This program was part of the 2019 National World war i museum and memorial symposium. Lora next, talking a little bit about stuff going on in russia. Again, i feel like everything is relevant in the world today that connects back to world war i. Our next speaker is james carl nelson. He is the author of four books about the American Experience in world war i. The remains of company d, five lieutenants, i will hold. He is the winner of the colonel Joseph Alexander award for biography from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and the polar bear expedition the heroes of americas forgotten invasion of russia, 1918 to 1919, which you will be learning more about in his lecture today. A graduate in journalism from the university of minnesota, nelson has worked as a staff writer for the miami herald and has covered some of the last three decades major stories, so he can expand even further on that concept. He is an active member of the western Front Association and currently lives in eden prai
Honestly is amazing. William is a Political Affairs reporter and has written for the New York Times Foreign Affairs and new republic publications of that sort and also in any nominated producer of a documentary series on showtime. It is called the trade and National Human trafficking. William is a graduate and the school of journalism. He lives in new york and is a frequent contributor, and welcome William Wheeler to our event tonight. Thank you for coming out very much. I want to give you a flavor of what we are talking about and we will open up to questions so be thinking of any probing of insightful questions you want to ask. This passage comes what i tried to do is look at cycles of foreignpolicy in the us that are behind the gangs that entrenched themselves across Central America and are a big part of the equation that is driving so many people to our southern borders. Try to understand the push factors behind our border crisis so i start reporting on the origins of ms 13, eightee
This is an Industrial Recycling area. He owned as much as 600 acres here. He has partitioned off some of that to a nearby golf course. This is a small sliver of what is remaining. The significance of that is he was involved with the creation of the original president s park. It is five miles from here. It was open from 20042010. It was home to all 42 of these sculptures. He was instrumental in commissioning to come take these when that park went bankrupt. He put them in his stone crusher. He did not have the heart to do that and spent a considerable amount of his own money to transport everyone of these from that park 12 miles from here to his property here to store them temporarily until he figured out what he wanted to do with them. The sculptor of all of these is david adicks. Alive, he was a painter based out of houston. He became so inspired by Mount Rushmore that he wanted to recreate them on a smaller scale. He ended up creating all three sets of them. One of them went to a park
Complete historical detail. I cant begin to tell you how much better looking that is than just a month ago. It would not be the same without his partner in the white house as he was father of the country, martha washington. To her left is William Mckinley. I will leave it to our guest speaker, bill allman, to tell us why William Mckinley is in the east room. On the far left, he needs no introduction, t. R. Teddy roosevelt. These are touches that anyone will see, the business groups that use it, the productions we do, the brides that are married here, but one other musthave was visual acuity. President nixon was a master communicator. He used television from the oval office on 37 occasions. He is known for his silent majority speech, for his resignation speech, for having moved history with words. For those of us who were here for the 50th anniversary will realize that when we showed the tape of the walking on the moon, we showed it on one of the most extraordinarily improvised set of s
You are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. We are honored to come full circle hosting not only a local author but regular customer at the bookstore and uncover tech culture and Silicon Valley news, has appeared in the atlantic, wired antimagazine and other publications. Mike isaac is a Technology Reporter at the New York Times who won the award for distinguished business reporting and write about uber and other Silicon Valley giant it appears on cnbc and msnbc. The book signing will be at the back desk right there and appreciate it if you keep the line along the wall to the far right. I need to take a photo of you. I thought there would be 20 people here. All friends. A fireside chat. If this were a congressional hearing. Be on your cspan behavior. I am not going to curse tonight, or try not to. I was thinking and you were thinking we should probably start off with moving something. I dont know if you r