Mind. You must fight confusion, you must fight fear. And this was when theres great physical fatigue and when theres great mental fatigue, your mind gets worn out. The ability to persevere through that mental fog is another test. And thirdly, to dominate your spirit, to drive your will, to constantly go forward. To be able to do those three things at the same time, there are individuals who can do one or the other or the third one. To really do all three is really extraordinary. And this culture that creates these unique people is under threat as our politically correct Defense Department begins to change what is culturallily allowed under this unique set of commandos is changing as well. And that was interesting to me, so thats why i wrote this book. Host are there women . Guest not yet. Although the Defense Department is certainly looking at this. There are former seals who have had a sex change operation, so some would say there are women now. But seals are unusual outliers. I mean,
Dangerous for somebody to grab your work now or before so many digital applications . I dont think, you know, theres i dont really think theres a danger in sending manuscript to an agent. You know, that is, no incentive for the agent to steal. Theres also, you know, its an easy problem to remedy and somebody who would steal in a circumstance like that would absolutely just be in bad faith. They deserve all those copyright penalties we can, you know, bring down on them. I think, you know, and you really dont see people bringing claims about, you know, forwarding emails and things like that. Its just the notion that weve got to set a we have got a set of rules that we violate every single day of our lives, and that just doesnt make sense because threat is out there. You know, the chances that somebody would complain about an image in a presentation at a book, you know, Literary Festival are small. Finish but the consequences are dire. Litigations expensive. And why, you know, why have th
Friday night and they dont understand the lynchings in mississippi and brown v. Board of education. So on top of that when we as teachers are exhausted and we dont have the time to get out in the streets and from about how were being about how i worked out of contract after years of seniority because our superintendent is a guy who could put his funds towards evaluation systems and, you know, sort of this attack on teachers instead of supporting me with lower class size. I mean, theres so many complexities and nuances, and when you throw in 72 of my school is at poverty level. I transferred from 95 , when youre reporting child abuse speakers im so sorry, we are getting no, no. No note were over our time and thank you. My voice will live on. Spent thank you all so much for being here, and please if you want to continue this conversation, and i sense many of you would like to, come to signing area five where they will be with her books. Thank you so much [inaudible conversations] you are
It is for people my age disorienting. For people, my children and grandchildrens age is the only america they have known and the most natural thing in the world. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. The wonderful thing about the gulf coast, is so underappreciate it and that is good because it gives us a lot to write about. If we were in new York San Francisco or chicago those cities and places are all so well known and new york is the literary capital but on the gulf coast we tend to think about from texas to the Florida Panhandle there really is instability, we have a similar environment, similar trees, long leaf pines, palm trees, sandy soil, salt in the air. The gulf of mexico and nourishes and supplies us with wonderful seafood, estuaries, wonderfully rich and tradition and culture. In and around these things for hundreds of years, it is an extraordinarily rich subject to take and of course along comes the oil spill in 2010 where all of a sudden we are in ce
For putting me up here. Thank you so much for putting this together and thank you for coming and stay and get your book signed by the two power houses on the stage here. Thank you so much. [ applause ]. Moment where essentials the keep shut the gold dome. Where people could not come into fort knox and say here is 100, i want to get the gold value and that was a consequence of the problems the American Government got into with the death, trying to fight the vietnam war and pay for the Great Society and it didnt work. The trade deficit the history of money, its relationship to war and how they impact worldwide freemarket tonight at 00 on after words. This month on our Online Book Club we are discussing the forgotten man, a new history of the great depression. Discuss the book in our chat room at booktv. Org. Television for serious readers. You are watching booktv. Next Steven Pressman recounts the efforts of gilbert and Eleanor Kraus to rescue children from nazi control of vienna in 1939