Washington post columnist and thriller writer and then the Pulitzer Prize winner last month and this month we are joined by jeff shaara military historical fiction author. Ranging from the American Revolution to the korean war and we will talk about all those in just a minute but we will start with a facebook comment that a viewer has posted on our facebook page. What exactly is historical fiction . Guest i have had this conversation with other authors it is an accurate historical setting but the people are totally made up thats a little different from what i do because i take you to these places with a lot of the real people with historical figures with names that you know like George Washington or Dwight Eisenhower were robert e. Lee it is fiction by definition because i put words in their mouth. My job is to tell you a story and not just do a textbook or names dates places facts and figures but to put you in the hands of the characters to tell you the story the way they would tell i
Informed, untutored and unread and he flaunted it. Little had changed in his 2002 state of the union and the phrase access of evil reeked of arrogance. Once again bush has spoken without weighing the consequences. I think thats right. I think someone has the right to say that. When did you start to feel this way about him . Oh, when he was president. Why . Well, because it seemed to me that there was absolutely no reason to go into iraq. And his domestic or his response lets put it this way. His response to 9 11 seemed totally overdrawn. Where were you during 9 11, when it happened . We were in huntington, West Virginia. Do you remember the day . No i remember my wife seeing it on television and i cant it was a sunny day. I cant remember i was down at the university of marshall. When did you begin to react negatively to the way he handled 9 11 . Oh, i think when the i would say beginning with the treatment of prisoners guantanamo, which seemed totally out of the ordinary. And, of cours
And he asked me what i wanted to do next. This was in 2012. I said, how about george bush . He said fine and we started on george bush. Brian why . Jean edward he needed to be treated. None of the books out at the time had adequately treated him. Brian i want to jump in to chapter 12. George w. Bush was regarded by many of his classmates at Harvard Business school as dynamically ignorant. He was energetic but ill informed, untutored, and unread. And he flaunted it. Little had changed in his 2002 state of the union and the phrase axis of evil reeked of arrogance. Bush has spoken without bearing the consequences. Jean edward i think that is right. That is why someone had to say that. Brian when did you start to feel this way about him . Jean edward when he was president. Brian why . Jean edward there was no reason to go into iraq and his domestic policies or his his response to 9 11, let us put it that way, seem to be overdrawn. Brian where were you . Jean edward hmm. In huntington, west
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Two leaders. This event was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute annual summer conference. It runs about an hour. Ok, good evening. I and peter carmichael, professor of history at Gettysburg College and also director of the Civil War Institute. My guest is noted historian gordon ray. He 20 years ago published the battle of the wilderness with lsu press. This would be the first of 4 volumes to cover the 1864 Overland Campaign. Gordon was the first historian to ever attempt to write a comprehensive history of those operations. Those operations, as you know, covered Central Virginia and 1 at cold harbor. It really is hard to imagine that anyone will ever again attempt to write such a comprehensive history because what gordon did is truly phenomenal. ,t is model tactical history well researched, beautifully written, and above all else, contextualized. As a microstudy of who did what and where. What is really remarkable is that gordon dived into the , and so much of tactical h