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Youre welcome to our event series. Before i start, i want to mention real quick, if you have questions tonight, you ask us in the chat box or comments on the youtube page, and well get to as many as we can. If youre interested in purchasing the book, and i hope that you do, you can find it at most major retailers, but we like to point people toward bookshop. Org where you can find just about any book youre looking for and support independent booksellers across the country. Again, thats bookshop....

Please give them a look. I mentioned to some of the other day, i was reading the words in preparation for tonight and thats the new faulkner biography. You have the faux fur part right. The best way i could describe this book is equal parts. Military history social commentary and literary criticism. I think all appear equally to fans many of those subjects. What the book really did for me, was forced me to get some serious thought to his fans where at the time we are asking ourselves difficult q...

Preparation for the event tonight and they said that is the new faulkner biography. I said well, you got the faulkner part right. The best way i can describe this book is equal parts military history, social commentary, and literary criticism. And i think it will appeal equally to fans of any of those subjects. What the book really did for me is force me to give some serious thought to where faulkner stands at a time when we are asking ourselves some difficult and longoverdue questions about our...

The scope of what we are talking about when we are talking about changes in policing. Instead of focusing primarily on reform, there are conversations about defunding or shrieking or abolishing the police, fundamentally changing the institution of the police and what they do. Data is really being proffered in many ways as this sort of panacea or Silver Bullet with many of these issues. In the defunding debate, lets say we are going to defund the cut costs. People say data can be used to allocate...

We will get to as many as we can. And if youre interested in purchasing the book, and i hope that you do, you can find it at most major retailers but we like to point people towards bookshop. Org, where you can buy just about any book you are looking for and support independent booksellers across the country. Again, that is bookshop. Org. Please give them a look. I mentioned to someone the other day i was reading words in preparation for the event tonight and they said that is the new faulkner b...

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 th...

Was Margaret Macmillan and robert. I am david at the editor of the policy journal and id also like to welcome the National Members for participating through the wide screening. I was saying i had a little surprise for the guests because 100 years ago today United States was preparing to muster 500,000 troops and gear up the war. President wilson had given an ultimatum that we didnt go to war at least not then. That power is on this side of the atlantic. The great menace of the moment i found thi...

Albany. He spent his career preserving military history with the National Park service, new york state government. Rensselaer. Civil War Preservation trust. Kentucky state parks and u. S. Arm. Hes written books on various aspects of military leadership from 1775 to the present. Published to books with the civil war at perryville and stone river and Tullahoma Campaigns and studied the 1941 and 42 entitled last day in bataan released in 2016. In september of 2016 the arm published his volume on vi...

Its spectacular. Its my real pleasure to introduce the next speaker. He is somebody you already know. You have heard him speak somewhere or on tv. He was born and raised in fredericksburg. He spent his career interpreting and preserving American Military history with the National Park service, the new york state government, Rensselaer County historical society, the Civil War Preservation trust, kentucky state parks and the u. S. Army. Do you think he is qualified to speak . He has written and sp...

The making management and memory of Gettysburg National park. Published in 2013 by the university of tennessee press. Biographyworking on a that will hopefully be published by the university of north carolina. She is a veteran faculty member here, many of you have been on her chores which are outstanding. It is our pleasure to welcome jen to speak about her book on the creation of the Gettysburg National park. Thank you. Thank you for that kind introduction. Can you hear me ok . Myyour more exci...