Ive lived in this city for years, but hong kong still makes me fall in love with it time and again. And now, bbc world news america. This is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am. Atty kay donald trump wins in nevada, making it his third victory in a row. Come super tuesday, can anyone stop his streak . Defense hism cook company explaining why he is fighting in order to access one of the phones of the San Bernardino shooters. Our road trip continues with a stop in tennessee. What surprising policies saved one towns economy. Katty welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and around the globe. Super tuesday is less than a week away. A wave ofmp is riding momentum after winning the nevada caucuses last night. It is his third victory in a row for the front runner. He won easily. Marco rubio came a distant second, just ahead of ted cruz. Is there enough time left for either of those men to beat trump . Trump goesnt donald marching on. Not too long ago his pre
Ive lived in this city for years, but hong kong still makes me fall in love with it time and again. And now, bbc world news america. This is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am. Atty kay donald trump wins in nevada, making it his third victory in a row. Come super tuesday, can anyone stop his streak . Defense hism cook company explaining why he is fighting in order to access one of the phones of the San Bernardino shooters. Our road trip continues with a stop in tennessee. What surprising policies saved one towns economy. Katty welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and around the globe. Super tuesday is less than a week away. A wave ofmp is riding momentum after winning the nevada caucuses last night. It is his third victory in a row for the front runner. He won easily. Marco rubio came a distant second, just ahead of ted cruz. Is there enough time left for either of those men to beat trump . Trump goesnt donald marching on. Not too long ago his pre
With author of sub for the first of the planned 3volume biography of the soviet leader. This is about an hour. Please join me in welcoming stephen kotkin. Stephen is an International Affairs professor. [inaudible] [applause] gets a particular pleasure to launch my remaining book tour at the university of pennsylvania bookstore because the university of pennsylvania faculty in this area were instrumental in helping me work out some of the in what i might call the first draft of this manuscript. Im very grateful to them and would repay my gratitude by being here tonight and i appreciate the fact that those people helped me those professors are here tonight as well. So somebody said its very difficult to summarize 739 pages of text in a a book taught that somebody else said when the camera starting rolling the book readers only 628 pages and it read so fast. My strategy would be to talk about a little bit whats in the book and spend most of the time on questions than answers. Somebody ask
Of where we are as a country, one think we can know he would be fascinated by the develops in transportation because he was an engineer to the end, and he did have this great feeling about the country being bound together by these different modes of transportation, whenever he took a train, he would clock and say, it could have been a half a day faster if it had been run more efficiently. So i think he would find that very interesting. But as for a political situation, im going to take a pass on the question. Its just too hard to make comparisons. The civil war is such a unique period in our history, and i think we can all agree that we hope that the matter has been forever settled and our country never has to undergo Something Like that ever again. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] this weekend, saturday morning, start agent 10 00 a. M. Eastern, live on cspan, our nations governors get together to discuss issues affecting their states. Guests include danny meier, ceo of union scare hos
Figure him out . Were going to do it through his very close comrades, those who lived and worked with him and kind of see what they had to say about him. This is not an easy task because around stalin there are many lies. There are lies that stalin told about himself, there are lies they regime told about him in official propaganda. There are lies his enemies who survived somehow and fled abroad into immigration told about him. And then there are the fantastic stories made up about him and what he call the biographies of stalin. So there is a lot of junk surrounding him, and so you kind of have to work through. Its sort of like the ship that has been in port too long and you get out the scraper and begin to scrape the barnacles off the man, stalin to try to see if you can get back to this process of his evolution as a person. So let me give you one example of Something Like this. In the spring and summer of 1923, spring and summer of 1923, right . The stalin is 45 years old. He has bee