What i want to do now is turn this over. As you know were the American Veteran center is presenting the Andrew Goodpasture award and i want to turn this over to the president of the American Veterans center. Jim . [applause] thank you very much, tom. Peter. And officers of the army and navy club, thank you for being our partners for this evenings lecture. Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of my colleagues at the American Study Center i welcome you to the Army Navy Club for the presentation of the eight annual andrew j. Goodpasture award named after a Great American and presented to another Great American Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters United States army retired. Id like to say we are honored by the presence of general goodpastures granddaughter and her husband, matt. Would you please stand. [applause] great to have representation as we have always had from the goodpasture family here. I would also like to thank the Bradley Foundation for underwriting the goodpasture award. Diane, would
Panel, the will make their way to the authors ten next door to that and will be happy to personalize and sign the books for you. Our moderator is timis bell. During his 30plus years as a journalist his has serve as writer, photographer, photo editor, pain designer, and shreddographyer. He researches and writes and photographs books on the civil war, civil rights history, and the gulf coast in 2007 he want inducted be usm communication and journalism hall of fame. Id like to thank all of you for coming. I was going to start the session off with the quote from another mississippi author, shelby foote. Any understand offering this nation has to be based on an noning of the civil war. The civil war deoffendded us as what we are and it opened us to what we game, good and bad. Its necessary if youre going to understand the american character of the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the 19th 19th century. The crossroads of our being and a hell of a crossroads. Id like t
Minutes will be back with more live coverage of the mississippi book festival. If you want to see the schedule of events go to book tv. Org or you can visit the mississippi book festival website at ms book festival. Com. First heres more book tvs visit to jackson last year. When i was a writer i think i said in the south that i take for what i know for granted and i feel like i am judged because my eyes have been cleaned by experience so i know where a. M. I have a base to see people moving in that clear lights were in jackson mississippi it is a National Historical landmark and wealthy was a writer she was born in 1909 and died in 2001. She was a writer who won just about every literary prize there was. She studied throughout the world really published in many languages, she wrote wrote short short stories. That was the form she most value. She had four collections of short stories in total in just over 50 stories of that collection. There is onenr writers beginning to look at the tim
As far away as new york. Maybe further. We are always delighted to welcome our visitors. We want to also welcome our viewers by cspan. So i want to let folks in the room know that cspan is here to cover this afternoons conversation. After Alvin Felzenberg i speak we will open up the floor for q a. We will ask those with questions to come down to the microphones that are just here. And ask your question from the microphones. Speak right into the microphone ck the Madison Program here is dedicated to providing our students and members of our community with the best possible civic education. We believe, as mad dissen taught, only a welleducated people can permanently be a free people. So we want to do our part by contributing to the education of our fellow citizens, students and others, when it comes toby fundmental questioned of american constitutionalism and basic political thought. Of course, Like Princeton University as a whole, were a Nonpartisan Organization and we welcome all point
As far away as new york. Maybe further. We are always delighted to welcome our visitors. We want to also welcome our viewers by cspan. So i want to let folks in the room know that cspan is here to cover this afternoons conversation. After Alvin Felzenberg i speak we will open up the floor for q a. We will ask those with questions to come down to the microphones that are just here. And ask your question from the microphones. Speak right into the microphone ck the Madison Program here is dedicated to providing our students and members of our community with the best possible civic education. We believe, as mad dissen taught, only a welleducated people can permanently be a free people. So we want to do our part by contributing to the education of our fellow citizens, students and others, when it comes toby fundmental questioned of american constitutionalism and basic political thought. Of course, Like Princeton University as a whole, were a Nonpartisan Organization and we welcome all point