Stay and answer additional questions or whatever you want to talk about. The life in the whit war of 18t for two and a half years. We dont call world war ii the war of 1941 to we dont call the civil war the world 1861 but we call it the war of 1812. Folks that support it and feel it was a positive thing called americas second war for independence. I think it was that. Its detractors call it an unnecessary war come and they think it was unnecessary. Thankfully we havent had an unnecessary war since then, right . [laughter] i call it the unknown war because no one does anything about it. My favorite president harry truman was characteristically blunt on the war of 1812 treaty, he called it the silliest damn war we ever fought. And they think it was that, too. It was a war that had we won, candidate would have been a state. And possibly we would have had a huge slave colony in mexico, maybe even cuba. Had we lost the war of 1812, we wouldve become once again a colony of britain. But after
Instead of to be living in this kind of hermeticallysealed distaupe ya which will be by 2020 surrounded by walls on all sides in which an adviser to netanyahu has proposed seawalls to keep out climate refugees in which the United States government has offered 200 million to provide an iron wall that coats the sky of israel with missiles. This is the reality that theyre in, and there should be a nonviolent means that all of you can participate in to get them out of it and also to get the people in the gaza strip, according to the u. N. The gaza strip will be uninhabitable by 2020, to get them out of their crisis. That should be the priority. And so, obviously, i favor the latter means which is, i think, humane and moral and also based in international law. [applause] well, on behalf of the committee, i want to to thank max, of course, and also a thank the public for coming. And we hope to continue this series of discussions on these and other topics. Yeah. And as max delicately suggeste
Heres a look at our prime time lineup. Coming up at 7 p. M. Eastern, Michelle Gillespie discusses her dual biology. Then at 7 45, max brooks recounts the first africanamerican regiment to fight in world war i known as the harlem hell fighters. At 8 45, michael malice looks at the life and continued influence of kim jungil. At 10 p. M. On after words, Patrick Tucker discusses how large streams of data are changing how we think about the future. And we conclude our prime time programming at 11 eastern with richard vigueri and his examination of the size of the federal government. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Jared orsi is next on booktv. He recounts the life of zebulon pike. This is about an hour, 15 minutes. Thank you all for coming out. So im going to talk, as jen mentioned, about a book that ive recently published on zebulon pike, came out month before last in january, and i have some slides for you. Most of them are images that i took, and i did the best i could to try
Risking their lives instead of staying at home on the ohio river and risking their lives a little bit less. So pike makes the same request of congress. He forged letters from jefferson and dearborn and secretary of state James Madison and things like that in congress, the committee reviewing the request votes in favor of granting him this but by this point the expedition is inextricable from the politics dividing congress over jefferson and burr and wilkinson in general and Congress Never votes. My guess, there is no record of why they dont vote. No one made the decision not to vote but the last evidence we have in the congressional record as of the Committee Voting to bring it to a vote on the floor and then it just disappears until the 1840s when we have a comments by his widow clara who is requesting that the reward be paid to her. By this point she is destitute. Then she dies before they do anything. My guess about whats going on is twofold. One is burr is acquitted and he has a lo
At 10 00 p. M. Eastern, Caroline Glick argues the u. S. Pursuit of a twostate solution to the israelpalestine conflict has failed miserably and is base owned palestinian claims to handle that are unfounded. We wrap up at 11 00 p. M. Eastern with bernard schwartz, author of just say yes. That all happens next on cspan2s booktv. Jared orsi is next. He recounsels the life of explorer zebulon pike, the name sake of pikes peak in the rockie mountains. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Thank you all for coming out. So im going to talk about a book ive recently published on zebulon pike. Came out month before last, in january, and i had some slides for you, most of them are images that i took, and i tide the best i could to try and get to the spot where pike was on the same day of the year. Theres one where i cheated, and i have him in the winter time in a shot i took in june. So theres one that didnt work out. Most of them are on or near the exact day he was there. The other caveat i want to o