Bookstores this week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv. Booktv. Welcome to the library of philadelphia. Im a representative jim roebuck and im certainly very happy to be here this evening. Im a native philadelphia and. I graduated from Central High School that my particular [applause] my particular focus tonight is on the fact that i went to college at Virginia Union university in richmond from which ive received a history degree of honors and then i did my masters in charlottesville. [applause] subsequent to that, i tour the history and i like to think about all the right points here. I worked briefly as a legislative assistant and in 1985 was elected to the state legislature where i still serve in an currently the minority or the democratic chair of the house education committee. The library is dedicated to advancing literacy, guiding learning and inspiring curiosity from its awardwinning event series to its programming like the upcoming american president ial se
What kind of sources used. You allude to the fact access in china is difficult these days. What kind of sources did you use . Second question, what do you was the most challenging thing about writing the biography . Putting this book together was a real effective story. You know, there are some of the different pieces to it, different aspects to it. As i mentioned before i was very fortunate to meet three of birches surviving brothers, papers of William Dolan at uc berkeley, papers of the wedemeyer at the hoover institution. The 14th air force archive at montgomery, alabama, Maxwell Air Force base, socially and exciting trip, and exciting find because buried in those materials is a 24, 25 page interview, oral history interview with john birch which was conducted about five months before his death. The Army Air Force historian arranged this interview because of john birch was the first of these field intelligence officers. He had met doolittle. He had led a colorful life, so theres some
We are securing the liberty and sovereignty of we the people with a foreword by george will. Let me also welcome our cspan audience, as well as those watching through catos live streaming. Released just two days ago by harper collins, this this book is sure to receive wide attention and it deserves so. I just learned its available at costco, so people who are watching this on cspan can run right out and pick up a copy of the book. Its likely to receive wide attention, as i said, because it speaks in a fundamental way to the political divisions we see in america today. Divisions about healthcare, gun control, affirmative action, immigration and so much more. Its about the far more fundamental division we see in our understanding of our basic law of the constitution and what it authorizes. If we want to better understand and appreciate the surface division, thats where we have to turn because thats where they are grounded. Just to be clear, in speaking about the republican constitution a
Booktv. Welcome to the library of philadelphia. Im a representative jim roebuck and im certainly very happy to be here this evening. Im a native philadelphia and. I graduated from Central High School that my particular [applause] my particular focus tonight is on the fact that i went to college at Virginia Union university in richmond from which ive received a history degree of honors and then i did my masters in charlottesville. [applause] subsequent to that, i tour the history and i like to think about all the right points here. I worked briefly as a legislative assistant and in 1985 was elected to the state legislature where i still serve in an currently the minority or the democratic chair of the house education committee. The library is dedicated to advancing literacy, guiding learning and inspiring curiosity from its awardwinning event series to its programming like the upcoming american president ial series that will present compelling programs through the president ial election
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