Washington post columnist and thriller writer and then the Pulitzer Prize winner last month and this month we are joined by jeff shaara military historical fiction author. Ranging from the American Revolution to the korean war and we will talk about all those in just a minute but we will start with a facebook comment that a viewer has posted on our facebook page. What exactly is historical fiction . Guest i have had this conversation with other authors it is an accurate historical setting but the people are totally made up thats a little different from what i do because i take you to these places with a lot of the real people with historical figures with names that you know like George Washington or Dwight Eisenhower were robert e. Lee it is fiction by definition because i put words in their mouth. My job is to tell you a story and not just do a textbook or names dates places facts and figures but to put you in the hands of the characters to tell you the story the way they would tell i
William well, i will need that. I am sure. [indiscernible] and then our editorinchief thought it might be more effective oneonone. Pres. Reagan i remember an interview once i had have you ever seen their headquarters . It is kind of a beautiful country home, spacious lawns. William it is indeed. The president a bsolutely captivated our founder for four and a half hours and then had to leave to make a speech. It was a memorable lunch. What we would like to do here, sir, is ask you some questions so that our readers here and abroad can have a better idea of president reagan, the man. I would like to start off by asking what has surprised you the most, pleasantly and unpleasantly, about being inside the government you have for so long observed from the outside . Pres. Reagan well, first of all, one surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, was how little i was surprised. Because the eight years as governor of california, i realize when i came in here, suddenly it wasnt the great shock as becoming
Anxiety having some would not get to hire me. I felt my temperature increase. I could feel my sweat coming off the side of my face. Didnt have to ask joe what he was thinking. We looked at each other and of bus looked at the counter at the same time. We just started to walk toward the counter. Without a single word. That is how it happened. Guest thank you for having me three of them had met in high school. They had met before. They were not thinking about injustices, and how to push the movement along, but it was not until Joseph Mcneil is returning to school after christmas break in 1959 when he greyhound meal at a roof he is refused a meal at a greyhound terminal. Iss just trying to did he emboldened. He and his four friends decide theyre going to target the sit in ats and go segregated eating facilities in greensboro, North Carolina. What i find interesting is why woolworths . And dime. S was a five many people of a certain age probably still remember. It was a chain Discount Depar
,. ,. We decided to walk to the counter and without a single word that is how it happened. But we took a seat. University professor speaks to us about the lunch counter sit in. So who were the greensboro for and why did they decide to sit down at that counter and that february day in 1960. Thank you for having me those were four young men who are college freshman, at North Carolina at the state university. Three of them had already met in high school. So they already had a report, they met the fourth as a freshman in college. So actually when thinking about Racial Injustice is theyd think about that how to integrate how to push the movement along for sometime now but it wasnt until, Joseph Mcneil is returning to school after christmas break in 1959, when he refused to neil, and train terminal. He was trying to buy a hotdog. And he gets back to campus, and he is emboldened. He says enough is enough. So him in his four friends, decide that they are going to target the wool worse, and go
I brought a notebook and made sure to get receipts. We mulled around in the store, just trying to get some fix on where we work and what we were about to do. I was having some anxiety get to me. I felt my temperature increase. I could feel my sweat coming off the side of my face. I didnt have to ask joe what he was thinking. We looked at each other and of bus looked at the counter at the same time. We just started to walk toward the counter. Without a single word. That is how it happened. Chair nadler host traci parker joins us now for a discussion about the lunch counter sitins of 1960. Traci parker, who with the who were the greensboro four and why did they decide to sit down at that woolworths lunch counter . In that february day in 1960 . Thank you for having me. Those were young men who were just College Freshmen at North Carolina state university. Three of them had already met in high school. And so, already had a rapport. They met the fourth as freshman in college. In college. E