Answer period, please step up to the microphone next to the podium so they can get your question on the recording. Please make sure that it is, in fact, a question. Normally, when we finish an event, we ask you to fold up your chairs and put them against a book shelf. Please leave them where we are, as we have three more events this afternoon. As mr. Randall is finished talking and finished with the question and answer, hed be happy to answer questions. The line will start to the right of the podium. Mr. Randall details the 50 years and persistent attempts by the british to control american trade waters and how in spite of in the United States ultimately becomes the Worlds Largest independent maritime power. Publishers weekly said of the book revisiting such famous events as the chesapeake affair in which a british ship fired on and mustered an american crew, randall brings to life the violent skirmishes that played out in the name of trade on sea, lake and land. His account helps eluc
A couple quick things before we get started. Time to turn off your cell phones. We have cspan booktv with us today and you dont want to be the person whose phone rings on the recording. When we get to the questionandanswer period, please step up to the microphone next to the podium so they can get your question on recording. Also make sure that it is in fact a question. Normally when we finish any event, we ask you to fold up your chairs put them against a bookshelf. Please leave them where they are as we have three more than this afternoon. After finished talking, hed be happy to sign books available behind the register in the line will start to the right of the podium. In unshackling america, mr. Randall to control american trade water and how in spite of the of the United States ultimately becomes the Worlds Largest independent maritime power. Publishers weekly said of the book revisiting the chesapeake affair in which a british ship fired on and mustered an american group, brings t
Guest my goal was to state that and that is what i set out to do . Host what did you learn . Guest oh, lots. The book was much harder to write than i thought it would be. By the time i studied the book i was studying churchhill for 40 years. I made the author terrible mistake think it would be relatively easy compared to other things i had written. Much harder than i thought. When you write down and give account of main things in his life, things he thought, things he stood for, things he advocated or defended, turns out they relate to one another. More deeply and in more complex ways than i had imagined and i came to understand them better i hope and think and it was a painful process. Host did you approach this book from a fans perspective . Guest well, im a scholar, right . I dont think i can write anything down that i cant defend but i do admire churchhill very much. I think he was a very great man. If you just list things he achieved, this very hard to name anybody in all of histo
What do we want . Equal pay. When do we want it . Now. We need to come together as women and support those who dont have the opportunity to take the time to be out here with their sisters and dont have equal pay and dont have access to family leave. Reporter from outside the doors of the department of labor to freedom plaza. Women literally are the backbone of this entire country, this entire world. Without women we wouldnt be here. I need to be here in solidarity. Reporter one thing was clear, the men and women below protesting say they want to live in a world where women are equal to men. I wanted to come out to support all the women that need equal pay. Reporter so with signs in hand, protesters made it to Lafayette Square hoping President Trump to hear their pride. I just see too many people that want to divide instead of get together. Reporter this man didnt want us to use his name but says he thinks protesters are exacerbating the issues women say im not so sure it exists at the
Nicholas lambert talk about the marylandnds voyage to , the german naval expansion and british Army Blockade in the war. This is a 50 minute event. Our two speakers artistically naval historians. Are distinguished naval historians. Gary weir is the chief historian of the Geospatial Intelligence agency. Served 19t, dr weir years as a department of the navys history and heritage command. One of the leading experts on undersea warfare, intelligence, tradecraft, and related technologies. His books include building the forged in war the Naval Industrial complex and american submarine tide theon, rising Untold Stories of the western submarines that fought the cold war russian submarines that fought the cold war. The winner of the Richard Leopold prize. Also the former editor of the National Journal of naval history. Dr. Weir is here to comment on the Technological Development of the submarine, and the role and plans of the german navy as world war i developed. This was this is his first appe