Nbc coanchor al roker discusses the hurricane of 1900 committed to this National Disaster in american history. Hi there, how are you . Wouldve been embarrassing if the weather had been so nice. Thank you for being here. I really appreciate it. The genesis for this book i was trying to think about i actually sink in a little more than a year ago thinking about this hard to believe but its been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina struck on august 28th. In researching where katrina fell in the pecking order of Natural Disasters in this country, i started researching the hurricane of 1900 that hit galveston, all the lift it off the map. Its a fascinating story to me and as i got into it a little bit more, i thought i dont think a lot of people know how bad this is. Folks in the gulf region have a pretty good idea but the average person in america i dont think nose and the more i research the more deeply into it i got. I decided maybe i could make a book out of this. I have limited skills as y
Nbc coanchor al roker discusses the hurricane of 1900 committed to this National Disaster in american history. Hi there, how are you . Wouldve been embarrassing if the weather had been so nice. Thank you for being here. I really appreciate it. The genesis for this book i was trying to think about i actually sink in a little more than a year ago thinking about this hard to believe but its been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina struck on august 28th. In researching where katrina fell in the pecking order of Natural Disasters in this country, i started researching the hurricane of 1900 that hit galveston, all the lift it off the map. Its a fascinating story to me and as i got into it a little bit more, i thought i dont think a lot of people know how bad this is. Folks in the gulf region have a pretty good idea but the average person in america i dont think nose and the more i research the more deeply into it i got. I decided maybe i could make a book out of this. I have limited skills as y
Baldy is all about how its really responsible for destroying the army and the invasion of russia. A lot of people thought it was cold or the russian army. All of those things didnt help. But the sanitary conditions of the day simply didnt allow them to protect themselves against this bacteria and it was devastating, really devastating. The poet thomas more than 90 of his army in the invasion of russia and a lesson, by the way that a century later adolf hitler did not attend to his regret. A friend of mine grew up across the street at the university of virginia and she wrote her great book on appomattox and its sort of a revision history and in my view a correct one of the outcome of appomattox, how robert e. Lee hughes fantasy is the agreement to foster a resegregation, resuppression of black americans after the union won the civil war and slavery was supposed to be over. They essentially invoke the free spirit about the nonex as none of them should be prosecuted and robert e. Lee had
The mindset of doubleday. [applause] you cannot believe how excited they are. No other author could have done this. [laughter] they are not impressed . I wanted to talk about the idea why were so intrigued by the idea. Is it something about the venture and the optimism colliding with the tragedy . Is it the collision of those ideas . No. [laughter] i often wonder what drew me to a the lusitania that i have a maritime thing that we do when i was a kid flying that so to mention my imagination but what happens there is something about the a. D. It to be way out in the middle of the ocean that is what is in my brain. And also of the romance with the glamour of the of crossing and a catastrophe. I should point out rave brutes to extend to south dakota. [laughter] you had them as scandinavian spirit there are probably 300 erik larson [laughter] but we are a seafaring people. As we came from the sea. [laughter] we were that guy. I am sure you know, about fitzgerald but this defies your theory
Some of the voyage colliding with this tragedy that passengers dont know their sailing into . It is like the collision of those ideas . Note. I was drawn to the lusitania because i have this maritime thing, everyone does, the titanic, the flying dutchman, i think what happens is there is something about the idea of being any amount of what happened to you, that is what taps into my brain. The isolation of it . The isolation and romance, and suddenly that is my scandinavian roots. And from minnesota and south dakota. You won them over. Being scandinavian, and we are a seafaring people. Before su falls, we were pillaging from the sea. You were that night. We were that died. You know something about the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald. I think this kind of defies your theory because there was nothing all that glamorous. It is and worship on Lake Superior and yet it is something the the anniversary of the sinking that we observed, and talk about every year. I dont find that particularly rom