Its been wonderful being with you again, lucinda. Spent thank you so much, dan. You are amazing. You are amazing. [applause] and thank you, all of you, for coming. [applause] you are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. First lets just start with your name and the title of the book. Anne wilcox, with p. J. Wilcox. The name of the book at west point west point 41 the class that went to war and shaped america. How did you come across this project is . My husband and i were working with the general on his memoir and he invited us to 73 union at west point. He was in the class of 1941, which was the last class to graduate before the u. S. Entered world war ii. We went to the reunion and we start hearing stories of other officers that was classmates that were just astounding stories of closing the bulge in the bow of the bulge, and other historic incidents in world war ii they went on to the korean war and vie
Mcmillan. With all of those things going on, it became a case that was too irresistible to walk away from. The final thing, and this is one of the reasons i was interested in doing a book project is case took place in alabama which is where harper lee grew up and wrote to kill a mockingbird. Everyones read it. Its a beautiful story. The people in monroeville love the story. Theres boo radley street, scout street, atticus bench, all through the community. Yet, when i started saying, look we have an innocent black man wrongly convicted of a crime people had no interest in that. It was a bit surreal to be in this space where they were celebrating this story and watching such an incredibly vicious prosecutors and take place. One of the challenges is that we had narratives in American Literature that we celebrate for the wrong reasons. We give out these awards, the Atticus Finch award, a very famous model that the Legal Profession has embraced but the truth of it is that tom robinson died i
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