take turns reading a few selections from the novel of moby-dick. the nantucket historical association provided this video. nice hands quiet. as for the residue of the company, they had said that at the present day, not one or two employed in the american will fishery, are americans born. so pretty nearly all the officers are. no small number of these willing semen, belong to the azores. where the outward banned nantucket whalers, touch their cruise from the presence of these rocky shorts. log to 38 ship three brothers. joseph mitchell the second. master innkeeper. august 4th, 1846. flores, azores. getting off recruits. we shipped or took six men to go on the voyage with us. they are fathers and mothers gave the consent for them to go. i mentioned men, but they were only 16 years old. the life buoy, at sunrise this man went from his hammock to his masthead. he had not been long at his perch wanna cry was heard. a cry and a rushing. and looking up they saw a falling phant
books as a historian what is your contemporary view of how our world will be viewed? we have so little perspective on this moment is quite impossible to say but the perceptionptio t many peopln the united states and around the worldha have the extraordinary initial time. in a way that was experiencing. host: thinking about today do compared to any other period of history? guest: know. as a historian i think we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to be thing like anotherre f. and then to say that looks just like my great grandma with the baby but then also with my need for familiarity so as my career as a historian that is a journalistic tick to understand there s a whole crop (-left-parenthesis presidential beyond the one - - biographers as a way to contain that chaos as a way to avoid with that moment in time. host: you gave a talk on your book what do we mean in american history? how do we reckon that it is two different as to share a common ancestry as a people
black man in a white coat comes out in september of 2015. the author is dr. damon tweedy. you are watching booktv on c-span2. you are watching booktv on c-span2 are next retired u.s. army general stanley mcchrystal talking about how lessons you learn on the battlefield can be applied to the professional world. on behalf of comcast spotlight it is my privilege to introduce you to today s special guest general stanley mcchrystal and chris fussell. so those successful organizations in the u.s. are working with mcchrystal group to understand and compete in a more complex environment. their new book, team of teams: new rules of engagement, focuses on team leadership with emphasis on empowering others, engaging employees, managing through technology and leading in a time of increasing complications. general stanley mcchrystal cofounded mcchrystal group in january 2011 to deliver innovative leadership solutions to american businesses in order to help them transform and suc
cnn. having spent time in iraq an afghanistan and gazza i know and have seen first hand the horrors of war and all people from all different countries and all different war zones are, of course, victims and suffering enormously. but there is something unique to the syrian crisis to both the david and goliath kind of element to it. whereby you have a civilian population being bombarded from the skies, relentlessly. where the rebel fighters do not have anything like the same kind of firepower that the russians and the regime and the iranians and hezbollah have when put together. so and to see hospitals targeted, to see fruit markets targeted, to see schools targeted, there is a cynicism to the syrian war that really is particularly haunting to me. rose: and we conclude this evening with author and new yorker columnist calvin trillin. i can t remember when pictures were introduced in the new yorker but a the lo of these store hees were written before there were photograp
. rose: welcome to the program, we continue with our series of conversations about president trump s first 100 days. joining me are mike murphy a political strategist and matthew dowd, a former political strategist, now a political consultant for abc news. if you look at these hundred days, i think there s a lot of thing the trump folks ought to be worried about. matthew and i both eluded to earlier, he s got bad numbers. the president has the toolbox. if you are popular you can pressure the congress. he doesn t have that. he s backed into one part of the republican party that loves him, but even that is not enough in a majority where you can see it in health care now between the freedom caucus on the right and moderates on the center trying to find a middle ground to change obama care which is a tough public policy program am but he is running out of tools. and that s a problem. rose: we continue with clarissa ward senior international correspondent for cnn. having s