i say this is part of the reason that andrew jackson is controversial. because on the herm teenage he had slaves and without them he wouldn't have been a profitable businessman, he was a man of his times that said slavery was okay. do i think he would have served the union, or a civil war? no. he had many battles with american indians in 1818, we know the battle with the creek indians, he was told by monroe go get em, and he did. a lot of them were battles at the time, who struck first, but that's part of the figures we look back in our past. georgia washington is a kind man but a slave owner thomas jefferson, andrew jackson they had slaves. so this is a something in our day and age you cannot get your head around. how could men so smart, so ahead of their times be so twisted to rationalize this behavior. i ,can't but i do know they desere the statutes that you have. you should talk aboutut the whole m, and that's why andrew jackson was a controversial figure in his day. what i try to say in the paperback is take trump out of it. i'm going to put in rona

this was greater than even andrew jackson and i am a big andrew jackson fan.s home in tennessee it was great and it was special he was a tough cookie and a great president. and those who defy dangers and brave the elements to defend their families and their country and always to defend their values. this is what they do. they defend their values and their families. what else do they defend? our great american flag. [cheers and applause] just like the patriots who came before us, we are going to fight and we are going to win win win. [applause] we are winning. we will not bend. we will not break. we will never give in. we will never give up. we will never ever back down. we will never back down. [applause] like him. we will never surrender. we will always slide to victory. victory victory. because as you know, we are americans our heart bleeds red white and blue. we are one people. one family and one glorious nation under god. [applause] and to gather we will make america wealthy again. we will make america strong again. we will make america safe again. and we

nobody doubts that andrew jackson was an impactful president. oday. why? because of people who lived in quarters like that. those are slave quarters. at that point jackson had over 100 slaves working the hermitage property. he had famous battle with end yans and indian removal act. with all those things aside it hasn't stopped 14 presidents. some of the best we have ever had to come to this place to find out what made andrew jackson, andrew jackson. lincoln saw our jackson kept our country together after south carolina tried to succeed during his administration. teddy roosevelt wrote a book on jackson and studied his leadership principles. in andrew truman andrew jackson had, perhaps, his greatest admirier. >> harry truman kept a figurine on his desk of jackson. >> that's correct. and actually came here to measure jackson's clothes so that the statues he commissioned for kansas city and independence were proportioned to jackson. brian: then ronald reagan came here to, wait a second to salute the founder of the democratic party. ronald reagan came

know that trump was going to run, let alone win,ry and be so compared -- and accurately -- to andrew jacksonn the oval office. i had no idea his tomb would be defiled for the first time since his death because andrewd jackson is being reevaluated. the previous president wanted him off the 20. we can ever justify slavery, but he had slaves, we cannot justify some of the battles he had with indians, but some were to win the war of 1812. having done that, he was a success story. in the afterward, i have lincoln, teddy roosevelt, harry truman, ronald reagan, all looked up to him and said, i can learn from this guy. i'm amazed today that we are having trouble finding relevant, good things about andrew jackson, a 13-year-old orphan who ended up a two-term president. that is the american story. >> tucker: one of the toughest people ever to hold the office, i think, by popular claim. >> he shot people in duels, he had a bullet in him his entirel life, he suffered from dysentery, 6'1", 140 pounds, brought up in the backwoods, there were no social programs to prop him up. he found a way, he didn't bla

all of this drama going on, you spent a lot of time thinking what andrew jackson and studying his presidencyon that we can apply to this moment? how would he react to the drama we are living through? >> when you write a history book, you worry about being relevant. people like you and i, like policy, politics, like history, a lot of our audience duns. i did not know that trump was going to run the let alone win, and put his portrait up in the oval office, i had no idea his tomb would be defiled for the first time since his death because andrew jackson is being reevaluated, the previous president wanted him off the 20. we can ever justify slavery, but had, we cannot justify some of the battles he had with indians, but some more to win the war of 1812. in the afterward, i have lincoln, teddy roosevelt, harry truman, ronald reagan, all looked up to him and said i can learn from this guy. i'm amazed today that we are having trouble finding relevant, good things about andrew jackso andrew jackson, a 13-year-old orphan who ended up a 2-term president. that is the american story. >> tucker: one of

. >> brian: andrew jackson. now in paper book.with a decorated marine, may be the premier historian of the country. i had a chance to talk there they had a beautiful afternoon. he's taller. and that i had a chance to go out and meet three nuns. they came here in the 1730s and it was andrew jackson who visited them and they said if -- they said we're going to pray for you to win. andrew jackson believes that the nuns prayers during the battle gave them the victory when we defeated the british and 45 minutes and did something napoleon couldn't. napoleon lost. were going to be at grand rapids, michigan, and in indiana. >> dana: will be there. >> lisa: i think we have a picture of cutie named blake from ohio. he's 5 years old. he has been wheelchair-bound most of his life. he loves school buses so much that his grandfather put together a costume for him and turned his wheelchair into a school bus. he loved it, and his grandfather called it blake county schools. his mother loved it because the photos and videos have gone viral. she lov

andrew jackson, our seventh president also hated fake news and talked about a quite a bit. is the expert on this, brian kilmeade, cohost of fox and friends and author of "the new york times" best seller "andrew jackson and the miracle of new orleans." the paperback is now out. hello. >> we talked about this before, i did not know that donald trump would even brunch the omicron for president and i couldn't believe the similarities. neither could the president. he hangs up this portrait in the white house. one of the obsessions of andrew jackson was bad press and when i see donald trump again, just say fakeness to everything, it just gets people like jonathan swann of axios or people at fox news exercised. if who are you mad at? are you matted up network that puts on a panel, all who hate you a lot. or you matted people that are reporting news that might not be positive? or are you just mad that these people are not on their side. what jackson did, which i thought was appropriate, jackson just clipped the newspaper articles and when he saw that he said hey what's the deal wit

andrew jackson, where did his idea of how to relate to the press come from? because he ended up inviting reporters to what? to be advisers? >> his basic idea of how to deal with the press came from the nra -- oh, wait, that's actually good. so, you know, he did what every president wants to do. he did not like the democratic paper that was in -- at work when he came to washington in 1829. so he founded a new one. "the washington globe" was his newspaper. imagine if ever president can start their own thing -- we may be getting there. jackson was ahead of his time. people would bring him editorials, he would edit them. it was how he communicated with the country. it's beyond our can now but as one of the great architects of democrat culture, that understanding that you had to be in more or less constant communication with a democratic populace foreshadowed the modern world. i think he would have used twitter. you use the means of your day. and it's no mistake that our greatest presidents, our most effective presidents, have been those who understood, sometimes

our list continues with a look at how andrew jackson was elected president in 1828. boston college law professor and former supreme court clerk kent greenfield weighs in on the supreme court's decision to grant corporations with personhood in "corporations are people too." and in "nine pints," rose george shares her research on the science and commodification of blood. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week, and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> host: and now joining us on booktv is vicki alger. her book, "failure: the federal miseducation of america's children," came out in 2016. ms. alger, is it any better today than it was in 2016 when you wrote your book, in your view? >> guest: sadly, no. test scores haven't gone up. we have slipped in the international rankings a bit. common core's been fully entrenched, and we didn't see the improvements, and we saw some losses. so, no, things aren't getting better. but there is, on the positive side, what we are seeing is advances in the states in present bal choice progra

the scholars of andrew jackson know about this. here is the circumstance. what happened was, there was a person in the navy, someone who handled the accounts of a naval vessel was accused of embezzlement. andrew jackson as commander-in- chief and president of the united states signed the papers kicking him out of the navy. in the papers it said, dishonorable discharge. this is a virginian who felt insulted. what you do when you feel deeply insulted is to challenge the insulted to a duel . the problem is, if you are a naval officer, the president is not going to duel you. if you try to say i challenge you to a duel, you lose. he did something else . this is one of the most interesting things you could possibly come across as a historian. at first i did not understand what was going on. jackson was on a boat going to some ceremony in virginia. and in alexandria, virginia. this guy who was kicked out of the navy and to the boat, before the secret service or police details. anybody can walk in. this guy came in and jackson does not know the guy. the guy says if

but, the opponent was andrew jackson. from tennessee. and jackson really represented and a norma's change -- an enormous change for the country. he represented the poor, working-class. those that had emigrated to the west. many of them first-generation like himself. many scotch irish had gone to kentucky or tennessee and his wife rachel, although from a very prominent family in tennessee, was back in washington considered very crude -- very prude. that somehow she would not fit in the east coast idea and the southern aristocracy's idea of what a first lady should be. one finds examples in newspapers at the time with descriptions of mrs. adams' clothing which were actually the first written newspaper descriptions of a first lady's apparel. and her remark that she understood that mrs. jackson dressed in homespun. as it turned out, mrs. jackson died one month after her husband was elected but before his inauguration. and her niece emily donaldson served as first lady. we have two records that indicate that mrs. donaldson received guests at

and then they said on election night that this superseded even andrew jackson, so you won it, it's yours we're doing well. [cheering] we are producing and doing even better than we said we would. it's been amazing. this election is about your families your values, and what kind of country you want to leave for your children. this election is about keeping america safe, keeping america strong, keeping america proud, keeping america free. [applause] [cheering] and this has been a historic week for our nation, and you know what i'm talking about. [cheering] you know all my life i've heard that a president's most important decision is who he or she picks for the united states supreme court. [cheering] and as you know on monday night, we proudly swore in the newest member of the united states supreme court, justice brett kavanaugh. [cheering] justice kavanaugh now sits alongside justice gorsuch. to defend your rights your constitution, and your god-given freedom. two great men. they will go down as great, great justices of the supreme court, you watch. what the radical democrats did to brett

and andrew jackson york still lives, recently retired from the park service running his dad's house, which was turned over to the state and as a museum but you'll probably see him hanging around if you go to pal mall, andrew jackson the youngest of the york kids. >> i believe we'll also have the honor of hosting one of alvin york's grand sons this saturday at our gala event here at the museum called night at the museum. it is really a delightful evening. we invite you all to attend. delicious food and music and a celebration. a year which a hundred years ago saw the end of the war on the western front. there are probably more questions but i invite you to ask those questions in a little bit. right now would you please join me in thanking doug mastriano? >> thank you very much. [applause] in his 2014 book alvin york a new biography of the hero of the a

it was president andrew jackson who persuaded states to take a different approach. he was what we would call a populist. it was his thinking that states elect their judges in popular elections. georgia was the first state to say that was a good idea and they changed to a popular election of judges. many other states followed suit. butan talk more about that, it has not been a wonderful development over time. >> you wrote in 2002, "the majesty of the law," you talk about the artwork in the supreme court. you call it allegorical. would you talk about the symbolism? symbolismconnor: the that the supreme court itself has as the court in our country -- whose opinions are binding on all of the lower courts, whether they are state .r federal of course, the supreme court is only responsible for deciding issues of federal law, whether it is statutory or constitutional. does not get involved in trying to interpret and apply state law. but the symbolism is that this is the highest court in the land , and the framers created it as they were studying the great lawgivers in histo

andrew jackson to my mind was an absolute scoundrel. he totally changed the office of the presidency in many ways. so yes it is possible that first of all i think the 2020 lection will be in many ways a referendum on exactly this is the nation's constitutional values and the rule of law. there's going to be such a battle on trade and immigration things like that but it will be very front and center the sort of democratic constitutional question. as to the possibility that those values don't endure that's a possibility. i remember back in 2016 people coming up to me and sank a trump's when? of course he could win. anyone in this room nominated to be a major party nominee would have a chance of being the next president of the united states. that's how work so yeah. >> there's a vision of history were that says we are always going to equitably -- inevitably progress. to the contrary if you are not vigilant things might go in exactly the direction. when i say in the book this little constitutional law professor with this hypothetical people

our list continues with a look at how andrew jackson was elected president in 1828. boston college law professor and former supreme court clerk kent greenfield weighs in on the supreme court's decision to grant corporations with personhood in "corporations are people too." and in "nine pints," rose george shares her research on the science and commodification of blood. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week, and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> host: and now joining us on booktv is vicki alger. her book, "failure: the federal miseducation of america's

andrew jackson's wife who died, and press again william henry harris, his sons dying.: they were different somewhat afar. you got anything in modern american history that comes close? i think this is a period that leaves 60s, and the civil rights, as a divisive issue. the vietnam war as a divisive issue, this is more profound, it may not be as public and boisterous but it and i think, we're all the more riffen as assessty because oas a-- as a st party has chosen to do. >> it very painful, have you contrast with this president who is just on a role. they are now jobs to the poorest of the poor in in country, and everything is turned around. and it is driving his opponents and his enemies crazy. frederick nichey 1 said, i am angry because i can't believe anything el you have to say, i think this democrats are in a little bit of trouble now. lou: we don't do that. we want them to continue until they can continue to more. doug wead, always great to have you with us. >> thank you, lou. lou: up next, hitti a historic r this president and our supreme court, more right after t

we have waited for 200 years for the reappearance of another great president from andrew jackson to theodoreoosevelt. and i will include frankly harry truman. these were plain-spoken people. they were willing to make people anxious and tick them off. >> you are saying president trump would be higher in the approval ratings? >> i think it would be the opposite. the left-wing media would have been squeezing his impressions into their own distorted tortured images and we wouldn't know who he was. because of social media and the yoand theinternet, whether it'sk and twitter, you are watching this presidency and live. the real-time revolution. this president really just ignoring these fools and the left-wing media now. he has hit the inflection point. he has the wind at his back. and the future is getting ever bright for the entire country. lou: i know you are going to be a great success and we appreciate all that you do for us. liz: we'll try to get more done for you, lou dobbs. be sure to stay tuned for ""lou dobbs tonight"" right here on the fox business network. microcost co-founder paul allen

it should not be because when he was attorney general of the united states, he sent a memo to andrew jackson saying that free blacks can't be citizens of the united dates. so what he says, he already said 25 years earlier. he said this in different ways throughout his career. so, talking about dred scott and slavery it was really the easiest of the lecture. the story is more complicated, he's the massachusetts justice of the court and we would expect joseph story to be an anti-slavery justice and when we look at his very early career as a member of the supreme court, we find that he is in fact, vigorously, anti-slavery. in those days, before the 20th century, the supreme court justices did something called writing circuit, they would sit in washington and here cases and then they would go back to the circuits they were from, they would go to the federal district court and they would sit with the federal district judge and here cases on what was called the circuit court. so, if you lost you might appeal to the circuit court which consists of the same judge plus the supreme court justice and i

how he thinks the world works, so i think we ended up with somebody who i compare frankly to andrew jackson as one of the most disruptive presidents we've had because he's not afraid to take on the establishment every single morning. mark: we need a disruptive president, don't we? >> absolutely. it would have been, if we had a reaganite follow reagan in '88, we might have gotten to where we are today, a generation earlier, but it was very hard to break out of establishment. that's why you have the never-trump movement because these are people who are just paralyzed at the idea that their little world is disintegrating and that this brand-new populist conservative world is overwhelming them. mark: and because he is a disrupter in a positive sense, the people who don't like being disrupted, you talk about the never-trumpers, are really the trump haters. >> right. mark: not just within the republican party. the entire democrat establishment, including the media establishment, including academia, almost to a man and woman, they are lined up attacking this president because he's a disrupter, cor

meacham, he has been reflecting on that you did have political violence during the period of andrew jackson, and fresher for a lot of people's minds were in the '60s. we have seen it in our own era here, and we had steve scalise shot during a softball game, which seemed to be another moment where we thought how heated the rhetoric is and how awful the divisions are, and this was a gunman who claimed to be a supporter of bernie sanders. it's a reminder we have to be careful about ascribing motives here. what this person understands is how to get attention and plug into the political debate. we have no idea really what is on the mind of this person, but we can separate that and talk about a broader political context where people are at each other's throats in a way where this kind of violence, unfortunately seems possible. >> that's a great point from law enforcement methodologies and a police perfespective. we have become hyper focused because we have a predetermination on who the bad guy or bad guys are that we ignore evidence to the contrary. obviously the link is important, but it's circu

"marshall worried that andrew jackson's presidential campaign roused an insidious spirit and the americaneople. ever since jackson lost to john quincy adams and 1824, his democratic supporters had engaged in a perpetual campaign of accusation against the president and his heir apparent, henry clay, the secretary of state. the masses were animated with the most hostile feelings toward each other, marshall wrote. this new phenomenon was a permanent campaign the polarized the country by region. marshall saw that it threatens the most serious danger to public happiness. men are soe of inflamed that i dread the consequences." joel: sounds familiar. brian: yeah. you mean this is not the most divided time in the united states right now? joel: no. i think parallels between this moment and john marshall's moment are very striking. andink both jefferson jackson, unelected is populist president's, likely with the support of southern, rural voters. there were issues of race and both campaigns. mene was a sense that both were elected as disruptors. they were elected as people meant to come to washingt

andrew jackson york, he recently retired from the park service running the dad -- running the house. has a museum. you will probably see him hanging around if you go there. the youngest of the york gives. >> i believe we are also going to have the honor of hosting one of alvin york's grandsons this at oury at oregon let -- gala event called night at the museum. it is a delightful evening. we would invite you all to be in attendance. there is delicious food, all sorts of music, and other a century opportunities to celebrate. -- 100 years ago, saw the end of the war on the western front. i know there are probably more questions. but i invite you to ask those questions here in just a little bit. right now, would you please join me in thanking douglas triano? [applause] announcer: in his 2014 book "alvin york, a new biography of the hero of the argonne," and hi p

there is an andrew jackson quote, one man with courage makes a majority. we need more people who will -- where political t-shirts in context. you can take a lot of solace in my particular case that i would get tons of emails from people from all around the world saying -- giving me support and letting me know they are right behind me . the arrows can hit me, but that's fine. havenk that is crucial to a moral example out there of people who don't give in. john: right there. i saw your hand. >> right there, i saw your hand. >> i would assume that you would milo fromley, wor speaking at their campus problematic. i am curious if you would call the censorship of kathy griffin and the censorship of nfl players from kneeling during the flag as legally problematic or if you think that is different and why? >> from a constitutional law perspective that is different, that does not mean it is not equally problematic, but many people -- i have had so many people say, why isn't the nfl violating the first amendment rights of the players? you know that the constitution,

presidents have had to deal with the race problem in america, going back you think about jefferson, andrew jacksonyou think about lincoln, you think about johnson, lyndon b. johnson, both roosevelts. all of them in some ways have had to deal what to do about the color line, white identity versus the identity of native americans, white identity versus the identity of slaves. trump is playing to that. you've seen republicans and democrats in different eras have to deal with this. this is the some brilliant strategy of it begins with trump. it's something i think that he has voiced in a way we haven't seen from american presidents in some time. certainly not from republicans. the republican party very much at one point, think about bob dole basically said the races have no place in the republican party. ken melman in 2005, going before the naacp and apologizing to the naacp for playing racial politics oftentimes to the benefit of the republican party. then you have trump basically saying let's try this sort of divisive strategy around race. it just so happened that enough voters and some of these vot

some historical president not deep, not rich, but andrew jackson who responded to a cen sur sure of the congress, a brilliant power of the congress to do anything but impeach alone. but i think there are certain kinds of criminal offenses. what is a high crime misdemeanor? there is a lot of conversation about that. but clearly perjury is a crime. obstruction of justice is a crime. but i think the issue there was the nexus. did those crimes that were proven, we believe, beyond a reasonable doubt, were basically accepted. yes, he committed those crimes. is there a sufficient nexus with the conduct of office of the president? so you have a criminal, to go back to my hypothetical. the assault and battery against the hapless, cynical caddy. we really need to impeach the president for that? how about a resolution of censure. so there is this question of fit of custom. the final thing i'll say is that i think the department, and this will be resolved under this court not necessarily this term, but the department on regulations are entitled to sort of uber deference. so if the deputy attorney g

he had fought with andrew jackson down in new orleans. he was a great talker. he married late in life, a woman who was 26 years younger than him, lucinda pendleton. and they had two small children. they moved up to canada originally, and they lost their capital that he invested in a brewery that burned down. and he found himself in debt. he moved down and probably worked on the erie canal. he was a brick mason by trade. but he could never seem to catch on. he was a heavy drinker. as many people were in those days, but he was particularly noted for his drinking. and he decided that one way to rise in the world was to join the freemasons. and the freemasons were a fraternity of men interested in the enlightenment, in science, and so forth. and for morgan, it was networking. it was a way to associate with the better people that tended to join the freemasons and make some contacts. so he actually did make a contact, and he was hired to work on a building in batavia, new york, which was not on the canal, was a little south of the canal in far western new york state.

. >> chris: francis preston blair, a member of andrew jackson's kitchen cabinet bought the house in 1836or $6500. but that's just the start of its place in history. >> this is the lincoln room. it's called that because when lincoln was president, he often came over here to get advice from the players. >> chris: blair house took on a new role in 1942 during world war ii. when churchill used a stay at the white house. >> he would be up late at night having a drink or two, waking up the president, and they had enough. >> now the truman's arrive at their new home ready to set up housekeeping. in washington, the presidential address is the blair house. >> chris: starting in 1948, harry truman lived here for years while the white house was under renovation. >> this is what's called the lee dining room. back in truman's days, he was a stable in these chairs as his cabinet room. it's also where we made the decision to join the korean war. >> chris: then, there's the truman study. >> that's where truman had his basically oval office during the renovation of the white house when he lived here. >>

adding a portrait of andrew jackson, a man infamous for ordering the forced removal of native americans leading to thousands of deaths. hanging a blown up framed county by county map of the 2016 election results in the west wing. oh, but there's more. eagle eyed followers of the "60 minutes" twitter account noticed a new work of art greasing the walls of the white house in this image from leslie stahl's interview with the president last night. is that doug playing poker? thing 2 in 60 seconds. >>> as the world got a glimpse of donald trump's latest painting, featuring trump having drinks with former presidents, some dead, some alive, all republican. there was a little confusion about the artist. some people assumed it was the sean hannity favorite and painter of conservative dreams, john mcnaught en. he, of course, the creator of this work titled, the forgotten man showing president obama stepping on the constitution. look at thomas jefferson, he can't take it. what are you doing? the painting is the work of this guy, andy thomas, and it's a bipartisan series that includes this one titl

someone tries to assassinate andrew jackson, french is there and see that happen.n quincy adams has a stroke in the house, french not long after is going his hand. lincoln's assassination, who was at the bedside? benjamin brown french. the gettysburg address. benjamin brown french. for someone who has not been heard of and in and of himself to not do anything to be remembered today, he is the most amazing, motives, sensitive, and intelligent eyewitness that a writer could hope for. so he really is at the heart of the book. brian: where is the diary? joanne: the library of congress. brian: were you allowed to put your hands on it? joanne: i was. and he was a wonderful source. not only did he have the 11 volume diary, and i have a picture in the book because i wanted people to see what it looked like. he had a newspaper column and he pasted some of the columns he wrote into the diary, which is wonderful. extensive correspondence. and he wrote poetry about politics. he was beyond wonderful. there was the point when i was writing it 20 and come his diary is not as juic

adding a portrait of andrew jackson, a man infamous for ordering the forced removal of native americansding to thousands of deaths. hanging a blown up framed county by county map of the 2016 election results in the west wing. oh, but there's more. eagle eyed followers of the "60 minutes" twitter account noticed a new work of art greasing the walls of the white house in this image from leslie stahl's interview with the president last night. is that doug playing poker? thing 2 in 60 seconds. (burke) fender-biter. seen it, covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ so let's promote our falle a homecomingtravel dealame, on choicehotels.com like this. touchdown. earn a free night when you stay just twice this fall. or, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com >>> as the world got a glimpse of donald trump's latest painting, featuring trump having drinks with former presidents, some dead, some alive, all republican. there was a little confusion about the artist. some people assumed it was the sean hannity f

some historical president, not deep, but rich of andrew jackson who respond today a censure of the congress by authoring a brilliant recitation of the power of the congress to do anything, but impeach. it's impeach or let alone. what i think the clinton episode teaches us, there are certain kinds of criminal offenses, what is a high crime or misdemeanor, there's a lot of conversation about that, but clearly perjury is a crime. obstruction of justice is a crime, but he think the issue there was the nexus. do those crimes that were proven, we believe, respond a reasonable doubt were basically accepted, yes, he committed those crimes, is there a sufficient nexus with the conduct of office of the president. so you have a criminal -- go back to my hypothetical. the assault and battery against the hapless, cynical caddy that doesn't seem to -- we really need to impeach the president for that? how about a resolution of censure, so, there is this question of fit of custom. the final thing i will say, i think that the department, this is be resolved under this contract, not necessarily this term, bu

this week's new book releases continues with historians david and gene hideler's look at how andrew jackson was elected president in 1828. boston college law professor and former supreme court clerk kent greenfield weighs in on the supreme court's decision to grant corporations with personhood in "corporations are people too." and in "nine pints," rose george shares her research on the science and commodification of blood. look for these titles in bookstores coming week, and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> so quite honestly, the reason that i wrote this book had to do with the elections of 2016, the british vote to leave the european union in the brexit vote and donald trump's election in november of 19 -- of 2016. i think that both of these events are connected to a broader series of developments around the world which are often times referred to as the rise of a kind of global populism in this which you have democratic leaders that are legitimately elected, but they pursue policies that are often times economically populist, but more importantly i

who has deliberately set out to divide the country and by the way president trump treats andrew jacksonas a personal hero he said he hung a portrait of jackson in the oval office trump is a divider he succeeds four presidents in a row who tried to be healers but they all failed clinton was a new democrat and the third way he failed bush said he would be a united not a divider he failed obama said there's no liberal america no conservative america he was wrong trump never pretended to be a healer and the aftermath of this vote he's certainly not a healer now. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has set out by a slightly one we've seen from anti cavanagh protest is to try and convince republicans and it says to vote the other way have only backfired could this whole thing have been approached differently by the democrats. well i don't think that can they control those protesters the protesters hope to control the democratic party they were enraged but one of the things that we saw happening here was that the me too movement which emerged exactly a year ago with the revelations about a

he's defeated in 1828 in his bid for reelection by andrew jackson and he returned to the house of representatives at a long career and he became something of a continual thorn in the side of proslavery interests. if you remember from earlier he led the fight against the gag rule which prevents the discussion of anti-slavery petitions in congress. one of the other things quincy adams did was respond to southern threats about secession and war over the issue of slavery by articulating a doctrine that said it would be within the power of the commander-in-chief in the event of such a war to emancipate slaves of rebels. he had a historical precedents to point to common times in history where governments at warhead emancipated slaves of enemies as a way of winning the war. you can point to the british during the american revolution or the war of 1812 you could point to the united states if you look at the subtle awards in the 1830s where american officials offered freedom to displace of seminole indians who would come within u.s. lines. you can also looked precedents in the greek and roman war but the

at this week's new book releases continues with historians david and jean and the look at how andrew jackson was elected president in 1828. kent greenfield weighs in on the supreme court's decision to grant corporations with personhood and corporations are people too. and 9 pints, rose george shares research on blood. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future a book to be on c-span2. >> good morning, you almost made me cry maybe i'm not a morning person. first, i want to thank everyone who made this possible. i know a ton of work must have gone into making this happen and i am so very grateful to be a part of it. thank you to the mississippi arts commission, the humanities council and everyone in the state government who allowed this and made this possible. i hate to do this but my prepared remarks are on my phone. i apologize for being rude. everywhere i go journalists asked me why i choose you chose to return home to mississippi. i recently wrote an essay where i wrestled with racial inequality and after doing so came to the c

1834 and '36 andrew jackson >> andrew jackson. >> you know, he may well have been a populist in the conventional fiscal bear >> you can write the next ten-year chapter on capitalism in america what do you see? >> well, we really argue in this book that america's current growth in productivity is a policy choice. it's not something as a result of being a mature economy. it's not something that is the result of technology or even demographics because the demographics is not as bad as many other countries america could easily go back and a rapidly growing economy if it wasn't for some very foolish policy choices the problem is to have better policies, you need to have better politicians and governments and we're not seeing that at the moment >> can i just go back to capitalism that is at least the challenge or people are raising questions about it this is where i go back to what i was telling you sort of post world war ii and the get 2igs, or lack of competition for the rest of the world. i would make an argument to you the fact that there was less of equality back in that period was a function of

ofi am the director education at andrew jackson's hermitage in nashville. we primarily deal with 9, 10, and 11-year-olds. there is a great deal of cynicism coming in with the children at these ages. all i can think is for a nine-year-old, where does that come from? is a repetition of what they hear from parents and teachers and from older adults in their lives. is, while we work so hard to adjust those issues on the k-12 level, our work is only as good as the other adults in their lives. how are we defeating the arguments they here at home? how do we defeat the voices they hear in the media. what are you doing to support ongoing civics education past the k-12 level. do you have a way of following students pass that 12th grade level? do you offer programs on remedial civics education for adults. to remind them of those earlier lessons that they have had. thank you. idea was say that your an idea of a funder of hours. why don't we take what you've got and bring it to the adults because clearly we have a problem. it, in passing as democracy at play. it helps p