Bomb and it always fascinated me because i was born the year after it dropped, and a controlled and my father was republican and conservative and served in world war ii with eisenhower. So obama everything we did was in the shadow. I was curious about it. He said the story does have another origin and he went into the 1930s and hes written a book about the scientists but above all he mentioned a figure in 1944 he was bumped by the political bosses. And that led of course to the 45 decision by truman so now we begin the origin of the current idea for the documentary or movie and he wrote the script, it didnt work for me, but that story the other day he is still teaching the class and we decided to go ahead and do a documentary. Not one hour turned into a bigger, our arms were bigger than our stomachs and i think we tried for 12 Hours National Security State story from 1940s to now in the expansionary war and ended up in 2012 but we started in the series now the book we decided this is g
There will be a book sale. All three books will be available at the end of the program and just reminder also that a portion of the sale of each book goes into the virginia festival of the book program itself. The sessions are being recorded so during the question and answer period this is important because of the reporting of the programs. Please raise your hand and one of the volunteers of the festival will hand you a handheld microphone so your question can be heard and paid for however it hits the broadcast. The reason we have a wonderful program, features jan herman, the author of the lucky few the fall of saigon and the rescue mission of the uss kirk. This will be the order of their presentation. Second to speak will be general ira hunt, losing vietnam, how america abandoned Southeast Asia. He is a retired Major General and moderated his last book at the book festival. The chief medical historian, Frank Leith Jones, has offered offered 7 books for military history. And finally, F
Send an email at book tv at mix cspan. Org or twitter of kong book tv. Now one book tv, sarah gordon talks about religious cases that have transformed the wall in country in the limited protection to the constitution. This interview part of booktv college ceres was recorded at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. Its about 20 minutes. University of pennsylvania professor the spirit of law is the most recent book what you mean when you talk about the old constitutional world. Estimate for most of the nations history it was the states rather than the federal government that controlled access to more than just worship, the right of religious organizations and so on and in the early decades of the 20th century that began to shift as the Supreme Court applied the National Constitution a stubble should and the exercise clause of the First Amendment against the states, centralizing the debate about religion. Still give the states have the control we have it written into the constit
Professor at oberlin college. Director of the northeast asia policy studies. She has just come out with a new book called brothers at that war. We are right on the cusp of the armistice, which talks about prisoners of wars. One of the interesting way for you have framed this book is that it is not just about the events of the fighting phase of the war itself. But it also talks a lot about the impacts of the korean war on asian history and World History and even on the contemporary positions of the country. How did you decide that you wanted to write a book on the korean war . Guest in 2007 i was asked if i would consider and i thought that it was a very good project. Because i was interested in the contemporary korean issues and i thought a book about the problems of north korea, i thought that a book about the history of the two countries, beginning with the division in 1945 was particularly active and could serve as a way in which we could understood particular event. So that is sort
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