Administration, the george w. Bush administration. We want less engagement in the middle east. We want to turn our backs on a war on terror that seems to many people to be unwinnable. We want to provide less by way of military assurances, fire power in east asia, in europe and this is a replica in a sense of a pattern of American Foreignpolicy behavior after the First World War. People would take the stargel mind now that we had a president named Woodrow Wilson who went to war to make the world safe for democracy and after the war was over and after it was one a lot of americans concluded that the game hadnt been worth the candle. They did not want to remain engaged in global affairs. They did not want to police the world order that had been established at versailles so we turn inward to the 1920s and a Republican Administration and again in the 1930s for much of the roosevelt of administration at least until the late 1930s. The retreat im speaking of now largely replicate that pattern
Readathon we asked readers to read any book they like at home or at any of the venues participating across the country including schools and bookstores. Host why are you promoting this . Such a large and complicated question but our hope is to find different ways to foster a culture of reading in america and to remind people what the experience is like to set and devote time to reading. We hear all the time that people read books less now because they dont have time or little snippets but there is a real pleasure to get lost in the world of a book that is different man checking your phone every few minutes. And we want people to get lost in the world of books. Host youre setting a time frame, four hours 12 noone three 4 00 p. M. Exactly. Weve got four hours was longer but not too onerous that there would be no way that they could sit and do it. So that was the agreed upon time that we ask people to set aside. Host are there groups participating . Yes. From book clubs to local libraries