please join me in welcoming david reynolds. david? [applause] >> thank you very much, katharine. what i'm going to do is comment for 15-20 minutes introducing my book, and then katharine and i will have a friendly dialogue and open it up for q&a for the audience. it's great to be here at the historic stowe center. she spent the last two decades of her life -- i've done research here and truly appreciate everything the stowe center has done, and this is such a great year to come to the center in hartford. the 200th anniversary of the birth of harriet beecher stowe whose novel created such an uproar that lincoln called her the little lady who made this great war. it's possibly an understatement. i think it's true from the research i've done, but a lot of people were saying very, very similar things about that novel other than abe lincoln. it's the 150th anniversary of the civil war, and so the ideal time to reconsider stowe and her war in igniting the civil war and influencing american history up to modern times. although it's associated with the civil war in most people's minds, s

be sure to spend a few minutes and get your copy of david reynolds's new book "mightier than the sword" and 3 read "uncle tom's cabin" or read it for the first time and find out why it is a book that still resonates in the united states of america today. we appreciate having you. [applause] >> for more information about this book is that www.norton.com and surge "mightier than the sword". >> khalid sheikh mohammad is 4-year-old. i searched for the death records. his father died in 1969. they didn't keep records of resident foreigners. it wasn't interesting to them. we have this account of his father's death. no official transcript to back it up. his father dies and there's no welfare state. no organized charity. so his mother take the job washing of the bodies of the dead preparing them for burial. very low status low income job but enables her to become a living. she has nine children. years pass on and, the sheik is doing well. some what book is boy and the family decides -- they have no money at all. they need to back one son to get an education and that one son is typical in arab f

also david reynolds on the history of.though's novel uncle tom's cabin in his book, mightier than the sword. later harriet writes and talks about the author of "little women." in her book louisa may alcott. >> are booktv prime-time lineup starts with robert hirst curator of the mark twain project at the university of california berg way. he talks about publishing twain's autobiography 100 years after the author's death in 1910. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> robert came to uc berkeley in 1963. he was a student. four years later, people seeing his promise, offered him a job. he has been there ever since. in 1949, the granddaughter of mark twain gave uc berkeley the materials that are in the mark twain archives. in 1980, robert became the general editor of these archives and in 2005, they began the process of putting together the volumes, the first volume. i know many of you have already seen it. there will be three volumes, and there is a tremendous amount of excitement associated at you see press and with all of us who

at 9:50, david reynolds discusses of the mightier than the sword and "uncle tom's cabin" and the battle for america. after that at 11:15, hair rid rise, al cot the woman behind, "little women." "booktv" all this month on c-span2. >>> next we'll hear about u.s. military operations in afghanistan from the commander of nato's training mission in the country as well as the president of the national defense university. in june president obama announced plans to with draw 10,000 troops by the end of this year and 23 thousand more by september 2012. amounting to about one-third of the 100,000 troops in the country. this discussion hosted by the u.s. institute of peace is just over an hour. >> it is my great pleasure to welcome you to today's moda program event. those joining us from home or online who are wondering what moda is, i will read you the official moda description. it stands for ministry of defense advisors program. it is really about building effective and accountable defense institutions overseas in which our government partners with american defense, civilian experts from washingt

david cameron. he was talking about the riots in london and the surrounding areas. so that mystery is solved. >>> let's go to reynolds atlanta. any flight delays out there this morning? >> not yet. we've got a chance for thunderstorms across parts of the nation. you're going to have delays especially in places like miami, ft. lauderdale, especially orlando, tampa. do you see the trend here? lots of places in florida. fog and low clouds mike give you a delay. los angeles, too. a little bit of marine layer but the pesky stuff might be gone by mid morning. one of the reasons for the thunder boomers, it's going to be kind of simple. a few pop-up storms. plain and simple. due to the boundary maybe bringing a shower to parts of the carolinas, central texas and hopefully dallas. they could definitely use rain. plenty of sunshine for the west coast and stormy conditions for the plains in the northeast. heat is going to be relentless once again for dallas. 105 in dallas, 105 in el paso, 69 in san francisco, 84 in new york and 82 in boston. you know, we were talking about travel. if you happen to be traveling, maybe not just f

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reynolds wolf. "state of the union" with candy crowley starts right now. >>> an august of ains, at the battle of 2012 erode the president's support. today, the summer slump with obama senior campaign strategists, david axelrod, and then job creation in uncertain times with governors o'malley of maryland and mcdonnell of virginia. and elijah cummings, the former chair of the black caucus and analysis, and chris jeff free lund of digital. i am candy crowley, and this is state of the union. >>> what a difference a year makes, or not so much. last year at this time, president obama was vacationing on martha's vineyard, and that's where he is today. last year he said -- >> a year and a half ago the economy was shrinking rapidly, and the economy is now growing. >> this year he is saying -- >> america will come back from this recession stronger than before. that i am convinced of. >> unemployment was above 9% in 2010, and a year later it still is. more say the economy is getting worse. joining me from michigan, senior obama campaign strategists, david axelrod. thank you for being here. i want to ask you first -- >> sure, candy. >> the president is going to have the new jobs plan and a stimulus that is comi

we have about seven board members from the reynolds central courts of media. floyd abrams, lucy, david in the back, jeff in the back, walleter bush and linda deutsche. they all had the privilege of hearing what i'm about to say at a board meeting november the 10th and i'm going to ask floyd to just elaborate just a bit on the notion that in the near future, first amendment law may very well be made the plaintiff or impecunious individuals, what do you know about that? [laughter] >> it means that with new technology, the people who are going to get in trouble, the people who are going to get sued, the people whose cases are going to be great cases may not be the great newspapers anymore or the large television stations but individual bloggers. and that is all the more important to find a way to assure good representation of those people and to assure that the first amendment protection is genuinely available for all. one of the great things that occurred, i think, in the -- looking back on it, the last 30, 40 years of the last century is that the establishment press, as it was then, not