrongs life in flight a new biography of Neil Armstrong. Im very familiar because he was a voice on the radio and a face on tv in my years as a space buff in the 1960s it was nice to talk with you today. Why did you decide to write this book . We talked about it for about 20 years because we had a close friend for half a century and i wrote a book with alan shepard which did well in the New York Times best seller list and he did the introduction of that. So we had to talk to because he didnt want a biography. He wanted the story of his life and flight and he felt like anything that he did commit an
Those are nasa engineers over there and this was the world that was normal to them and that the wives tried very hard to keep normal and grounded. You kind of alluded to how much the wives seem to change after the Apollo Program and i was wondering if you could share some of the astronauts of the wives thoughts on what was it like when that ended and did they feel like it should continue and almost is there almost is there a sense of ptsd among the families . Yeah, i think everyone is pretty sad when nixon ended the Apollo Program and these wives kyc today and i think in history they will continue to be seen. Ive told this to them as sort of our pioneer space women. They were the pioneers. Their husbands were doing something we had never done before. You know, just the surreal moments of going out in your backyard as jane conrad remember to me when her husband was up there on apollo 12 Walking Around the moon and a house that just cleared out. She had all the wives over for a party. It
Roger mika stepped away. We will will go door independent line, nick is waiting in oakland california. Good morning. Caller hi. I was noticing in technologies you mentioned wind and solar. Ive been puzzled for some time why tidal energy hasnt been exploited. Its available and most of the people in the United States live within 25 miles of the coast. Its an obvious of energy and easy to use. Guest its a great question. The answer is unfortunately like in a promising sounding alternative energy that has to be economical and tidal energy is useful and could be promising but its not yet economical. Its just not going to generate enough power to be worth installing the installations and doing what you need to do to harness the power. Thats actually whats interesting about this item on our list about smart wind and solar power. The knock against solar and wind is that it is too not cost competitive with coal or natural gas power. Whats interesting about this item is that the utility in color