As well as work on this book. I might as well mention that we started dating shortly to mess meeting here and now we work together. So hopefully this meaning does is cause that that one day. [laughter] though if it does say could be a little trouble later at home. [laughter] the book is a curious madness an american combat psychiatrist, a japanese war crimes suspect, an unsolved mystery from world war ii. Im going to work my way back from the psychiatrist in the war crimes suspect in an touch on the mystery just a little bit more at the hand and take any questions you may have. Should you bother the nuremberg trials that followed world war ii, but you might not be aware there were several trials in japan after the war. Because of the tokyo tribe. Some people refer to them as japans nurnberg. There were 28 classy defendants who are part of the tokyo tribe. These were former Prime Ministers, heads of state, military leaders. Really consider it the 28 individuals most responsible for japa
Upcoming book fairs and festivals around the country. What happened by 1913 is so much of the world had been divide up and wasnt much left there was. There was china, a general feeling that if we try to do that we might end in a war and the powers were circle around both china and the Ottoman Empire but you couldnt be a great power without having an empire, and we dont think that. And that happens in International Relations as much as other human activity, and there was this belief, because britain was the dominant power until 1914, that the empire made it dominant. You couldnt be a great power and that meant having a navy. And wilhelm played a huge part in this. The influence of the American Naval thinker is huge here because he expressed the idea that great powers have empires, they therefore have navies. You cant be a great power without having a navy to protect your trade and your empire. Wilhelm read that book and said, ive never read anything so wonderful. He ordered that copies
This is about 40 minutes. Host a short little guy looks like me comes to the door. [laughter] thank you, again, for having me back. Im thrilled, really, to be back at the corner bookstore and thrilled to see so many familiar faces. I appreciate you coming out on a january night. I personally prefer to hibernate until late march. Im thankful about that. I wanted to extend a special thanks briefly to jean for all of her support as i was working on the book. We started dating shortly after my last reading here. Now we live together. Hopefully the reading go z as well as that one. [laughter] if it does, i guess i can be in a little trouble later at home. [laughter] the book the american combat strisk a japanese war crimes suspect and unsolved mystery of world war ii. Im going start with the mystery and work my way back to talk about the combat psychiatric and touch on mystery a bit more at the end and take any questions you might have. Im sure you have heard of the nuremberg trials that fo
40 of College Graduates to an end up and said degree that they did not go to college for. If you work as starbucks with or without a College Degree what is the difference . 100,000. Who would you rather be . Host on location at the Georgetown School of law in washington d. C. With booktv we are interviewing professors ever also offers we have david koplow written a book called death by moderation the u. S. Militarys quest for useable weapons the first give us your professional history. Guest a professor of law here at Georgetown Law School and i have been here since 1981 where my specialty is International Law and i teach and write in National Security rise of specialty but i have had two or three times with a leave of absence for a couple of years to work in the government the most recent the department of defense for arms control and prior to that i was a deputy general counsel. Host how did you get involved with arms control . It has been of interest to be handed fact i decided to c
And, basically, i would sometimes dictate into a tape recorder and then send them the tapes, and then they would, you know, transcribe things. [inaudible] this last book i did myself with my wife. You know, she did a lot of the research, and, you know, helped with the editing. And, of course, shes quick to point out its the first one that hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list. [laughter] but, actually, i enjoy very much working with my wife, so certainly ill be doing that from now on. Fortunately, it does tend to come pretty easily. Its very much like speaking. When i give a speech, you know, i dont have a written text. I just go up there and, you know, i survey the situation, i ascertain what kind of audience we have, and, you know, ill have a few points that i want to make sure that i make which i might have written on a card, and i just start speaking. Basically, i write the same way. You know . Ill have a chapter title, and ill write down some bullet points about wha