Innovation process being really important. It is a great challenge. A lot of information together. I really enjoy the opportunity to learn. Animation is happening in the marketplace. My job is complete. When i think about headphones. I look at satellite products and different video products. So many different items that we had before. I get to learn a number of different products. That may not involve us today but in may involve us in the future. Monday night on cspan2. Next, John Mckee Barr talks about loathing lincoln an american tradition from the civil war to the present. He says in order to understand why lincoln is revered, it is important to understand the criticisms of his detractors. The Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia hosted this one hour 20 minute event. Good evening. I am former Vice President of the Lincoln Group in the District Of Columbia. It is my honor and privilege to invite tonights speaker, John Mckee Barr, a professor of history at Lone Star College kingw
Loathing lincoln is his first book, and he has started a blog. He updates weekly. I highly recommend it. It is very lively. It is loathinglincoln. Com. I highly recommend that to all of you. The book has received a lot of good attention, a lot of praise. I want to read you a couple summaries of what the book must be about. One is by our old friend marco. He said, paradoxically americas most revered president has also been its most reviled. As John Mckee Barr shows in his meticulous survey, detractors of the rail splitter have been a variegated crowd of strange bedfellows. Libertarians, neoconservatives white supremacists, black panthers. States rights advocates, and antiimperialist, among others. The arguments that have overlooked the confederacys central aim the right to own, exploit, and rape africanamericans and their descendents forever. Here is another comment i find particularly amusing, from an unnamed critic. From bitter, defeated critics after appomattox, and academics in our
He says in order to understand why lincoln is revered it is important to understand the criticisms of his detractors. The Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia hosted this one hour 20 minute event. Good evening. I am former Vice President of the Lincoln Group and the District Of Columbia. It is my honor and privilege to invite tonights speaker, john mckee barr, a professor of history at Lone Star College kingwood, for the past seven years, teaching a class on darwin and lincoln, who were born on the same day. Before that, he was a High School Teacher in the Houston Public School system. That is good preparation for the kind of flack he has to put up now at it. This is his first book, and he has started a blog. I highly recommend it. It is very lively. It is loathinglincoln. Com. The book has received a lot of praise. I want to read you a couple summaries. Paradoxically, americas most revered president has also been its most reviled. Detractors of the rail splitter have been a crowd
Because people need to hear what you have to say. I take a lot of encouragement. I for years have been influenced, decades by an essay written by Bayard Rosman called from protest to politics and i hear in what you are saying that beginning of what might be a politics in egypt which means organization which means discussion, which means building from the ground up and finding ways of learning how to resolve differences. Thats how power gets shifted so thank you very much. Thank you cspan for being here. Books will be signed. Just line up over here and watch cspan on windows will appear and you can hear it again and i invite others to watch with you. Thank you all for coming. Thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next encore booknotes. From 1997 thomas west discusses his book on the teaching of history particularly with regard for how the Founding Fathers are portrayed today. This is about an hour. Cspan professor thomas g. West, in your book in the afterword, you writ
Welcome to virtual book signing. Im Daniel Weinberg and we are at the lincoln bookshop and chicago. We have a few people here with us and we are happy to have cspan join us. Thank you very much. The illinois channel has been here and liz taylor from the tribune literary book section is with us and we appreciate all of them being here and also voice of america is covering us today as well. Before we go on i should tell you all that this is not for cspan we hope you will give our first name and we will shout out to you. And well try to get it on air as quickly as we can. If youre watching the archive, all we ask is that we have signed books and we will have some left over, first editions and certainly dont want to be with the screenplay of the Lincoln Movie after it gets to be an oscarwinner and you dont have assigned. So get it now while you can. If youre on cspan and would like to be a part of us, i hope that you will buy getting to virtual book signing. Net and leaving her email to be