Ehavent at diesel, a book store in brentwood, california, where they talk about the sixday war betweensel and its arar between israel and its neighbors. Military historian recalls the german u boat offensive in 1942. The captains command result out in the destruction of four ships in the Chesapeake Bay on under15, 1942. This discussion us half an hour. Im very pleased to be back here. Because the subjects of world war ii and the navy have always been one that ive been fascinated by, and in the book, the burning shore, ive taken a slugly different tact from by earlier work, turning the tide, and that earlier book, i focused on the oceanwide campaign in the spring of 1943 where the allies, after years of struggle, finally won the battle of the atlantic through pure grit and the barest edge in technology. This is a massive struggle and, therefore, the history of it tends to span thousands of miles. In the burning shore i was aible to take a slightly different look because in every big war
Panel celebrating the publication of democratization and authoritarianism in the erab world edited by Larry Diamond and me and published by the Johns Hopkins university press. If im not mistaken, this is the 30th journal of democracy book at Johns Hopkins has published since the series began in 1993. These volumes, which mostly but not exclusively draw up on articles that previously appeared in the journal have addressed a very wide range of regional issues related to democratization around the wor world. It is a quarterly publication sponsored by the National Endowment for democracy. It has become a leading global forum for serious analysis of the problems and prospects of democracy around the world. Larry diamond, who is also my coeditor of the journal will serve as the moderator of todays discussion and i will limit myself here with just a few brief remarks mostly about the book itself. Today given the intense worldwide focus on the shattering events in ukraine, the arab world is no
Without her, Dinesh Dsouza analyzing the sociopolitical climate in the u. S. Civil rights scholar charles cobb describes the role guns mayed as a form of selfrex in the 1960 in this nonviolent stuff will get you killed. In big money, on the trail of the ultra rich hijacking american politics, ken vogel, a reporter for politico, reports on the impact the Citizens United decision has had on politics and democracy. Look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv. Org. Youre watching booktv on cspan2. Heres our prime time lineup for tonight. At 7 30 p. M. Eastern, Cheryl Cashin describes a new vision of opportunity in america. Then at 8 45, mike earp and david fisher talk about the u. S. Marshals. At 10 on after words, susan van hand discusses the aftermath of the Fukushima Nuclear power plant meltdown follow being the the tsunami in japan in 2011. And we conclude at 11 p. M. With doug fine and his book, hemp bound.
Asked if there was anything that we could do for the ebook specifically. We brainstorms some ideas and talked about when the right time to act on those ideas might be. Thinking of that also from the very beginning. My role is to liaise with National Media and partnership with the communications team. What is an effective media campaigns . We twirl away here and make a lt of videos of writers, but we dont have many that go up on the home page of aol the day we hand it over so that parts been really fun. Watch for Hillary Clinton to appear on booktv soon to discuss her latest book, hard choices. Cspans new book, sundays at eight, includes gretchen morganson. What role should the government play in housing opinions . If you want to subsidize housing in this country and we want to talk about it and the populace agrees that its something we should subsidize, then put it on the Balance Sheet and make it clear and make it evident and make everybody aware of how much its costing. But when you
She settled in Washington Heights and when it turned to a spanish neighborhood, theres a big hospital there, and because of her training in cuba, she is able to treat the patients in spanish so she has made full circle. But to answer your question, they were all america bound with the exception of the one family. Those who remained in cuba, they came as tourists of passengers in transit but they were always paying bribes to the policemen or to somebody organizing. None of them was deported. Although they were afraid to be deported. By paying, they were able to stay until they got the american visas. And little by little, almost all of them went to the states. There is a case, there were many people from antwerp, from belgium, working diamonds and after the war the belgian government tried to invite them to return back to belgium but most of them preferred to go to new york. So almost all of them, very few remained in cuba. As the professor said, my grandfather was the secretary of stat