when thomas jefferson met thomas paine in paris in 1787, he begged him to sit -- [inaudible] jefferson collected portraits of celebrated men, and in 1787 there were few men as celebrated as thomas paine. he wrote "common sense," the 46-page pamphlet that catalyzed the independence movement and overthrew the british monarchies and the colonies. paine agreed to be painted, and jefferson hung the portrait in quite a place, on the walls of monticello, his house in virginia. that was 1787. now fast forward 40 years to 1828. thomas jefferson is dead. his family are selling off his possessions. when the auctioneerens dig out thomas paine's portrait, they find the canvas torn and battered. there are mouse holes through his eyes, stab marks in his chest. as if some children in jefferson's family had been allowed to vandalize it. the fate of thomas paine's painting is, i think -- [inaudible] for his own extraordinary life. the man toasted around the world in the 1790s -- 1770s and 1780s as the hero of the american revolution ended his days as a discredited pariah, unceremoniously cast aside. the

thomas loves spike lee.s one of his favorite filmmakers and he loves do the right thing, and malcolm x. that's the best i can do as an answer. >> i think that's it. i think we're good. thank you, everyone. >> thank you. thank you. [applause] >> a reminder that he will be signing books so you should buy a and get it signed. >> be up to date in the latest in publishing with booktv is podcast, about books. with current nonfiction book releases, plus bestseller lists as well as industry news and trends through insider interviews. you can find about books on c-span now, our free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> there are a lot of places to get political information, but only at c-span2 at ct straight from the source. no matter where you are from or where you stand on the issues, c-span is america's network. unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. if it happens here or here or here, or anywhere that matters, america is watching on c-span. powered by cable. >> on about books of programs the report on t

thomas loves spike lee. he's one of his favorite filmmakers and he loves you the right thing and malcolm x. that's that's the best i can do as an answer. so i think i think that's it. i think we're good. thank you everyone. thank you, corey. thank you. thank you. a reminder that toby's signing books so you should buy a book and get it signed.

that's why justice thomas. unapologetically straightforward approach is so needed huge parts of washington exists to overcomplicate things that are simple but justice thomas has a special talent for dispensing with nonsense. here's one example. by the year 2003 i'd been waging a lengthy political and legal battle against unconstitutional restrictions on the first amendment that some people call campaign finance reform. we took the fight all the way to the supreme court and a case called mcconnell versus fec. unfortunately, i lost but justice thomas descent made for one heck of a consolation prize. he'd simply fearlessly called it. like he saw it. he blasted the unprecedented restrictions on the free exchange of ideas the heroic defense of the plain text. of the first amendment or take his jurisprudence on unborn life every time without fail justice thomas writes a separate concise opinion to cut through the 50-year tangle of made-up tests and shifting standards and calmly reminds everybody that the whole house

thomas more on that? >> thomas was probably after malcom x in the late 60s and 70s, probably the h most influential black economist, very conservative who wrote a book called raised in economics and thomas, clarence thomas gets a call saying you got to read this book. t.he was it and he's at the capitol of missouri of jefferson city. he drives to st. louis because thomas soul is there to debate and upcoming professor named ruth bader ginsburg. [laughter]r] u know, this is theo damascus or the road to saint louis. so seoul is a huge influence on him. however, i think you can't kind of homogenize black conservatives because there are other black conservatives who there are other black conservatives with stronger individualisticis week that leas colorblindness and i don't think you see those in that. i think other black conservatives are little more in tension with. >> is today's strain of pessimism of the early 70s in a political direction? [laughter] you know, i i i'm gonn that question to be honest with y

when he was citizen thomas. he at the eoc. it compels the silverman's into becoming the greatest supporters and cheerleaders and helpers for the justice and he moved into the d. c. circuit, through the circuit when they share time there, and currently as we all know. that is something that i think should not go unrecognized. trish keeps of the tradition. larry, i will say this about you, no one has had more to do with justice thomas's extraordinary journey the new, with except possibly president george h. w. bush who nominated him to the supreme court, and senator jack dan fourth who gave citizen thomas his first job in missouri, and became his indispensable backer, much, much later. please come up and say some words. let me give you this -- [applause] [applause] >> the key to what he just said was a few words. there is one word that seemed quite inappropriate, i did not realize it was part of the award, it was the word humility. i have thought about this, and i richly deserved this award. [laughs] [applause] bu

a thomas is an originalist. he believes you should interpret the constitution as it was understood at thedo moment of is adoption but unlike many originalists, he takes very seriously the second constitution that was created through the struggle through the black freedom struggle and emancipation. there's technical aspects of that which i get into in the book, but at the heart of that, this is where it starts reconciling with the conservatism. among the charters of liberties and freedoms that were created by the 13th and 14th amendment at the heart of the freedoms for thomas is the right to bear arms. that is to the experience of reconstruction and interestingly, thomas in his opinion on this question extensively quotes from the book on slave revolts. i think this may be the only time a supreme court justice quotes herbert for the sort of communist activity and wide to be banned or something like that. but thomas takes this historiography very seriously this o experience forms the heat nof his vision of a black

is that justice thomas likes to take the longer view? i think that's true. i mean we call them created equal because his life is really based on the way. he sees the declaration of independence those core principles and how they realized in the constitution. you can understand it if you follow his life story. i mean, you know. i think yourself, but maybe not all your listeners now. he's born in pinpoints, georgia a gullah speaking area off the coast of georgia. so english isn't really his first language and in rural poverty his father leaves before he can remember his mother really is raising him when he's about six or seven years old. they moved to savannah and he as he said he went from rural poverty to urban squalor and in savannah his mother's working as a maid. he she doesn't have enough money to give them enough food. they're hungry. they're cold in the winter. she brings them to school and he just leaves school and wanders the streets and after two years she realizes she can't take care of those kids brings them to her father his grandfather to raise

so i kind of got stuck on the tv there and i'm thinking that must mean thomas. gotta be thomas. i said i was a journalist. i did not say i was a good journalist. of course. it's tailor. it's tailor. it took us understand. to say right gail. look at this and i started to her it's that's the taylor family. so now now we call this the taylor bible. and my uncle bequeath this bible to me along with those pictures. you just saw some very grateful to him and to my cousins who actually honored that because had i been in his shoes. i would never have turned over those items. my uncle also shared with me this photograph. now, this is my grandmother's sister. and you can see how fabulous she is. this woman lived as a white woman. which is why i'm not sure of her name. because she left her family and here's the story behind us. my grandfather said that when my grandmother became ill and died and all four girls died with the exception of one caring and the two boys my grand my aunt comes and she she lived in new york and she comes to visit and she says i want these three children to come wi

justice thomas thrived in that environment.ot of people knew he indecided he went to be a priest he enrolls in the seminary. he went to the seminar his grandfather was proud of him there's a big financial commitment. then after two years in the seminary, he experienced -- seminaries were all white he was one of the first integrating. and there he started to experience some racism. it reached e a peak in 1968 they are watching tv martin luther king jr. shoprite one of the white seminarian said i hopena that slb dies. after clarence thomas caps off felt the church was not doing enough for civil rights. his grandfather was wrong about everything. and he became in hishe own words and angry black man. and became radicalized. his grandfather said if you can make your own decisions are on your own and kicked him out of the house. the onlyen father he ever knew really, kicks him out. he is on his own. he has to go wherever he has the scholarship, holy cross of massachusetts. there he continues to be erratically starts a black student u

. >> judge thomas do solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god. please be seated. when i was six i wandered streaked by myself hungry didn't know when to eat someplace in my life the roads lead off i gone to seminary, all-white schools i was never good to be i white, te problem is i could never go back completely to the world i came from were supposed to be revolutionary we were for anybody. i felt when i became lashing out every single thing and i asked god if you take anger out of my heart i will never hit again. and that was the beginning of a slow return to where i started. >> i want my candidate to unify our country i was under attack were not really doing what we expect black people to do. >> i will nominate judge clarence thomas to serve as a justice of the united states supreme court. that's when all hell broke loose. judge thomas used work situations to discuss. >> we know exactly what is going on this is the wrong black guy he asked to be destroyed. it did not matter, what mattered was what they wanted. >> i'd rather die than wi

i'm thinking, that must mean thomas, that's gotta be thomas! i said i was a journalist, i did not say i was a good journalist. of course, it is taylor. it is taylor. it took some understanding to say, wait a minute, gayle, this is the taylor family. now we call this the taylor bible. my uncle bequeathed this bible to me along with the pictures, so i'm grateful to him and to my cousins who honored that because, had i been in his shoes i never would've turned over those items. by uncle also shared with me this photograph. now, this is my grandmother's sister. and you can see how fabulous she is. this woman lived as a white woman. which is why i'm not sure of her name. she left her family. my grandfather said that when my grandmother became ill and died, and all four girls died with the exception of carey, and two boys, my aunt comes, she lived in new york. she comes to visit and she says, i want these children to come with me. i want to care for them. she was quite wealthy, as you can see. i want to make sure they are educated and i will care for

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>> that was the trailer for judge thomas in his own words. it's a two-hour film. it was released in january 2020, it was in a bunch of theaters, 110 years and when c covid cut its release short was broadcast on pbs. it was released digitally and it's still available digitally. it's on amazon, the viewers can go to our website with a full list of how to watch it and that film was based on a very long interview with clarence thomas . i think you can see he looked right at the camera and tells his story in his own words from the beginning to today so i interviewed him for 24 hours and jenny for five or six hours and they're the only interviews in the film and clarence thomas in his own words but it was a 25 hour interview. so my co-author of the book, a long-term friend had the idea that we should take some of that material and put it in a book. the book is 95 percent new material but it follows the same pattern of the film. it tells his life story from the beginning of the court to today. so i think this is an important moment for people to understand as for justice

when thomas jefferson met thomas paine in paris, in 1787, he begged him to sit for a portrait. jefferson collected portraits of celebrated men and, in 1787, there were few men as celebrated as tom paine. the author of common sense, the 46 page pamphlet that had catalyzed the independence movement and overthrown the british monarchy in the colonies. i paine agreed to be painted and jefferson hung the little portrait in pride of place on the walls of monticello, his house in virginia. that was 1787. now, fast forward 40 years to 1828. thomas jefferson is dead. and his family are selling off its possessions. when the auctioneers take out tom paine's portrait from the bottom of the box, they find his canvas torn and battered. there are knife holes through tom paine's eyes, there are stab marks in his chest, as if some children in jefferson's family had been allowed to vandalize it. the fate of tom paine's painting is, i think, an apt metaphor for tom paine's own extraordinary life. the man, toasted around the world in the 17 70s and 17 80s as the hero of the american revolution, en

is that justice thomas likes to take the longer view? i think that's true. i mean we call them created equal because his life is really based on the way. he sees the declaration of independence those core principles and how they realized in the constitution. you can understand it if you follow his life story. i mean, you know. i think yourself, but maybe not all your listeners now. he's born in pinpoints, georgia a gullah speaking area off the coast of georgia. so english isn't really his first language and in rural poverty his father leaves before he can remember his mother really is raising him when he's about six or seven years old. they moved to savannah and he as he said he went from rural poverty to urban squalor and in savannah his mother's working as a maid. he she doesn't have enough money to give them enough food. they're hungry. they're cold in the winter. she brings them to school and he just leaves school and wanders the streets and after two years she realizes she can't take care of those kids brings them to her father his grandfather to raise

laura: thomas dupree, thank you for joining us. thomas: thank you.: police in new york state say the author salman rushdie has suffered a stab wound to the neck. he was attack as he was about to give a lecture. he was flown to the hospital and is undergoing surgery. and man has been taken into custody. he received death threats after writing his book in 1988 and went into hiding for nearly a decade. john now reports. john: there was confusion and panic. the attack happened in full view of the audience with sir solomon -- salman left injured with eyewitnesses in deep shock. >> there was nothing audible from the tack -- attacker. he repeatedly and with vicious determination stabbed salman rushdie. >> people were out of their seats, crying and screaming. this unheard of thing was happening ontage. john: salman rushdie was taken to hospital by helicopter. he had been due to speak at the center for arts and learning in western new york state that has long celebrated freedom of expression, a value many observers pointed out is embodied by mr. rushdie himse

. >> that's when he discovered he had gone to bed the night before as thomas dodd, and he woke up ase dion. now more than a year later, he tells our own will ganss, he has no regrets. >> reporter: it's been 25 years since her heart first went on. ♪ you're here there's nothing i fear ♪ >> reporter: and now she's the focus of a brand-new off-broadway musical. >> thank you, good night! i love you so much. >> reporter: and this morning, we're going one-on-one with celine dion. >> there was some certificates in there that informed me legally i changed my name from thomas dodd to celine dion. >> reporter: the uk native formerly known as thomas dodd drinking a little too much one night. i've never heard of anyone changing their name, and especially not changing their name to celine dion. >> it doesn't mean alcohol shouldn't mix. >> reporter: celebrating his favorite singer while enjoying champaign. >> i was enjoying champagne as i sat there watching television. i got to a bit of celine dion in vegas. and it all gets a bit hazy after that. >> reporter: but it's all coming back to him now. ♪

there guys, you're speaking to his thomas. thank you though for coming on the program and sharing what you've seen yourself direct on today's developments as well. we've been speaking to thomas roper journalist and author. ah, get another story to bring you to day 7 people have been killed including a 5 year old child after earth strikes by is really forces on the gaza strip out according to the palestinian health ministry. a further 40 people were reported injured. a warning, you may find the following images disturbing. this village you can see at the moment of building and garza was struck. israel sent out the leader of the militant wing of the stomach. g. how'd organization the movements in palestine it was killed in what was described as a special operation against that group. and this on verifying video allegedly shows the aftermath of the tank when people carrying the body of the 5 year old victim. the strike was a part of the anti g had, is really operation. they've named breaking don't the same time the, it's really d

thomas jefferson.erson's vice president is a massachusetts guy and he is also going to be one of madison's vice presidents. the north-south team of a massachusetts and virginia is important.ou the answer to your question about john marshall he is the last founder. he strengthens the judiciary. he is out washington man, a hamilton man, a continental us he and story together make a really impressive team just as washington and hamilton do and just as a madison and jefferson do. >> i think it's fair to say both of us and we are not exactly members of the federalist party were very sympathetic to it. this is an animating we been talk in the last few minutes. say a good word for thomas jefferson. >> i agree with what you said. but after all he is hilly it is. what does he add that is precious? >> let me had been sent as a young person i adored jefferson and was very skeptical of hamilton. he and other people change my ideas about hamilton to change my idea about hamilton. an idea about hamilton rices gassma

it's kind of a response to thomas frank's book, what's the matter with kansas? when i i wrote the proposal fr this book i called it what's the matter with liberals? i think we do share a lot of commitments about questions as well, what of the biggest problem facing america. it's just a question of how do we achieve those goals. but yeah, i want to hear more from both of you. >> if i could chime in for one second. i actually agree completely. if you go to college classroom at an elite school today it's all about identity and it's what i call the victimization olympics. when you meet people that are going to tell you a host of factors about themselves that usually intends to transmit some sense of harm. i'm this, , therefore i've been hurt this way. i am that's why they hurt that way. when i first meet students i reject that immediately. that's fine, i don't care about your gender, race, ethnicity, any of that. let's try to find something we can all agree on. who are we as a class, one of you to do collectively as a community? i am troubled by the idea that the en

thomas jefferson gets a. his partner madison gets it even more and they champion freedom of speech against this john adams informed a political party that will be the dominant political party all the way to abe blinken to you and i and people who are political have to respect that. he creates a newspaper empire, affiliated newspapers is a poor his way of thinking about the world he secretly funds. he creates fox news network in a way, so he understands the democratic newspaper culture of america, he's always telling madison don'tt write off as against hamilton's for them to shreds. he's to good a newspaper scribbler. he got go after them so there's a reason he's on mount rushmore now. i criticized him because something that's really important to me, the slavery issue, he gets worse over time. he found a political party, basically a southern base, here's the relevance of this today. todayy there's a party, both parties have the so i will talk about the republican party. i'm with lizzie cheney. i think in the e

thomas bailey eldridge was not just a reader. he was editor at the magazine, renowned for its fiction. although his first reaction to rives' story was wildly enthusiastic and he said he wants every scrap i ever wrote. she gratefully gushed to aldri ch, "i will do whatever you think best with regard to it and anything else i ever write." rives had just achieved publication with a story set in 16th century england. here she different from most southern writers, who wrote about the south. rives wrote the story in an era entranced by stories of chivalric heroes. hers was more pointed toward the national rather than a southern audience. while the stories featured romance, the resourcefulness and daring of its heroines foreshadowed rives' later writing. over the next few months, rives pelted aldrich with manuscripts as she sought to make the editor her literary guide. she pledged her loyalty. "you shall have the very first links of my brain and heart, and i will write for no one else in the world if you want me to write for you." the n

always get to welcome on to the program or throw on war correspondent, thomas shrew per hi. thomas. hello doria, duke and i had been, and i've spoken support her of russia's offensive in ukraine. do you think she and her father alexandra, where the target of an assassination plot? well, i think 1st of all was her father. it was his car. and we had to remember the april, the attempt to blow up the car of the russian journalist line. yes. hello. yes. which was then prevented by the russian as you could service. so it was exactly exactly the same plan which happened right now, blowing up the car of well, political or journalistic person in russia. i think, well they wanted to transfer father and accidentally was the daughter. i know i knew personally, by the way, and i know that often he gave the car, for example, when they went on the long trip to the city that's got it. it just really is hernandez. isn't that you mentioned there. you knew daria percy can you give us a sense of her maybe on a personal level and what else? maybe what she achieved in her career in her all too brief life

thank you thomas for joining us from france. thank you virginia for joining us here in new york and the book comes out next week. again there's the cover on the left. on the other side, >> we all have a mutual friend who helped design the cover . >> that's the brilliance of alana newhouse . >> great job and this is a great one. >> thank you all so much for this, what a pleasure. >> it's such a good book. congratulations on it. everyone listening, just by. there's the storytelling we didn't get into about the 19th century press especially, it's really compelling. >> feel free to follow all of us on twitter but of course log off and spend some time away from this to get avoid getting too much for result. i thank you all for joining us. >> good evening. welcome to the midtown scholar bookstore. it is an honor to welcome you to this evening's author program. before we begin, i have a few housekeeping notes as always. one, while our speakers will keep their masks off, we ask you to keep your masks on. two,

happy to take questions or comments. >> any questions from commissioner thomas? before? >> can you tell us about the sound equipment you will have in there. yea. let us know >> we got mics for intruments and vocalists through a mixing board. put in speakers throughout or will install throughout the space to level sound across so we have even distribution of sound. designed to be turned to a level you hear what is going on on the stage but not so much you can't hear the person next to you talking. done by professional sound company base in the san francisco. >> great. >> and i think am commissioner perez is not here i think he would love for me to ask if you get a complaint what your process will be like for hajjing complaints or issues that come in? >> first thing is communication. we want to talk with the person we want to be good neighbors we have been planning this project for 5 years. spent a lot of time talking with neighbors immediately. next to us who are around. . local businesses, community organizations and nonprofits we reached out to them and invited them in