Nothing much she could do and cooperated with the fbi. This is not in the book but my favorite part is the mayor when asked who his, you know, his thoughts or comments, turned out she didnt give a shit about i think we will go ahead and get started. Hello and welcome for our event in carlson. Im sean and i would love to think our close sponsor for the evening. They are a wonderful partner to have to an event. Its with your help that we will continue working authors. When you support us you are reinvesting in your community because tax dollars are going to schools, parks street and we give back to the community by partnering with charities and also we are doing our summer fundraising for river city program. River city program encouraging literacy. The students get to keep five books each year. I would like ask you to make a donation. This program is near and dear to my heart and its wonderful and i will tell you all about it if you would like to hear. I would like to thank you for your
Booktv. Org. Marji ross regnery, what books are coming out this fall . It is an Election Year, regnery gets into things, what is going on in this crazy Election Year. One in july and late august. This is the election crowd in the general election, and Hillary Clinton, this is a big book to get the author, to bring out hillarys america. The most frightening book you will read this year. Typically done with the last big book. 2000 theaters across the country. The book comes out july 25th. A New York Times bestseller. A month later, a very Exciting Book by ed klein, and the bestselling author, it is called guilty as sin. A real investigative reporting book. And an justice investigation. And where it will lead. And getting stories months before they break. That is what is happening in this book. Host two controversial others. Guest indeed. We need controversial outspoken author. A tendency in an Election Year for the news to be changing so quickly that people cant keep up and Book Publishe
Hosting todays program she researches and writes on federal and state education issues as the fellow in our education policy here at the heritage foundation. She focuses on reducing federal intervention education and income earning families with School Choice. With that, i will hand it over to lindsay. Thank you, andrew and everyone for being here today and watching online as well. We are excited to welcome vicki. She writes the federal miseducation of americas children and she argues that it is time to end, not mend, federal intervention in education. As she explains in her book the federal government left education alone for about a hundred years, recognizing that it was the purview of state and localities. But gradually, federal free strained gave away and by 1979, weasel the first cabinet level agency for education established with the verse of the u. S. Department of education and today, that agency holds 5,000 employees, manages over 150 federal Education Programs and has a discr
Mississippi or their hometown in many instances. They were going overseas to fight for a cause. They were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. I had one letter from an individual who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. He went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. We always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war . What my question is, what if we had not entered that war . The world would be a vastly different place. As for its relevance today i would not have know this if id not been researching this book, again i was not aware of the consequences. All of this trouble in the middle east that we are having right now, so so many of those countries involved, involved after world war i. Promises were made after world war i and we do not look up to them. Conflict is still resulting today because of that. So if it is
Great depression, other gaps we had, and so i started plunging in the collection and i happened upon this is years ago Works Progress administration papers, the wpa in mississippi compiled county histories, and one of the topics was war. Block. They were. That meant there was a lot more out there. In addition to looking at private collection at world war ii started reading county newspapers from all around the state. I did want to try to cover all areas of the state. I have succeeded to some degree but actually not as much as id like to because some towns where i thought there would be letters to the editor about publication from the boys overseas were not any. There could be just to the addition of the paper to get a microfilm that was not the addition that had the letters. The different additions used to be. I do not know if early on if there are two or three editions of the paper. I did the best i could. I found some wonderful letters. I tried to have men who served, i found a lot o