Booknotes - Incredible Show still lives on the net!
It is possible to go to the link below and listen to many of the Booknote shows on your computer.
Booknote's archive
Even better is when I did a search for the Pres. Polk biography interview with John Seigenthaler - it also lists links to interviews of other interviews that have the word "Polk" in the transcript. So it links to books about Winfield Scott - Pres. Buchanon, Henry Clay and Franklin Pierce too. A rich resource and treasureful window into history.
Seignethaler read James K. Polk's diaries - first the edited version and then the four volumes - he found them so compelling that he accepted the assignment to write a short biography that this interview discusses. Fascinating to listen to - hard to listen to and not want to hear and read more.
Incredible!!!!
posted by 1moreslogger @ 1:53 PM
1 Comments:
I'm a born-again Polk-hater.
You have seen this most beautiful website?
Check out the debate records starting Jan 11, 1848 (in the House). Lincoln talks on the 12th.
But I love this quote, about Polk and his friends...
"Let them sport their pleasure boats on the rivers of tears of widows and orphans."
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