Change thee to treaty which germans viewed is unfair. They did not see themselves as solely responsible for the outbreak of the war. We look at protests in Madison Wisconsin against the vietnam war. We will hear from author David Maraniss as well as an antiwar activist from madison and the mayor of the states capital. Can you tell us what you are working on. David i just finished writing the last lines on a book on detroit. The name is going to be the communicators. Once in a great city why detroit mattered. Can you give us a background as to what the book is about . David first, i tell you a story about how the idea came to me. It was little unusual. It was in february of 2011. I was watching the super bowl. I was watching a commercial. I was not paying attention. Then i saw a sign that said detroit on a commercial. Fist. Saw the joe louis detroit. Ese icons of abandoned warehouses. Then a houses detroiter driving to the city and the voice talking about how this is not new york city o
I think the projects in this studio wouldve included the famous kootenai playhouse in riverside, illinois, which you may remember the kind of balloon and confetti windows. It was supposed to be like a parade for childrens school, a private school. He also did the designs for this huge and very successful, while it lasted, midway gardens, which was a big, big garden and conserve card that took up a whole city block in chicago and had indoor and Outdoor Entertainment and no person in the summer of 1914 just before it was burned down. In fact, he was working on the final details of it when he got the news. Those plans would have been done here as well. There was a number of pretty famous places. He also did the early drawings for the Imperial Hotel here in the little house it was not a little house, the little house in minnesota matcher powhatan museum. It was salvaged and replaced very. They can at the studios. One of the main themes was that he was always trying to get americans and cre
Book signed, we want you to move over rivera and thank you for joining us. You are watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see here on line at booktv. Org. Welcome to madison on booktv. With the help of our Charter Communications partners. For the next 90 minutes we will explore this capital city surrounded by water and home to the university of wisconsin badgers. Coming up we will visit a world war i exit at the university of wisconsin madison, talk with local lawyers about the citys history and collective bargaining process that took place in 2011. [shouting] Governor Scott walker introduced the budget repair bill in which he tried to fill a gap in the budget and at the same time proposed an end to collective bargaining for Public Employees in the state of wisconsin. We start our feature with a look at madison, architect Frank Lloyd Wright as weakened travel to his studio outside the city to learn about his personal and professional life. Were s
S archival and presidency. Donald holloway is the curator , our featured speaker today is donald holloway. The curator for the gerald are poor president ial museum, who came to the four president ial museum in 1996. Since, then his helped curate and shape our over 70 exhibits, including the centennial exhibits of both president and mrs. Ford, as well as the renovations of the museum, the Court Exhibit in 1997 and 2016. He has a bachelors degree of history and Political Science from Oklahoma Baptist University and a masters from kansas, where he serves as an adjunct professor, teaching American History and ancient history. Don, welcome. Are you with us . I am, patrick. Thank you for having me. Excellent how are you doing . And most importantly, how is the staff doing . Are you guys reopen . Theres obviously a lot of energy to get all these museums reopened. How are things there . We hope to share some of that energy, and soon. The staff is doing well. They are eager to get back. The lib
Library Labor, Literature, Lawsuits, and Lies about taxes: Frann Michel hosts this episode which features these segments: Fort Vancouver Regional Library Workers Struggle Joe Clement shares news about the Fort Vancouver Regional Library workers struggle for a living wage, drawing connections with regional library systems and national library privatization firms.