Eisenhower and George Patton and bradley and how they provided leadership on the allied assaults, especially the european assaults on nazi germany in world war ii. When we heard he was writing his second book to figure out of way to get the museum on the books they need to reread the to have you back. His latest book covers the alliance of the american war effort but this time from the perspective of the president fdr and his war cabinet. The men who were responsible for assembly eng securing the forces of victory and this is a particularly interesting topic from fdr as the commander. So this will be an Exciting Program but before i call him up he didnt just come down here to talk this evening he did extra duty to go above and beyond to work with us through the Leadership Academy who came from around the country to put the headband struggle of world war ii and the 20thcentury and with the shipyards and went to a variety of sites through this city and got them into the swamps with john
Reading your book, maybe i am reading in to this but did you talk with the queen in crafting your book . Well, the queen, as a policy and is probably sensible from her standpoint, which is that in her entire 60 year reign she has never given an interview and that has helped probably to preserve her mystique and is kept her from having to pick and choose who she might give interviews to. I was lucky to meet her three times and private social settings and i describe her three times in the book. At each of them was brief, but revelatory and in each case it gave little glimpses of that private side, that gaiety of spirit, the flash of wit and so, they were very valuable to me. I also watched her a lot in different settings. I traveled with her overseas. I traveled with her around the u. K. So i could see how she interacted with people. In addition to interviewing people there were lots of other ways that i developed my sense of who she is and how she goes about her job. Was she aware that
The book, we decided this is getting very serious. We know im going to be called on this because of my background in making movies. This was part fiction, part fantasy, but we decided to go ahead and go with this book. Peter took over the book. I was running the film, and we were crossbreeding all the time and checking each other constantly. But i took about four and a half, five years now. Thats where we are today thank you that was pretty thorough. We have been friends for the altered since 1996. Then we decide record to go ahead with this project. Ive had a sabbatical, thought it was going to be a 60 minutes documentary. Now a 10 adversaries. What i thought was going to take one semester ended up taking four years, four and a half years so its been a big project. Its important for us to have the book because i was surprised how Little Information you can convey in a 60 minutes documentary. In each episode. The book, an 800 page book, we cut out 200 pages to get down to 800 page it b