To further pursue writing, he transferred to the air force reserve. Ignitingrst book, the American Revolution, review75 earned a great was released in april. His second book was released in may. Derek thank you all for coming. It is an honor to be here. A very Historic Site so it is pretty cool to give a historic lecture at an Historic Site. I have two books and they together tell the entire boston campaign. The first covers from the start of the war which i describe the start of the action at the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Then the first shots are fired and it ends with the siege of boston just beginning. It is kind of how book two starts. Both books are standalone, they can be read independently, but together they tell the entire boston campaign. Little bit more of who i am and the reason behind this book. I already kind of describe the details. When i joined the air force, i was stationed at Los Angeles Air force base and i started working on some short films on the weekend, took som
Bruce jackson. John, is the liberal media kind of losing its power . Yes, and this is very good news. What we think of as media is very much a moving target. When you compare that to 20 to 30 years ago, it was major newspapers that could shape the narrative. Nowadays, new sources of media alternative sprout up every day that give us a new slant on everything. The ability of the New York Times to shape the narrative is changing every day. We have one big example, the iran deal. Look at what white house adviser ben rhodes did, he set the tone in the hen house of the beltway echo chamber. That deal is a deal, not a treaty that congress would have had to pass. It went through with little coverage, proper coverage of what was in that deal. And so the invertebrate state of the media is in play right now. The fact that that deal, the iran deal got passed, shows the power of the liberal media. But getting back to this story, steve, on donald trump, i read the thing thoroughly. It was a long pi
Bruce jackson. John, is the liberal media kind of losing its power . Yes, and this is very good news. What we think of as media is very much a moving target. When you compare that to 20 to 30 years ago, it was major newspapers that could shape the narrative. Nowadays, new sources of media alternative sprout up every day that give us a new slant on everything. The ability of the New York Times to shape the narrative is changing every day. We have one big example, the iran deal. Look at what white house adviser ben rhodes did, he set the tone in the hen house of the beltway echo chamber. That deal is a deal, not a treaty that congress would have had to pass. It went through with little coverage, proper coverage of what was in that deal. And so the invertebrate state of the media is in play right now. The fact that that deal, the iran deal got passed, shows the power of the liberal media. But getting back to this story, steve, on donald trump, i read the thing thoroughly. It was a long pi
Bruce jackson. John, is the liberal media kind of losing its power . Yes, and this is very good news. What we think of as media is very much a moving target. When you compare that to 20 to 30 years ago, it was major newspapers that could shape the narrative. Nowadays, new sources of media alternative sprout up every day that give us a new slant on everything. The ability of the New York Times to shape the narrative is changing every day. We have one big example, the iran deal. Look at what white house adviser ben rhodes did, he set the tone in the hen house of the beltway echo chamber. That deal is a deal, not a treaty that congress would have had to pass. It went through with little coverage, proper coverage of what was in that deal. And so the invertebrate state of the media is in play right now. The fact that that deal, the iran deal got passed, shows the power of the liberal media. But getting back to this story, steve, on donald trump, i read the thing thoroughly. It was a long pi
Bruce jackson. John, is the liberal media kind of losing its power . Yes, and this is very good news. What we think of as media is very much a moving target. When you compare that to 20 to 30 years ago, it was major newspapers that could shape the narrative. Nowadays, new sources of media alternative sprout up every day that give us a new slant on everything. The ability of the New York Times to shape the narrative is changing every day. We have one big example, the iran deal. Look at what white house adviser ben rhodes did, he set the tone in the hen house of the beltway echo chamber. That deal is a deal, not a treaty that congress would have had to pass. It went through with little coverage, proper coverage of what was in that deal. And so the invertebrate state of the media is in play right now. The fact that that deal, the iran deal got passed, shows the power of the liberal media. But getting back to this story, steve, on donald trump, i read the thing thoroughly. It was a long pi