Thought that would be an interesting topic. So i broaden that a bit to think about different kinds of that civil war. Americans shared, transmitted and almost as soon as i came up with that idea, i started to think about a terrific book with an incredibly intriguing title, mr. Lincolns tales. And so early on in process, i thought to myself, if i could get the author of this book to come and speak maybe this thing will work out extremely. And so i was absolutely thrilled. When tom wheeler, the author of, mr. Lincolns t mails, accepted the invitation to be with us as, a speaker at this years civil war weekend, wheeler is businessman, an author and a public figure. Im not even going to try and read out the list of his accomplishments. A few highlights include his service as chairman of. The federal Communications Commission from 2013 to 2017. Hes a visiting fellow at brookings institution. As well, as a senior fellow at the harvard school. His publication does include a really insightful
Civil war. Americans shared, transmitted and almost as soon as i came up with that idea, i started to think about a terrific book with an incredibly intriguing title, mr. Lincolns tales. And so early on in process, i thought to myself, if i could get the author of this book to come and speak maybe this thing will work out extremely. And so i was absolutely thrilled. When tom wheeler, the author of, mr. Lincolns t mails, accepted the invitation to be with us as, a speaker at this years civil war weekend, wheeler is businessman, an author and a public figure. Im not even going to try and read out the list of his accomplishments. A few highlights include his service as chairman of. The federal Communications Commission from 2013 to 2017. Hes a visiting fellow at brookings institution. As well, as a senior fellow at the harvard school. His publication does include a really insightful about leadership lessons from civil war, as well as the one ive already mentioned. And i know. Youve got a
This weekend, i came up with this theme, the information war. One of the attendees i was chatting me about spies and espionage and that kind of thing. And my ears perked up and i thought that would be an interesting topic. So i broaden that a bit to think about different kinds of that civil war. Americans shared, transmitted and almost as soon as i came up with that idea, i started to think about a terrific book with an incredibly intriguing title, mr. Lincolns tales. And so early on in process, i thought to myself, if i could get the author of this book to come and speak maybe this thing will work out extremely. And so i was absolutely thrilled. When tom wheeler, the author of, mr. Lincolns t mails, accepted the invitation to be with us as, a speaker at this years civil war weekend, wheeler is businessman, an author and a public figure. Im not even going to try and read out the list of his accomplishments. A few highlights include his service as chairman of. The federal Communications
This weekend, i came up with this theme, the information war. One of the attendees i was chatting me about spies and espionage and that kind of thing. And my ears perked up and i thought that would be an interesting topic. So i broaden that a bit to think about different kinds of that civil war. Americans shared, transmitted and almost as soon as i came up with that idea, i started to think about a terrific book with an incredibly intriguing title, mr. Lincolns tales. And so early on in process, i thought to myself, if i could get the author of this book to come and speak maybe this thing will work out extremely. And so i was absolutely thrilled. When tom wheeler, the author of, mr. Lincolns t mails, accepted the invitation to be with us as, a speaker at this years civil war weekend, wheeler is businessman, an author and a public figure. Im not even going to try and read out the list of his accomplishments. A few highlights include his service as chairman of. The federal Communications
Election day, very pleased to have a copy here to you. This is the american and they chose to have a different subtitle, the book the book at war. Its called how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading. And that, in a nutshell, describes what im trying do in this book. If we think about books at war at all, its probably in this context. But books as victims. Victims of bombing victims, of theft, looting and that is part of the story. And its the story we told in our history of libraries when we had a chapter in that book called surviving the 20th century about how books were not about but i to point want to make to you today is that books were not just victims of war but active agents of war books were essential for waging of war as macleish that in the director of the of congress made the point modern war. He said cannot be fought without most complete Library Resources of books played an part in scientific and essential war making. It played an important part in intellige