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CSPAN2 2015 Savannah Book Festival February 14, 2015

Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. BookTv Television for serious readers. From my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when ones own interests or even ones own life is in peril. Growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the Second World War and greece that i always kept close to my heart. The first was in 1940 when Benito Mussolini italys Prime Minister asked the greek Prime Minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3 00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. It was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. It prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest figure of the 20th c

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CSPAN2 Book TV February 15, 2015

Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Rebecca frankel is the author of war dogs. Ms. Frankel, whats on the cover of your book . So this is a handler and his dog, and theyre doing a Training Exercise for a mission that they might have to do in afghanistan or iraq which does include a drop from a helicopter. What sparked you to write about war dogs . My job in foreign policy, weve been writing about the iraq war for as long as its been going on and i really love dogs. So as i was looking at photos coming in off the wire, i saw this one photo that sort of stood out as different in afghanistan, and it was because there were these marines and their bombsniffing dogs, and they were just hanging out, and everyone looked very happy. Theres a very strong contrast to the unfortunate photos that are more gritty and more gory. So tom suggested that we partner in [inaudible] and i did that for about four years an

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CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings February 16, 2015

Thought lee was the very best soldier hit ever seen in the field. And robert e. Lee certainly looked like a fine soldier. He stood just under six feet tall, powerful, broad shoulders a barrel chest. He had perfect posture. Everybody who saw him said some version of the same thing, batman looks every inch the soldier. And so in april 1861 an emissary for Abraham Lincoln asked robert e. Lee to come to the city of washington. That mss name was Francis Blair and he makes an extraordinary offered to robert e. Lee. He says will you leave the main union army to crush secession . And as lee remembered the store, blair tried in every way to convince robert e. Lee to say yes. He said blair said to lee the country looks to you quote as a representative of the washington family to save the Union George Washington forged it and that was far from an exaggeration because year after all was the son of George Washingtons most famous eulogists and the soninlaw of George Washingtons adopted child. And so

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Vox Announces Media Partnership With Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism for Their Inaugural Conference: Liberalism for the 21st Century

Vox Announces Media Partnership With Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism for Their Inaugural Conference: Liberalism for the 21st Century
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Opinion: It s distressing to hear accounts of domestic violence – but we must listen

Opinion: It s distressing to hear accounts of domestic violence – but we must listen
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