Them written by veterans of the vietnam war. National book award winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, classic works of nonfiction including probably a dozen or 15 or 20 war memoirs that stand with the best of the genre. As well as history analysis and so on. I just have a small list. Ive left off many but the ones that i thought of immediately that should be on anybodys book shelf who reads whos interested in the vietnam war as far as nonfiction Neil Sheehans book, a bright shining light. Philip caputo, david halverstans the best and the brightest, wallace terrys book blood, robert masons book chicken hawk, one of the first and best helicopter pilots memoirs. Lou puller, he was from virginia. That book won the Pulitzer Prize for autobiography. You know, he was chesty pullers son, he graduated from college in 1967 and what did he do . Yeah. He went to the marines. Can you imagine . And theres a great probably the best memoir by a woman is linda van zanters home before morning. She was a nur
The glass is half full. In office politics, one of the most interesting ways china is different when it comes to fast food in that country. My talk with cnbcs Carl Quintanilla. Hey there, everyone. Its high noon in the east, 9 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. New details emerging about the deadly shooting at l. A. X. The suspect 23yearold putt krnia literally shot his way through a security checkpoint killing one agent, injuring others and sending hundreds of travelers running for their lives. This video shows the terrifying moments inside terminal 3. Miguel almaguer is at l. A. X. With the latest. What are you learned . Good morning. Terminal 3 at this hour remains shut down. Thats the crime scene where this took place, where the gunman allegedly walked in, shot the tsa member killing him, wounding two others and made his way through the terminal. At least 167,000 passengers had their flights either delayed or canceled. All of this taking place during the middle
To your question for iii, my book, Raj Rajaratnam was obviously the person to the catalyst, if you will, i was really focus on the indian diaspora, raja gupta, kumar, these were individuals who were the best and brightest of the indian community. Stay went to the establishment schools, joined the establishment companies, they were different from Raj Rajaratnam who was on the fringes of wall street. He became a success through galion and your first question, i think when the education of my boat ran in the New York Times i read a number of comments and that is more fascinating than the stories and it was stunning to me but there were a number of people who said essentially what do you expect, these salvation this. So i do think it will have it will have an affect on the community. I am not saying by the same token i did mention probably confirm for the federal Appeals Court in d. C. It is not devastating but it will in the short term particularly on wall street. He has been confirmed by
The decision was greeted largely with outrage including my own, particularly in boston though. Major tom menino and governor Deval Patrick both criticized the magazines decision today. Why would they publicize a guy who destroyed peoples lives . It doesnt make any sense to me. Very pooed taste. The substance of the article is not objectionable, but the cover is out of taste. Michael menino also sent a letter to the editor urging him to shift his coverage to the bombing survivors and those who helped them. Tedeschi said in a statement, music and terrorism dont mix. Rolling stone issued a state of their own. And in another case causing outrage and complex reaction in this country protests over the Trayvon Martin continue today. There were demonstrations in cities from los angeles to new york, and hundreds more are planned for this weekend, and net the nra seems intent on making George Zimmerman, martins killer its official poster boy. The gun group criticized eric holder for saying it ma
Repeating since last week options are being discussed. Now we know a little bit more about their thinking and what went on in that meeting with congressional leaders, an hour long closeddoor discussion. Now we know some top officials think that the iraqi Prime Minister has to go. Are we any closer to hearing a decision . Maybe. Americas four top lawmakers called to the white house on one of the several decisions facing this country now, what to do or not about iraq. But this was not, it turns out, a session for the president to lay each option on the table and start choosing but more an assessment. Nancy pelosi called it informative, interesting. Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell less enthused. The president briefed us on the approach hes taking towards developing a strategy. On a day that one analyst called iraq the start of the possibly the worst of both worlds, a deep division into two terror states, one dominated by al qaeda and the other by iran. The administration had to gra