And now on cspan2 book tv, more television for serious readers. Good evening. Im andrew natsios, the director of the Scope Institute on International Affairs at the bush school of government at a and m university. Id like to welcome our special event site for this evening with kim dennis is going to speak on our recent book black weight, saudi arabia, iran and the fortyyear rivalry unraveled cultural, religion and collective memory in the middle east. That said i spent the weekend reading it, i didnt quite get through it but i couldnt put it down it was so interesting if you havent read it after this evening, im sure youwill find if you havent already but i would urge you to read it. Its absolutelyfascinating. Its wellwritten, very well researched. Theres a narrative flow to it and its very troubling, i have to say that the purpose of the book. I would like to announce proportionally that our event in two days ambassador dennis ross who is another expert in the middle east is unable to
And watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv. On cspan2. Good evening everyone and thanks for being here tonight at Balboa High School in San Francisco. I am susan solomon, i am a kindergarten and prek teacher currently serving as president of the united educators of San Francisco. [applause] thank you so how many educators we have in the room today . Okay, a lot of them. And Community Supporters . Those two. We also have San Francisco board of education member with this allison collins, glad you could make it i see others walk in, zero Gabrielle Lopez another school board member. So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to hear diane ravitch, i have a couple of housekeeping items. Can trade a retired social studies teacher in San Francisco, taught here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format is going to be diane and i are going to talk for a little while, and then we will open the floor to questions from the aud
Cspan2 with top Nonfiction Book authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. Good evening, everyone, welcome to the bookshop, we are happy you are here tonight to we are happy to have Megan Kate Nelson with us with her new book, the threecornered war, the union, confederacy and native people and the site for the west. This is an engrossing narrative account which shows how the civil war, the indian wars in western expansion are all interconnected, the 1860s were a time of National Conflict which involved not only the north and south but also the mark in west. Her primary Source Research involves letters and diaries, military records and oral histories and photographs and maps from that time and nelson write specifically about nine individuals who worked toward Self Determination in the fight for the region. Some of these people are fairly known to us like frontiersmen, and wanita who we get to know their stories lost to history until now. And nelson unearth their sto
Eastern and pacific. On book tv. On cspan2. All previous afterwards are available as podcasts and too much on five booktv. Org. Book tv recently visited capitol hill, members of congress about their reading list. Marsha blackburn, what is on your reading list . Ive got a great meeting first. Talking to strangers, one of my favorite authors, malcolm. I was so jealous last week, my husband and son attended a breakfast where he was speaking. Of course, ive Read Everything he has written and i followed his columns for here. Along with blake and outliers, they have now downloaded on my kindle, talking to strangers. Just a little bit into it, not that far but totally intrigued, ive also made certain that i have my 2020 farmers almanac downloaded. Things that you cant beat, you cant be good reading when it comes to the farmers almanac. I love it. I keep track of it, i am a gardener. I love being outdoors so you got to have the farmers almanac. What information can you get from back . Weather,
Aims to close the gender gap in Political Leadership and we offer academic and practical Campaign Training and we facilitate research and discussions like this on women in politics. So tonight we want to take a look back all the way back 100 years to the arrow right after the ratification and passage of the 19th amendment because understandably the fight for womens equality did not stop with the success of the suffrage movement. There was more to do and thats but our discussion will center on this evening with dr. Rebecca wolfe who has just the wolf. Sorry. Okay was written a amazingly book. Its entitled gendered citizenship the original conflict over the equal rights amendment 1920 to 1963 and dr. Wolfe de wolf is a historian who arent her phd right here at American University and we are proud that she is also a wpi Course Instructor this semester teaching a class on this very subject and im sure we have a few of her students joining us this evening. I want to let everybody know befor