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William thornton, designed the u. S. Capitol. This is just over 50 minutes. [applause] thank you. For that nice introduction and thank you to majors and quinn hosting this event. I suggested this to eat than back in the winter, there was never anything less than enthusiastic about having me. This was always my destination when i came to a minneapolis bookstore. I am glad i landed here. I want to tell you a little bit about the book. I will read a little bit about the book. Its nice to be here and see some old familiar faces. You know, whenever i come back to minneapolis i have this feeling what a special place marshal u was, and there are probably a few people here that will remember the place if not agree with me. And so its always nice to be back with old friends. I really date my sell here. I even attended an advanced placement class at the old West High School which was right down here on hennipin you have to be really old w ....
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minneapolis, i have this feeling of what a special place this was. there are a few people that probably remember the place is not agree with me. so it s always nice to be back with old friends. i will really date myself here. i even attended an advanced placement class at the old west high school, which is right down here on hennepin. you have to be really old to remember when the high school was there. [laughter] you know, people have asked me a lot, they said why did you write this book so long ago and i usually say because it is just a great story. it s a story of what happens in the events themselves are so amazing and as a writer, i would never dare to make them up. when i realized that they have all happened, but it was really terrific. this book with such a great story. as i got into the book, i realized it was more to the mat. the book had a more profound message. and that was with this book takes place between the revolutionary war period, the founding of the c ....
john heresy, whose book on hiroshima in 1946, he interviews some of the japanese who are there, it s a bestseller in 46. in 1994 the smithsonian can t mount an exhibit showing japanese suffering. but in 46 we re more willing to at least think about it. i m not taking a position even on truman here, right or wrong. i m saying that the public had a broader perspective and a more sort of, there were more cross currents in the way we saw world war ii in the 40s than we saw it in the 90s where we were very reluctant to look at a critical appraisal of the war. [inaudible] the one thing i m missing is what happens to the existential in the abyss and the sense of nothingness with all the books and the memorials in their own way of the meaninglessness and the astonishment that came from all the death of the second world war, from all the horrors of hitler, before the bomb. this theme seems to be completely absent in the discussion we re having now. so you didn t read t ....