Thank you for coming tonight. It is up pleasure i see friends in the audience. Even members of my riding durbin of an amazing author the lives year in and to is and she year . We are friends on the facebook. There is a memoir called a nomans war that came almost at the same time and hers is a memoir of all the deployments as a soldier officer deployed many, many times so im here you are here also. This is my first chance to do a reading and i am excited. I have done a couple talks but this is my inaugural reading. I want to read a couple different packages provide of a paragraph about each of the three main characters. It is new material i have not read from before. Banana wanted to read about time afghanistan and iraq. Then i do questions. The first veteran i would read about this Michelle Fisher that is the main character of this book i met her 2010 she told me a lot about herself introduce me to the other two people that we began an amazing multiyear process of lengthy interviews an
Trip. So we met at a cafe in downtown columbia, and i showed him a few of these images from the oregon coast which was part of his route. And i said heatmoon, my son edgar iv and i would like to retrace your route and do a photographic version of your book because we cant begin to write like you write, but we can take good photographs. His answer, i was very pleased, was very positive. He said, you know, one of the most common questions people ask me is when are you going to take make the trip again, but im never going to take the trip again, have at it. He confided to me about four years later he didnt think my son and i would make that journey and the book. So so our goals were to find the characters still living almost three decades later. We wanted to find the beauty of back roads america that he had so beautifully described in his book. We wanted to find the 5 30 taverns that he frequented. We wanted to find the mom and pop cafes that he always ate at. Ask youll remember one of my
[inaudible conversations] i think we will get started. I want to thank julia ott before introducer for allowing me to say a few words. Welcome the new school. Welcome to one of the featured events of the Harvard Center for capitalism studies. For a couple of years i taught a course at eugene college, our undergraduate division, on understanding Global Capitalism. The first day we become in and everyone had to look at the tag of the shirt to the person, shirt of the person to their loved and tell us what country that shirt was made in. So that was the first thing we did in understanding Global Capitalism. We would write the names of the countries on the board. And it was invariably 25 countries. Actually remarkable that the production still quite diversified. What we learned by looking at cotton shirts in that case was about globalization of production. We learned about the modern structure of the modern corporation, about branding, fashion design, about the relationship between trade a
Us at comments cspan. Org or send us a tweet, tweet, cspan comments. Join the conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Welcome to columbus, georgia, on booktv, located on the chattahoochee river. The river served as a Major Trading post and created a booming textile industry in the citys early history. The boats would come up the river and bring finished goods like, you know, furniture, machinery or agricultural implements x the farmers from east alabama and west georgia would bring their produce especially cotton into columbus, and it would be shipped down the river. Our port on the gulf is apalachicola, and from there the cotton would be shipped mainly to england or to the textile mills in the north. The help of our mediacom partners, for the next hour we explore columbus literary scene starting with local author Dan Crosswell as he recounts the life and career of general walter bidell smith. Basically, eisenhower was the good cop. So what he needed was a bad cop and
Fantastic guests. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next on booktv, helen thorpe talks about her book, soldier girls the battles of three women at home and at war. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone. Welcome to thunder third annual san antonio book festival. I am executive director of the the festival in very happy to be here with you and helen thorpe to discuss her terrific book, soldier girls the battles of three women at home and at war. Id like to remind you that barnes noble is selling books upstairs. You just go up the escalator and helen will be signing in the reference area next to the sales area at 1 30 directly after this. I want to thank barnes noble who very generously donate a portion of the proceeds to the san antonio book festival. Well take questions from the audience for the last ten minutes of the session and please turn off your cell phones. Helen thorpe is a seasoned journalist and author who was born in london, grew up in new jersey and now lives