CSPAN2 Book TV January 21, 2018
Shows his caucus influence, for example. The ancient persian dynasties for the medieval persian dynasties in the various [inaudible] he knew quite a lot about them and spend time with them. He read the classics as we would call them his favorite writer and in terms of the old writers because he portrayed billings as real people and stalin like that a lot not just the heroes but also the villains were believable. He read the literature in translation quite a bit so we think he read about 200 pages a day, most of that was military and intelligence of civilian files and there was a worldview susp...