Q a. Pulitzer prize winning author is a biography of general George Armstrong custer. He discussed the book at this years tucson festival a book, held on the campus of the university of arizona. This is one hour. Hutton, hello everyone. My name is Paul Andrew Hutton, i am a professor at at the university of new mexico, just to the east of arizona today. Welcome to the eighth annual tucson festival of books. We want to especially thank cspan, book tv, tv, and Cox Communication for sponsoring this venue. This presentation will last one hour, but we will talk for about 40 minutes and will open it up for questions from the audience. Please go go over to the microphone there to on either side to do your questions. Immediately following the session tj stiles will be autographing books and that you a bookstore tent booth 153 sponsored by the university of arizona bookstore. Books are available for purchase at that location. We like people to buy your books, dont you . Yes, it helps me write.
Heres the cover. The Second Intelligence Committee Report on torture. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Next, James Robbins counts the life of George Custer including his childhood in formative years as well as time in the field of battle from the civil war to his final defeat at the battle of little bit worn. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] thank you, glenn. I would also like to thank arlene and paulie and all the Hudson Library team. Its great being the sum of human audience. A wonderful busy here. Great to be back home in ohio. It is good to shake off inside the beltway every now and then. You know washington right . As we heard 80 miles south of here arthur grant sherman, one way or another ureter base here. As a friend from mississippi said, you have a lot of bloody from your state. [laughter] i guess it depends what side you are on. Last night but anyway. One question i get about my book, the real custer is why is that the title . Obliges this make you about the real cu
It is looking right now like the number may have to go a. When will it be available . The official publication date is december 30th. Well have the book printed and in our warehouse friday, three days from now. We will start shipping immediately. It may start popping up before the 30th in various independent bookstores, but it will be fully distributed around the country and available on the online retailers and brickandmortar retailers and independent stores on december 30th. Dennis johnson is the copublisher bought copublisher above a house located in brooklyn, new york. Heres the cover. The Second Intelligence Committee Report on torture. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Next, James Robbins counts the life of George Custer including his childhood in formative years as well as time in the field of battle from the civil war to his final defeat at the battle of little bit worn. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] thank you, glenn. I would also like to thank arlene and paulie and
If you are planning to go to the park this afternoon, if you hold off taking one of these, they are in the back. We will get you some. Its on park row. My talk is referred to as black thursday, the battle for Sailors Creek. One of the Union Generals who was involved in the battle, he wrote in his book about the fighting 5 of the intelligent people of the united states, north or south ever heard of the battle of Sailors Creek. They dont know anything of its magnitude or importance. This is not strange. It was fought in virginia. This was three days before the surrender under general robert e lee. Events were happening so rapidly that no note was made of the battle. In the next few minutes, you will be part of that part of our nation. Just some point before we talk about the battle, there are three separate engagements referred to as the battles of Sailors Creek. As you enter the museum, it refers to it as battles. I mentioned the spelling difference. There were two branches, most of the
Studying it, i have a lot of questions as to where these events took place and how the armys got from here to there. This book set up my quest to learn more about these sites. When i worked at appomattox, i worked with a gem in a lot of you may know. His name was harold howard. He was the role of a former confederate soldier. I took the role of the union soldier. He and i were companions in trying to learn more about the events that took place on the retreat. One of the areas that i was interested in was the battle of Sailors Creek. Sailors creek became a state park in 1936. Efforts were made to purchase more land for the park and have it become a National Park. Something happened, world war ii came along and the impetus was lost. After the war when things started looking up, there was a congressman who was from appomattox county and guess who got the National Park . Appomattox. Sailors creek languished for the next couple of decades. Finally in 2008, Sailors Creek which had been a sat