have madison couldn't. >> host: alvin felzenberg, what is your job to g w.? >> guest: well, i teach several courses. one is presidential rhetoric at its a very important part of the presidency, to persuade people, it to change minds, to speak for 300 million people and be respected. some of them roast to great heights and others did not. we think of lincoln and the majesty of lincoln. it should be given in english courses as well. then, i teach a course on president's foreign policy. i'll tell you one story about that. i start by saying, okay, what happened the night and 45? they knew it was at the end of world war ii. 1965 as the antislavery. so what happened in 1763? not in. nothing, no reaction. 1763, and of the world where, the british get the french out of north america, master of. two years later, stanback crisis although said. it was supposed to be eternal peace. were still waiting for a piece and for problems to be behind us. and yeah, not so easy. each of those men in their own way try to do with these situations. >> host: how long have you been teac

. >> alvin felzenberg, in your rating system you rate him in number 26. some of the presidents are tied to a loss of rage and not exactly. but he gets ready number 26. to for character. he gets for for preserving and takes the ending. >> first of all, let me tell you , harding is always rated next-to-last. when you get that early polls sent up to historians harding is at the bottom. watergate is good for them. but i went back and looked at mr. harding's record. extraordinary record. he was very much in favor. he got it through the house. he could not get it passed the senate filibuster. he then went down to alabama and gave the startling address. an audience with african american listeners, and then you have all of a dazzling southern gentleman and lease. and he gives a startling address. he says, the south is never going to catch up with the rest of the world. carry this problem around. factories don't want to come in here. bad press. time we treat all men as equal. i should not have to tell you this. i read the new york times account of that, and have t

. >> we have been talking with george washington university professor alvin felzenberg. his most recent book, "the leaders we deserved (and a few we didn't)." >> book tv has over 100,000 twitter followers. be a part of the excitement. paula book tv on twitter to be publishing is to misters lay, other information, and it information. >> up next, an interview from torture washington university. >> book tv is on location at george rushed to university here in washington d.c. for our college series, a chance to talk with some professors who have also written books and to introduce you to those books. next up we will be talking with the author of this book, the myth of digital democracy. first of all, what is democracy? >> well, the book is really about the claim that a lot of people have had about how the internet is changing politics. everything from how campaigns are run to how we get our news to how we process and interact. >> and what is the myth of digital democracy? >> when we talk about the internet from very early on, even the early 90's, all of the claims are not so

now joining us is alvin felzenberg from george washington university.ere is his book, "the leaders we deserved (and a few we didn't)". about the american presidents. how do we typically rate presidents? >> guest: not well. every president's they work july 4th we are told by newspapers another poll has been done were 50 or 100 historians and here are the great presidents. great, near great, average and below average. then it tells what criteria. all the familiar faces come up. the ones we see on the currency. the ones we build monuments to in this city and others. let me tell you what distinguishedes the great from the ordinary. hi enjoyed seeing somebody putting a bill in congress giving george washington back his birthday. somebody decided in the 70s that every holiday would change so veterans day changed. they're all not the same and the result is students have a hard time distinguishing to the extent they study any history at all. so i thought i would try my own and tell the viewer what i think makes a great president and i invite the viewer to exper

state representative alvin holmes. >> thank you for having me. >> new damage tops the look at stories examining the washington monument for more cracks even though they believe the site is structurally sound. an investigation into police conduct is open in new york city vial this after several videos surfaced on line with officer who is appeared to shoot pepper spray in the eyes of several female bystanders. rayicly is skeptical of the videos. >>> is the ipod about to be extinct? really? already? according to an unnamed source, the tech company plans to stop production of the ipod classic and shuffle in favor of the nano and touch. the unofficial news comes a week before apple unveils. >>> the husband of utah mom susan powell has lost custody of the couple's young children after officials questioned whether he is responsible for his wife's disappearance almost two years ago. we have the latest in tacoma, washington where josh powell has been living. >> they were taken from their father, josh, after susan powell's father in law steven was arrested on charges of child pornography and vo

welcome back to spotlight i'm al green alvin just to remind you that my guest in the studio today is out of the sound of one of the process up on some of the songs he investment forum and add all the new business to the point men at the strategic initiatives agency. strategic initiatives agency has recently been founded in russia to support financially young and talent. and to printers hoping to bring life to their innovative projects that is meant to prove the fate of precious small and medium business according to the heart of precious burbank herman graph over the last decade this sector of the economy doubled in size from ten to twenty percent of g.d.p. . despite the growth. for behind britain france or the usa where at least half of g.d.p. comes from small enterprises prime minister putin has recently named support for small and medium business among the country's priorities over the years the federal budget has been increasing the amount of subsidies it has sent out to the regions for the development of small and medium business however the practice has been criticised within t

is alvin here? no. just so that parents actually could feel comfort and. -- comfortable. i have to say i also received lots of notes from parents. it's just a sampling of what vicky put together. i do want to say thank you for taking this big risk to provide -- other cities, i have looked what the city of vancouver has done for their camp, their kids on the spectrum, and they are way ahead of a lot of cities and states, now san francisco has really come to the front and it's something i do want to -- help fundraising, whatever way we can do. i got tons of ideas. and i'd like to see the camp grow from 20 campers per week to hopefully more. just to say it would be great to have more options. this camp filled up in two days. this was in march. it went on line, bam, there was a long waiting list. it would be nice to expand the age range to include kids from 13 to 18 years old. there's many, many, many directions we can go to see this very successful project grow. this is a little three-minute clip. >> each one has a one-on-one special time for them and they follow them with t

. >> alvin peter kappelmann, jr. >> charles karczewski. >> william a.nes. >> douglas gene karpiloff. >> and my brother. >> and my daughter. there is not a day goes by that we do not think of you. miss you and love you. we miss your smile, you're beautiful brown eyes, how kind and compassionate you were. your little nieces never knew you, but they will know all about it. daddy is now with use and now take care of each other. and just no that you are the joy of our lives. >> charles l. kasper. >> andrew k. kates. >> john katsimatides. >> robert michael kaulfers. >> don jerome kauth, jr. >> hideya kawauchi. >> edward t. keane. >> richard m. keane. >> lisa yvonne kearney-griffin. >> karol ann keasler. >> paul hanlon keating. >> leo russell keene iii. >> joseph john keller. >> peter r. kellerman. >> joseph p. kellett. >> frederick h. kelley, jr. >> and my sister. we miss you, we love you, and we will never forget you. >> and my partner, christine, and my brother-in-law. we love you and we keep both in our hearts. >> james joseph kelly. >> joseph a. kelly. >>

welcome back to spotlight i'm out in alvin just to remind you that my guest in the studio today is craig barrett the cochairman of the skull canal foundation council and craig vladislav surkov the first pretty chief of staff of the russian president says i can't skulk our projects should be targeting not only the russian market but the world market and quote what is the russia's competitive advantage and does russia have a competitive advantage to go on the world market and try to compete with a competitive advantage in any country the smart people in the smart ideas can come from the people but not yet commercialized that's what you have to do merge with should have a personal and that's what's cocos or good about is to me it's the twenty first century is the innovation century. and you have to take your smart people with your smart ideas and commercialize that into products and services and once you do that then you have to look at the big markets in the world the russian market is ok but the european market is paper the u.s. market is going for her and the rest of the asian market is

alvin hall then today my guest is richard daley. the longest serving mayor of chicago has left our first twenty two years and the trip he managed to turn the declining addressed city into a distillation city pushed through immigration reform and masterfully dealt with the racism issues winning support of the black chicago these problems are characteristic for many big cities so what advice does the experience have for moscow my guest today is a veteran u.s. political war horse and the longest serving mayor of chicago richard daley. richard daley is the patriarch of a very influential political family often compared to the kennedys he was just the best mayor out of the five largest cities are you asked for making chicago business friendly city richard daley belongs to the democratic party you supported barack obama during the presidential campaign three years ago his younger brother william the current white house chief of staff. plus a daily thank you very much on the thank you very much a pleasure having you be here right from mosc

hello again or welcome to spotlight the interview show on our take alvin our vent today my guest is chick corea. jazz was once called the music of the facts there's another one which i like better jazz or rather the blues it is when a good man feels that why today's guest is neither he is neither fact nor sad but this part and he is one of the legends in jazz and a pioneer of jazz fusion one of his albums it was called past present and future years so what does the future hold for jazz lovers his jazz idol of the present grammy award winner career. at the age of just your cheek started playing the piano influenced by his father a just trumpet player he grew up immersed in the music and culture all the general consequently sent to study into music colleges he became bored by the theory and instead chose the path of improvise ation he seemed to become one of the stars of the evan garde jazz scene playing gigs with the greats such as miles davis together with the legendary trumpeter cheeks talents all the birth of the jazz fusion movement during his career she has won fifty grammy awards. an

accident causes a toxic leak in russian girls with clouds of brain gas company in the city of chili alvin. and over three hundred thousand dollars in taxpayers' money on the national public service in washington d.c. the cash goes towards putting a strip club from all those are called. russia is knocking the painful anniversary of the tragedy when over three hundred people died after terrorists in a school in the republic of northern setting a seven years ago hundreds gathered at the school today flowers and like candles in memory of the victims more than half of whom were children people or bottles of water remembering how around a thousand hostages suffered from severe dehydration during the three day siege the period of mourning began on september first and would last fifty one hours fifty minutes the exact duration of what you. other world news for you brief for this hour now in the u.s. federal agency is set to do a number of banks a misrepresenting the quality of mortgage securities soldier in the housing bubble bank of america j.p. morgan and are among those facing action the mortg

. >> alvin romero. >> i was in my fifth grade class and our teacher said everyone lookout side the window>> my teacher said it's a little accident, but then i realized it's much bigger than that. >> the first thought was is my father okay? >> we're all in the bedroom watching the tv show. >> i remember asking her, mom -- >> i remember she said they're all gone. >> i guess they didn't expect that i was watching. >> and like i remember looking out the window and thinking the whole thing is a dream. >> nobody else has lost a parent on national television, on the news. nobody else has seen it happen over and over again. that's something we have to live with. >> my mother sat us down and had the worst nightmare talk that daddy wasn't coming home. my little sister at the time screamed out loud. all of a sudden, i was the oldest in the family. i had to step up at that exact minute. >> i was very, very angry. i punched the wall. >> i saw the world as like a gross vulgar place full of hatred. >> i do not remember a good two years of my life. emotionally, i blocked it all out. >> i don't really rem

. >> my dad was alvin romero. >> i was in my fifth-grade class and my teacher said, everyone look outsidee teacher said it was just a little accident. then i realized that it was much bigger than that. >> my first thought was, is my father okay? >> we were all in her bedroom watching this tv show. >> i remember asking her, mom, what movie are you watching? >> i remember she said they're all gone. >> it didn't click to me what i was watching wasn't a movie. >> i remember looking out the window and saying the whole thing was a dream. >> nobody else has lost a parent on national television, on the news. nobody else has seen it happen over and over again. that's something that we all have to live with. >> my mother sat us down and had every cop's kids worst nightmare talk that daddy wasn't coming home. my little sister at the time just screamed out loud. all of a sudden, i was the oldest of the family, i had to step up right at that exact minute. >> i was very angry. i punched a wall. >> and i saw the world as a gross, vulgar place full of hatred. >> i do not remember a good two years of my l

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my dad was alvin romero. >> sergeant john coglin. >> i was in my fifth grade class. look outside the window. and my teacher said it was just a little accident. but then i realized that it was much bigger than that. >> my first thought was my father okay. >> we were all in her bedroom watching this tv show. >> i remember asking her mom what are you watching? >> >> she said that they were all gone. >> i guess it didn't just click to me what i was watching wasn't a movie. >> i remember looking out the window just thinking the whole thing was a dream. >> nobody else has lost a parent on national television object news. nobody else has seen it happen over and over again. and that's something that we all have to live with. >> my mother sat us down. and had every cop's kids's worst nightmare talk that daddy wasn't coming home. my little sister at the time just screamed out loud. all of a sudden i was the oldest in the family. i had to step up right at that exact minute. >> i was very, very angry. i know i punched the wall. >> and i saw the world as like a gross, vulgar plac

my dad was alvin romero. >> sergeant john coglin. >> i was in my fifth grade class.acher said everyone look outside the window. and my teacher said it was just a little accident. but then i realized that it was much bigger than that. >> my first thought was my father okay. >> we were all in her bedroom watching this tv show. >> i remember asking her mom what are you watching? >> >> she said that they were all gone. >> i guess it didn't just click to me what i was watching wasn't a movie. >> i remember looking out the window just thinking the whole thing was a dream. >> nobody else has lost a parent on national television object news. nobody else has seen it happen over and over again. and that's something that we all have to live with. >> my mother sat us down. and had every cop's kids's worst nightmare talk that daddy wasn't coming home. my little sister at the time just screamed out loud. all of a sudden i was the oldest in the family. i had to step up right at that exact minute. >> i was very, very angry. i know i punched the wall. >> and i saw the world as like a

. >> alvin birdsong. >> daniel david bergstein. >> graham andrew barkley. and my brother, my best friend, paul frederick betiny. miss you, love you, your girls are doing great. give mom a kiss for me up there and let me give a shout out to men and women who have built this memorial and to our first responders and our military. thank you all very much. [applause] >> my brother, anthony edward gallagher. we love you and miss you. >> donna m. berno. >> david w. bernard. >> william h. bernstien. >> david beret. >> david shelby berry. >> joseph john berry. >> william reid besky. >> caroline mare buhj. >> edward frank beya. >> paul michael bayer. bella bacan. peter alexander beesfield. >> william gee. >> and my brother-in-law, steven howard berger. we all miss you and there's not a day that goes by we don't think of you. >> my brother, william reid besky. we will always remember you. >> mark bingham. >> carl vincent beanie. >> gary eugene bird. >> joshua david birnbaum. >> george john bishop. >> chris romeo bashunda. >> jeffrey donald. [bell] >> president lincoln

kaplan alvin peter kappelmann, jr. charles karczewski william a.las gene karpiloff charles l. kasper >> and my brother. >> and my daughter, brooke jackson. there is not a day that goes by that we do not think of you, miss you, and love you. we miss your smile, you're beautiful, brown eyes, and how compassionate you were. daddy is now with you. please take care of each other and know that you are the joy of our lives. [applause] >> andrew k. kates john katsimatides robert michael kaulfers don jerome kauth, jr. hideya kawauchi edward t. keane richard m. keane lisa yvonne kearney-griffin karol ann keasler paul hanlon keating leo russell keene iii brenda keller joseph john keller peter r. kellerman joseph p. kellett frederick h. kelley, jr. james joseph kelly >> and my sister, amy. we love you and will never forget you. >> and to my partner, christine, and my brother, michael. we love you and we keep you both in our hearts. >> joseph a. kelly maurice p. kelly richard john kelly, jr. thomas michael kelly thomas richard kelly thomas w. kelly timothy coli

alvin over catholic in all. in morgan wrote of green beans.our liver is a connecticut hall will assume pollute hough to move hinges minorities in him as in their details halle behind ahoy >> environments conditions in city after noon and in the of three periods into the overnight hours we have been slow to warm of cloud cover in place. 54 in san francisco, same for oakland. no. there is a reporter. and his 65 is a warm spot in it and laugh. by the afternoon we should bring highs into the upper 80s close, those in morgan hill. panetthookuppere san ramon valley. in the east bay a mixture of '60s and '70s. and o87 in their field. here isr 7 day around the bay. temperatures will spike by car. certainly a heat wave. mid-upper 90s for tuesday and wednesday. '70s and '80s around the bay. mostly sunny conditions persist through the work week. it is not until friday and the weekend that we cool down. >> you might think because it is a holiday in your driving to san francisco you do not have to feed the meters. you are wrong. let's review parking enforc

we are now by the author of this book alvin felzenberg 18. sarah vowell is our guest.his is about the history of hawaii. how did you get interested in the history of hawaii? >> guest: it is about the history of america's relationship to hawaii. first, i went there i went to see pearl harbor. just as a tourist. i wanted to see that. while i was there i went to see the old palace of the hawaiian monarchy and realize those two sites are related because the japanese never would have attacked honolulu harbor for being part of the united states if the united states and descendants of american missionaries had not overthrow the hawaiian queen who handed over the island to the u.s.. that was the start of my interest in the relationship between the two countries. >> host: when did the missionaries first go to hawaii? >> guest: they left boston harbor, new england calvinist left boston harbor in 1819 and arrived in hawaii in 1820. the first new england whalers from boston harbor arrived because hawaii was a great stopping of point between whaling grounds. these groups arrived wi