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A lost world war ii bomber crew. It features author and journalist gregg jones. This is a unique fellowship that allows an experienced and talented writer to spend a fall semester at the library of congress and a Spring Semester at the university of nevada las vegas to work on an ambitious writing project. Greggs project is ambitious and he has spent a quarter of a century reconstructing the lives and times of 10 airmen aboard the liberator which disappeared over austria on october 1, 1943. As you will hear gregg has a , personal connection to the story. He has traced the lines of the fallen s...

Has a major anymore empathetic to the people you work with . That could be a very long answer. I used to think that people cared about me and maybe celebrated the results that i was able to generate because they cared about what i was doing, but i did know the people love me for who i am. And after the news, after i sent my letter to 7500 people 1000 of them wrote to the emails of encouragement and what are you doing next. I have nothing to offer you anymore. I realized for the first time in my life at the age of 31 that i was lovable as a human and as a person, not just as a leader who is gen...

Relation. But its a relatively common last name i believe. I did my best to contact distant relatives, but they are so distant that it is what it is. They are in this and theres nothing really tangible in place. So he went about trying to make sure that the quakers in Atlantic City were not acknowledged. In my version of it is just telling the story. It seems like i cant even tell you how many times people say oh, youre writing a book. Great. And unlike, its so i think the part one is getting the story out there, but i dont know of anything tangible. If you have any ideas, i would be all years...

I unfortunately have to bring this to a close now but you can join us afterwards for conversation and a reception outside of this room. The book is available for purchase and i suspect citing as well. I would invite you all to come back next week when Heather Cox Richardson of Boston College will be speaking on march 2 on her new book to make men free a history of the republican party. My thanks to our audience and thanks to professor spero for a very engaging talk. [applause] thank you. With congress on their spring recess this week we are featuring booktv in primetime. Heres a look at whats ...

Youd like to congratulate all of you who voted for the virginia ham sandwich as the sandwich of the year. I had one of them, and mine was not the deciding vote, i want you to know. Our next speaker is robert c. Kenzer. Bob is the William Benford vest chair of history at the university richmond, where he has taught for almost 25 years. For most of those year he has been the ally for the lecture series which we do each year jointly with the university of richmond in september. Like will green, bob has a bill cooper connection. Bill studied under the late david donnel at john hopkins university. ...