Often, lectures raise more questions than they answer saw i would be happy to do that with you. A year and a half ago, i he justd the book mentioned, serving god and country u. S. Military chaplains in world war ii. My research to put that together took me several years. I have studied a lot of American History. I have written American History. But i did not expect to be so influenced by Something Like this book. I have no sense of the crucial role chaplains played in world war ii. There, i had in my mind were these chaplains floating around during the war, a lot of them on the home front in america in those 600 plus chapels built on the basis and forts all over the country. Withthey went off on ships the troops, they were sort of in the background. Maybe in tent hospitals. Maybe they were holding Worship Services when they could. All of those things are true. But what i had no idea of was the hero as him perilous him heroism of these men. I have no idea of the crucial role they played
Relationships between the writers and offers a valuable look at postcivil war west coast and provides the kind of perfect medium for the development of bohemia. It is a rich feast of history that really unwinds many different threads. Both of the writers and the city that helped host their exploits. Ben is the author of another book, the counterfeiters paradise, which is published by penguin press, and his writing has also appeared in the San Francisco chronicle, and hes worked at lathams quarterly. It is a delight and a pleasure to have him with us. Welcome, ben tarnoff. [applause] thank you for that introduction. And thank you all for coming out tonight. I should tell you, i have a little bit of a flu, so if i get a little warm or if my voice gets a little froggy, youll have to forgive me. Mark twain, when he was here in the 1860s in San Francisco wrote a very funny sketch called how to cure a cold, and one of the cures was to rub mustard all over your chest. So if things get to that
[applause] thank you, first, to left bank for having me. Its, obviously, a great bookstore, and i spent a lot of time at left bank when i lived here, so thank you very much for hosting this event. I also want to just thank, first and foremost, my colleagues from the post dispatch who are here and who are my friends and have supported me for a long time when i wrote this book, for the six years that i wrote in this book and for the last two weeks since its publication. Appropriately, because theyre journalists, theyre all in the back drinking [laughter] thank you, guys. And thank you, also, to the sort of celebrity in the audience. This is a book about henry ger reck key and his son, colonel hank gerecke came up to be here tonight. Hes in the front, and i hope hes going to say a few words in a little bit. [applause] hank was my collaborator in every way on this book. I spent a lot of time at his kitchen table, he and his wife millie, learning about his father and his mother and their up
History. I have written history, but i did not expect to be so influenced by Something Like this book. I really had no sense of the crucial role chaplains played in world war ii. Indeed, i sort of had in my mind there were these chaplains floating around during the war, a lot of them on the home front in america in those 600 plus chapels that were built on the s and fortshe base all over the country. And then, when they went off on ships with the troops, they were sort of in the background. Maybe in tent hospitals. Maybe they were holding Worship Services when they could. And all of those things are true. But what i had no idea of was the heroism of these men. And in world war ii, it was only men that were chaplains. I have no idea of the crucial role they played in the war. Let me read to you a quotation from the commander of the 75th Infantry Division in world war ii. And his words are for the men and women under his command. This was general pricketts comment. He said, religion is b
Then at 9 p. M. Ezekiel emanuel is on after words talking about his book, reinventing American Health care. At 10 eastern, tim townsend tells the story of an American Army chaplain who was tasked with providing spiritual support to nazis during the nuremberg trial. And we wrap up at 11 p. M. Eastern with ann scott tyson. She describes the career of special forces major jim grant who developed a strategy to embed special forces in afghan villages to fight alongside Afghan Soldiers against alqaeda. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. The roots into jewish history for most people and thats true in the United States as well, i think is essentially the great, difficult, contentious issues of the holocaust. Well, the holocausts not contentious, but what does it command . It commands a minority of lunatics and monsters denial or it commands reverence. A properly heavy fence of sorrow. The middle eastern, the Israeli Palestinian conference, of course, exercises especially in europe pro