Vengeance, salvation, and world war ii, about a group of jewish volunteers who fought the nazis and the postwar actions of a few of them. In todays presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american debutante who became an allied spied during world war ii and was hailed by oss chief general wild bill donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of world war ii. Ladies and gentlemen, howard blum. [applause] for every author, there is a time when he thinks he has found a story that interests him, when he begins to realize that maybe he can wake up each morning, go to his desk, and look forward to the prospect of spending a day making this story come alive on the page. But those moments are just preludes to the energizing moment when he decides, i love this story, this is a book i have to write. This afternoon, what i would like to tell you is how i came to write the last good night, a true story about a glamorous american debutante who b
Brigade an epic story of vengeance, salvation, and world war ii, about a group of jewish volunteers who fought the nazis and the postwar actions of a few of them. In todays presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american debutante who became an allied spy during world war ii and was hailed by oss chief general wild bill donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of world war ii. Ladies and gentlemen, howard blum. [applause] howard for every author, there is a time when he thinks he has found a story that interests him, when he begins to realize that maybe he can wake up each morning, go to his desk, and look forward to the prospect of spending a day making this story come alive on the page. But those moments are just preludes to the energizing moment when he decides, i love this story, this is a book i have to write. This afternoon, what i would like to tell you is how i came to write the last good night, a true story about a glam
Conference at the World War Ii Museum in new orleans. It is about 45 minutes. Our next speaker is howard blum, who brought the story you are about to hear to our local audience earlier this year while he was on his book tour. We thought so much of it and of howard that we wanted to bring him back for you all here today. One of his previous books that im sure you all know of is the brigade an epic story of vengeance, salvation, and world war ii, about a group of jewish volunteers who fought the nazis and the postwar actions of a few of them. In todays presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american debutante who became an allied spied during world war ii and was hailed by oss chief general wild bill donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of world war ii. Ladies and gentlemen, howard blum. [applause] howard blum for every author, there is a time when he thinks he has found a story that interests him, when he begins to realize th
Become a member. We would like that. You can go to the website at www. Fdrlibrary. Org. If youve been here before, you know the format. He would speak for about an hour and then we will have ten minutes of questions. Then it would be happy to speak about the book. He is an independent and a historian. His book title 1941 is an advertisement for the 75th anniversary in his own book. Fighting the shadow war hes also the author of the millionaires and the aristocratic fly boys thought the war and invented power. Hes written for vanity fair, smithsonian and the town and country. Town and country. Hes also spoken across the country and appeared on cnn, npr, cspan and tv. He is a graduate of Princeton University and he lives in connecticut. Please. [applause] it is absolutely wonderful to be here this afternoon. Thank you to the archivists. I did a lot of research for the book and they make it possible to create books like these as bill mentioned i want to thank president delora roosevelt fo
The cia seal is a piece everyone sees as a first come into the lobby. Some people do not like to walk across it. Some people will walk around it. You see museums filmed in the movies filmed in the lobby, people crossing the seal. It was an interesting piece, in designed by the same group that designed the tomb of the unknown soldier. It has the eagle. Our nations symbol of vigilance, the eagle. Everybody here works for the president of the United States. We carry on our badge is the great seal of the United States. If you look at the great seal, you see an eagle with its wings spread. It is called an eagle rampant in heraldic terms. The eagle holds the all in branch of peace. And the 13 arrows for war for the original 13 colonies. During world war ii, a war eagle looked to the left, to those arrows. After the war, president truman decided we would no longer project a bellicose image. Truman had the eagle flipped. Postwar, our eagle looked to the right, in an advancing position, to the