Young readers, as you said that will come to him and just did really excited about this aggressively complicated work. Okay. I think about cognition become especially when you talk about the younger. One of the factors that is important to remember in the digital age which can be very oriented is that when youre learning to read books that are read aloud to less, there is a constant change in the interaction between the reader and the one read too. The one read to is giving a little scam or a little excited. The reader adapts. Its the old story telling. Storytelling to an audience, and that is something that the device cannot do. Were learning how to read in need to learn how to understand what is happening, the nuance and the voice that will allow us to go and appreciate the books and taken the information. If you dont get that early on we will be able to have it later. Well, these four panelists have made me keep the face. I [applause] wonderful. I wanted thank congressman martin and
It was continuing conversation in which i have been engaged in most of my life. If you want examples. If you want immediate instances of the kind of encounters that led inevitably to putting down notes on the subject matter of the book, which tries to cover quite a bit of range. Lets just take the religious side. With newly i saw on the wall a poster, titled announcing a lecture and the title is the greatest show on earth. And above i saw, and the god illusion. Now, very strange to think that in certain parts of the world today, for daring to put up such a poster, much less admitting to be in the author of such a book, the god dilution, delusion, you might be stoned to death or put to death for blasphemy. The second incident. I was speaking to a young lady, and she was telling me about her experience. Shed obviously was lamenting the prejudice, extremist, very intolerant prejudices that were taking place among the various religions of the world, she said, i grew up in an environment wh
[applause] what an honor and treat to be at the Eisenhower Institute and especially an honor to have susan introduced me. You know, families can be a little touchy about the great man and their family, but the eisenhowers were amazing with me. John, susan, david are completely open, not defensive, which is unusual. Incredibly helpful and i could not have done this book without them. So thank you, susan. Six weeks after Dwight Eisenhower became president , stalin died. Paik caught together top advisers and officials in that, whats the plan . Is little bit like Colonel Sanders of kentucky fried chicken. Was clearly a figure. Ike was rooting for the general, the head of the red army was ikes ally in defeating the nazis in world war ii. Eisenhower sent his son john out to do a little spying. John seidel up to him. Things are not as they seem. President eisenhower did not find out who was really in charge until the fifth day of the conference, when ike proposed what he called his opened sco
Its really exciting. And be, of course, its a lot less stressful than writing about jerusalem. Host you also have another project coming out after that . Guest ah, the world. Host the history of the world. A biography . Guest yeah. Im going to do a history of the world after that. Ive been it was my publishers idea. And they said to me, like, would you do it . Its not going to be a long, in fact, its more of a literary book, more of a philosophical week. Its not going to have its not going to be like the sort of pantheon book of history, you know, with everything, everything in it. Its actually going on what fascinates me in history, and its going to be probably the shortest book ive written, in fact, of all my books because its just going to be, its going to be a literary and philosophical look at life and the world. But through the lives of people. So thats why its called a biography, rather like i did in jerusalem. So thats going to be one hell of a challenge, too, but its wildly ex
Maybe 10 or 20, chose not to go. They thought the war is over, we lost and they went home back to their farms. How they fared no one knows. Host whether was your reaction in Great Britain to dunkirk . Guest churchill and churchill did this he made a defeat sound as if it was the ost heroic and he saeid evacuations, retreats are not victories, he was clear on this. But the way he said it made dunkirk sound like a heroic victory. And the british people came away saying, well, if we can do that, we can bloody well whip the hun. Well, they had it backwards. They were running, swimming literally, home without their weapons, without their tanks and jeeps they didnt have generals then but trucks and rifles. They came back soaking wet with no weapons and church ill is telling the paoeeople that wer now building up what will be the finest army in europe and we will go back. Host in 1940, mid 1940, he is Prime Minister of Great Britain. How big at that stage is the British Empire . Guest well, i