He was definitely an engaging teacher and as you mentioned his experiments influence a lot of people including including you. [inaudible] this is a bit of a followon and im still trying to formulate what is probably a very elementary question but you talk about all the research you did and obviously he mixes in real historical characters with his primary fictional characte characters. Was he primarily using fiction to illuminate history and historical forces or using history to illuminate human nature . Yes and yes. [laughter] i mean thats a huge question. One of the criticisms that this book has received is that tolstoy intentionally distort historical facts for his own purposes so for instance he creates in the character could to save us a far more salt of the earth kind of character than he actually was. He was apparently much more widely, much more questionable in terms of his morals so historians have accused the full story of using history and distorting it for his own ends. I do
This month. Three or four books that i think particularly good. I wish i could take credit. And the Brilliant Communications director came up with this. No one is going to be interested in what i am reading. Surprisingly has become quite a bit. They like it. Interestingly, the kind of like to know what your thinking about. It is kind of refreshing. It actually reads a little class action. Thank you. It was fun. What are you reading this summer . Tell us what is on your Summer Reading list. Postage your Facebook Page or send us a name of. Her. You can watch panels and multicultural Book Publishing, the black Arts Movement, and more first, founder Max Rodriguez kicks off the festival the talk of the state of africanamerican literature. There is always that conversation of home for us. And we have an answer from. The theme of this years book fair is global. As we all are. And the book fair from this point forward will reflect that. We started with an event yesterday that Columbia Universi
Too thin . A hidden camera investigation exposing security gaps in schools. Its the middle of the school day and im a stranger walking in off the street. Were Testing School security with hidden cameras rolling. And replacing rg3. A busy day in the news. Good afternoon. Im pat lawson muse. And barbara in for jim handly. And redskins are benches Robert Griffin iii for the rest of the season. Carol maloney is just back with the story. Whats the reason for the move . Reporter hey, pat and barbara, the word is this is to protect Robert Griffin. Tw the redskins out of playoff contention, its better for him to stay out these games so he can be healthy in the off season. He wont even dress in uniform on sundays. Kirk cousins will get the start. Rex grossman will be the backup. For the first time as a redskin, griffins job today was to run the scout team. Teammates say they were impressed with griffin, who brought energy and enthusiasm to his new role. And that seems to contradict how the quar
Is a little breeziness products and lotus said the crash but no major injuries were recorded but nearly 20 hours after a big rig overturned in marin county. Sir above 4,000 gal. And all connected, the gasoline out of the tank so that claim a more developing news this morning. Ucberlely police are searching for suspects linked to two different strong arm robberies. They were reported near uc berkeley in the past 4 days. The first one happened friday night at around 1130 near cesar chavez center. The second was on saturday night just before 11 at sproul plaza. Police say in both cases. 3 or 4 young men confronted the victims and demanded their valuables. They then punched the victims belonging. Suspects. Hours. Two of them deadly. This was the scene from one of home on capitol street. A man identified as Willie Troy Johnson died from his injuries. Neighbors say theres always house so its difficult to know who actually lives there. On sunday. One involving a man who pointed a gun at an of
You can see on storm team 4 radar flash Flood Warnings for parts of prince georges, charles, Flood Warning for fairfax and Prince William county. Inunidation of rain route 31 getting hit very hard. These showers lifting to the northeast. Severe thunderstorms are starting to fire in the mountains of west virginia. The pace they are gng martinsburg by 5 41. Water rescues all too frequent. Montgomery county firefighters n two hours. News 4s Kristin Wright joins us live from laurel where lots of vehicles are getting wet, as well. Reporter the fir thing i want to show you is the sign over my shoulder. It says parking area closed due to flooding. It is a lowlying area. The ground you can see slopes down. We are very close to the river. Here is what is going to happen this afternoon when commuters who park here come back to get their cars, some of them wont find them where they left them. We want to show you video of cars getting towed this afternoon. We watched as the tow truck hitched up a