Sponsorship and support for the conservative book of the year award. Thank you chris. Thank you. We thank you all coming to bed. Theres not a lot of in this book i must love you because ive been up to since two in the morning. Ill be getting up at two tomorrow morning. So those of you so how many, if any, you had a chance to read the book yet youre going great. Okay, okay, great. Okay. Just we are going to have time for questions so that i dont want to make a fitness contest. So there is a mic there. But if you have trouble getting to the mic, ill come to you. So just, you know, well well jump into your questions, the conversations talk up here for a bit and then well come to because obviously you all got a lot on your minds. So, so this book was so fascinating to me. Im so glad you wrote it because was its hard for a journalist. I mean, as a journalist, youre kind of trained to. Keep your business out of it. I mean, i know that thats, you know, some people are different, but the way w
Any, you had a chance to read the book yet youre going great. Okay, okay, great. Okay. Just we are going to have time for questions so that i dont want to make a fitness contest. So there is a mic there. But if you have trouble getting to the mic, ill come to you. So just, you know, well well jump into your questions, the conversations talk up here for a bit and then well come to because obviously you all got a lot on your minds. So, so this book was so fascinating to me. Im so glad you wrote it because was its hard for a journalist. I mean, as a journalist, youre kind of trained to. Keep your business out of it. I mean, i know that thats, you know, some people are different, but the way were trained, we have been trained is to keep your story out of it. So was it that made you want to both combine your reportage with your own personal that was such a hard decision, but fundamentally i felt like i had a unique perspective and i had something i really wanted to say and but i thought har
Founding director of the dale center for the study of war and society. He has several major publications, including vietnams forgotten army heroism and betrayal in the aavin for which he won the society for military histories book award. So dr. Rice, i know i mispronounced part of that. But take it away. Good afternoon. I have the today of hosting the america war panel here at the mississippi book festival. And i would like to thank the festivals organizers especially ellen rogers, who we saw earlier. Shes wearing this beautiful dress with butterflies on it. Yall thank her if you see her and course would like to thank the audience members here and in who are in person on cspan for joining us today. Yall are in a treat. We get yall in for a treat. We get to talk about for that cover the entire span of u. S. Military history, all the way from how the creeks were up as a nation, all the way up to Operation Iraqi freedom and beyond. And 2003. First, id like to introduce our panelists in or
Middle is University Professor of history in the school of humanities at the university of southern where he is also the founding director of the dale center for the study of war and society. He has several major publications, including vietnams forgotten army heroism and betrayal in the aavin for which he won the society for military histories book award. So dr. Rice, i know i mispronounced part of that. But take it away. Good afternoon. I have the today of hosting the america war panel here at the mississippi book festival. And i would like to thank the festivals organizers especially ellen rogers, who we saw earlier. Shes wearing this beautiful dress with butterflies on it. Yall thank her if you see her and course would like to thank the audience members here and in who are in person on cspan for joining us today. Yall are in a treat. We get yall in for a treat. We get to talk about for that cover the entire span of u. S. Military history, all the way from how the creeks were up as
Morning. Ill be getting up at two tomorrow morning. So those of you so how many, if any, you had a chance to read the book yet youre going great. Okay, okay, great. Okay. Just we are going to have time for questions so that i dont want to make a fitness contest. So there is a mic there. But if you have trouble getting to the mic, ill come to you. So just, you know, well well jump into your questions, the conversations talk up here for a bit and then well come to because obviously you all got a lot on your minds. So, so this book was so fascinating to me. Im so glad you wrote it because was its hard for a journalist. I mean, as a journalist, youre kind of trained to. Keep your business out of it. I mean, i know that thats, you know, some people are different, but the way were trained, we have been trained is to keep your story out of it. So was it that made you want to both combine your reportage with your own personal that was such a hard decision, but fundamentally i felt like i had a