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The transition of power from one president to the next is a very complicated process and it actually is getting more complicated by the year. It doesnt always go so smoothly. A new book takes us behind the scenes. How george w. Bush and barack obama managed a transfer of power. Its by political scientist and professor martha joint kumar. Martha welcome to press pass. Thank you for having us. Well talk about that part of your studies later. So the book before the oath, its interesting youre focusing on this transition. Historically it might be the smoothest transition of one president to another from two different parties in our modern history. It was very very good transition. And i think one of the one of the reasons why was all the attention that president bush and his team and the white house and the administration the attention they put onto an early preparation out. This was two big lessons that focused the Bush Administration on this. Number one was how short the transition was,
We are hearing a lot about china these days in east asia. That is what interested me. When i think of alaska and the early 20th century, i am thinking of hawaii, along, the philippines, the panama canal San Francisco. And of course the British Empire in British Columbia and the british have other territories. And of course japan is a rising power. I am interested in how that plays out. The different empires and the relationship between them and i a working on a book right now that focuses on the american empire and the British Empire in the far pacific northwest. I will be in the yukon some researching that. My interest is on is in my interest is in how broad things play out in particular places. Not so much how big themes play out. The same thing applies to the book on anchorage. I will move quickly through what we have here. I hope not too quickly. I hope not too quickly. Most of us know that ingrid starts out as a railroad town. We do not need to say much about that. The government
I am keenly aware there are a lot of people in the crowd who know more about the history of anchorage and the last than i do. And people ask me what i write about. I do not only write about alaska but i tell them i write about alaska but i do not really write about alaska. Here is what i mean. My answer is really this whole area and there is still a question that seemed to be resolved for a while but back on the table now. Which power or powers are going to be dominant in the pacific . We are hearing a lot about china these days in east asia. That is what interested me. When i think of alaska and the early 20th century, i am thinking of hawaii, guam, the philippines, the panama canal, San Francisco. And of course the British Empire in British Columbia and the british have other territories. And of course japan is a rising power. I am interested in how that plays out. These different empires and the relationship between them and i am working on a book right now that focuses on the ameri
Here and i will use them as we go and i will refer often to the images. I am keenly aware there are a lot of people in the crowd will crowd who know more about the history of anchorage and the history of alaska than i do. And people ask me what i write about. I do not only write about alaska but i tell them i write about alaska but i do not really write about alaska. Here is what i mean. My interest is really this whole area and there is still a question, a question that seemed to be resolved for a while, but it is back on the table now. And that is, which power or powers are going to be dominant in the pacific . We are hearing a lot about china these days in east asia. That is what interested me. When i think of alaska and the in the late 1800s and the early 20th century, i am thinking of hawaii, guam, the philippines, the panama canal, San Francisco. And of course the British Empire also in British Columbia and the british have other territories. And of course japan is a rising power