Our readers. Yet with his latest book rick reminds us again that his gifts continue only indifferent form as an historian. The guns at last light the war in western europe 194445 is the final installment in his trilogy about world war ii. He dedicated nearly 15 years of his life to these three remarkable volumes. The Los Angeles Times has called the liberation trilogy quote of massive use of reporting and powerful to storytelling. A tapestry of fabulous richness and complexity. The Washington Post reviewer describes the pros as achingly sublime. Now its 877 pages but there are fewer will sing this is a very long book he said this once seemed too short. In a recent interview with the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans rick remarked on the necessity of remembering the story of this war when he called the greatest selfinflicted catastrophe in Human History. 60 million dead ,com,com ma one life snuffed out every three seconds for six years. More than 16 million American Veterans o
Its really exciting. And be, of course, its a lot less stressful than writing about jerusalem. Host you also have another project coming out after that . Guest ah, the world. Host the history of the world. A biography . Guest yeah. Im going to do a history of the world after that. Ive been it was my publishers idea. And they said to me, like, would you do it . Its not going to be a long, in fact, its more of a literary book, more of a philosophical week. Its not going to have its not going to be like the sort of pantheon book of history, you know, with everything, everything in it. Its actually going on what fascinates me in history, and its going to be probably the shortest book ive written, in fact, of all my books because its just going to be, its going to be a literary and philosophical look at life and the world. But through the lives of people. So thats why its called a biography, rather like i did in jerusalem. So thats going to be one hell of a challenge, too, but its wildly ex
Hearing, as the attorney general barr pointed out, democrats are hoping to turn the testimony into a spectacle. For nadler, for thee cowardly schiff, one more excuse to try and smear trump. But for republicans, this hearing is a goldenr opportunity to ask the questions that need to be asked to Robert Mueller. To hold him accountable. We, you, we, the American People deserve answers to all the pressing questions that our government has totally ignored, and the media mob has ignored. Mueller must answer, why did he hire a team full of democratic donors, not one republican available . Why would ever he hire, in this case, Hillary Clintons former attorney . Why did he hire this guy, Andrew Weissmann . A guy who has withheld exculpatory in evidence the past, a clintonloving, partisan hack, he was there the night of clintons Victory Party that never happened. A record full of prosecutorial misconduct. Why did mueller have time investigate, lets see, taxi medallions, loanra applications, fara
Calling for a real slow storm each one of those stops here is actually a forecast point and the closer those are together, that means weve got to slow storm so look at this. Monday morning were in arkansas and by tuesday in missouri, so isnt it not just coastal but slow isly but surely moving northward rain along into the right side side tropical rain throughout the rest of the weekend into early next week. We have Fox Team Coverage now Tropical Storm barry. Meteorologist adam in extreme Weather Center and in bay st. Louis, mississippi but we begin with Senior Correspondent Rick Leventhal reporting live from new orleans. Rick. Jon we have a stead rain falling in some mild winds blow nothing like some of the conditions what weve been warned about which is is, obviously, good news for people of new orleans. Who are protected from the waters surround cities like what were standing on next to the Industrial Canal and behind that drawbridge and lock is the section of Hurricane Katrina back