and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: being the mayor of new york is called the second most difficult job in america. he just chronicled his life and times governing new york s gorgeous mosaic. i d add you back on the program, sir. glad to have you back on the program, sir. we will get straight to the text. there is a major race happening in the city of new york. michael bloomberg got the city council to give him a third term. herself in terms of being the next mayor, but one of those finalists got his start working for you. tell me you have endorsed and take it away. i endorse bill thompson, the past controller. mike bloomberg did pretty well. lost by four or five points. but the mayor spent over $100 million. billorsed him again, but one. he worked in our office in city hall and worked with bill lynch, known to many as a rumpled genius. it brought him along as he has done so many others. bill is dead now and has his reward. bu
in 88, you may recall that jesse did better than any other second place candidate. those persons that we got registered voted for me in 1989. it was a four-way race. the metropolitan transit authority. the most articulate and knowledgeable person i have ever encountered. the conventional wisdom was that we would not win. you have to get 40% to avoid a runoff. election, general 9/11 has not yet occurred. a margin of only 50,000. to what do you attribute that? my response was always, why do you ask? the answer, i believe, is racism. we lost by about the same margin in 1990. in the book i mentioned racism, but that is not the total reason. in 1989 if have one a lot of white folks had not voted or me. laterainly did not lose of the solely because black that did not vote for me. well insm is alive and our country and certainly new york. it is not as bad as it once was. dr. king sy that dream has not yet been realized and things are not what they need to be. but thank god would t
by any means possible. especially for those civilians living in east prussia at the time. they knew exactly what awaited them when the soviets were approaching. they knew that the same acts of barbarism, the same a massacres would happen to them as had happened to the russians as the german army had advanced in its invasion of the soviet union if 1942. in 1942. however, they were under orders. they were not permitted to leave until the very end of january 45. the nazi government forbade anyone to leave, for to do so would have shown signs of defeatism and an acknowledgment that they were going to lose the war. you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. david dinkins is next on booktv. the former new york city mayor talk abouts about growing up in harlem and his eventual win to become the first african-american mayor of the city. this is about an hour. [applause] you know, frequently or at least not infrequently when i have a prepared text, i wa
those days are not quite as distant as some suppose. we remember that a few people still alive today lived through them, albeit as children. 2014 will mark that centennial of the drama which profoundly influenced the history of the world. i spent the last three years writing a book describing both how the war came about and what happened on the battlefields during its first months before the french lapsed into a stalemate. there is a widely held view, a delusion, as i shall argue, that the two world wars belong to different moral orders. nineteen robo one was a good war, world war ii was bad. the first subject was so horrendous that turned is that makes it of the two sides causes could badly to meant barely managed. they add a view of what they think happened. until 1941 britain defied the vast evil of nazism, berlin. in russia and the united states took this train encompassing the destruction of hitler. the struggle was nothing like as bloody as its predecessor, says