Is your unfiltered view of government. So you can make up your own mind. Brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. To becer next, a book exclusive, our cities to visits bozeman montana to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For eight years now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the books in to our viewers. You can watch more at our visits on cspan. Org cities tour. Ivan doig is on montana author of 16 memoirs and novels. He was raised here in montana, spent his adult life in seattle but continued to come back to montana and wrote many books that are beloved, like this house in the sky, English Creek, dancing at the rascal fare, many others that are highly, highly regarded by people around the world. The collection is big. And i would like to introduce the dean of the library, kenny are ledge, who was instrumental in getting this collection. Sure. Away and are my associate and i traveled out to visit with carol doig at her invita
It is my pleasure and my honor to introduce our keynote speaker who is the assistant secretary of the army. He assumed his position following confirmation by the u. S. Senate in mid january of this year. His responsibilities include supervising Manpower Personnel and reserve Component Affairs to the department of the army and is the principal advisor of the policy of human resources, training, readiness, military health sales, equal opportunity in marketing among others which makes it striking that he finds time in his schedule to come talk with us today and we are grateful for that. Dr. Wardynski is a graduate of the Us Military Academy and hold same masters of Public Policy and a phd in policy analysis. During his 30 year career he served as a special weapons officer within the United States and in korea. He spent 10 years as an associate member of economics where he was also the director of the us armies office of economic and Manpower Analysis advising Senior Leaders on officer ret
At cspan. Org citiestour. Cspans cities tour is exploring the american story as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. Every first and third weekend of the month, we bring you the history and literary life of a different that he as we visit Historic Sites and talk to local authors. With support from our spectrum cable partners, this weekend we traveled to bozeman, montana. Situated in the southern part of the state, bozeman sits 90 miles from Yellowstone National park, drawing many tourists to the city. Over the next hour, we will learn about the history of the bozeman and the surrounding region. When i first moved to bozeman, there were so many story, story streets, story distributing, story hills, but there was not a lot written on him. There was a historian who once said to me you know, bozeman is misnamed. He said it ought to be story. Orstory bill storyville, story town. Personally, i think bozeman has a better ring to it than any of those other options. They remaine
Over the next hour and 15 minutes, well hear from local authors about the areas history, politics and literary landscape. We begin with a visit to Montana State university and a look inside the collection. A well known antenna author, 16 memoirs and novels, he was raised here in montana. At her invitation and possibly a little bit about what we can do if she decided to deposit the collection with us and came back and wrote a proposal and a key feature of our proposal was that we said we would digitize the entire collection in less than a year so because digitize the entire thing is available on the internet for anyone in the world to see. Primarily we have documents. We have a lot of sound recordings and a lot of photographs, diary entries, obviously many books manuscripts for some books we have as many as seven manuscript versions so a lot that goes to the writers process colin medical records, all of that. He loves manual typewriters. We have many photographs of him in the archives a
Mobilization, military health affairs, for structure, equal opportunity and marketing among others, which is more striking hes found time in his schedule to come here and talk to us today and were very grateful for that. A 1980 graduate, policy john f. Kept from Harvard University and phd from policy from rand graduate school. During his 30 year army career he served as a special weapons officer in germany within the United States and korea and he spent ten years as an associate professor of economics at west point where he also was the director of the u. S. Armys office of manpower and analysis advising Senior Army Leaders on Office Retention and marketing. My favorite piece of this introduction is that he created the Award Winning stateoftheart Americas Army game which served as a Key Recruiting tool for the service as well as the virtual army experience. Im expecting that you should all ask him questions about that aft after. Excuse me. Among his military awards and decorations, ser