Theres a picture of the headquarters. I show you in the photographs here, you can see the way they look at the national what archi. When i say cut and paste, they literally did. You can hold these up and can see what the original plans were. You see which part of the attack plan evolved and what was more important. These are tucked into these folders and theyre all in George Marshalls handwriting. He would write memo to staff and change orders and he was very, very much the architect of the plan. As with everything on the western front, a long wide front, the art artilary was going to play a huge role. This is the map of the village and those red marks are the hand drawn labels. This is the way cantigny looked before the battle. All those what arrows on the let were plugged into the map. Up in the right a french aviator would go, and this was going to be very much a combined armed attack so the artillry was going to have to work together. There would be a bombartmen. This does not show
Here is the quick look at our Coverage Today. Michael weiss his new book called isis inside the army of terror followed by authors and books growing up in an upper class black neighborhood in chicago, of Voting Rights, Artificial Intelligence, looking at past and future technology and a new book out on president and mrs. Johnson. Coming up today on our live coverage to a number to of the texas book festival. For the full schedule go to booktv. Org to get behind the scene of dates if you follow was on twitter or followups are run Facebook Follow us on facebook this is texas book festival and here is Michael Weiss talking about isis. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i am here to introduce Michael Weiss author of isis inside the army of terror your times bestseller. To introduce him and moderate a discussion with question and answer sessions with you as all our other author was supposed to be here he sent his regrets the author of black flag wh
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[inaudible conversations] good evening, everybody. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. So delighted to have such a great crowd on a middle of august summer evening. My names lissa muscatine, im one of the coowners of politics prose. On behalf of our staff and on behalf of my husband and coowner, brad graham, we really are excited to have all of you here. I do want to just mention a couple of things for those of you who dont know. We are also now running book operations in three of the six busboys and poets in washington with plans to be in all of them before not too long. So if you happen to be at 14th and v or in tata coma and or in tacoma, youll find our books there. We also are going to be the bookseller for the National Book test value over the saturday of labor day weekend. There are going to be more than a hundred authors there with its a tremendous literary event here in d. C. , so we hope well see some of you there as well. Before we get started, a couple of housekeeping
Cs. With congress on its summer recess, the cities tour is on cspan every day at 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Today we head to wheeling, west virginia. The first major highway built by the federal government. Well take a look at civil war battle flags and recount senator Joe Mccarthys enemy from within speech which he delivered in wheeling in 1950. T next, legal analysts talk about government surveillance and data gathering technologies in the digital age. They examine the role of congress, the courts, and the administration in enacting rules to protect consumer privacy. American university hosted this event. The senior counsel with the National Association of criminal defense lawyers. If you missed it, but if youre watching online and you have questions you can email them to nacdlquestions gmail. Com. Xrikz well do our best to get them asked. For those tweeting weve been tweeting with the hashtag Fourth Amendment. So feel free to use that. I want to introduce the moderator of our next panel, w