Degree in writing in addition to his book hes of the author of rebel yell, and empire of the silver moon, it was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in National Book critics circle award. Sam spent most of his career as a journalist including bureau chief, National Correspondent and Senior Editor for time and as executive editor of texas monthly. We are delighted to have you here with us this evening your latest book, hymns of the republic, the story of the final year of the American Civil War and to my immediate right is Donald Miller and i hope i can call you don. He is the author of several New York Times bestsellers including masters of the air, americas bomber boys who bought the air war against germany which is currently being developed as a miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and tom hanks which is evobably the closest ill ever get to meeting those guys. [laughter] he previously worked as a consultant for the hbo series, pacific, anchorage abated to several episodes of ameri
Passion, and redemption of Stonewall Jackson and empire of the summer moon, a finalist for the National Book critics circle award. Sam spent most of his career as a journalist including national correspondence, Senior Editor with time, executive editor of texas monthly. Delighted to have you here this evening to discuss your latest book hymns of the republic, the story the final years of the American Civil War and to my immediate right is donald miller, the author of several New York Times bestsellers including masters of the air, americas bomber always who filed the air war against nazi germany, which is being developed as a miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and tom hanks, the closest i have ever gotten to meeting those guys. He previously worked as a consultant for the hbo series pacific and contributed to several episodes of american experience. Doctor miller received a phd from the university of maryland. We say lafayette. Where he don is the john Harry Mccracken in lafayette
Call you sam. S. C gwynne is a graduate of princeton, Johns Hopkins where he and a masters degree in writing, he is the author of rebel yell the violence, passion, and redemption of Stonewall Jackson and empire of the summer moon, a finalist for the National Book critics circle award. Sam spent most of his career as a journalist including national correspondence, Senior Editor with time, executive editor of texas monthly. Delighted to have you here this evening to discuss your latest book hymns of the republic, the story the final years of the American Civil War and to my immediate right is donald miller, the author of several New York Times bestsellers including masters of the air, americas bomber always who filed the air war against nazi germany, which is being developed as a miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and tom hanks, the closest i have ever gotten to meeting those guys. He previously worked as a consultant for the hbo series pacific and contributed to several episodes of
Museum of the Civil War Soldier located near petersburg, virginia. He previously served as the first president of the association for the preservation of civil war sites from 1990 to 1994, an early version of what today we know as the American Battlefield trust. Hes also spent time as a historian including local fredericksburg in spotsylvania. Hes also served in other capacities. Dedicated researcher, a prolific writer, he has published more than 20 works on the civil war, on stonewall jackson, st. Petersburg, virginia, 1861 to 1865, and my favorite, the final battles of the petersburg campaign. His latest book, a campaign of giant is certainly a mustread a campaign of giants is certainly a must read for all civil war enthusiasts. I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to do the maps for buck. I said, you know what . Youre doing good work and he gave me an opportunity to showcase that so that im most grateful. Will is certainly a historian that we all look up to but hes not just
Battlefield trusts. Without any further introduction, i now present to you my friend, gary adelman. Leave your book here . Gary yeah, sure, i might need it. Hello, everybody. This isnt easy doing the whole civil war in such a short period of time. Well see if it takes 56 minutes or whatever. I am committed to get this done. Im already wasting time for good luck for those of you who like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are sewn in the constitution and then you have north and south starting to look at each other differently. You have southerners look to the north and although they speak the same language, worship the same god, everything like that but you see increasingly southerners looking north and seeing greedy. People that care about money and business and dont care about family. The northerners are looking south and seeing people who are cruel and lazy slave holders and whatnot. Really this is a war of perception as much as anything else. They did not trust each other and