Healthy as any of us can possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. I am scott henkel, i am the director of the wyoming institute and im so happy to welcome you to tonights thing can drink. The topic of which is, pandemic and historical perspectives. So i am so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris who is assistant professor of history in american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institute here committee who will be a moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So please wear. Thank you, scott. And thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate. Who i know our later time zones so thank you for sticking with us. And of course to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then i will let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with what we are doing tonight. We so first we hav
His appearance in 2012. For his final novel, back to blood. [applause]. Tom wolfe good evening everybody. Welcome. On behalf of all of us from the Miami Book Fair, we want to welcome you to the 29th book fair. Believe it or not. [applause]. This is a remarkable undertaking. Takes the work of literally hundreds and hundreds of volunteers. We have a remarkable board of directors to work extremely hard to doing this year round. None of this at all, could happen without the good good support of everyone here in miamidade college. Lets give them a huge round of applause. [applause]. Host i would particularly like to thank the sponsors. Without the sponsors and the funding from sponsors and governmental agencies, we would not be able to bring you this wonderful literary extravaganza. And many of you are friends of the Miami Book Fair. And that is the way you can support this book fair and make sure that it goes on for another 29 years as well. [applause]. If you look downstairs, you are more
Washington post columnist and thriller writer and then the Pulitzer Prize winner last month and this month we are joined by jeff shaara military historical fiction author. Ranging from the American Revolution to the korean war and we will talk about all those in just a minute but we will start with a facebook comment that a viewer has posted on our facebook page. What exactly is historical fiction . Guest i have had this conversation with other authors it is an accurate historical setting but the people are totally made up thats a little different from what i do because i take you to these places with a lot of the real people with historical figures with names that you know like George Washington or Dwight Eisenhower were robert e. Lee it is fiction by definition because i put words in their mouth. My job is to tell you a story and not just do a textbook or names dates places facts and figures but to put you in the hands of the characters to tell you the story the way they would tell i
Anyone but walk away but the message from the u. S. As it considers financial help for countries upgrading to 5 g. Technology huawei says its not controlled by beijing bureaucrats why is washington so worried by one of chinas most successful and innovative companies. Is inside still. Hello welcome to the program. The United States says its willing to finance other countries 5 g. Networks so long as wow a isnt involved President Donald Trump accuses beijing of using its influence over Chinese Companies to spy on other countries in the u. K. Huawei has been given permission to build a new Research Facility while the countrys Cyber Security agency conducts an emergency review into the use of wire weighs 5 g. Equipment the chinese firm says it will invest more than a 1000000000. 00 in its new site in the east of england while insisting the focus will be on the development and manufacture of semiconductors which according to while away a not targeted by u. S. Sanctions but washington has wa
A rising china and a u. S. President who runs his allies its also how the worlds texan investment money hasnt reached people of color and Cyber Attacks on vaccine makers in the bertrands. Counting the calls on aljazeera. Anyone but huawei but the message from the u. S. As it considers financial help for countries upgrading to find Technology Huawei says its not controlled by beijing bureaucrats why is washington so worried by one of chinas most successful and Innovative Companies which is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im Bernard Smith. The United States says its willing to finance other countries 5 g. Networks so long as wow a isnt involved President Donald Trump accuses beijing of using its influence over Chinese Companies to spy on other countries in the u. K. Huawei has been given permission to build a new Research Facility but while the countrys Cyber Security agency conducts an emergency review into the use of wire weighs 5 g. Equipment but chinese firm says it will i