And get on a payment plan. And it is really tough. It was so tough, how did you do it . You just got to pray and around you, and trying to take the first step and it will come. I pray for them because it happened for all three of us. Continue watching booktv for more Nonfiction Authors and books. On booktv Robert Wilson recalls the life of civil war era photographer mathew brady. The first war to provide a photographic history was the civil war, thoroughly covered by brady and his team of photographers to to over 10,000 photos. This is a low under an hour. A great honor to be in this book store. A city of institutions. This is one of the great ones. It is so wonderful to see it thriving under bradley, and i hope continued to thrive for many years to come. Give a nod to one person in the audience, my friend pat ferguson who read a wonderful book when under your civil war, freedom rising, you dont know what is right, you should. I hope is for sale here somewhere. It occurred to me to wri
People simply couldnt come into force knocks metaphorically and say heres a hundred dollars i want to get the gold value and that was as a consequence of the big bad problems the american federal government got into with its debt in the vietnam war and also pay for the Great Society and it just didnt work out. There was a deficit from a trade deficit and people were coming to change the dollars into gold associate decided to stop that is interesting enough, the training and the Federal Reserve was very skeptical about that and was an oldschool balancedbudget kind of guy stopping the decoupling in that way. Host another moment later george in the house of commons. Guest the great thing about the British Public finance for the hundred years before the First World War essentially they ran a balancedbudget. Its difficult to imagine that amount but the whole of the Victorian Era host stable Interest Rates. Guest stable Interest Rates and fiscal policy and what happened in the First World Wa
Content. Next a Panel Discussion about robert edsels the Monuments Men about recovering and protecting european cultural artifacts that the nazis stole during world war ii. This is about an hour and 30 minutes. [applause] [inaudible conversations] there we go. Okay. Roberts second book is entitled the Monuments Men allied heroes, nazi thieves, and the greatest Treasure Hunt in history. This panel tonight will discuss those allied heroes the monuments named, the nazi thievebut not thethieves and tht Treasure Hunt in history. With the ambassadors staff on the panel on the legal also touch on some of the more contemporary efforts by the United States government to address the loss and return of what in the late 19 90s we began calling the holocaust era assets. In a way whats been done since the 1990s is following in the steps of the monuments named. Using the records they created as the guide past and using them to help turn history into the justice and expression that i stole from the am
Specifically the art museum in berlin which is one of the areas things to go through in the world room by room. There is no provenance attached to any of those works of art. It is just artists, title, thats it. You dont know if it came from prussian state. You dont know which state or municipal gallery it came from. You dont know anything then thats the principle artist. Museum of germany. It is very very weird. Comments . Let me just contrast that with france. France had this socalled Art Collection which was essentially jewish art that they made minimal efforts to locate the owners but to their credit much more recently and after the Washington Trust what they did with their art is face and its and in fact it was the question whether the Jewish Community should claim that art and have a museum of their own and they said no it belongs to the french state but what we want and what we got was some history of what happened. It may save from an unknown jewish family that at least someone
In 1997 and 1998, he oversaw the production of two government report about Operation Safe haven and these reports were quickly produced ae not well received in some places. So, ambassador, can you tell us what prompted the Clinton Administration to want to have these reports produced, and what was the outcome of these reports . Well, first, robert has dope an enormous has done an enormous service through his book. But i want to try to put it in an even broader context, and that is its a great tribute not only to the Monuments Men, but to the United States army and the United States of america. Contrast this enormous effort to save Cultural Property, to get it returned to its rightful owners with the action of the soviet union coming from the east to berlin. Ask they were intent on doing just the opposite, stripping germany, stripping its museums of everything that they could that was movable, taking it back to russia as war Company Sauce for their enormous compensation for their enormo