Spelman College President emeritus, Beverly Tatum discusses Race Relations in america. That is just a handful of the programs airing this weekend on book tv on cspan2. For complete schedule, visit booktv. Org. Okay. Thank you everyone for being here. Book culture on columbus is so pleased to host this conversation tonight. For first, a round of applause for our guest. Thank you. We are also so lucky to have Michael Gerard here tonight in conversation. Maybe a quick show of hands of this is your first time to book culture on columbus. Welcome. Some of you may remember this space. 20 years ago. We will be three this november and we are so pleased to be part of the Upper West Side and to be a place to celebrate great important new work. In order to keep us here on the Upper West Side, i would encourage you to pick up a copy or two or three of tonights book so we can continue bringing great authors and to be a stronghold for important work. You may have noticed that book tv, or cspan book
If you would like to view other after words programs online, go to our web site, booktv. Org, type afterwards into the search bar and all previous after words episodes will be available. Welcome to springfield, missouri, we visited the city to explore its rich history and literary culture, located 80 miles east of the kansas border, springfield wag the site of many major conflicts during the civil war. Today it is the their largest city in the state, with a population of 167,000. With the help of our partners at media come, for the next hour and ten minutes well explore the local literary culture, starting with jeremy, the border between them, and as he shares the story of bleeding kansas, a conflict occurring along the kansas missouri border in the struggle over slavery. And the question of whether kansas territory would be open for slavery or free soil. Violence of 1850s is really about that question and becomes wrapped in so much more. You have sites over water and access to grazing
Force in eastern ukraine. She said putin would never tell me because i was the minister msn not. Unfortunately it happened. The violence in the conciliation and the story of the book is the story of an invisible line across the prairie landscape, and its creation and its contested meanings during the civil war era and the difficulty of the people along that line to move on with their lives in the late 19th century. The violent dispossession of group after Group Beginning with the ice age indians continuing through the mormons who had moved to western missouri under joseph smith entered the civil war era freedom and the question of whether kansas territory would be free and so the violence of the 1850s is really about the question but it becomes wrapped in so much more. Typical to other frontier locations of water and access to raising millions the magnifying credibly. Bleeding kansas is what will make a territory and inflates date from spreading into kansas. It is mostly missouri settl
It is my hope i know the president would welcome us. I hope their team will realize that it is not just a matter of welcoming. They should realize it is more likely to work out better if they do it with congress. The pay for, very tough question. We have a cr as well as a syrian authorization on the training of equipment, but we will have to grapple with a longerterm appropriations, not another cr. I am fully expecting, as part of that for there to be funding requests. But that is another reason why congress should debate the stuff up front. We ought to be asking the question, how much will it cost and how are we going to pay for it . Iraq and afghanistan were the first wars that United States decides to do on a credit card. Iraq and afghanistan were the first to where we said, we can kind of do this, members of Congress Kids wont get drafted now. We can get blackwater or a thirdparty to do stuff we dont want to ask troops to do. There has been a progressive executive overreach by putt
It is time to go in a new direction. [applause] it is time to turn this country around. [cheering aplause] plause] manu raju, when you interviewed Mitch Mcconnell, what was he like . It was the most complex rays of a 30 year career. He was attacked right off the bat he had his first primary challenge. He had democrats that made him the top target. He knew that going in. Mcconnell is a guy who looks around corners and he had planned for four years this campaign. In 2010, right after he so what happened at the republican primary at rand paul. Rand paul beat mcconnells handpicked guy in that primary. Mcconnell realized, i have to recalibrate everything i know about republican primary politics in my home state. Instarted to make changes hired key staff and started to build a very sophisticated infrastructure, knowing this would be the most difficult race in his campaign. He said to me, this is the most complex challenge of ever had to deal with. Won big. Big and he youre going to talk abou