Hayden, and i loved your response to that. Well, thank you. Does anybody else have a question . Do you have a question, sir . Thank you. Just a question about the Montgomery County Library System which is really important here. Since one out of three people here were born in another country, here in gaithersburg and a few others called the english conversation club, ive been with it for about ten years where we teach immigrants english, we help them learn the culture, help them, you know, get a drivers license, help many of them become citizens. And recently were talking about technology, i started broadcasting our meetings live on facebook live, and weve had thousands of people around the world watching the meetings from the Montgomery County library. Thank you. Gentleman in the back. I just wanted to say one of the best things about living in Montgomery County is the great Library System and the great Staff Members they have there. How with libraries offering an everexpanding variety
Publisher Chris Jackson talks about working on the awardwinning book between the world and me and he will attend a Book Release Party for steve hilton, former Senior Advisor to british Prime Minister david cameron. On monday and extra day of booktv. He will hear from annette gordonreed and peter onuf on the intellectual life of Thomas Jefferson, radio talkshow host discusses the importance of the 10 commandments, nprs diane reed shares her involvement with the right to die movement and you will look at the namesake of the john burke society. That is just a few of the authors on booktv this holiday weekend. For complete schedule go to booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, 72 hours of nonfiction books and authors this memorial day weekend, television for serious readers. We kick off the weekend with Pulitzer Prizewinning historian annette gordonreed and peter onuf talking about Thomas Jefferson. This is booktv on cspan2. Welcome to the library of philadelphia. I am representative James Roebuck
How much you want them to ensure that we can continue to get Library Services and please, when we put out a call that we need your support, please do so. We dont have money for pacs, we dont have a lot of money, we are not wealthy people. So we depend on what you call grassroots and that is normal people picking up the phone or emailing their member of congress or their senator or their governor and saying we want you to support libraries. The mayor, the governor, the United States Congress Needs to know that and respect that and make sure that that happens going forward. And that a takes hundreds and thousands of calls from people like you. I couldnt have said it better. What a great point. We have, i think, time for maybe a question or two. Does anybody in the audience have a question . If not, i will go on. Its not a question, but i wanted to thank you very much for your comment about dr. Carla hayden, and i loved your response to that. Well, thank you. Does anybody else have a ques
What kind of sources used. You allude to the fact access in china is difficult these days. What kind of sources did you use . Second question, what do you was the most challenging thing about writing the biography . Putting this book together was a real effective story. You know, there are some of the different pieces to it, different aspects to it. As i mentioned before i was very fortunate to meet three of birches surviving brothers, papers of William Dolan at uc berkeley, papers of the wedemeyer at the hoover institution. The 14th air force archive at montgomery, alabama, Maxwell Air Force base, socially and exciting trip, and exciting find because buried in those materials is a 24, 25 page interview, oral history interview with john birch which was conducted about five months before his death. The Army Air Force historian arranged this interview because of john birch was the first of these field intelligence officers. He had met doolittle. He had led a colorful life, so theres some
If anything, i think the world is becoming even more brutal and more engaged in genocide than it ever was before. I was just wondering what your feelings are about these trials and the role they play in terms of changing the way people feel about genocide and more important acting on those feelings . The acting is the hard part. We have not done too well. Look at rwanda, cambodia, any number of situations. But i think what has changed is the principal now. I think even every tyrant and somewhere in its mind is the thought, if i am no longer in power, somebody may charge me with work crimes. Or crimes against humanity. Those not a concern before. To me like also the stories there would lana mitts about not the hunters, like remember the voice from brazil hunting down a character not america. Some of that myth actually made people like escape justice. The hiding and living in terror at the end of their days. So maybe it is not all bad. But in terms of the principles that have been establ