on behalf of carmichael's bookstore welcome to tonight's event of a can all take a moment to silence our folder would appreciate that. tonight we are joined by kathy - - cassie chambers her book hill women she later went on to receive her degree from harvard law and now works with domestic violence survivors in kentucky. she lives in louisville with her husband. please join me to give her a very warm welcome. [applause] >> thank you for being here and coming out in the rain it means so much to have people from all different phases and stages of my life. also carmichael' please purchase books if you want to have these independent bookstores and they need your dollars to do that i would appreciate if you purchase your book i will be signing them at the signing table. so what i want to do tonight i will read excerpts of hill women and why i wrote the book and what inspired me to write it and to give you an overview of how the book came to be and into the world and after the i will answer questions for anything that is on your mind. and i look forward to hearing your thoughts on the book

thank you again to carmichael's for hosting. i will be over signing books so, please, please, please, support carmichael's, buy a book. thank you all for being here. [applause] [inaudible conversations] ♪ >> c-span, your unfiltered view of government. created by cable in 19 is 79 and brought -- 1979 and brought to you today by your television provider. >> and now, it's time for booktv on c-span2, every weekend it's 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books. .. now an author who will join us live for our call-in program in depth. the american enterprise institute

a liberal democrat former cabinet minister, alistair carmichael, is calling for a change in the law., when there were clashes between the police and protesters who were objecting to a proposed law that would have enabled criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland china. alistair carmichael wants british national overseas passport—holders to have the right to live or work indefinitely in the uk. reports of police brutality against protesters have arrived almost daily since the start of protests against proposed extradition laws last summer. that the chinese state is reneging on the sino—british joint declaration is no longer a matter of debate, and if ever there were a time to act in support of hong kong, then this is it. for hong kongers themselves, this is one of the most important signals that we can send. it is a signal that we in the united kingdom have not forgotten the obligations that we have to them and that as it begins as some of their worst fears may be realised, then we in the uk shall do more than stand on the sidelines wringing our hands. alistair carmichael was put

our first speaker this morning is peter carmichael. peter is the professor of civil war studies and director of the civil war institute at gettysburg college. i have seen some cwi hats around, wonderful to see them. he has a phd in history from penn state university, where he had the good fortune to study under gary gallagher. he is the author or editor of five books, including "last generation: young virginians in peace, war, and reunion," published in 2005. he is also one of the series editors for a civil war series, and i know him best in this capacity. he was my editor and i can tell you his thoughtfulness, careful attention to detail and generosity with sources made my book a better book. today, he will tell us about his most recent book, the war for the common soldier, which was released in 2018 as part of the prestigious littlefield series with unc press. a review recently concluded, "it is a poignant book, full of pathos, which bears out carmichael's themes and illuminates the mental struggle and coping mechanisms of civil war

thank you to carmichael for hosting. i will be signing books. so please, please, support carmichael's and thank you for being here. [applause] >> here's a look at books being published this week. >> we want to introduce you to an author. what do you do for a living? >> i'm a presidential historian i do when writing on my website, presidential nospaceco history.com and for a lot of media for presidential history and politics. >> are you a classically trained historian? >> i'm not. >> it's been a passion my whole life and it's been fun to do that writing now and that to be able to actually publish a book. >> and we want to talk about the book which

i want to think carmichaels for hosting the event. meese purchase becomes. let support them. and use our dollars to do that. so please at the end of tonight i'd appreciate if you would purchase your book and i'll be signing them at the signing table. so, what i want to do tonight is i want to -- i'm going to read some excerpts ol' "hill women pie --" hill woman "and after that i'll have time for questions so meese anything that is on your mind, i would love to hear from you. this adiscussion and dialogue and i look forward to hearing your thoughts on the book and the subject matter and anything that you have on your mind. so the first part that i want to read comes from the introduction when i'm talking about the county and this book is done withto the poorest counties in all of america. is is sort of in deep appalachia, small county, 4500 boom, one of the highest poverty rates in america. it's hard for me to know which part of the county i should show the rest to the world. presenting the broken falling in places helps people understand the spent extent of the poverty i and

the outbreak has shut down many factories in china jessica mensch now went to a bridal shop in carmichael right near sacramento to see if that shop is seeing a delay. i'm in a hmong saying yes to d th perfect dress different necklines that's important for us toleeves is made easier ride to be cut or in carmichael we are a family so our ys are all star family, butthe path to saying do made the call a little more complicated for brides because the coronavirus we were informed that some of the factories are cling down productn for many bridal gowns in china has come to a grding halt as factory shut down to the spread of the virus. designers are rning the shop to prepare for delays in shipments grew don't know how things are ing to change we don't know how the coronavirus is going to continue toimpact things. so it's just important that brands are shopping now for their wedding dress understand that e need to shop early and it's not just the bridal industry feelingthe impact china's wide manufacturing brch everything from clothing to electronics will be impact retailers that do not have flexi

our first speaker this morning is peter carmichael.peter is the professor of civil war studies and director of the civil war institute at gettysburg college. i have seen some

the vote constantly they're going to split up the rest which is why bernie's going have the most carmichael your take but he did not appear despite the mock debates on the advisers helping him, he didn't seem ready. you know this is something where if you have spent $40 million on ads. >>and a little bit of side for debate prep i mean really good debate prep because he just looked like he was being hit with a chair by a little more in that was right at the top basically were kept i'm happy can't be surprised about the s and elizabeth warren is look i've said all for years now. >>she's the quickest on her feet and most articulate of all the dow yeah so of course he should have expected when winds when they're going on about the mta's and she is right there next to him she was leaving him down the path of i've ruined by basically saying releasing and the a's it was right there any can i just say that we knew everybody would be blasting bloomberg but they were all turning on each other avoid clover chart and buttigieg is 2 kids in the back of a may be true because they are desperately trying t

carmichael for giving the opportunity to the opportunity to go on the tour to gettysburg. also the description of the imagination and history, i thought it was fantastic because he did a wonderful job of outlining -- of outlining the battlefield in a way that i thought was imaginative as well as creative. we were able to envision and visualize and kind of see in our minds what he was saying as he was narrating a story for us of the battle of gettysburg which i thought was fantastic. and also was, what i found fascinating was his ability to translate what we saw on a map of gettysburg and then also visualize that into what we saw before us. it added that texture to it that i thought was really unique that he was able to do for us. thank you, really. thank you. >> [indiscernible] >> [laughter] yes the battle of vicksburg , was a great strategic victory. but we only know this with the hindsight that the army of the potomac was not destroyed here in pennsylvania. so i think we have to put it in that perspective and consider it more or less co-equals. gary: i can't help but say

as executive director of kings organization and the voices of stokely carmichael, bob nash, a wave of others. ella baker was a democratic you -- democratic activist, but she believed in the centrality of grassroots, and she believed in the capacities and abilities of those sliced and called everyday -- sly stone called everyday people. as you access their ability and capacity, you don't have to have just one leader representing all black people and all brown people, usually to be co-opted or killed area once you co-opt or murder them, lo and behold, depression sets in, and the possibility of those capacities and abilities of ordinary people are overlooked. ella baker is somebody who we have to catch up with. she is ahead of us and she died of course working closely with my precious puerto rican brothers and sisters in the independence movement. oscar lopez rivera is still in jail. because she was cosmopolitan. she was international. there was always at a grocery level and there is nothing wrong if people think your a charismatic but you must use your charisma as a form of service, not

conversations] [applause] >> good evening everyone thank you for joining us tonight on behalf of carmichael's silence our phones i

. >> author peter carmichael uses letters written by union and confederate soldiers to examine their battle experience, mental state, and political outlook. he argues that the daily life of a civil war soldier required adaptability to survive the brutal environment of wartime. the lincoln forum symposium hosted this event. [applause] jonathan: good morning, everyone. my name is jonathan white and i am vice chair of the lincoln forum and it is my pleasure to welcome you to this session. we are on hallowed ground and it is altogether fitting and proper

have those jobs is a guy sitting behind me that's working at it every day and that is president carmichael who came up with the idea, you know, to let our kids go to college for free. it's working. it's one of the ideas that's just working. today we have an all-time high employment. all time. it just gets better and better and better. now, brother mitch, we got to have those kids. and you know we got to have them. we got to get them trained and we got to get them prepared for the workforce. we need more and more and more of them. the reason, if i were to say to you this, let's just -- let's just be fair and be real. what if i were to say to you, and it is nowhere in my notes, this is nowhere at all, and normally i wouldn't have any notes unless i was sweating and going to take a long time. but here's the thing. what if i were to say to you, in the state of west virginia, your severance tax dollars are going to be the lowest, the lowest that they've been in the last 25 years. and then i would say to you, how do you think you're doing? think about it. think about it. from the standpoint of t

the protesters are trying to stop the supply of rail equipment to the carmichael coal mine in australia have been asking this since december. they said they would look at it and then the company decided to go ahead with the contract. obviously activists weren't happy with that and are stepping up demand. they're sending activists to speak as part of the shareholder meeting. matt: i think those protests are just getting started now so we are going to check back in with you after a while. next, the man betting against tesla, even as stock in the electric car maker sores. -- soares. bets on piling into drops in the bond prices. we will speak with the cio of asgard credit. matt: welcome back to bloomberg markets. we have had some negative results and a couple of profit warnings from some pretty big companies. you are seeing futures down across the board. let's take a look at what you should be watching out for. argentina's finance minister meets imf managing director -- meets the imf managing director at the vatican. they'll discuss the record credit line. continues after bnp paribas this m

i'm a second year teacher at carmichael elementary school. i'm not here tonight to talk for me. i'm here because there's a little girl i know. she has nowhere to live. my partner steals her snacks from her job so that she has some extra food. she is not the only one. there are dozens of children just at my school with nowhere to live. there are 2,500 kids in our school district that have been homeless or at risk of being homeless. i see people in the streets that i know. it is immoral to take from these children. we like to use words like equity a lot in sfusd. but equity is not a word. it is actions. and if those actions are to take from the people with the lest, that is not equity. my student has refugees from a genocide. and you are going to tell me those kids don't have psychiatrists, that our school counselor needs to see 500 children who need help. you can't say equity without making it something you are doing. if you are not going to do it, don't say it. [applause] we have 75 billionaires in san francisco. let's take their money. it's not just you, the city government nee

now as our closer today is david rubinstein, the co founder and chief executive chairman of the carmichaelalk about. we might as well start with the market hitting another record high do stocks deserve to be where they are today >> well, the market always reflects what people think so i guess it deserves to be here to some extent. on the other hand, you have to always worry, can it get any better than this it's been so wonderful for the last year or so and i think that all people who buy stocks are always wondering if this is the market high. but i don't think it is the high because everything seems to be aligning very well you have low unemployment, you have low in flag, you have know interest rates so right now i think the economy has a way to go, the stock market has a way to go. >> you also have this coronavirus, which is grinding the entire chinese economy to a halt, david. have you seen any impact on deal making, ipos in any of your businesses >> we haven't seen any real impact in the united state going to go forward for a while and clearly there's going to be some impact on the chin

our only school that serves the students belt see carmichael and the child care center and the willingness to make sure it is affordable for our families and just the project sponsor and developer's willingness to understand the needs of the community and provide ongoing support. i want to especially shout out sharon and louise and jordan for volunteering and getting to know what the community is and also the project developer lawrence for coming out and actually seeing what our community does, engaging and understanding our programs and wanting to build a long term relationship. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> how are you doing? congratulations, good to see. i am rudy violence prevention organization. i am a native south of market. this is my son. we stay there. i want to say that these are the type of projects and relationships that are important to building bridges and not walls with authentic real developers who really see us in the community. sharon is so center mental in building -- so instrumental and to lawrence louie who came out to see what we do. that means a lot to me. i

our only school that serves the students belt see carmichael and the child care center and the willingness to make sure it is affordable for our families and just the project sponsor and developer's willingness to understand the needs of the community and provide ongoing support. i want to especially shout out sharon and louise and jordan for volunteering and getting to know what the community is and also the project developer lawrence for coming out and actually seeing what our community does, engaging and understanding our programs and wanting to build a long term relationship. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> how are you doing? congratulations, good to see. i am rudy violence prevention organization. i am a native south of market. this is my son. we stay there. i want to say that these are the type of projects and relationships that are important to building bridges and not walls with authentic real developers who really see us in the community. sharon is so center mental in building -- so instrumental and to lawrence louie who came out to see what we do. that means a lot to me. i

>> good evening everyone thank you for joining us tonight on behalf of carmichael's i am delighted to welcome you to tonight's event if we all take a moment to silence our phones i would appreciate that. with the strong women who raised her and went on to get her degree from harvard law and currently lives in louisville with her husband. [applause] >> thank you for being here in the rain on a cold night it means so much to me for all the different stages and phases of my life. and has done so much from our community we use our dollars to do that i would appreciate it if you would push on - - purchase a book after. so i will read some excerpts and talk about why i wrote the book and what inspired me to write it and a little bit of the overview how it came to be into the world and then i would have time for questions anything on your mind i would love to hear from you i see this as a discussion in the subject matter and anything on your mind. the first part i want to read comes from the introduction and all of america it is the appellation a 4500 people one of the highest poverty rates