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In partnership with the library of congress, cspan brings you books that shaped america. Our series explores key works of literature that ive had a profound impact on the country. In this program the journals of lewis and clark, from their tour of discovery published in 1814. In 1803 the size of the United States nearly doubled with the Louisiana Purchase, the vast tract of land was largely unknown. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore and map the newly acquired territory. There crew of explores juried up the Missouri River, cross the Rocky Mountain ....
Headquarters during weekends. Our authors will be signing their books at the signing tent on the war memorial plans after this session was you can purchase their books at the Parnassus Book area and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the festival. Our first speaker is daniel sharfstein, a professor of law and history at vanderbilt. He has twice won the loss collapse outstanding professor award. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and before law school he was a journalist. The director of the social justice problem, professor daniel sharfstein. You can hear me in the back . It is wonderful to be here again at the southern festival of books, my hometown book festival. A real honor to be introduced by andy bennett. In a decade plus i have lived in nashville i have presented as an author, been a host and most of all, a member of the audience, sharing this panel with ro ....
Away from that, and what we of counterinsurgency typically working with local forces to secure the population is done mainly and we will see over time there is better collaboration between special operations and generalpurpose forces. Together in that what they did could be mutually reenforcing. And, you know, theres a myth in counterinsurgency that you dont actually need to kapturkill capturekill the enmy, and i think thats false. But you had the special operators would do the capturingkilling of the leadership targets while the conventional forces would do more population security, theyd go in and stir up hornets nests and reveal targets. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] and now were back live in nashville. Up next, authors roger hodge and Daniel Sharfstein discuss westward expansion. [inaudible conversations] welcome, everyone. We are happy to have you at the southern fes ....
To my children, i will try to read this without crying. These thoughts, words, recipes, to cherish. Christy and i will die one day. We all will die. We do not know the future but i know these things are true and want my children to know they are true. I worry more than i should about my kids, my mind races to order stories, if it gets lost or snakebites, devlin going swimming, what if she falls in and around. I hope it is natural to be overprotective and over worried and overthink the dangers that lie ahead for our kids. I just want them to love god, love us and be kind, most of all your mother and i love you so much. We go into your room and watch you sleep. Iq part of the fabric from your favorite stuffed animal in your travel bag, and rub it in my hands to remind me of you. I can listen to it and here you. I love you, your mother does too. When the day comes you can no longer see a facetoface, we will be behind the veil of eternity watching and waiting to hold you once again. Thank ....
Its very exciting. Make sure you are on our email list or follow us on facebook. Tonights author has been a friend to us the time we have been open. He was a small guy deeply interested in star wars, mine craft and this is our second events with him. Its always a pleasure to get people in your community so it gives me pleasure to give you a. [applause] thank you it is so good to be here. These places like this i call as a constitutional institution. We cant take them for granted. We remember or i remember very well the dark days of 2011 when there was no bookstore in town and fast forward to today right now the National Endowment for the humanities is under existential threat. Im taking a look at a couple of weeks ago and i agree so many public conversations about history and American Culture are supported and i wouldnt be an author and my folks wouldnt exist without th ....