Continued rise of communist in the soviet union and china. Cspan recorded this event in 20913. 2013. Ian buruma professor of human rights in journalist at bard college was educated in holland and japan. Hes won several awards for his work among them the International Erasmus prize and journalism award, publications he writes for in the new york review of books, new yorker, New York Times, and r. C. Handleblog and the guardian, which recently published his highly learned and highly entertaining review of the British Museums current exhibition shunga, sex and pleasure in japanese art. Also taming the gods, religion and democracy on three continents. Murder in amsterdam, liberal europe and inventing japan 1863 to 1964. In the year 0, history of 1945, most of which he wrote while he was a fellow at the Common Center in 201112 to the series fellow, fellows, he was so productive, produced a brilliant portrayal of the world emerging from the devastation and unspeakable horrors of world war ii
And the brooks still worth reading. Thank you for your time and good nights been a good afternoon. I want to welcome you on the half of humanity tennessee to the southern festival of books. I want to particularly thank our key sponsors, Metro National art commission, and chrome content, tennessee art commission, vanderbilt university. This session is entitled dreaming america. We have a panel of three authors and three books and our first we will read some, but im going to reduce the authors first. I will begin with amra sabicelrayess. She grew up in bosnia. After surviving ethnic cleansing and more than 1100 days under the serbs military siege she immigrated to the United States in 1986. By december, 1999, she earned a ba from Brown University and later obtained to master degrees in a doctorate from Columbia University currently, shes a compass a professor eric on the egg working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and what role education plays a rebuilding decimated cou
About her new book the great secret the classified world war ii disaster that launched the war on cancer. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. I also want to thank the museum for inviting me to be with you tonight, alas its virtually but i will do my best. It is my first soon presentation so bear with me everyone. Ive had a lot of coffee and im thinking about now i shouldve had a lot of wind, but anyway here we go. Im going to start us off with a quote from winston churchill. He had a way with words. He once observed, may occasionally stumble across the truth, but most of them picked themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Lieutenant colonel stuart alexander, the remarkable hero of my book, did not hurry off. In fact, he refuse to leave the scene of the military disaster even when churchill himself warned him to. He stayed, he paid attention, he investigated, and as a result he recognized the never before seen symptoms in a group of dying sailors that might have lifesaving
Japan and the continued rise of communism in the soviet union and china. Cspan recorded this event in 2013. Ian buruma, the henry r. Youth professor in Barton College was in holland and japan. He earned several awards for his work. The publications he writes for include the new york review of books, the new yorker, the New York Times and the guardian which the guardian published sex and pleasure in japanese art. Among his previous books are taming the gods, murder in amsterdam and the limits of tolerance and inventing japan 1863 to 1964. In year zoero, most of which e wrote in the Commons Center in 2012 to serious envy of his fellows that he was so productive, he produced a brilliant portrayal of the world emerging from the devastation and unspeakable horrors of world war ii in europe and in asia. Skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, he nonetheless wanted to know, he writes, what those who lived through the war and its end, including his own father, went throug
Im robert dear. Im like to read from the opening paragraph. Put the spike of a drawing compass into a map of virginia at George Washingtons boyhood home. Stenthe other leaking the come pass that reaches out 60miles and draw a circle. Within it not only washington, but also Thomas Jefferson, james madison, and james monroe were been. Grew to manhood and mad their home. From this small expanse of land on the north American Continent came four over nations first five president s am dynasty whose members led in securing independence, greating the constitution creating the constitution and building the republic. What a great way to start a book. Ive spent most of last night reading it and its a wonderful chronicle of four major leaders and their network that tied them together at the founding of this country. It as story that evokes with the historians bill mcclay call the spirit of hope and perseverance that runs straight through the american experience, dr. Cheney is a long time member of