CSPAN2 Book TV October 22, 2012
Full schedule, go to booktv. Orge pleased to be joined with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, an associate editor at the was post, and most recently the author of this book, Little America about the war in afghanistan. But where did the term Little America come from . It came from a remarkable project in the 1950s, led by a team of American Engineers, to develop parts of southern afghanistan to dig irrigation candles, build dams, in the very same terrain that the current troop surge unfolded in. Back then, these American Engineers decided to build a model town for themselves. Right smack dab in the middle...