So far, so good. Thanks for being with us and just a reminder, only four hours from washington so you can come up to the National Book fair in any year you want. We are going to go to the first offer discussion of the day. This is a group of authors talking about accidental spies and its moderated by jeff of cbs. Here it is. Our coverage of the 2023 library of congress National Book festival continues now. Welcome to the library of congress National Book festival. Im the director of the center of the library of congress. The cookie center is one of the sponsors of the festival and we are proud to bring the most beloved riders here. The center works to bring scholars into residents that work in the collections for up tohe a year to write books like these and to be a part of the national dialogue. Welcome to everyone joining on cspan today. A range today from the history ofon american spycraft to an evt about how the choices define who we are we will be hearing about climate change, but
Buy the book at the book sale shop. Politics and prose, a local shop in washington d. C. Is selling the books and we want to find out what youre reading. Amare, in california, youre on book tv. What are you reading . Whats on your list . Good morning, how are you doing this morning . Im reading please, go ahead. Im writing the gettysburg address by Martin Johnson how the gettysburg they wrote the gettysburg address over and over again. Its pretty fun and i enjoy it. Who is the author again . Martin p. Johnson. Thank you, sir for calling in. Ray in glendale, arizona. Hi, peter. I just happened to switch over from washington journal. What im reading right now is a book called troubled refuge, struggles for newly freed folks in the civil war and i just finished master, slave, husband, wife, and excellent book on the same subject. Right, which we covered on book tv. Can you tell me, ray, how often you read books . How many you have going at once and you get through a book a week or what .
Destination casablanca, recently published by public affairs. She is a historian and a Senior Writer for the magazine, humanities, which is the quarterly review of the National Endowment for the humanities and among her scholarly credits are articles in holocaust and genocide studies and intelligent intelligence and national security. She has also written for the new york times, salon, long reads and other periodicals. She received her phd from American University and today, she will be speaking on the new a book, destination casablanca. Meredith hindley. Thank you all for coming this afternoon. I would like to thank the Wilson Center and the National History center for inviting me to give this talk today. I want to start not with africa,ca and not with but with another invasion during the war. Dday. When we think about world war ii and when world war ii shows up in popular culture, it is often dday. The sort of brave, heroic moment when the allies, the americans and the western allies
Being regarded as key figures. In preserving cultural artifacts. The Wilson Center hosted this event. Its a little under 90 minutes. In recent years, scholars and the general public have learned about the exploits of american curators and Museum Officials in world war ii whos mission was to save the endangered art treasures in europe. I would note the work of the nicholas, robert edsalls remarkable efforts to recover the Monuments Foundation and of course the 2014 George Clooney film. All curators should want to be played by George Clooney. The Monuments Men and i should add monuments women, are compelling figures. They are celebrated for the role they played in wartime. Absent from this story of individual heroism is any analysis and assessment of the way that culture and knowledge mattered in world war ii. How winning the war became a reliant upon the accumulation of knowledge and included a commitment to the protection of culture. How the objectives of the American Government, the m
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