A universities fee like after massive student protests. The strongest hurricane ever recorded has landed on the shores of mexico. John holman reports. Battered buildings and surging seas. Hurricane patricia has hit mexico. Translator its very probable that this hurricane will effectively being the most intense hurricane that has existed in this part of the pacific in our country since records began if 1949. This is an historic storm in many ways. The strongest ever recorded in the pacific, the fastest ever to develop but residents were given some time to prepare. Translator im doing well with my mother. They had told us it was going to be category 4 and after monitoring its been raised to category 5. Now they will tell us theres protections spesht sites where people can say. We really didnt buy that much they regularly say a hurricane will come, but sometimes they dont hit. Thats why the majority dont participate that much. Emergency precautions have been taken. Along the coast of jali
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is adam kushner and im the editor of the Washington Post sunday outlook section which is our weekly section for analysis and essays and commentary and arguments and narrative storytelling and investigative journalism, and most happily for the state Nonfiction Book coverage. The Washington Post is a charter sponsor of the National Book festival which is now in its 15th year. Its amazing and im extremely excited to introduce today eric larson. I cant believe i fumbled that. Excuse me, edward larson. Edward is the endowed chair of law at pepperdine and a full University Professor there which means he is a martyr. The professor has nine books and he won the Pulitzer Prize for his book summer of the gods which is about the scopes trial and our endless numbered ending still disputed debate in america about science and mutual and policy. I also noticed any seamlessly endless list of publications is written for the washington outpost section, t
It was written in 1921. Adams had alolow passage in there saying the bible and the beaver where the two mainstays of the nation and those years. I have no idea why he had thrown the beaver into the mix. Back on the curious. I quickly discovered for the better part of a decade, the main source of income for the pilgrims was trading beaver pelt with local indians and selling them in london. Backup a wondering what else i didnt know about the american fur trade. I went down to my local library and started reading books about the firsfur trade. There was a fascinating history there that could be used to tell an equally fascinating story about American History, using trade to talk about how america was transformed into a transcontinental nation. Now that i have written a book, i am convinced that if you do not understand the basics of the history of the fur trade in america, you cannot really understand American History. It has that big of an impact. What i will do now is give you a whirlwi
Savidge, horrific violence will take place across different terrible environments ranging from jungles to coral reefs and seas. And of course, they will discover how the war ended in our last gallery which is going to see the nuclear age ushered in, completing the world war ii combat story. These galleries have taken us about 18 months to develop the exhibits. That ourle of thumb board of directors has established is that if you financially look at what cost to build one of these buildings, double the amount financially and that is what it costs to put these exhibits inside of them. Did virtually cost as much as the building itself. If you think about putting the building and exhibits together, it is years. It will take probably two years to get the building envisioned to completion. And then you have to put the gallery in it. We are on an 18month timetable with that. We have been collecting since the founding of the museum in the 1990s by late dr. Stephen ambrose, a professor at the u
Next, author Eric Jay Dolin discusses the american fur trade in his book fur, fortune, and empire. He profiles key players including Thomas Jefferson and john jacob astor. Eric i remember very clearly the moment at which the idea for this book came to me. It was back in the spring of 2007