Let me start out by thinking everybody who put on this festival. It is day two of the amazing event here in the tucson premier book festival of the country. Of course, the great part of what is going on here in arizona. Lets give them a big round of applause. As i said yesterday, we ended one streak, but there is a new streak of good book festivals that has just started out. Maybe just as important. We are very lucky to have doug stanton with us here today. Before i start, would like to take a moment of personal privilege to a to do someone who is here in the audience who i had a chance to get to know when i wrote a book about his background. Gil halverson, the original berlin candy bomber. He dropped candy to the children of germany during world war ii, with his wife lorrain. He is a truly great historic figure and an interesting book and to our conversation about todays American Military and some of the differences and similarities. Alex, we are very lucky to have you here. Doug stan
Good morning, everybody. Were here at our beautiful sunny tucson, arizona looking out on a great looking audience. Of course, everybody joining us at home on cspan. Groggy having lost one hour of sleep except here in arizona were we dont have daylight , savings time. That is why i am looking at bright eyed and bushy tail so lets day gaulle of the people from the festival it is a two it is day two of the amazing event here in the tucson premier must festival in the at home on cspan. Country. Of course, the great part of what is going on here in arizona. Lets give them a big round of applause. As i said yesterday, we ended us to come up but there is a new streak of good book festivals that has just begun. Maybe just as important. We are lucky to have doug stanton here with us today. Take a like to moment of personal privilege to introduced someone who is here in the audience. I got to know him when i wrote a book about his background. The original, berlin candy bomber. During the berlin
More. Gunfire sent police swarming to the movie theatre in lafayette, laws an. Officers entered the theater to engage the shooter. If they did hear shots being fired at that time. Eyewitness describe the desperate rush to escape. Whole group of people teenagers mainly running out telling everybody to run for their life. We saw a lady with blood all over her leg. I just grabbed my chilled and we just all ran. Cars or something came. Told everybody to get out. Ran outside. And they had a lady she was in a dress and blood everywhere. Thats when we realize what was going on. At least 9 people were taken to the hospital by ambulance. We hear gunshots. Siren in the inof the theater starts going off and we need to evacuate this quick. Lady laying down. She was shot in the leg. Shooter died of self i hope afflicted gunshot wound. The governor rushed to the scene. This is an awful night for lafayette. Awful nature for laws an and awful night for the united states. We will get through this. Movi
Stories that i found circulating in American Culture in the war on terror after 9 11 we captured an american john walker lens and he had all of these front cover news stories and kept getting referred to as brainwashed, serious experts and newspapers were writing about him as having been brainwashed. My first reaction was can people be using this Science Fiction term to be talking about a real person. And then i kept wondering about what sort of work that story was doing or that kind of metaphor of brainwashing and describing the decision to be against america in this moment as unthinkable, as literally something a thinking person could unfathomably do. The manchurian candidate got made and the vision of the body snatchers got made, galactica, the homeland show that having a strong resemblance to the John Walker Lindh stories. So, in my book what i am trying to do is think about that story and why we want to tell it as a literary historian i am trained to think about why we need certai
Picture after picture. When did you commit to that . It wasnt very easy to do a lot less than you did and theres a lot of history is there. Guest it took a year to write those because i am not a writer. But once i wrote them originally for the russian exhibition, because the curators there, we are russian, we read, i read tolstoy, i kind of started the ball rolling. I did an oral thing first and worked on it and got her a set of captions and said that wasnt true. The bose was packed, with people reading captions and they got upset because they were not leaving my boots. So i started it. When i got the book contract from simon and schuster, and have to write this. Ends to go deep on it. And finding out things that are different especially with technical stuff. Was a hard thing to do. Host reaction around the rest of the world. What has it been . Guest a lot of 20 somethings really excited. That didnt expect this. Even in boston there was a young man from sudan who said hug me and a lot