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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20120109



[applause] i suspect there are some of you here with the review of books that we call the new york review of each other s books. the current issue has from the john hof ken s press some of the recent publications untitled confront a history. not the easiest thing to do. history is not an exact science in my relationship with contemporary students i am learning that they have quite a different perspective than i had growing up in a school. i was reading history. and now questions are being asked because history is not the exact science but it evolves and shifts and changes over the years particularly with respect to wars we see them early with the more patriotic memory with more perspective as time goes on sometimes it is there a controversial but that is history. is a changing process. people are beginning to understand that. but what james farwell has done here with the objective history certainly about certain parts of the world the main theme to stresses that history ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20120109



gonzalez and joseph torres. [applause] [applause] i suspect there are some of you here with the review of books that we call the new york review of each other s books. the current issue has from the john hof ken s press some of the recent publications untitled confront a history. not the easiest thing to do. history is not an exact science in my relationship with contemporary students i am learning that they have quite a different perspective than i had growing up in a school. i was reading history. and now questions are being asked because history is not the exact science but it evolves and shifts and changes over the years particularly with respect to wars we see them early with the more patriotic memory with more perspective as time goes on sometimes it is there a controversial but that is history. is a changing process. people are beginning to understand that. but what james farwell has done here with the objective history certainly about certain parts of the world ....

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