Look ahead to a year from now. But will iraq look like quick theres a real possibility will have three de facto states. The official state dominated by the shia arabs in the south. The Islamic State or the isil state in syria and iraq and the very top of his kurdish entity in the north. How that function . It will function well. They will be at odds with each other. However another alternative will work to find a way to unify the countrys and then how golf course is to write to retake in the territory from the isil. Thats the best way, but its in trouble right now. You can see out the iraqi ambassadors comment that 4 10 eastern in todays washington journal site that with jeffrey anytime on her website that is cspan. Org. Booktv sat down with former secretary of state work with didnt discuss her new book, hard choices. You dont make peace with your friends. Make it with people who are your adversaries, who have killed those who care about your people are those who you are trying to prot
On weekends, and i would write i would do all sorts of things for motivation. Im a real deadline person so i tent to get things done, but its hard to get things done when youre exhausted. So id work in here in the living room, upstairs, library of congress. I just kept going. And i played all sorts of tricks on myself. I would break down my increments and think, if i got used to saying to my daughter, if anything happens to me, destroy the postits that say in this 15minute increment you do this and that. I found if you work in those short chunks youre getting things done. Im a great listmaker and i love to cross things off my list. So thats how i gets done. Up next, after words, this week, dr. Atul gawande in his latest book, being mortal. The author argues that with all that medical science can solve in the modern era its still deficient in the area of aging and dying. This program is an hour. Atul, great to see you again. Congratulations on the book, being mortal. Thank you. The book
Being mortal. Guest thank you. Host the front cover i love it. Its got a piece of grass on the cover and its got so much potential symbolism. I immediately thought of walt whitman and his book leaves of grass. He is a famous quote i bequeath myself to the dirt to grow in the graph that i love. What does a leaf of grass mean to you and why did you decide to put on the cover . Guest cover . Guest its a biblical reference actually and it refers to the idea that on the one hand we all come from something fertile but also the idea that grass is temperate. In the process of writing this book being mortal which i think is terrific by the way, its one of the few times we can have an honest conversation in a public forum about our mortality and endoflife issues. Did it hit you, did it strike you hey im not going to be around here forever. Maybe i should talk to my patients differently about their goals . What impacted writing this book and doing the research for this book have on your own pract
This was the first one to be brought to the United States in the mid19 century. So its remarkable in that way. Host its on display for anyone who is walking by . Guest absolutely. The technology of course is whats remarkable about this. You are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Up next on booktv, after words with guest host dr. Martin mccarry, surgeon at Johns Hopkins hospital and professor of health policy. This week doctor atul gawande and his newest book being mortal medicine and what matters in the end. In the awardwinning author argues it was all the medical science can solve in the modern era. It is still efficient any area of aging and dying. This program is about one hour. Host great to see you again. Congratulations on the book, being mortal. Guest thank you. Host the book cover i love it. Its got a piece of grass on the cover, and its got so much potential symbolism. I thought of walt whitman
The casualties were astounding, a stouinstounding to soldiers, generals and those left back home. Amidst the staggering losses at cole harbor, for every soldier killed, wounded or captured, there was a family. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters that also felt the loss. The loss of the men that fell at cole harbor in the spring of 1864 reverb rasreverberated thr kmunlts a communities across the north and south. The battlegrounds left indelible kbag impacts on the living left behind. So, too, were the believes of the men who fought that bloody spring. Indeed, in spite of so many lost lives, those believes and ideas about nation, government and home became even more deeply enslie enshrined in the hearts and minds of those left to fight on tonight to reflect upon and learn from today. Writing soon after the war with a perspective on hindsight. Sally putnam came to believe that in its own unique way, cole harbor had been a landmark event in the 1866 Campaign Across Central