U. S. Marine veteran alan clark on serving two tours in cory ko between 1950 and 1953. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Shes probably the most tragic of all the first ladies. Hated politics with a passion. This couch is one piece they took to the white house. They had eight rooms they had to furnish with their personal furniture. When she did arrive, she basically holed up and spent much of her time writing letters to her great son. She calls him my precious child, i must write to you even though you are never to see it or know it. A very pointed letter by a grieving mother. They were on a train from boston and there was a terrible accident. The train ride was very devastating for the family. Axel rod broke onkaqa the train he did not survive the crash. She concluded this was god gods that the loss of her son was gods punishment. The house was too much for jane to take care of. I dont think she was interested in housekeeping. She wasnt cap
Today. He is hard at work. We regard his efforts as a journalist to be heroic. In the waning months of the bush cheney junta in american politics, a daily use of policy papers for right ring think tanks began to flood with recommendations that the emerging front in the war on terror was going to be on the continent of africa and with that in mind the United States government formed africa, Central Command for us military operations in the continent of africa. As obama succeeded to the presidency and in the years since, the United States military has expanded across the entire continent of africa with the Largest Military presence in our nations history but this story has almost gone completely unreported. You can search through the database, papers of record, you will find area people about anything having to do with military operations. Again, to be clear, the Largest Military presence we have going. Recently, this coast socalled war on isis which that the purpose of defense calls inh
That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello this afternoon. Thanks for coming. Good to see you all. I think we need to know introduction. At least robert caro, i hope you read all his books and are as enamored of them as i am. We are here because we are enamored, to talk about writing. Not so much the subject matter per se, but why writing matters. We both feel, as i am sure you do, that writing matters quite a bit. How it matters is a task for the writer to come to terms with. How are you going to get people to read, turn the page, to be as enthralled with your subject as you are. If you know robert caros work, you know he is a master of the enthralled. We thought we would talk a little bit about that. I hope you saw there was recently an interview with bob in the paris review and one thing that i thought was so wonderful about it was bob talking about certain working methods was one of the things he said reminded me of walt wh
The title of the book is pageants, parlors, and pretty women race and beauty in the twentiethcentury south. One of the real kind of jumping off points for this aside from all these conversations i had with nonsoutherners about southern women were beautiful is the fact that white southern women have a track record of doing very well at the miss america pageant. We can document this. We can see they have won a d disproportionate amount of titles. They did especially well in the 1960s. I love a parade dont you . Among the prefavorites, miss texas, no Deputy Sheriff but very arresting. Miss alabama, accounting student. Miss california, susan erin bradley. The winner miss alabama and tears of joys replace the pictu picture. A lot of the practices and rituals we associate with beauty were initially very controversial in the south. I am talking about the teens and 20s and there was a lot of controversy about white southern women entering beauty contests they would have been called bathing bea
The title of the book is pageants, parlors, and pretty women race and beauty in the twentiethcentury south. One of the real kind of jumping off points for this aside from all these conversations i had with nonsoutherners about southern women were beautiful is the fact that white southern women have a track record of doing very well at the miss america pageant. We can document this. We can see they have won a d disproportionate amount of titles. They did especially well in the 1960s. I love a parade dont you . Among the prefavorites, miss texas, no Deputy Sheriff but very arresting. Miss alabama, accounting student. Miss california, susan erin bradley. The winner miss alabama and tears of joys replace the pictu picture. A lot of the practices and rituals we associate with beauty were initially very controversial in the south. I am talking about the teens and 20s and there was a lot of controversy about white southern women entering beauty contests they would have been called bathing bea