In a state that has produced some of the nations most revered arteries, howard bar stand among its finest writers of historical fiction. The civil war trilogy the black power, the judas field chronicles the conflict with deep understanding for all those affected by it. Bar is former longtime curator of rover, the home of William Faulkner and vietnam veteran. These two fine gentlemen who you will be introduced to directly. I know that you will know his name he has long been a favorite author of mine especially i love the black hawk down. It is a wonderful film and i think there will be a film made of that. I hope i live long enough to see it. I hope i get to play with that. This book in 1968 will go down in history as one of the Great American war narratives reads like a knowledgeable. It is chilling, and it is engaging. Just a long string of adjectives. It has been will reviewed as you might expect. I did encounter one negative review a writer for the New York Times said that one of th
Life renaissance architect, diplomat, the lives of artists, defines the canon. The visionary, forming the entire history of the field of arts. Give us a sense. The rise and fall of adam and eve. How long would a book like that be with you . About six years ago. Along the way, how hard it is to write an accessible, deeply informed research. Pretty lengthy. What would you say the average is . I dont know. I dont know. We would be doing well for a couple years. Lets stop there. The new president of the ww norton publishing company, those are a few books coming up this fall. Booktv tapes hundreds of other programs throughout the country are your long. Is a look at some of the events we are covering this week. Politics and prose bookstore in washington dc to hear journalist joe tone report on the rise and fall of the zeta drug cartel. The following day back in the Nations Capital where historian john kukla will real life talk about the life of patrick henry. Thursday at busboys and poets in
I dont think we should justify peoples assumptions about children or about schools under any circumstances. At the same time, i think you have to recognize probably the difficulty for somebody who has no experience both of the south or of poverty or of our Public Schools and doesnt know the craft of teaching. They probably have, as you would know because youve taught, right . They have a lot to learn. And i just hope that people come to schools with humility, understanding that theyre not there to impose their will or vision onto the children or the schools. Made assumptions about the students and their capabilities and it is a recurring issue over time. I want to add something from my city with a 4000 population. We have a Votech Center. And instead of Government Force for people to go here and there, people want to come. We have our Votech Center you may have read about, the sundance are solar car racing scene, we won the National Championship of the winston dell solar challenge in o
Somehow it was about me which is, i think, a tendency of any young person who is 22, but especially someone who comes and does a Service Teaching program that has a year or twoyear stint. And i think, i think that the answer is that people coming in need to be more humble and to do better. I dont think we should justify peoples assumptions about children or about schools under any circumstances. At the same time, i think you have to recognize probably the difficulty for somebody who has no experience both of the south or of poverty or of our Public Schools and doesnt know the craft of teaching. They probably have, as you would know because youve taught, right . They have a lot to learn. And i just hope that people come to schools with humility, understanding that theyre not there to impose their will or vision onto the children or the schools. Made assumptions about the students and their capabilities and it is a recurring issue over time. I want to add something from my city with a 40
Availableforsale outside today and they will all be signinggn copies of their work. You can find the schedule for when they will be available to sign in your program. I encourage you to visit with them. Thank you for doing this. This is wonderful and we are excited about it. Our moderator for the panel today is jerry is the author of Theodore Roosevelt in the assessment. Assassination. Thank you chris. Thank you all for choosing to come to the mississippi History Panel this afternoon. We are fortunate that we have authors for interesting books that cover the entire range of mississippi history from the earliest historical up to the late 20th century. We couldnt ask for a better panel of authors that a wider range of mississippi history tot talk about today. I would like to introduce the authors. To my far left is jim barnett. Retired director of Historic Properties division of the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Author of two books published by the University Press of m