Welcome to the clifton parkhalfmoon public library. We are very pleased to have David Pietrusza with us this morning to talk about his latest book, 1948 Harry Trumans improbable victory and the year that transformed america. David is the author of a number of books. Hes been here to talk in the past about his book about arnold rothstein, about the book of 1920, the year of six president s, 1960, lbj versus jfk versus nixon, silent pals almanac, virginias Calvin Coolidge and ted williams my life in pictures. Hes also written and produced a documentary local heroes baseball in Capital District diamonds. Reviews for his harry truman book talk about how lively it is, illuminating portraits of four candidates and the evenhanded appraisal of truman is especially compelling. The journey that he takes to get us to election day is one that he has definitively become the best at leading. In the past, his work has been compared to theodore whites classic the making of the president s series. Afte
This was recorded in clifton park, new york. It is about an hour and 10 minutes. Good morning everyone. Welcome to the clifton park has halfmoon public library. We are very pleased to have David Pietrusza to talk about his latest book 1948 Harry Trumans improbable victory and the year that transformed america. David is the author of a number of books and he is here to talk about his book about 1920 the year of six president s, 1960 lbj versus jfk versus nixon, and ted williams my life of pictures. He has also written and produced a wma hq documentary local heroes, baseball and Capital District diamonds. Reviewed for his hairy german book talk about how likely it is, eliminating portraits of portrait support candidates and the evenhanded appraisal of truman is especially compelling. The journey he takes is to election day is one he is definitively lead in his past his work has been compared to theodore whites classic them a king of the president series. After three stayed home runs by t
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Korean test last week. A commentary accusing the u. S. Of bringing the political situation to the brink of war. Describing the u. S. Move as foolish for using force in an attempt to provoke the north into action, the commentary stressed that north korea will continue to step up its Nuclear Deterrence if the u. S. Maintains what it describes as a hostile policy. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe is taking a hard line. It says its a serious threat to japan. Translator japan will impose harsher sanctions on north korea, using a reference of proposals made last june by the liberal partys task force on abductions of japanese nationals by the north. One of the proposed sanctions is a ban in principle on money transfers to north korea. Another is to reimpose restrictions on travel between the two countries that were lifted in july 2014. Abe says as a nonpermanent member of the u. N. Security Council Japan will cooperate with the United States and other countries to firmly respond to north ko