Can critique that manuscript before it is too late . We have all been there when our book has come out and you participate in a panel and people always say, you should have done this, you should have done that. Today, we do have one of the worlds leading scholars, jeff engel, who i will say a word about first. Jeff is presenting his manuscript very much in progress. The title is when the world seemed new george h. W. Bush and the end of the cold war. Jeff is an associate professor of history and the director of the center for president ial history at Southern Methodist university. He is the author of numerous books. Two of the most recent include into the desert and the fall of the berlin wall. And we are really fortunate to have jeff with us. He is going to say a few words about his manuscript. He put a few chapters of it up online. I know that some of you had a chance to look at it. Ira said, you really should get a practitioner, someone who knows a thing or two about how government
Conference, but you need something to tie the room together. Why dont you have a leading scholar come in and present a manuscript in progress and really bring some of the leading scholars and practitioners who can critique that manuscript before it is too late . We have all been there when our book has come out and you participate in a panel and people always say, you should have done this, you should have done that. Today, we do have one of the worlds leading scholars, jeff engel, who i will say a word about first. Jeff is presenting his manuscript very much in progress. The title is when the world seemed new george h. W. Bush and. E end of the cold war an associate professor of history and the director of the center for president ial history at Southern Methodist university. He is the author of numerous books. Includehe most recent into the desert and the fall of the berlin wall. And we are really fortunate to have jeff with us. He is going to say a few words about his manuscript. He
When the weapon was found, it still had green marks from the branch and they were able to find exactly where he had the branch on. A few years ago, for the 50th anniversary of the freedom riders, they had a reunion here in town, and one of the gentleman that came into town this is his bus tickets he had carried with him all these years. It is also the receipt he received for getting out of jail. He was arrested with all the other freedom riders that came into town for a breach of peace. It meant so much to him he carried them with him all these years. He was from san francisco. He came as an 18yearold student because he wanted to make a change. The impact it had. To immediately arrive here in jackson and the throw to in jail, for trying to improve society. You can tell when he gave it to us, this held a deep lays in his a deep place in his heart. The freedom riders consisted of hundreds of different people from across the country, all of the africanamericans, as well as a lot of white