We have brought some amazing documents you should check out afterwards. We thank the cspan audience. 20 years ago, our board chair wrote me a note that started with the words a stroke of luck. Had been introduced to a buffalo phd candidate. He was interested in early American Financial history. This was before the show. Very few people were interested in hamilton. There were very few of us that were doing a deeper dive into the financial aspects of his vision. His phd thesis, 1300 pages. That is staggering. Perspective, mine was a paltry 300 and his was 1000 more. It led to the first quit about bob. He cant hold his ink. Skip forward 20 years, he has 20 more books he has authored or coauthored. That led to another quip, he writes books faster than we can read them. To add to that five at volumes, the five scholarly articles, many have received awards. I am only at page 10 of his 47 page cv. Its an incredible document you should check out at his webpage. I see pictures of him with fishi
National security and law road wrote an article that is truly intriguing and you will all agree. It is worthy of serious discussion. It is called the power to wage war successfully. It touched on many things that we at the society are interested in. First and foremost, it centered on a truly historic figure that sadly, few of us know much about anymore and has basically been lost to time. I dont like that phrase but it has been lost to time. It is the extraordinary Charles Evans hughs. Mr. Hughes had what anyone would say is an Extraordinary Public Service career. It was unparalleled by most measures. He served as the governor of new york state from 19071910 and was named to the Supreme Court by William Howard taft. Four years into that term, he republicane nomination for president and narrowly lost the Electoral College to what was then president wilson. It was 4000 votes in california. In 1921, president Lauren Harding president Warren Harding named hughs the secretary of state and a
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Roger cohen is a columnist for the new york times. his new book is called the girl from human street. it tells the story of his family and explores the nature of modern jewish identity. I am pleased to have him at this table. Just thinking about this, before you made the commitment to do it, what goes through your mind . Is it the imperative to do it . Is it that you have to convince yourself to do it, because you know it is going to be easy . There was the imperative, because there were mysteries in my family i wanted to explore. On the other hand, doing something so personal is always very difficult. My editor, john siegel at knopf, if he had not pushed me, i might have shied away from it. I was going to write a book about iran. He said, that is a little depressing. Why not write about suicide, loss, displacement . Which is the story of your family. It is a story of love. I dont want to give too negative an impression. It moves
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Roger cohen is a columnist for the new york times. His new book is called the girl from human street. It explores the nature of modern jewish identity. I am pleased to have him at this table. Just thinking about this, before you made the commitment to do it, what goes through your mind . Is it you have to commit yourself to do it, because you know it is going to be easy . There was the imperative because there were mysteries in my family i wanted to explore. On the other hand, doing something so personal is always very difficult. My editor, john siegel if yet not pushed me, i might have shied away from it. I was going to write a book about iran. He said, that is a little depressing. Why not write about suicide, loss displacement. It is a story of love. It moves from lithuania . To britain. To israel. Than the United States. The family has been on the move for war generations four generations. In the u. S. , we think of immigratio
Countries on for information for basic intelligence about whats happening. Rose roger cohen and a look at the future in libya and yes, maam em. Funding for charlie rose is provided by the following rose additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose roger koen is here, a columnist for the new york ties. His new book is called the girl from human street. It explores the nature of modern jewish identity. I am pleased to have him back at this table. So just thinking about this before you made the commitment to do it, what goes through your mind . Is it the imperative to do it . Is it you have to convince yourself to do it because you know its not going to be easy . What is it . Well on the one side, there was the imperative because there were mysteries in my family that i wanted to explore. On the other hand, doing so