Washington post columnist and thriller writer and then the Pulitzer Prize winner last month and this month we are joined by jeff shaara military historical fiction author. Ranging from the American Revolution to the korean war and we will talk about all those in just a minute but we will start with a facebook comment that a viewer has posted on our facebook page. What exactly is historical fiction . Guest i have had this conversation with other authors it is an accurate historical setting but the people are totally made up thats a little different from what i do because i take you to these places with a lot of the real people with historical figures with names that you know like George Washington or Dwight Eisenhower were robert e. Lee it is fiction by definition because i put words in their mouth. My job is to tell you a story and not just do a textbook or names dates places facts and figures but to put you in the hands of the characters to tell you the story the way they would tell i
And thats it for me Andrew Farmer will be here with you next hour to take you through all the news from around the world and stay with us for the kinds of reports next here on r. T. International. I am max keiser this is the times a report you know. Is a truth. If youre predisposed to being crazy crazy or if you predisposed being honest. More honest and in the case of some politicians in washington who are predisposed to being crazy off the wall. Who more so well of course and i to say says the government by and for the people a lot of our officials especially in congress dont believe that the people are smart enough to know whats best for them so we have brad sherman be an imbecile again in the past week and a half and the thing that i think is quite important for this is the process of de dollar is a sham that is going on and a lot of the stuff you see the turmoil in the repo markets the turmoil in the gold markets the turmoil in certainly political and geo political realities is rev
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