About taking quote, drastic action to spread slow the spread of covid19 interstate and hinting at the return of the stayathome owners we all experience back in march. Health officials warn the trends are alarming compared to previous searches this year. 40,000 daily new cases of the verse reported last week that its likely that at least 12 of those sick will need intensive care hospitalization. The high case numbers we seen in the last week have not even begun to impact hospitals yet. We know that it takes about two weeks. If these trends continue, will have to take much more dramatic drastic action. California hospitals could be overwhelmed and i sears out of space by the middle of this month. These are troubling signs. And we have not really, we dont know what happened at thinks giving it. That will take a few more days to manifest itself. We dont know exactly what a new stay at home order would include. But we can look to recent examples. We have a harbinger of what is to come in Lo
I dont want your pity. I want change. From political leaders activists and protesters. They brutalized us, shot us with rubber bullets, beat us with batons. Still trying to make the dream of reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. Come true. I said, mr. President , the people are restless. See why this documentary is more important than ever. 57 years after the first march in 1963. I said, this is it. And i went for it. The march on washington. Hello. Im deborah roberts. Those images of today arc echo of something 57 years ago when 250,000 people descended on the nations capital, protesting for jobs and freedom. On todays anniversary of dr. Martin luther king jr. s i have a dream speech, we at 20 20 are proud to present the documentary, the march. Originally made in 2013 to commemorate the marchs 50th anniversary, some of those voices, sadly, are now gone, but their legacy livines on. I have had to tell my children about the segregation and what it means. My 7yearold daughter, she wanted t
Washington post columnist and thriller writer and then the Pulitzer Prize winner last month and this month we are joined by jeff shaara military historical fiction author. Ranging from the American Revolution to the korean war and we will talk about all those in just a minute but we will start with a facebook comment that a viewer has posted on our facebook page. What exactly is historical fiction . Guest i have had this conversation with other authors it is an accurate historical setting but the people are totally made up thats a little different from what i do because i take you to these places with a lot of the real people with historical figures with names that you know like George Washington or Dwight Eisenhower were robert e. Lee it is fiction by definition because i put words in their mouth. My job is to tell you a story and not just do a textbook or names dates places facts and figures but to put you in the hands of the characters to tell you the story the way they would tell i
Of my favorite civil war generals, who turned out to be not from one of those northeastern states. Patrick clayburn from argue arg arkansas. I got interested in the battle of ringgold gap. I want to start with clayburn saves the army. We have to start with the two leading protagonists at the battle of Missionary Ridge. Grant was a rising star as a general. Had not lost really a battle yet during the war. Eventually, he goes on to further greatness. On the other side, you have bragg. Although the story may be a little apparently as a lieutenant during the wars, he became the acting commissary officer. The story is he wrote a request to the officer himself for supplies. As the officer, he turned them down. He sent another request and it was turned down again. So he went to his captain of the regiment and said i reached an impasse, what should i do . The captain said, bragg, you have argued with every officer in the army and now you are arguing with yourself. Request denied. So bragg we h
Will be a book signing. Ellior ackerman, they have brought their new books for us and elliott is a marine war veteran, published many books. He is a National Book finalist award winner and also wrote for the new york times, the atlantic, the new yorker. Clay is a native nashville he and who has published many works as well. Mostly historical and also Deputy Editor in chief or up in chief for the new york times. We are going to let them talk about their books individually and after a few minutes you can you and a on points of the books that they enjoy. Great. Thank you very much and thank you for coming out. It is always a pleasure to be back here in nashville. When they told me we would be sitting together on a panel i was elated because im a great admirer of your work. One of my good friends at work is one of elliotts editors and over the years i have come to admire his work and maybe we could get into it at some point but despite the fact my book is about the spanishamerican war and