is generally not a conservative thing. journalism tends to draw to be fair to say people are more liberal. bad news is good for cartoonists because it gives us paula of fodder but i would rather work harder and have less bad news and no we are going in the right direction and i think we are not going in the right direction. i feel like it is the real calling for me to get my opinions out there. this weekend on c-span is not not all fun and games for editorial cartoonists. here wyatt and:00 eastern. c-span2 s booktv, the life of outlaw jesse james and the infamous james younger game tonight at 7:45. on c-span3 s american history tv four decades after watergate a look and nixon and the saturday night massacre sunday afternoon at 1:00. next on booktv, fred gray, the attorney for rosa parks recount his career and involvement in the civil rights movement. this is all little over an hour. to each of you who have come this evening i want to thank you for coming. i recognize th
back to the kids. is there a generation of 8 or 9-year-olds capable of doing what those kids did then? particularly, wrarches to the common core, force feed confidence in the generation coming up, are we losing any way of them in the history, the culture that they are going to need to question are de-emphasizing citizen in the core curriculum in the united states. you could turn it around and say, if you re in my generation and benefited, i think the breakthrough in birmingham in 19633 # opened up doors for equal citizenship for young people doing something for us, we do something for them to restore education and really studying and not approaching young people on the basis of what we may have heard. some young people are far more liberated and natural in their views and apt kuwaited prejudices, and they are free of them, but some are trapped in them, and they are not educated. we have to encourage the good part and try to rescue our education so that it makes the kind
it started when my co-author david fisher approached me. i did not know him well. he said to me there is this amazing story out there of abraham lincoln in the final case he ever argued. there is a transcript of the trial. it is the only transcript that exists of a case lincoln argued. he said do you want to join me in writing a book about this case? i did not believe there was this great lincoln case with a transcript out there no one knew about. he was right. the transcript had only been found in the 1980 s. there had been no serious book written about it. we joined together in this effort. it led us on this journey where we would look for great cases with transcripts of the actual trial involving well-known people. presidents of the u.s. or former presidents, cases that had largely been forgotten to u.s. history. that is how it all started. we continued to mine for those great cases with a transcript that had been lost to history. it was in 2018 that lincoln s last tri
it started when my co-author david fisher approached me. i did not know him well. he said to me there is this amazing story out there of abraham lincoln in the final case he ever argued. there is a transcript of the trial. it is the only transcript that exists of a case lincoln argued. he said do you want to join me in writing a book about this case? i did not believe there was this great lincoln case with a transcript out there no one knew about. he was right. the transcript had only been found in the 1980 s. there had been no serious book written about it. we joined together in this effort. it led us on this journey where we would look for great cases with transcripts of the actual trial involving well-known people. presidents of the u.s. or former presidents, cases that had largely been forgotten to u.s. history. that is how it all started. we continued to mine for those great cases with a transcript that had been lost to history. it was in 2018 that lincoln s last tri
exists of a case lincoln argued. he said do you want to join me in writing a book about this case? i did not believe there was this great lincoln case with a transcript out there no one knew about. he was right. the transcript had only been found in the 1980 s. there had been no serious book written about it. we joined together in this effort. it led us on this journey where we would look for great cases with transcripts of the actual trial involving well-known people. presidents of the u.s. or former presidents, cases that had largely been forgotten to u.s. history. that is how it all started. we continued to mine for those great cases with a transcript that had been lost to history. it was in 2018 that lincoln s last trial came out. why was it not until the 1980 s the actual transcript of the trial was found? it was found in the garage of the great-grandson of the defendant in the case. it had a yellow boat around it bow around it in the box. it was clear that it was