That photograph a lump immortalized with his own son did when he wrote the number one New York Times bestseller and so you know from his bestseller you know his father. You also know from the movie that was based on that number one bestseller in the movie flags of our fathers that Stephen Spielberg and clint eastward Clint Eastwood did. When do you might not know is 29 years after iwo jima his father approved james going to a university in tokyo the home of the previous enemy. I think thats an inspiring story. Since then James Bradley has written flyboys. A few nofly boys, another bestseller. He has written the imperial cruise and this is his fourth book the china mirage so please welcome James Bradley. [applause] thank you. [applause] hello dallas. Dallas, businessmen and dallas was key to beginning flags of our fathers off the ground in the first place. My dad raised the flag on iwo jima but he never talked about it. He would always change the subject. He died in 1994 and we found a
Coming up next on booktv encore booknotes from january 2000. Arthur herman discusses his book Joseph Mccarthy. Professor herman reassesses cart these legacy and argues the senator from wisconsin was justified in arguing there was a real communist threat inside the u. S. Government. This is about an hour. Cspan arthur herman, author of Joseph Mccarthy, why do you think we needed to reexamine the life and legacy of americas mosthated senator . Guest well, there are a couple of reasons. One is that we now know a lot more about the times and the context in which mccarthy had his political career and built his career of notoriety. We also know a lot more about joe mccarthy, the man, and about his own life. And what i wanted to do was to really put it together in a book that would give people a broad introduction, both to the period, but also to joe mccarthy, the man; to understand who he was, why he has the kind of tremendous rereputation and notoriety that he does and to understand where t
A very big donation to a cause close to their hearts this morning. And winners . A thrilling finish at the National Spelling bee, and the event ends in a rare tie, the first in more than 50 years. The cochamps are celebrating with us today, friday, may 30th, 2014. Life is a highway from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Can we take that shot one more time . That is a concert crowd. Wow. So many. Eat your heart out, austin mahone. That was a big crowd earlier this week, but huge today. And there is good reason. This is the most awarded Country Group in the past decade. They have 14 number one hits, 22 1 2 million albums sold. They have a new album thats getting critical acclaim and theyre going to give us a great concert in a few moments. That crowd, its all ages. They, Everybody Loves rascal flatts. Good to have them here. Were going to get to our top
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The only way i can operate the canoe is if susan wants to paddle me around, in which case i catch gigantic fish like that. I cant even drive e canoe. Grain of salt here, i dont get boats. Im reading through this part of the indictment and it describes that we, the american taxpayers, are about to get a catamaran, to me, no boat concepts, that seems like no big deal. But then, you look the thing up by the hull number that is in the dirmenindictment, and it tu out, its not just some little training sailboat. Its a 40footlong catamaran. And its basically a big speedboat thingy. And it is really do we have the picture . Thank you very much. This is it. This, apparently, is a 40foot catamaran. Its this gigantic plush speedboat thing. This is what we are getting. Which is very nice, right . Congratulations are in order. Were getting one of these. Its a 2018. Brandnew. Nice brand. Were also getting a brand new 2018 ford f150, also a trailer that goes with it. And i think were also going to ge