And his family was facing serious financial problems. At this point in his life, he was a man trying the take care of his family. And we get to tell a story here that most people dont know about. Welcome to Saratoga Springs on booktv. Located about four hours north of new york city, it has a population of about 27,000. Named for the numerous springs in the area, early settlers flocked here to experience the therapeutic effects of the natural mineral waters. Today Saratoga Springs is a popular Tourist Destination with its spas, revolutionary war history and horse racing. With the help of our spectrum cable partners, for the next 90 minutes well learn about the citys history and feature its Literary History including Andrew Mckenna on his battle with opioid addiction. Growing up, i thought the person who was addicted to heroin was under a bridge somewhere with, right . And was pushing a shopping cart around or Something Like that. Thats not the case. One of the most abused drugs right no
One of the mose powerful writers of Supreme Court opinions. He wrote a lot of dissents that were real zingers, great for people like me quoting him. But this is not a book about Court Opinions. This is a book about speeches. Why speeches . His Court Opinions or memorable and im ontold by law students and report theyd went to his opinions first for that reason. So crisply written and evocative and powerful. His speech have some of the same quality all the same great qualities that his opinion does but the advantage of the speeches is that he could let more of his personality shine through for one thing. He was a great performer, a little bit of a ham. He had he played mcbeth in a High School Production of that play and was i think the president of georgetown theater club. So that kind of theatrical side shined through in speeches and not Court Opinions. Court opinions have to follow certain conventions that are apt to turn off the average person who is not a court follower or a law stud
Andrew calendar Andrew Carroll works with war correspondents, he talked about world war i as described by general John Pershing, commander of us forces in the conflict. From the National World war i museum in kansas city, this is an hour. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone, good evening, thank you, rainy day books and the National World war i museum and memorial are pleased to welcome Andrew Carroll, editor of several New York Times bestsellers including war letters, letters of the nation and behind the lines, andrew also edited on a pro bono basis operation homecoming, iraq, afghanistan and the homefront, and words of us troops and their families inspiring the Emmy Awardwinning film of the same name. In 1998 andrew started the legacy products, and initiative that honors veterans and activeduty troops by preserving their wartime correspondence and travel to all 50 states in 40 countries including iraq and afghanistan and collected an estimated 100,000 previously unpublish
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
Good afternoon again. Please take your seats. Were trying to stay on time here. Id like to get started as soon as possible. Good afternoon. Im Malu Harrison i would like to welcome you back to this session. Miami book fair, 2017, if you are here this morning, and you know Miami Book Fair very well you know that book fair is presented by Miamidade College and thousands and thousands of volunteers among whom are students, faculty, staff, administrators, and many, many individuals from the community and from the corporate success tore as well. In fact, our corporate sponsor the main corporate sponsor is ohl, this year and were have been very, very grateful for its sponsorship and its support and were also grateful as ive mentioned in previous session to the circle of treads trends of Miami Book Fair i know youre here in abundance this year as you have been in past years, since 1984 when our book fair began and we would like to extend a special thank you to our circle of friends. And so wi