Will be a book signing. Ellior ackerman, they have brought their new books for us and elliott is a marine war veteran, published many books. He is a National Book finalist award winner and also wrote for the new york times, the atlantic, the new yorker. Clay is a native nashville he and who has published many works as well. Mostly historical and also Deputy Editor in chief or up in chief for the new york times. We are going to let them talk about their books individually and after a few minutes you can you and a on points of the books that they enjoy. Great. Thank you very much and thank you for coming out. It is always a pleasure to be back here in nashville. When they told me we would be sitting together on a panel i was elated because im a great admirer of your work. One of my good friends at work is one of elliotts editors and over the years i have come to admire his work and maybe we could get into it at some point but despite the fact my book is about the spanishamerican war and
Time after time say welcome to this going underground special edition when the fight for the commons as the odds on favorite to become next u. K. Prime minister jeremy cooled and promises an immediate Nationalization Program we investigate the battle against inclusion of the labor Party Advisor in a revolutionary struggle in the bow and we go to london state britain wont cover the inequality fight a revolutionary so who posted jacobin up just William Blake the author of englands unofficial anthem jerusalem but before we speak historian putin about about his new book red round blue book burning its titled derived from William Blakes poem visions of the daughters of albion we go to the tate britain where we began our interview with curator Martin Maroney by asking him about that this is a big exhibition is over 300 in the exhibition by plate his prints his drawings and also his illuminated books and with a series of books in the 79 to this revolutionary decade with the revolution in fran
Festival of books. Here in downtown nashville. Today we are at the National Public library and i like to thank them for hosting this if it and monday other sessions. Theyve been a great partner to this if it for several years and we just want to say thank you. Southern festival of books is an annual if it produced each year by humanities tennessee, i would like to take those moment to thank humanities tennessee and all who contribute to the organization for their continued support of the written word and the writers, the young writers, Community History and civil discourse in all things humidity here in tennessee. And humanities in tennessee like to say, our story and our state and i like to think humanities for helping us tell and preserver stories. So a pit of housekeeping before we began, in a moment ill introduce our other and share some stories, and some insight from the book, no surrender. The conclusion of his presentation, we will open the floor up to questions and if you have
Well people he could if he wanted to or theres something going on between text and images albeit being a revolutionary jacobin symbol as well of this being that interpretation which is which. Are open to interpretation and certainly theyve been radical sentiments and there are radical present radical symbolism in sentiments in place and were going to be talking later in the program about a friend of. The Great British war hero. Hes a radical William Blake put at the same term theres a painting of nelson here a picture of nelson here showing less sympathy for radicalism argument really key exhibits. For the exhibition dealing with blakes one man show 1819 the key exhibits which weve got here are allegorical paintings of nelson and the Prime Minister pitt and theyre both shown as figures guiding biblical monsters and by. In chaos on the destruction of the world thats very we know that blake was not a tory we know from voting records that he voted for the wake of the big opposition and se
Kind of key exhibits. For the exhibition dealing with blakes one man show 1819 the key exhibits weve got here are allegorical paintings of admiral nelson and the Prime Minister pitt and theyre both shown as figures guiding biblical monsters and bring chaos on the and destruction to the world thats very true we know that blake was not a tory we know from voting records that he voted for the wake of the big opposition and 74 when he had the chance and he wasnt a fan of war he was a great pacifist and his opponent of war so these pictures are very intriguing quite complex and they seem to celebrate these National Figures and what seems to be going on is that hes at presenting the idea of nelson war leader guiding the political monster whos going to bring chaos and destruction out of that there will be some kind of spiritual rebirth and whether you know whether you see that as a positive thing or a negative thing i think really kind of depends on your. Especially not the american evangelic