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>> cia director mike pompeo will talk about national security. the center for strategic and international studies is hosting that this it under discussion. you can see it live on c-span. at 430 eastern, c-span will be live from a constitution center in philadelphia where they are holding their annual freedom day. they will be looking at the future of constitutional freedom and what james madison and the other framers of the constitution would think of today's presidency, congress, courts and media. coming up tonight on the tv in prime time, a look at slavery in america. beginning with the panel on the topic from the ninth annual tucson festival of books featuring jonathan bryant and his book dark places of the earth, the voyage of the slave ship antelope. also from the book award winner, author of stamped from the beginning, the definitive history of racist ideas in america. associate professor of history
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and african studies at the university of texas at austin examines the economic value that was assigned to slaves throughout their lives from infancy until death. erica armstrong dunbar recounts the life of a slave. it's book to be in prime time starting at 80 stern. this weekend, c-span cities to her along with help for comcast cable partners will examine charlottesville virginia. we visit the university of virginia to see their exhibit on william faulkner and the first writer in residence. >> we have a lot of wonderful artifacts from his time at uva. many that have come from uva sources. among other things we have the typewriter he was issued by the university, even with the university property stamp on the
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back. we have a jacket he wore, as you can see when you look at the jacket, it's pretty torn up and ratty. he liked to keep his close for a long time. he left this jacket hanging in his office when he went on his last trip to oxford mississippi when he passed away. >> on sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, we will travel to thomas jefferson's monticello. >> if you had visited monticello say 20 years ago, you would have, and just seeing jefferson's beautiful neoclassical villa. what we wanted to do was change that. we wanted to restore the landscape because if you had come up this mountaintop in jefferson's time, the first thing you would have seen, most likely would be enslaved people. there would have been no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible. we want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today.
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will also visit the muller center at the university of virginia to learn about their first year project and the challenges that u.s. presidents face on their first year in a job. as lyndon johnson said when he became president, no no matter how big your majorities, you get one year before the congress stops thinking about you and starts thinking about themselves, their own reelection. in about january of your second year, after you've done your first year, all the members of congress are thinking about their midterm election and they are really cautious about taking any risk to help you get your mandates and your agenda through. >> watch c-span city tour of charlottesville virginia saturday at noon eastern on c-span to book tv. sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span three. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> one of the things that i
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loved about the l.a. times festival of books, way before i was our book editor, when i was just driving there and showing up first thing in the morning because i wanted to be first in line for stuff is that we have all these panels with four authors were novelists or for authors who are writing about syria who, where these are people who don't get to see each other or have conversations frequently so there is this moment of conversation where these people are saying something they are just coming up with at the very instant and it's that kind of electric exchange of ideas that can only happen in the moment. >> watch our live coverage of an l.a. times festival of books all weekend april 22 and 23rd on the tv on c-span2. the top democrat on the senate foreign relations committee now on targeting global anticorruption efforts.
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they stop by the council on foreign relations in washington d.c. after his comments, audience members asked the senator about a an array of anticorruption topics and his views on president trumps business holdings and the potential conflicts of interest. this is just over one hour. >> good morning everyone. welcome to our symposium on the future of anticorruption in u.s. foreign policy. i am shannon o'neil. i'm a senior fellow for latin american studies at the council of foreign relations as well as the director of the civil society markets anmo

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