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It to such a pleasure to speak about your book try washington and we the people. Im going to get into the idea of revolution, you say in the book america has been through divisive. Before some followers that we are living through today, with the hindsight of history, we can see them as inflection points, the transitional period between old system that is broken down in anyone with information, are we at an inflection point, absolutely, we are right in the middle of it, to the best example, in 2016 the republican primary, it was a real civil war and the Republican Party that the establishment of republicans represented by jeb bush and others did not get the nomination, did not get the support of the other people, those revolutionary donald trump, the democrats are going to the same thing right now, theyre having a civil war in their party, is it going to be the traditional democrats, is it going to be some outsider, socialist, i think that is indicative and the fact that it just doesnt
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 right. And by this point i think it was ron who brought up that the battle of tan nen burg alone had roughly, how many . 250,000 on the other side in roughly a week. Ten days. So when we have that number there, that number on the western front, were about to have that kind of number in the middle east, a couple of thousand you know, almost 2,000 people dying at sea would barely have made the news had it happened to anyone else but the americans. But the british understood that by 1915, logic didnt work. Morals didnt work. Appeals at saving your ancestors, the british, didnt work. So maybe having the americans bleed a little bit might work. Erik larson has a book about the lusitania, its all right. Its a bestseller. Im glad i read it. But as a historian it has slightly different ways of doing thing than we might. But one of the things that he alleges in his book is that churchhill had claimed what we needed to get the americans off