A number of historic sites. Did not play a role . I was interested in stories. I read a lot. I had a Terrible High School teacher, i must say. He was horrible, but it did not dampen my interest. I read history and enjoyed it. I had planned to go into the Foreign Service. I was going to surf my three years in the air force, as a rotc commitment and go to fletcher school. It is connected to georgetown, it was a Foreign Service officer training school. My experience and being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i changed my mind in japan, to apply to graduate school and i never graduated at all ive never regretted it at all. Any book you found particularly challenging or found something quite different . Im not sure i found something different. I had a sense of the outline of that we became a much more Democratic Society by the early 19th century and that this transformed our culture in fundamental ways. The emergence o
And on thursday we will be at books smith bookstore in berkeley california historian and activist rebecca talks about the feminist movement. That is a look at some of the programs we will cover this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future on booktv on cspan2. And welcome to tucson and the university of arizona campus. This is the tucson festival of books. Booktv is live today from the gallagher theater and for the next 7 and a half hours you will hear from authors and have a chance to talk with them as well. Heres our lineup for today. In just a few minutes the first author panel will begin. It is on japanese internment during world war ii. Followed by your opportunity to talk with historian Richard Reeves. After that a panel on lgbt q rights and a calling program with panelists lillian vitamin and you will hear from authors later today discussing slavery in america, the history of women in sciences and philanthropy. And several other
Couple of political blows to the donald trump administration, he revealed that the fbi is investigating whether any of the president s associates collaborated with the russian government during the election campaign. He said there is no evidence to back up the president claimed that he was wiretapped his predecessor. In europe, french president ial front runner Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron went after each other in a televised debate, she attacked his record and call for a ban on all immigration and a 35 tariff on certain imports. Macron blasted her for her lack of ethics. A former Irish Republican Army commander who helped negotiate peace in Northern Ireland has died. He was 66. He denied allegations that he took part in terrorist activities during the time known as the trouble. He later became the chief anotiator negotiator for arm and eventually became a leader in the powersharing government. A former south Korean Leader has appeared for questioning for the First Time Since the
Im steve knapp. It is a tour to Global Partnership to counter online radicalization and extremism. I would like to welcome officials of the United States government including representatives of the departments of state, justice and Homeland Security and federal bureau of investigation as well as officials from allied governments and our guests from the Technology Internet and media sectors. This conference was over two years in the planning. I originally discussed the idea with our honorary doctor shortly after she was appointed minister of safety and security for the United Kingdom in may of 2015. Youll have the privilege of hearing from her in a few moments. The idea we discussed was to Don Convenience a global conference with experts in the field about the challenge of radicalization as a global phenomenon significantly driven by the internet. Is a timely conversation but especially this week. I did have an opportunity to extend over the weekend our condolences for the tragic events
Planned to go into the Foreign Service. I graduated from tufts. I was going to serve my three years in the air force as a rotc commitment and come back and go to Fletcher School of diplomacy, which is connected to tufts. Its part of georgetown. An fso, Foreign Service officer training school. But my experience in being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school and ive never regretted it at all. Any book that youve written that you felt was particularly challenging or perhaps you wanted to start off by finding or proving one point but along the way you found something quite different . Well, no, im not sure that i found something different. I had a sense already of the outline of the period that we became a much more Democratic Society by the early 19th century and that this transformed our culture in fundamental ways, and that became my book the radicalism of