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Peter i am going to go ahead and turn it over to john. I want to start with something i read in the introduction. Just absolutely fascinated by. And it is about your father. It is really a lovely story. Irwin silber. Book, published a songs of the civil war. He was not like a diehard civil war buff. He was not that kind nina he did like to sing the songs. Peter i have a question about your father. This is what you wrote. This book is not about my father civil war. It is partly about the people who created the civil war my father came to love as well as those who created the kind of civil war that he despised. So tell us, what did you mean by that . How can that help us sort of frame your book . Then we will turn it over to john. Nina so i think come in terms of the kind of the civil war that he came to love, i guess i would say that was the civil war i am going to say it was the civil war created by the popular front. By that, i mean this sort of loose coalition of civil rights organiz ....
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 ....