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like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >>> now, we continue the look at the 1864 presidential election between abeham lincoln and george mcclellan. it was marked by casualties and the end goal of emancipation. many believed lincoln would fail re-election. jennifer webber examines the political climate in the summer of 1864 and explains how lincoln won by a landslide. this is hosted by the lincoln group of d.c. it's about 50 minutes. >>> good morning. i'm pleased to be here this morning and honored to be able to introduce our next speaker, jennifer webber. jennifer is an associate professor of history at the university of kansas where her specialty, no surprise, is the civil war. her first book was "copperheads" for those of you who may not have a copy at home. this, of course, is about the anti-war movement in the north. this was published by oxford university press in 2006 and actually has a forward by jennifer's mentor, james m. mcpherson. you can tell she comes from a quality line. her second book is actually geared toward children and this fact has won her a special place

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watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. .. >> the book is called "food politics: how the food industry influences nutrition and health" the author marion nestle who is a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at new york university. professor nestle, how big is the use of industry? >> it's more than a trillion dollars a year. it's enormous. it employs a vast percentage of the nation's people. everybody eats every day.day. they couldn't be more important. >> in your book you can. to the tobacco industry. >> only in certain ways. food is very different from tobacco. tobacco is simple.[inaud] one product, really bad for health, clearly responsiblef for terrible form of cancer and deaths, and there's one message, don't smoke. food is much more complicated than that. you can't tell people not toudil eat. they can't live if they don't'st be. it's not just one product, it's thousands and thousands and thousands of products. so the question for dealing wito nutrition i

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. ♪ share your ideas, tell us on facebook.s year at san jose minet police say this time: the trespasser stole an airportk truck -- and took off down e tarmac! good evening, i'm ann >>> it happened again. the third security breech this in san jose. this time they stole an airport work truck and took off down the tarmac. good evening. we are live at the airport tonight, christian, what happened? >> reporter: well, the police say that the man was trespassing on the tarmac over on this side of the airport here. that is where private flights come in and away from the public terminals. now the airport has had two high profile security breeches earlier this year. tonight, airport administration says this one not such a big deal. >> today, airport employees stopped him. as they were calling the police he ran off. maintenance worker was asked to get a term nal. when he was told no he stole the truck but was stopped by the police and arrested after driving around the airport. earlier this year in april, 15- year-old boy hopped over a fe

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watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. >>> next a discussion about minority students and higher education. hosted by the ucla civil rights project. college professors and education professionals present studies on issues affecting black and hispanic students. as well as access to student loans and overall effectiveness of college ratings. this is about 40 minutes. >> thanks very much, gary. so the paper i'm going to talk about this morning called the color of student debt is kau coauthored with robert and jason. this paper, as i said, is about student debt. something i know many of us are very concerned about and certainly as school resumes this fall for undergraduates across the country, we ought to remember that at more than 1 in 2 of them as they enter a college classroom this fall have taken out a loan in order do so. that's a significant change in history of this country and it means something. about what college opportunity entails today. in particular, i think it's notable that borrowing today is no longer a choice. that if one wants to attend college today, an

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