And coordinator of history in of georgement washington university. He joined the u. S. Navy. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1970 in practice Corporate Banking law until he retired. Afterwards, he went back and got a phd in history from George Washington university. He teaches courses in early American History, constitutional history, military and naval history, and today he is going to offer you a paper. Water everywhere istics of the 1975 17751776 campaign. Professor long is a pleasure to be here with you today. Im going to do this a little awkward. Before dawn in 1775, john murray, the fourth earl of dunmore was forced by rebellious virginians to abandon the capital in williamsburg and flee with his family. He fled to the protection of the British Royal navy. The Chesapeake Bay watershed, his territory, was critical to the war effort. The American Revolution interrupted in april of 1775. Virginia was the most populous and profitable of all the colonies in british north ameri
Eventually brought back to the United States for display at an air force museum. It is still somewhere in san. I imagine it is the air force museum. Thank you, sir. Thank you all very much. For coming. I would like to say i mentioned to you, james has written some wonderful books but alan in many ways is the go to for serious theaters of world war ii but he has a really brilliant book about romania and the value of the romanian oil fields and he writes about hungary, he is everywhere. If you want to broadbased picture of world war ii, however, if you want factual stuff you can hardly do any better so thank you. Thank you for coming. [applause] if you like to sign books, you can bring your books up. Thank you so much for coming. Thank you for posting day. Great job. May 24th instead of an std and that is at the wrightpatterson museum. The first coin. Wrapping up the lift, we have terry crisp recounting the early history of new orleans in empire of sin. To see other notable books, visit
Heres a look at the current top 10 best selling Nonfiction Books according to the new york times. A look at this weeks list of nonfiction best sellers according to the new york times. From the 2014 southern festival of books in nashville, tennessee, a discussion about world war ii in the pacific with jack mccall, jr. , editor of pacific time on target and a james scott, author of the war below. This is about one hour. [inaudible conversations] will good afternoon. My name is nathan buttrey. Im a board member of humanities tennessee and i want to welcome everyone in the room with us and those two are booktv to the southern festival of books. Today we will have a session with two authors. The first author is jack mccall. He is an attorney from knoxville, tennessee, and he received his ba from Vanderbilt University and his jd with honors from the with honors from the university of tennessee. Nick is a former activities regular army officer, serving as a Second Lieutenant to captain in the
Because people need to hear what you have to say. I take a lot of encouragement. I for years have been influenced, decades by an essay written by Bayard Rosman called from protest to politics and i hear in what you are saying that beginning of what might be a politics in egypt which means organization which means discussion, which means building from the ground up and finding ways of learning how to resolve differences. Thats how power gets shifted so thank you very much. Thank you cspan for being here. Books will be signed. Just line up over here and watch cspan on windows will appear and you can hear it again and i invite others to watch with you. Thank you all for coming. Thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next encore booknotes. From 1997 thomas west discusses his book on the teaching of history particularly with regard for how the Founding Fathers are portrayed today. This is about an hour. Cspan professor thomas g. West, in your book in the afterword, you writ
I found that fascinating. He was a victorian man. He made himself into a classical man. He lived his life in accordance with a precursor to the christian ethic that you find in plato and greek philosophers. This godless ethic. I found that fascinating. I would enjoy talking with him about that. And then lets see. The second front. I would like to have a final word, because we americans have set him up with at one point, almost cowardly in his aversion to the second front. What does that mean second front . The push from general marshall to go to normandy. 1942, the sooner the better. Franklin roosevelt, general marshall. We have to fight somewhere. It is an election year. Churchill pushed back in 1942 and 1943. The normandy invasion came in 1944. For that, he put it forward for roosevelt and stalin most definitively. I would like to hear him tell me in his own words. In his memoirs, 10 years later writing these, he avoids writing about the squabbles. He does not even mention them. But