Get informed straight from the sources unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Cspan powered by cable. You opened your most recent book with this quote. The complexity devised your books the usually the way. Rick does a tremendous job itself and it is true. No historic event happens, it is tied to many things in research and writing. Want to read a quote from you from 2021 in the times review. A lot of people want to learn things, they want nonfiction oks to reflect what they already believe. They reinforce their opinion and what books that tell them everything they believe is right and the other side is worse than i thought. If you look at the bestseller list for the last several years, there are three categories represented. The first by political commentators associated with one side or another talking about how the nation is in danger of opposition. America is going to hell. And the third category is what i call the magic button here ten wa
Author jeff, you opened your recent book with this quote from Rick Perlstein the historian. Crosscutting motives and narratives the complexity that defies storybook simplicity that is usually the way history happens. I think it is the most cogent ive ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself, and its true no historic event happens in vacuum. Its tied to many other things and that is the fascination in research and writing on the narrative nonfiction history. To read a quote from you as well and this is from 2021 in the cleburnene times review a lt of people no longer want to buy nonfiction to learn things. They want nonfiction bks to reflect what they already believe, books to reinforce their opinions. They want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is even worse than they thought. If you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction for the last several years, theres three categories generally represented. The first books by
The crisis had been hit country. And prince harry accuses the British Press of having blood on its hands as he gets evidence in a lawsuit against the newspaper against a newspaper publisher. Ukraine and russia are accusing each other of going up a major dam and flooding towns and villages in russian control of blowing up a major dam. Thousands of people have been evacuated. It links the banks of the dnipro river and supplies electricity and cools the zaporizhzhia power plant. Until monday, the dam held back 18 cubic meters 18 million cubic meters of water, generating electricity and providing fresh water for hundreds of thousands of people, but not anymore. The most Immediate Impact for tens of thousands of civilians downriver. This is the can this is the ukrainiancontrolled side. The river swelling, overwhelming the banks. Residents being evacuated. I was evacuated from the flooded village. Our local school and stadium downtown were flooded. The stadium was completely underwater. On t
Hearing for state Department Nominees Including ambassador at large for Global Health security and diplomacy as well as u. S. Ambassadors. This is about an hour 20 minutes the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Our hearing today is to hear from five of the President Bidens nominees in dealing with career positions and ambassadorships. Its wonderful to have you all here. We thank you all for being here. Thank you do senator ricketts for being here to lead the republican side of this hearing. Its not always easy to find members that have or willing to adjust their schedules in order to accommodate these hearings, and i think senator ricketts for always being available to this committee to carry out our important work. I want to add some opening comments and senator ricketts wont opening comments but first i want to recognize senator reed and allowed to make an introduction and thank him for being here in the committee. We sometimes have a friendly rivalry between Arme
It was very bad, egypt had gone towards peace , signed a shameful treaty, and the withdrawal of egypt from the battlefield, which was a large country, the largest arab country , had caused a great and terrible disturbance. It was at this time that the divine will was that the Islamic Revolution in may iran win and the palestinian nation and the arab world change and the palestinian nation find an alternative, a stronger alternative , egypt was out of the field since the first day. This is a very important issue when the revolution happened in iran. He announced that the Israeli Embassy should be closed and that embassy should be given to the palestinians, and more importantly, he announced that america is the great devil and the zionist regime is a cancer in the nations body that must be removed. From the same time, iran stood by the resistance and the imam announced that we will be a resistance alongside the palestinians until the destruction of israel. This was irans strategic goal w