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What They Wrote About the War - Los Angeles Review of Books


What They Wrote About the War
APRIL 21, 2021
ON AUGUST 1, 1914, Thomas Mann was summering in a villa outside the Bavarian town of Bad Tölz. His children were down the street rehearsing a play with their cousins when they heard that Germany had declared war on Russia. They ran home to tell their papa. He could scarcely believe it. His first reaction was to say, darkly, that this would never have happened if Tolstoy were still alive. But in the next few days he discovered in himself a surprising enthusiasm. He began to write an essay. He would call it “Thoughts in Wartime.” ....

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publishers marketplace and publishers plus. thank you. now a few interviews interviews from booktv s recent visit to georgetown university here in the nation s capital. talked with sheryll cashin about her book the agitator s daughter a memoir of four generations of one extraordinary african-american family. this is about 15 minutes. the agitators daughter is the name of the book and sheryll cashin city author and she is a professor of law at georgetown university. professor subbyte who is the agitator? my dad, dr. john cashin jr., who just passed this last year. what kind of an agitator was he? well, my dad founded an independent democratic party in alabama at a time when the regular democratic party was dominated by george wallace, the dixiecrat and despite he was two-time valedictorian, his ab mentation was and this was in the 60 s mind you, and early 70 s into his political party, so that alabamians could vote for lyndon johnson rather than george wall ....

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mesa, arizona. it s all one big happy family, but he s actually from oregon, and here s a few interesting things about barrett by way of introduction. he was first published at the age of 15, he s written 45 books or possibly more, but the figure that really blows me away is 600 magazine articles. wow. what do you do, write in your sleep? [laughter] well, i ve been told that i laugh in my sleep, so writing would probably fit in as well. with awesome. in any case, his works of fiction include collaborations with best-selling authors harold coyle and steven coons, and he s won a whole string of awards, and probably the most relevant per se is in 2009 he won the u.s. naval institute general prize, but he s won awards from the air force for historical writing, the north american society for oceanographic history, that sounded cool. he grew up dreaming of being an aviator, but since i already mentioned eye sight [laughter] he was derailed from that, and he s done the n ....

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