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This book has taken off in a way that is unexpected and startling and wonderful, and so mostly i just sort of thank my lucky stars and i sleep a little better. Im in a better mood generally and try to enjoy it despite my best efforts by one why does that put you in a better mood . Guest i been writing for 20 20 something years doing fiction for 20 years and sometimes you write a book and people dig it and people understand it, that sometimes you write a book and no one particularly cures and it sort of disappears. I have the pride and thinking i did a good job with the book, and the bows of other people digging it as well try in your first book was the intuitionist about elevator repairs, people. How do you sell a book like that . Guest exactly. That book i wrote a two paragraph description and either when i send it to my agent, even you dig the concept of groups of elevator inspectors or you dont. You either sort of along for the ride in the description or not and definitely when i wa ....
Washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead as our guest. His most recent book is the under ground railroad. Mr. Whitehead, whats the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . If only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way thats unexpected and startling and wonderful. Just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and its sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. Either you dig the ....
Exist and get to unpack them a little bit a little bit and learn about the reality of the experience. I wanted to start first by talking about how this connects to the First World War overall. Its not just america has these myths, but even the sense of how we understand the First World War to begin with, and we think of the kind general narrative that we attached to it, one of the most common narratives is that world war i was a senseless slaughter. We already talked about why this war even occurred. But once its underway, it is sort of predominant image and we get that image a lot from popular culture, those are the kind of images i have up here for you, of the idea that this really was just meant and then sent needlessly to their death. I have an example, all quiet on the western front. You are gonna like this image. This is the cover for the first english edition of the ....
She also talks about how the u. S. Viewed itself as a defender of democracy and gets criticism how it treated its own the centers and. Lets just over now. Good morning everyone. This morning, we are going to be talking about, or rather we will be talking a conversation with last about neutrality. This conversation last over the sources several lectures, will wrap up older countries neutrality, but this morning were really gonna focus on what neutrality looked like, and meant for the americans. Especially in the first half of the war. So, the thing that i want you to understand the most, and this is really vital because, its a very different understanding of neutrality that we have today. Neutrality, at the beginning of the war, did not mean an activity. It did not mean pass it to passivity. And most certainly did not mean impartiality. So if it doesnt mean those things, then what on earth does neutrality mean . A definition of neutrality differs with each country. Some, like belgium wi ....
Washington d. C. Office. So with this discussion in today led by our honored guest today which is the autobiography sir these papers or from the Library Archives of when he was writing the book that a acknowledgement makes the point maybe love was lost or forgotten about. So what is that like to find things . Was that stupid . That is one of the great historians of the conservative movement as a great biography of Barry Goldwater the history of modern conservatism with history of the Heritage Foundation has a distinguished fellow in have come to admire him so much. But to come to full fruition this week with the victims of communism fund with the memorial here is washington so as to read through this you will see that preservation of liberty is the true passion so in the war of the captive nations over the years ....