Light. Afterwards airs every saturday at 10 00 p. M. And sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all previous afterwards programs on our website at booktv. Org. As 2015 comes to a close many publications offer their recommendations for the best books of the year. Here is a look at some of the book the wall street journal suggests to its readers. Jonathan bordens american war lords looks at Franklin Roosevelts relationship with generals who helped win world war ii. In the fall of the ottomans, examines the middle east during the first world war. A manual jarrett, recalled the 1960 murder of the Prime Minister of the newly formed republic of the call and go. Although it was a cold war, the threat of military conflict throughout its existence, it was the non war, the single non war, the third world war which could have obliterated human and animal life on the entire planet. That is a look at some of the books the wall street journal recommends from over the past year. Booktv covered m
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. BookTv Television for serious readers. From my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when ones own interests or even ones own life is in peril. Growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the Second World War and greece that i always kept close to my heart. The first was in 1940 when Benito Mussolini italys Prime Minister asked the greek Prime Minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3 00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. It was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. It prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest figure of the 20th c
When i was growing up. My father was a plant geneticist so we found ourselves moving around quite a bit because he ended up going to places that focused on crop science. We spent some time in wales and then we moved back to india in 2007 and i spent a year there and for those of you who know a little bit about modern indian history, it was 1976 the year of the emergency rule a tough time for academics and there were a lot of restrictions on free speech. My father decided we have to get out of here so we ended up emigrating to the United States in 1977 and eventually ended up settling in setting california and that is where i grew up. Like i said my father was a plant geneticist. My mother was of biochemist who worked part time but mostly was of homemaker and she spent time raising s and they wanted me to become a doctor. In that generation especially among immigrant indians there was nothing more noble and better that you could do. Sort of coloring their vision was the fact that they h
In camp the encampment so i was at the encampment, you walk a ground and learn more about it but you understand the writing and i try to have that reflected in my work. In that sense i view myself as a historian. I dont write historical fiction but i am inspired by historical fiction and love to read historical fiction. And James Mcpherson catches it in the battle cry of freedom. Is a wonderful book. Ft cant trust everything in it as fact but it does give you the sense of the place. I try to use a lot of quotations because i try to make which makes differentiating to me from some historians, but i try to have an eye for the quote that really captures something. I never use a long block and [inaudible] quote. When i read, i always skip those. I figure if the author cant summarize it why is he forcing me to do it . So i use small quotes, ones that are below 50 words so you dont have to block in denim. Then i figure thats my job as a historian, to pull out the quirks of it. And if theres
Sandeep jauhar. [applause] thank you so much for that generous introduction. I want to say what a pleasure it has been for me to be here this weekend. I brought my family. My children are actually now probably connoisseurs of georgia book festival because we were at the decatur festival in august but they have given so that not a big thumbsup as have i. And i also very quickly want to acknowledge the organizers specifically robyn goals and linda you are so helpful in bringing us here and our wonderful host beth logan, the paragon of southern hospitality. When robyn invited me to come here, she gave me some parameters for this talk and she said talk mostly about yourself and what motivates you to get into writing and i fought as a writer of two memoirs how am i going to do that . How am i going to talk about myself . I will do the best i can. I was in the lobby of brice before coming here wonderful hotel and was chatting with one of the authors, what you going to talk about . Im not sur