I had the determination to be a professional tennis player. I had some qualifying tournaments and had some success, but i came to the conclusion i couldnt be great, and that was important to me, so i had to let go of it. It was a very, very difficult thing to do, but it helped me in ways i couldnt foresee at the time when i was thinking about selling my oil and Gas Exploration basis, that was difficult too. Id done it once before or and survive ised that, so it was a great enthusiasm of mine to be able to go take some time off and learn about things i didnt know about. Host whered you grow up . Guest i was born in oak park, illinois, but i spent most of my time if dallas. My parents are from oklahoma, but moved to dallas in 1960. I was educated there, went to several different colleges and, ultimately, built my Business Career working out of dallas. Host when did you get interested in art and history . Guest ive always been interested in history, but i really didnt know much about art.
Art, and in some cases that makes it more difficult. There are nazi inventory card codes that do evidence the acquiring of these works of art, theft. Theyre not a legal ownership title, but they document how these works of art are acquired, photographed, inventoried, codes assigned to the families indicating what number of object it is from the families, and those documents were found by the Monuments Men and were used at the nuremberg trials ask very, very important in helping to return these object toss the people they were stolen from. Liz terry, please go ahead with your question or comment for jeff bezos. Caller i was wondering if you had any opinion on the art work and obvious destruction that the Catholic Church has perpetrated over the centuries to art works and if they should be held accountable . Peter we have more immediate problems in places like syria where we seek works of art, these things belong to all of us and should be a concern for all of us about seeing them destro
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Remarkable heroes and five of them were still living. Why do you move to florence . I was in Oil Exploration business and had some success over 15 years. I was 39 years old id wanted something more meaningful but it was difficult to carve out space to break free of the gravitational pull. My son was two years old so it seemed like a great opportunity to take a break to learn about the noise i was always interested and here we are. What was your first career . The second was wheel . I did play in some qualifying tournaments it had a success but i could not be great so i had to let go of it. But tell me in ways it could not foresee at the time. That was difficult to let go of my identity. Soviet was the great enthusiasm to take time off. Where did you grow up . Oak park illinois but most of my time in dallas. My parents for from oklahoma. I was educated there and went to several colleges. When we interested in art and history . Of was always interested in history but my parents could tak
This is about 40 minutes. Host a short little guy looks like me comes to the door. [laughter] thank you, again, for having me back. Im thrilled, really, to be back at the corner bookstore and thrilled to see so many familiar faces. I appreciate you coming out on a january night. I personally prefer to hibernate until late march. Im thankful about that. I wanted to extend a special thanks briefly to jean for all of her support as i was working on the book. We started dating shortly after my last reading here. Now we live together. Hopefully the reading go z as well as that one. [laughter] if it does, i guess i can be in a little trouble later at home. [laughter] the book the american combat strisk a japanese war crimes suspect and unsolved mystery of world war ii. Im going start with the mystery and work my way back to talk about the combat psychiatric and touch on mystery a bit more at the end and take any questions you might have. Im sure you have heard of the nuremberg trials that fo