About, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than power point as a term. Im not good at power point. Its not that im a luddite. Im just not good at technology. Im just a technological idiot. Well, this is not the supreme city is not the book i originally set out to write. The original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took too big a bite out of the apple, and i discovered as i was doing my research that there was i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell, and its an untold story actually. Its been told in bits and pieces, but its never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative, and that story is the rise of the the sudden and spectacular rise i should say of midtown manhattan in the 1920s which was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a
The war, the pace of military operations or determine the pace of how quickly the local population is seen the south vietnamese government as a legitimate entity. And so what you see here, i think, are some disconnects, not only in modernization theorys the that we talked about earlier but also this theory of graduated pressure. As we talked about a little bit earlier in the evening, theres a difference clearly between articulating strategy and implementing it. And i think this is a clear case of that. So thank you. [ applause ] here are some of the programs youll find this weekend on the cspan networks. Saturday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, live coverage of the Memorial Service for former washington, d. C. Mayor marion barry and sunday evening at 8 00 on cspans q a, ann compton who recently retired after 40 years as abc News White House correspondent. Saturday night at 10 00 on book tv on cspan2, assistant professor jason sokol on how the northeast u. S. Wasnt always the haven of
Vietnam wouldve pursued that agenda of world domination. But it didnt turn out that way. It turned out more the way dave gordon describes it. Right. What happened between then and now . Part of the problem, i think, is that lezuan and the politburo is also balancing their own requirements. And we need to realize that after the bifurcation of vietnam in 1954 where there is two entities, a south and north vietnam, that in north vietnam, hanois leaders ho chi minh and ultimately lezuan are having to make decisions about supporting an insurgency in the south to reunify this country in the aftermath of a long and bloody colonial conflict or anticolonial conflict and also build their own stable nation in the north. And that is a debate again, hang brings this up in hanois war. That others are constantly having to make choices between building a political, a stable Political Community in the north and feeding and reinforcing the southern insurgency in the south. So in the aftermath of the ame
Now for 15 years, the only Television Network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2, created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Alexander russo sat down with booktv at the Catholic University of america to discuss his book, points on the dial golden age radio beyond the networks. This 25minute interview is part of booktvs college series. Host and youre watching booktv on cspan2. We are at Catholic University in washington, d. C. Interviewing some of the professors who are also authors. And now joining us is Alexander Russo who is the author of this book, points on the dial the golden age of radio beyond the networks. Alexander russo, who invented radio . Well, thats a complicated answer, and, you know, the march coney often gets credit for it, but like many of these stories, there were lots of Different Actors operating and lots of different times. And that kind of instit
Union fell maybe we were left with a superiority complex at the extent of the other two candidates that are then a superiority complex which has massive problems anyway is tempered by proving your self. The first question is what you want your country to have the triple package. And it requires they make countries do terrible things and in the last chapter america has available the sense of exception out of the other democracy and inclusiveness if that can be the basis of the complex in terms of insecurity and impulse control there are so many domains with the inability to stop borrowing the insecurity there is a good argument to be made of people doing better in times of adversity so maybe there is a kind of perverse Silver Lining to the political problems weve had over the last ten years. I was going to say exercising the impulse control. I was going to say china is a good example of a country described by the scholars as a strong sense of superiority. We have been humiliated by the