Macarthur memorial in norfolk, virginia. My name is christopher kolakowski. This is a Museum Dedicated to the life and times of general Douglas Macarthur, who lived inm 1880 until his death 1964 at the age of 84. I want to show you some of the treasures from our exhibit. Lets go take a look. In the oldted norfolk city hall, which was built actually in 1950 and was given over and converted to the macarthur memorial in we start with his family, really the 6,400 question why is the macarthur memorial in norfolk . The short answer is mom. Let me show you a photograph of his mother and also the family estate. Here is the family estate in the south side of the city. It is now a city park. Here is his mother who was born in norfolk and had Four Brothers who joined up to the Confederate Army from norfolk during the civil war. He was the youngest of the children. After the war in northlands, she met a man named Arthur Macarthur who had earned the medal of honor in the battle of chattanooga. The
Complex ways than i had imagined. And i came to understand him better, i hope and think, and it was a painful process. Host did you approach this book from a fans perspective . Guest well, im a scholar, right . So i dont think that i can write anything down that i cant defend. But i do admire churchill very much. I i think he was a very great man, and i think if you just list the things he achieved, its just very hard to name anybody in all of history like him. Its just a fact. Winston churchill wrote 50 books, and theyre worth reading. And thats just by itself, doesnt that separate him from nearly everybody, politician or not . And then theres this fact, and its a big fact and one of the great turning points of world history, he was there, and he did things, he was there in the place that mattered the most for about three months. And he did things that nobody else there would have done. So he did alter history in major ways whether for good or ill. There are arguments about that. So b
What was your goal with the your book churchills trial . What will be learned greg. Expends a lot of time to figure out what this means that is what i set out to do what did you learn greg. The book was a lot harder to write that i thought it would be i have been studying him 14 years as he wrote so very much so i made the terrible mistake to think it would be relatively easy but it was much harder than i thought because when you start to write it down to account for the main things in his life for what he advocated during defended it turns out they relate to one another more deeply and more complex ways than i imagined and i came to understand him better i hope and i think it was the painful process. Did you approach the book from a fan perspective . I am a scholar five 01 to write anything i cannot defend but i do admiring him very much and just to list the things that he achieved his very hard for anybody in history like can. He wrote 50 books and theyre worth reading just by itself
When he was about 20 of the Joseph Chamberlain a great man father of neville chamberlain, partner of is the father said that the young churchills should go into politics. I dont think that i could never keep up with the pace of writing and speaking that would be required and look what he did. He made a lot of money. He turndown enormous amount of stuff. He called them potboilers. But some of them are profound. I am teaching a eight class this term on contemporary george wells and c. S. Lewis and those for people are very different people. To have something similar to say about modern times. End with mass effects of modern life to those standards of those people. Yes he did have friends. He had some great young man friends that persisted through life there is a man named Reggie Barnes that went to cuba with the churchill. And then to tell all of war office what was going on with the cuban people. And they became friends there. And they remained and correspondence. He was very close to w
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