former senator majority leader train for attacks about his senate service as a diplomat investigator and chairman of the walt disney company. he spoke at politics & prose in washington d.c. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] so the evening. and bradley graham, cowinner politics & prose and on behalf of the entire staff welcome. very few quick administrative tidbits. when we get to the q&a part of the session as you can see we have ceased in tv with us this evening. if you have a question to be heard, it would really be great if you could make your way to the microphone right there. at the end before you come up to get your books signed our staff would be grateful if you could fold up the chairs you are red and leaned them against something that won t fall over. by way of introducing this evening s guest, let me just say there s a lot of talk these days about the american dream not be what it once was. there may be some truth in that for younger generation
today s lecture is going to be on military aspects of the revolutionary war in the north and south. next week, when we have our guest speaker she will be talking about the western campaigns in more detail. there are other aspects of the war, financing the war, women s participation that we will not get to today that we will be leaving for future classes. i wanted to start by talking about one of the best recent books on the american revolution called the men who lost america. he argues that british generals are described as incompetent, in decisive, but he argues that these were competitive men in the midst accomplished professionals, and the reason why they failed was not due to a character flaw, but because they faced insurmountable obstacles fighting a war in america. i will lay out some of those obstacles. the first thing is diplomacy. in the seven years war britain had allies. during the war for american independence they found themselves relatively alone, fighting f
sits in a lecture with one of the nation s college professors. you can watch it next, brooklyn college professor benjamin carp talks about the advantages and disadvantages for british and american forces during the revolution. he describes how individual personalities, supplies, and timing influenced the outcomes. this class is one hour and 15 minutes. benjamin: hi, everybody. today s lecture is going to be on military aspects of the revolutionary war in the north and south. next week, when we have our guest speaker, she will be talking about the western campaigns in more detail. there are other aspects of the war, financing the war, women s participation that we will not get to today that we will be leaving for future classes. i wanted to start by talking about one of the best recent books on the american revolution called the men who lost america. he argues that british generals are described as incompetent, in decisive, but he argues that these were competitive men in th
intelligence oversight with gary hart and former vice president walter mondale. at 11:00, another chance to see our convert our conversations with don ritchie and ray smock on q&a . this week in the british house of commons, prime minister david cameron talked about the rising death toll of british nationals killed in terror attacks. he took questions about the use of islamic state to describe extremist costs extremist groups, and reducing costs. order. questions to the prime minister. angela. the prime minister s plan. i am sure the house will join with me in congratulating england on reaching the semi finals in the world cup and wishing them well in their match against the pan. mr. speaker, this morning i had meetings with colleagues. i shall have further such meetings later today. angela crawley. the prime minister stands for english sports and laws will reduce the rates of scottish mps order. the honorable lady must and will be heard. angela crawley.
that is what we want. we are talking about how we tackle poverty and tackling schools and education underachievement is lionel to the life of our children. mr. speaker, can i ask the prime minister he has not answered the question. can the prime minister assure the people of my constituency that an elected mp will not be given minority seating in dundee and moreover, does he [shouting] spill we are very grateful because he has had a very clear answer but maybe the snp don t like this answer but the proposal that we discussed at great length in the last parliament for solving this issue now be introduced. they key point i would make is that if in some future parliament there s disagreement between english mps who want one thing and the house of commons as a whole that was another thing, they would have to be away on resolving this deadlock. this is effectively a block for english mps. it is not the ability to legislate in willy-nilly, he should know that if you read