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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20141115

Up next, Laura Auricchio recounts the life of marquis de lafayette and wil the role he played in the american and french revolutions. This is about one hour. Okay. Im tim marshall, provost of the new school and im delighted to welcome everyone here for this wonderful event to launch Laura Auricchios new book which is right here. [applause] the Marquis Lafayette reconsidered which came out this month published by this has been research over the course of seven years its a major biography that dont into the personal life of the passionate french hero of the American Revolution over several tumultuous decades. The book provides a depiction of some accounting figures of this historical period while eliminating and exploring the new role of the press and
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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20141130

The south during the u. S. Civil war, that the winners would want cuba because there had been a lust for taking cuba for decades previously. This had been this effort to make cuba a state of the United States of america. So thats one idea thats sirlating in the circulates in the minds of the rulers in cuba. Another idea thats circulating is they should be in solidarity with their comrades who are slave owners in the south in order to defeat the north. But then again, as i said if the south had won, the south would be after cuba ousting the spanish. But in any case, at the end of the day they decided to open their ports to the Confederate States of america, socalled. But after the defeat of the Confederate States of america there was tremendous pressure on cuba to abolish slavery, and a bloody war e erupted to that ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion On Outpost 20150119

The teacher wars what are they . Guest im always asked to boil it down and i think weve had the conception in american politics that our educational problems are teachers problems, so we need to start with a new group and turn the page. As i explain in as i explained in the book, the our 3. 4 million american teachers. We hire 100,000 teachers in the school you. There are so many of them. We are so make it to the school. We cannot fire our way to success because theres no method to make sure the people we hire would be any better. We must improve the skill set of the teachers would already have working in our schools. Theres a lot of collaborative practice of weekend used to be that. Host Dana Goldstein is the author. Yes sir Nonfiction Author or book you like to see . Send us an email to booktv at cspan to work. Tweet us at booktv or post on our wall facebook. Com booktv. ....

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